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The time before Christmas is a quite busy period. We can hardly find a moment to stay and enjoy what's happening around. Meanwhile the circle of nature keeps moving. Only rural life may bring you close to this feeling. To this comfort inside and the expectation of winter's wonders.
The picture from a scenic small village taken a year ago.
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We try to fit everything we want, everyone we know or meet into a frame of expectations which leads to disappointments. But nature suggests that the frame is just a see through object and everything changes depending on how you hold it.
...I would like the sun to take away not only the day, but the memories. I wish that, on Earth's journey around itself, the Sun would return with new dreams, new smiles, on each new day It carries in its hands.✧*。
The Night Talks At ▼1:52AM▼
A Black Skimmer holds its beak open, with perhaps too great expectations for the shallowness of the skim.
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“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
迷惘裡永遠看不透
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尋遍了卻偏失去
未盼卻在手
Expectations were like fine pottery.....
The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
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"Where man sees but withered leaves,
God sees sweet flowers growing."
- Albert Laighton
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Honestly I can't remember what this is! It's dappled with dried rain spots and has a stuccoed exterior in the background, but beyond that...
I spent Thanksgiving weekend on the road with my friend, Greg, in Dinosaur National Monument, the only one of the Colorado National Park/Monuments that I had not seen before.
Goodness, did it exceed all my expectations? Of course, the Quarry Exhibit Hall satisfies scientific/philosophic questions and it makes you as hungry for more just like Smithsonian does. But the scenery while driving, or the gorgeous views while hiking are also hard to put in words. Harpers Corner Trail is amazing.
One can hardly believe that the view on the left and the view on the right are taken from the same outlook. I will post the second vista sometime soon. They are both taken with my iPhone and I am happy enough with the quality, but I doubt that there exists a camera to depict the real beauty of the trail.
Ruaha National Park was still waiting for the so much needed rains. The habitat couldn't have been more different from the Selous / Nyerere had it tried. Dry riverbeds, yellow and brown grasses, and even the normally verdant green leaves of Acacias tinting toward the grey.
This Zebra, with its stark black and white contrast proved to be the "speck of colour" in a fairly monochrome ochre landscape :)
I'm going, I'm going
Where the water tastes like wine
I'm going where the water tastes like wine
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stay
Leica M8, Elmar (collapsible) 4/90.
Good luck U.S.A. and may a straw of common sense and democracy will always be in reach ...
No Expectations by The Rolling Stones (1968)
Meerkat / Erdmännchen (Suricata suricatta)
Makgadikgadi Pan N.P., Botswana, Africa
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." ~Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations
Ever since shooting a train with Boeings here in 2017 (flic.kr/p/CzV3jf) I had thought it would be a cool shot to do over with an MRL Ace, or if I was lucky an SD40. Never did I imagine I would get a chance to shoot an SD45 here! It's tough, because Columbus offers a number of other neat shots that generally get all the attention. However, with the more scenic location slayed the day prior, I decided to see how this looked. While not earth shattering, I can now cross a pretty damn neat shot off my list. Train is seen here roaring out of Columbus, which has a Minnesota connection. Originally called Sheep Dip, and then Stillwater, due to the Northern Pacific already having a Stillwater, MN, the mail was getting delivered to all the wrong locations. It was then renamed Columbus, which it remains today.
People have different expectations in their everyday lives just like photographers have different expectation regarding the look of an image. I’m not sure how the surrealist photographers feel about all the AI abilities, given much of what they created through hard work can now be done by a computer.