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Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.
-Proverb-
P.S: Thank you Aisha-uae for letting me use your camera.
photo touched up by Aisha-uae
After getting a shot in Kyleton, we were unsure if we were going to be able to get anymore with light diminishing. Luckily enough, there was a sliver of light left here at Demo Road, which would be the last shot of the day. This is job 1 with both of the recently acquired (at the time) GE AC44s that CMQ purchased.
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.
~Michael Strassfeld
This afternoon in Novato, the rain has sadly diminished to intermittent showers.
Picture taken at Bel Marin Keys, looking toward Deer Island.
This old tree is in the field next to my house and each year it is a little further diminished.
I was sat watching football last night when I noticed the sky was looking interesting around sunset, so I paused the game and nipped over the garden wall.
I've been waiting for an opportunity to shoot this for quite a while and the best angle to get the most sinuous shape of this tree is to have the sun setting to its left side and it also gets rid of the other trees on the horizon.
Unfortunately as I made my way across the field, the cloud hoover started to make its presence felt and the sky to the right of this shot was completely devoid of cloud and interest, so this was the best I could get. I will try again when conditions are more favourable.
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: RADIANT
SUBJECY: A 2" TAPERED CANDLE
. "A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself."
- Mahatma Gandhi
I post this photo every year as a way to remember the simpler times (we thought) before Sept.11th.
This day for me is, and has been since that auspicious day a time for serious reflection.
After twenty years of wars since then, there has been no resolution and no change other than we have galvanized hatred between Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and most of the Islamic world.
In no way do my thoughts discount or diminish the lives of thousand of innocent people that lost their lives, the family’s that lost mothers fathers and children and the countless first responders that did a heroic effort on that and many following days and years.
When is the appropriate time to ask ourselves what role did the US have in creating so much hatred that would precipitate the events of sept 11th. and what we have done since to find or creat peace?
In our haste to seek revenge and attack Iraq did we make the situation worse?
What will it take to find a different path forward
(Wilsonia canadensis)
Canada warbler is designated a Threatened bird in April 2008. Its population has diminished 4.5% per year between 1968 and 2007. This reduction amounts to about 85% of its population. In the last 10 year period the rate of decline has been 5.4% per year.
I am the accumulation of all things that have come to pass. I am both remembered and forgotten, loathed and revered. I grow and become diminished with the passage of time. Though my time is over, we will surely meet again.
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
While perhaps not as widely distributed as Grant's, Thomson's are still the most common gazelles in East Africa. Though their numbers have diminished in some areas, in others they have persisted on ranches and farmlands long after other species have disappeared.
The graceful "tommie" is noticeably smaller than the Grant's gazelle, which it resembles in shape and color. It is also distinguished from a Grant's by the dark side stripe that runs from the shoulder to the flank and the white patch on the rump. The tommy is a dark fawn or cinnamon color on the topside and white on the underside. The black tail seems to be constantly in motion.
The males are larger than the females and have strongly ridged, almost parallel horns that curve backwards, with the tips curving forward. Female tommies have short, smooth, pencil-slim horns, or none at all. The face is accented by a black stripe running down from the eye, a dark marking on the nose and a light patch on the forehead.
Although more reliant on water than Grant's gazelle, the tommy has adapted to the open plains and grasslands of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.- Wikipedia
It's mid winter
The days are short and the light is (usually) atrocious
The thing is you see and photograph an interesting 'event' what do you do?
Delete because the pics not up to standard and will somehow diminish your (self) image as a photographic genius?
Or upload and share what you've seen and accept it for what is...
A less than perfect photograph taken in less than perfect conditions
For me it'll always be the second option
Why?...
Because I'm under no illusions about being a photographic genius... that's why!
Honeybee on Thistle
There doesn't seem to be a lot of Honeybees this year, maybe things will start to pick up now that the rains have diminished some
On the south of Iceland off a cliff that once nudged the coast is one of the country's biggest waterfalls, Skógafoss. The meltwater flows from two glaciers, Eyjafjallajokull and Myrdalsjokull. Seen here, the waterfall is diminished in icy winter.
Visited during Skylum's first photo tour, a trip to Iceland, as they celebrated the launch of their promising photo app, Luminar 4.
Next to the National Maritime Museum is berthed for the winter the clipper Stad Amsterdam. It's beautifully bright in a city much diminished in Seasonal Lights due to Covid -19.
The bright sails are part of the 'Sail-a-future' project in the initiative Paint-a-future established by the Amsterdam artist Hetty van der Linden. Its aim is to bolster up disadvantaged children thoughout the world. In this case the theme is 'Children's dreams carried by the wind'.
Back Shot from May 2017
On a walk to the Botanic Gardens May 10, 2017 Christchurch, South Island New Zealand.
Master metal sculptor David McCracken created the illusion of an infinite staircase rising from the lake and ascending toward the clouds with 'Diminish and Ascend'. The sizeable artwork is a 13 metre long receding perspective staircase made from aluminium. Previously on display in Sydney and Waiheke Island, the sculpture will remain in the Gardens until late 2017.
For More Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/seasons2016/david-mccracken-1/
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow........Leonardo da Vinci
Cloudy skies did not diminish my enthusiasm for watching bright orange Bullock's Orioles flutter about in tall purple thistle.
“Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day…”
~ German Proverb
Explore #448 on Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
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If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne
Gladiolus blooms, once magenta, discolour, shrivel and droop — warmth days diminish and it's autumn even on the Gold Coast. Flowers from my hinterland garden.
As dawn breaks over Launceston (Australia's third oldest city) and the Tamar River, I wanted to capture a sense of the rising light of the sun and the diminishing lights from the houses in the hills.
Lifes hardship has not diminished this Gypsy man's ability to exhalt in the joy of love, Which seemed ot emenate as he held his baby.
Street photography in Zurich, Switzerland. I really like this location with the rounded tunnel. The walking people in the diminishing perspective trough the tunnel is amazing.
"Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished."
-- Dean Koontz (American author)
This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):
Camera - Nikon D5200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 250
Aperture – f/5.6
Exposure – 1/60 second
Focal Length – 230mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
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Shot @ Subway in Palakkarai , Trichy , Tamil Nadu , India.
Shot in natural light.
I tried to relate the bicycle in the mural / wall art on the left to the bicycle on the right.
Also a boy in the mural looking at the stairs , to the stairs which is on the right.
A photographer is always the second person in the picture. :)
I've got several folders full of photos that have not yet made the flickr "cut". It's not that they're bad images or that they displease me. The problem is that at any given moment, they just don't seem to fit in. And for me, the concept of fitting in is a moving target. What fits today may not fit tomorrow. And when something finally does fit, it may be totally too late. Just like a witty comeback that does not occur until days after someone says something to you. For me it's often a seasonal issue involving, for example, winter photos that seem wholly out of place once spring arrives. I prefer my photostream reflects the current moment, at least visually in terms of time of year. It's one of many limitations I place upon publication of photos that fortunately has no impact on my creation of them.
This photo's moment finally arrived this morning. A sunset view of nascent winter wheat, barely three inches tall, but appearing to tower under a twilight sky. I love seeing the individuality of the thin stalks. They work together to provide a monolith of green when viewed from a distance. Yet up close, each one seems to express its own shape and character. As always, shooting scenes of vibrant color under diminished lighting appeals to my sense of understating the obvious aspect in favor of a lesser one. It's my way of fitting in.
With a surface area of 10 km² Kleifarvatn is the largest lake on the Reykjanes Peninsula and 3rd largest in southern Iceland. With a depth of 97 meters, it is one of the deepest lakes it Iceland. Kleifarvatn is located on the fissure zone of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that comes on to Iceland. The lake has very little visible water coming into or going out of it as most of its water comes and leaves underground. In the southernmost part of the lake, hot water from hot springs runs into the lake’s waters but elsewhere the lake is very cold. On old Viking/ Icelandic legend says that a Nesse-like monster in the shape of a worm and size of a medium sized whale lives in the lake.
After the 2000 Iceland earthquakes, the lake began to diminish in size. The lake has lost over 20% of its surface since the earthquake. This phenomena is the backdrop for a 2004 crime novel, Kleifarvatn (The Draining Lake) by Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indriðason. In the novel, the dropping water level reveals a body long hidden in the lake.
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleifarvatn
www.visitreykjanes.is/en/travel/places/nature/kleifarvatn
hiticeland.com/places_and_photos_from_iceland/lake-kleifa...
"Iceland Lake Disappearing Into New Crack in Earth", Bijal P. Trivedi, National Geographic Today, October 1, 2001
There used to be dozens of pubs in Launceston, like most cities in Australia. Now the number diminishes by the year. The newly named Sports Garden Hotel on the left is now a place where live music is performed and they also provide backpacker accommodation. The Commercial across the street is known as "The Mersh" and its main claim to fame these days is as a gaming venue. Both these pubs were thriving a century ago.
Okay I was walking the dogs a little later than usual and the sky was looking very interesting. We had a storm front due in tomorrow and a lot of tropical air in the mix, very warm for this time of year. So the dog walk was curtailed and rush in to get the camera and headed out to the closes space to make something of the conditions. Well as always by the time I was in position the dramatic sky had diminished, still I thought I still had a photo. Yes it’s that new bridge again but I was in a rush……