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A dog looks expectantly at a family finishing their picnic in hope of having some left overs at the Chaturbhuj temple in Orchha.
The subheading is key: "Bills to prohibit the serving of alcoholic beverages on air carrier aircraft." I rarely drink on airplanes, but some people would be aghast at this. In 1959 this commercial airline service expectation was not set in stone.
Arriving from Jaipur through the narrow pass in the hills, you are presented with a view of the honey coloured Amber fort-palace that conforms to every expectation of how a romantic Rajupt fort should appear. It rambles over a rugged hill, reflected in Maota Lake below. The odd elephant plods up the ramparts road. In Amber village, which clusters around the hill, gem-cutters smooth and cut stones, the faithful go to mosques and temples, and children run around the royal chhatris (mausoleums) and decaying houses. A circle of protective hills surrounds all this, and snaking up these hills are crenulated walls punctuated by look-out posts. On the highest ridge and overlooking the valley is Jaigarh Fort, a spectacular display of defence. Inside Amber Fort, the contrast is sharp, the grand painted gateway, the hall of public audience that made even the Mughal emperor jealous, pools and cascades to cool the air in summer heat, and the hall of mirrors inlaid with tiny pieces of glass so that a single flame creates a room of a thousand bejeweled stars.
This was taken on 77th Street, between Second and Third Avenue.
Tulips like these reach their peak bloom in mid-to-late April, depending on the weather and temperature. And about a week later, they're gone ...
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
This picture was taken by a compact camera. Isn't it great?
I'm little surprised to see the ability of this camera. It's very small for me, but it has a F1.8 bright lens. I like that.
My neighbour name Am who died since 5 years by cancer so loved his house, he told his family do not sell, or exchange this house anyway; still keep and shut it.
I watered his trees everyday since we use the same fence, now many birds are staying around the garden.
That was his expectation.
I captured by LD Macro in the afternoon light.
Thank you to keep in touch your friends:)
Kyu-Young Kim of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra gave Emily Hyun '13 some pointers about using her bow speed to create expectation: “It’s like a corkscrew full of all this energy, and suddenly it explodes.”
Photo by Rob Strong.
1. Majestic*, 2. Auroral*, 3. Expectation*, 4. Flamboyant*, 5. Vanishing Point*, 6. Landscape*, 7. Biogenesis*, 8. Picturesque*,
9. Pittoresque*, 10. Resplendent*, 11. Nirvana*, 12. Solitariness* 1, 13. Harmony*, 14. Senescence*, 15. Ataraxis*, 16. Placidness*,
17. Quietness*, 18. Refreshing Tranquility, 19. Calmness*, 20. Quietude*, 21. *Hue, 22. Anticipation, 23. Waiting in line!, 24. Perspective*,
25. Villefranche-sur-Mer, Riviera, 26. Lunch...Sun... and San Pellegrino!, 27. Perspective, 28. Unsuitableness*, 29. Roman Masterpiece, 30. Sky shapes, 31. StamPix...!, 32. Palette....Nature!,
33. Wild flower reflection, 34. Traffic jam!, 35. Magical balloons!, 36. Uplifting, 37. Dreamy*, 38. Awe-inspiring*, 39. Pastoral, 40. Lupine,
41. Relaxation*, 42. Calm*, 43. Venice Gondolas, 44. Windlessness*, 45. Comfortable*, 46. Good company!, 47. Port au Persil, 48. Ch�teau de Chambord, France,
49. Le pigeon / The Pidgeon, 50. Cr�puscule, 51. Contrast, 52. The lonely tree, 53. Paradise*, 54. Les rapides / The rapids
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Setting clear and strong expectations is a significant stage in accomplishing your objectives and showing the things you need throughout everyday life. The following are five moves toward assist you with setting clear and strong goals:
Nowadays, we throw around this thought of expectation setting nonchalantly. Perhaps you have been in a circumstance — like the beginning of a yoga or reflection class — where an educator casually requested that everybody set an aim, yet the solicitation conveyed no unique situation or significance.
Without a significant association with a genuine craving that stems from the heart, expectations can wind up lacking strength and power.
In any case, in all actuality, assuming that we comprehend the more profound why and how behind the act of aim setting, it tends to be an amazingly useful asset for showing our fantasies and transforming our dreams into the real world.
Prana Follows Concentration
In Sanskrit, the word prana alludes to the power of life which courses through all things, giving them energy and power. Perhaps of my most cherished instructor, Dr. Claudia Welch, frequently says that "prana follows center." It's turned into somewhat of a mantra in my life since it advises me that it makes a difference where I place my consideration.
Whatever I place my attention on is naturally attracting life-force energy and being magnified.
The more steady my concentration, the more life-force energy assembles around anything it is I'm centered around. Truly, this can be either a gift or a deterrent! Everything relies upon where my consideration is — and how eagerly it is engaged there.
Intentionally Pick Where to Place Your Consideration
This means, essentially somewhat, every one of us has the ability to coordinate our life-force energy, and we have a second to-second decision about where to channel it. This is unequivocally why expectations are so strong.
Consciously setting an intention creates an intense level of focus, which in turn amplifies the potency of our dreams.
For instance, when we focus eagerly on what we most need to bring into our lives — or into a specific second — our consideration will normally channel life-force energy toward that general thought, which can't resist the urge to help its sign.
Then again, we can straightforwardly zero in on something horrendous, harmful, or irritating, playing it again and again like a record to us. Definitely, prana will blend around those contemplations, supporting rather unsupportive examples in the psyche body framework.
Don't Be Afraid to Feel Your Feelings
Allow me to stop briefly to express that not the slightest bit am I proposing that one ought to stay away from gloomy feelings. As a matter of fact, I would contend that all feelings should be completely felt to be delivered — and that not feeling them is a considerably more dangerous methodology than recognizing them and permitting them to travel through.
All emotions—pleasant or unpleasant—are intended to move and flow so that they don't lie stagnant in our minds and bodies.
All things considered, focusing on an intensely charged close to home trigger will in general be fairly counter-useful. For my purposes, a more powerful system has been to recognize the inclination (without judgment), interface with my breath, notice the sensations in my body, and notice the normally disseminating energy of the inclination.
At the point when I'm ready to do this, it permits me to all the more quickly return my thoughtfulness regarding what I most need to make so my life force is stimulating my fantasies as opposed to my experience of affliction.
Take Time to Connect Your Mind and Heart
In Ayurveda, the brain is said to live in each cell and tissue all through the body, and it is established in the heart, as is prana vaha srotas, the channel that conveys prana all through the body.
Our intentions will be far more powerful if we initiate our intentions from the heart-space rather than from the intellect.
At the point when we deliberately center around arousing prana in our bodies to help our expectations, we can amplify their effect. Here is a bit by bit manual for setting expectations along these lines.
Goal Setting: Five Moves toward Making Marvels
This interaction can be applied to a goal, be it huge or little. Maybe it's a goal for the new year, another day, or a particular practice, similar to yoga or reflection. Or on the other hand it very well might be an aim for a specific discussion, meeting, or business offering.
This whole cycle should be possible in five to ten minutes, however to spend longer, you positively can — and doing so will probably additionally enhance the force of your expectation.
As you do this training, sit up tall with your neck and spine straight, as this will cultivate readiness and receptivity in the physical and enthusiastic bodies.
1. Connect with your breath.
Breathing profoundly, nimbly, into the whole body starts a strong opening in the unpretentious channels of the body, permitting prana to stream and guaranteeing that your life force is conscious and accessible to you. A couple of slow, full breaths will do ponders for spicing up your whole framework so that all pieces of your being are taken part in your expectation.
2. Ground your energy.
Grounding helps ensure that you are present, anchored in the moment, and connected to your body (rather than stuck in your head and distracted by rapid-fire thoughts). Here are some helpful ways to ground yourself:
Carry your attention to those region of your body connecting with the earth, the floor, a seat, or anything that could be supporting you right now.
Intentionally surrender your weight to gravity. Feel yourself fastened to this specific area, unwinding into the world's hug.
Carry your attention to the bottoms of your feet. Envision your feet immovably established in the dirt of the earth. With every inward breath, envision taking in through the bottoms of your feet, and with every exhalation, envision roots spreading out from the bottoms of your feet and plummeting the whole way to the planet's center.
3. Awaken your energetic body—the prana body.
There are various approaches to all the more intentionally stir and invigorate the progression of prana all through your body. The following are a couple of thoughts:
Practice a few minutes of pranayama. Supportive practices include Full Yogic Breath, Nadi Shodhana (Alternate Nostril Breathing), or a few minutes of both.
Take a few sluggish, full breaths, envisioning prana heading out from your root to your crown on every inward breath, and afterward back down the focal channel and into the earth on every exhalation. On the other hand, you can envision your prana body filling and extending outward with every inward breath and afterward gathering and blending around your spine with every exhalation.
4. Connect with your heart.
Presently carry your regard for your heart chakra and picture a sparkling circle of light close to the focal point of your chest.
As you breathe in, envision that circle extending outward — like an inflatable blowing up — growing toward each path. As you breathe out, envision the energy gathering at the focal point of your heart space as you drop further into Self.
Rehash this cycle for a few breaths until your heart feels open, extensive, and alive.
5. Name your intention.
This is a highly personal process and the only “right way” to do it is your way. Allow your intention to emerge organically from your heart and try to make it as clear and specific as possible. You can speak it out loud or simply hold it silently in your mind. Here are a few examples:
This year, I plan to develop an upbeat and cherishing feeling of local area by focusing on quality time with the companions who elevate and uphold me.
This week, I will do a self-massage with Daily Massage Oil every day.
Today, I will probably soak myself in confidence, to calm my self-analysis, and to rehearse dedicated taking care of oneself.
As I take Simple Summary, may my agni (stomach related fire) be fortified so I could develop ideal wellbeing through wonderful processing and nourishment.
What Happens Next?
The subsequent stages are a mix of give up and activity. Trust is fundamental. You have named your expectation. You have conjured help (from your own life-force energy and from the inconspicuous world). Presently, figure out how to trust the heavenly timing, all things considered,
Continue to hold your intention close to your heart, focus on it as often as you like, and take steps toward bringing it to life.
Remember that over-efforting by and large causes more limitation than stream, which will in general block the normal unfurling that needs to arise. All things considered, trust in the clearness and force of your expectations and accept that your fantasies will come into structure.
Your occupation is just to continue to place carefully and to savor the experience of the excursion as it unfurls before you.
How does expectations lead to the creation and increase in differences among parents and children? How did Pujya Niruma used to attempt to reduce and remove these there by making the relationship smoother?
To know more please click on:
English: www.dadabhagwan.org/path-to-happiness/relationship/parent...
Gujarati: www.dadabhagwan.in/path-to-happiness/relationship/parent-...
Hindi: hindi.dadabhagwan.org/path-to-happiness/relationship/pare...
In case you're curious, reasonable expectation of privacy is what you have in your home but not on the street, e.g., the ability to assume you will not be photographed as you go about your business exists in the former context but not in the latter. (Which is not to get into the broader ethical question of when it is or isn't appropriate to take photographs of strangers.)
I passed this on the way to work this morning, when there were actually other dolls similarly (and disconcertingly) displayed; when I doubled back at lunch, there was only this one left.
Today did not go according to plan. The expectation had been to get out of the house early, drive to Norwich and swap my D90 and its DX lenses for an essentially new D600. We didn't leave as early as hoped (yeah, my fault, as I was working on the previous day's image), spent much longer on the road than expected, and it took a good few hours for the exchange to be processed. Most annoyingly the D600 that I received appears to be a dud (auto focus does not work and manually focused images display a black band across the bottom) so for at least the next few days I'm going to be using my wife's little Panasonic DMC-FX55. I suppose I should consider this a challenge, although I'll say now that the small size and lack of a viewfinder makes handling feel really weird.
Given that the D600 would require time to be charged once we got home I decided to get some practice with the compact camera at some gardens relatively close to the camera showroom. The walls around the gardens were quite eclectic, made up of stones and cement but with odd details scattered around, such as this face. It doesn't look very happy so I figured it matched my mood this morning.
As usual, the image has been edited in Silver Efex. The light tones of the stone for the face really make it stand out from the darker stone of the wall around it.
With more hope than expectation I went to Foreness in search of the Snow Buntings. I didn't get there until nearly 2pm so the cliff face was in shadow as was most of the beach. However, they were there, ~40 or so, feeding in the areas of the beach that have got some grassy vegetation and flying up onto the cliff face when disturbed.