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Looking Close... on Friday: September Flora
I wish a photo could render the fragrance of flowers. This one was exquisite.
Delicate Arch is the most iconic sandstone arch in the Arches National Park and it requires medium difficulty and 3 miles hiking both ways. It’s challenging and intimidating at some slopes where these photos were taken but visitors were undaunted and really enjoyed the breathtaking views. But unfortunately, the day after we visited, on 11/29/2019, two tourists from California fell to their death near this site. Do make sure the weather be favorable before you take up the hike and exercise your highest level of caution when you go. A pair of hiking shoes with proper gripping on rock is a must. Do not attempt to hike up there with regular sneaker, never!
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This photo was taken on October 23rd, 2005, on the last day of my first trip to New York city. A huge leap of faith, one of the largest I had ever taken. It was indeed a trip that was to forever change my life. And with each subsequent trip there, more opportunities to travel - 2006 to Seattle, 2007 to Detroit, and many more trips to the city that never sleeps. And on each journey I met fellow photographers who would touch my soul and heart in such a profound way, life and self discovery expanded at exponential speed. I was no longer afraid of who I was, what my art had to say, what i wanted to be, where i wanted to go. That period was not without tears, pain, loving and letting go, but within that vulnerability I drew strength and courage. I felt alive. It all felt right.
It's odd, how our perceptions of the world around us, as well as the perceptions we have of ourselves change over time.
This image once symbolized unapologetic vulnerability and delicate fearlessness, but looking at it again, 4 years later, I see melancholy, reservation and fearful naiveté. It is me, has always been me, but what is different? When I look in the mirror, I don't see this same woman. Something in the eyes has shifted, been displaced, lost in the shuffle of daily struggles. Life in New York, Seattle, Detroit has moved on, but i feel as if I am frozen in time, my life, hyphenated, struggling to find balance again, to be inspired, to find my way back to my passion, purpose, simple things that once made me very happy.
My camera has now become a utilitarian machine, serving no other purpose than to document the world around me. I ask myself every day - will i ever find that inspiration again? That passion to create, the courage to be fearless?
Mom goes in for her next scan at the end of the month, and then a subsequent meeting with her oncologist on the 4th of December. There are two ways this could turn out - the cancer can come back, or she can be free of cancer. Two ways our Christmas could turn out - a white happy Christmas, or a grey sad one. We pray for the best, hope for recovery but prepare for the worst.
Perhaps that is what is happening now with my photography - I'm praying for inspiration, hoping for discovery but preparing for creative closure.
Perhaps these wounds I have collected over these past 4 years need time to heal, but it also makes me realize the necessity of finding a way back to a medium that once helped me process the world around me, and that this might be the only way to make sense of the world again. But there is fear. Fear of what i will see in the next self portrait; but is a leap of faith I must take one more time.
Thank you to everybody that views, comments and for favouring my images. Always greatly appreciated.
I lost all inspiration to take any photos about a year ago, but since Lockdown I have spent more time in my garden and watching the flowers open has made me gradually begin to
take a few photos again.
This little rose is from me to you all, wishing you safe and well wherever you are in the world.
The iconic arch where everyone takes a photo. However, seeing in person is quite amazing how nature can form and represent its beauty to us. Happy photography! ☺️
Delicate Arch is a 16 m freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park, near Moab in Grand County, Utah, United States.
The arch is the most widely recognized landmark in Arches National Park.
Because of its distinctive shape, the arch was known as "the Chaps" and "the Schoolmarm's Bloomers" by local cowboys.
Without a doubt, it is one of the most photographed arches of this great park and the sunsets are especially crowded by photographers and tourists from all over the world. This is really quite a spectacle of great beauty.
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Delicate Arch es un arco natural independiente de 16 m ubicado en el Parque Nacional Arches, cerca de Moab, en el condado de Grand, Utah, Estados Unidos.
El arco es el hito más ampliamente reconocido en el Parque Nacional Arches.
Debido a su forma distintiva, el arco era conocido como "los Chaps" y "los Bloomers de Schoolmarm" por los vaqueros locales.
Sin duda, es uno de los arcos más fotografiados de este gran parque y las puestas de sol son especialmente concurridas por fotógrafos y turistas de todo el mundo.
El conjunto es realmente un espectaculo de gran belleza.
Arches National Park, Moab, United States
September 2016
Milky Way rising up behind Delicate Arch in Moab Utah. This image was taken and created during one of our workshops where I was working with students to capture the proper images needed to create an amazing finished product. Sigma Lens, Nikon Camera, Induro Tripod
A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
Terri Guillemets
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....
Pablo Neruda
texture thanks to TCP
These delicate white mycena sp fungi standing at about 50mm tall with 7mm caps were photographed early this morning 16.10.22 growing out of a moss covered pine twig in mixed woodland , Bishopstoke , Hampshire .
I was almost completely gassed walking up the steep slab of rock on the trail, I then asked another hiker how much further up, he replied, “you still have a ways to go, but the hardest part is done.” I wanted to give up, but I wanted the joy of seeing it more. As I hiked around the last corner and got my first glimpse, my jaw dropped in awe as I couldn’t say anything but “wow!” As I stood there, I marveled at how massive it actually was, it was much bigger than I expected it to be! After taking it all in, I stopped to think and wonder how God created this and how it is perfectly framed over the mountains. It goes to show how incredible and intentional God is!
“She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away.” ― Roman Payne
Listen: Hide & Seek
Quite possibly one of my favorite butterflies is this one - the Paper Kite. Not only for their beauty and grace but also because when they land on something they usually stay put for a few seconds so you can see them clearly and enjoy their subtle beauty.
And it doesn't hurt that those few seconds also allows you to get a few shots of them posing so prettily.
Seen in the Cecil B Day Butterfly Center at Callaway Gardens.
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Delicate...Featuring Swank with Letituier, Heartdsdale Jewellery, Sacscha's Designs
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