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A line of greylag geese flying across the rising sun I could hear them before I could see them luck plays a great part in photography!
" A vida não ta fácil, parece que cada dia acontece uma coisa pra deixar a gente mais aborrecido. Seja um amor que não rola, uma situação financeira vermelha, um problema de saúde, uma grande injustiça, trabalho chato, falta de trabalho, uma amizade que se perdeu, planos frustrados e tantas outras coisas que abalam nosso emocional e tiram nosso chão. Cada um sabe onde aperta mais...
Mas olha..tudo isso vai passar. Enquanto não passa, não dá pra deixar de vibrar com coisas gostosas. Essas pequenas coisas deixam nossa vida mais leve e se tornam grandes!
Não deixe de curtir uma boa risada, já foi provado que a risada faz milagres no nosso organismo e no cérebro. Busque o humor nos acontecimentos, se cerque de pessoas bem humoradas...
Curta o sorriso do seu filho, faça um carinho no seu animal de estimação, dê BOM DIA pra quem cruzar o seu caminho, assista o pôr-do-sol mais vezes, perceba o brilho das estrelas e “monte” as constelações, dê atenção a alguém, abrace mais, não reprima suas vontades, compre flores, vai fotografar!
E acredite, aí dentro de vc está Deus, pronto pra te dar a mão e te mostrar um outro caminho, uma outra maneira de lidar com todas as coisas chatas. Acredite! "
Thats Freedom
John Farnham
From the mountain to the valley
From the ocean to the alley
From the highway to the river
One emotion to deliver
One heart, one way, one love
To share but not to chain
That's freedom
It's a song of the heart
A race in the wind
A light in the dark
That's freedom
It's a reason to live
And after the rain
Rekindle the spark
Let freedom ring
It's a measure of trust
When love is alive
It's tender and tough
That's freedom
It's all love is about
This opening up and letting out
Let freedom ring
Decided to bite the bullet this morning, and hike into the base of the top fall at Belmore Falls. Discovery time. I am SUPER unfit.
It was a good 40min hike both ways, and myself and my mate Kurian headed in about 15 mins before sunrise. This hike is not for the faint hearted or anyone with a fitness level below high average. The lungs got a super workout, I had a few dizzy spells, mainly from not eating (I cant eat when I get out of bed), the humidity was through the roof, it was fog filled throughout the entire hike, and my calf muscles have gained a few inches I reckon. The worry of snakes in a rainforest is always there, and we thread super carefully. This is a place where you would definitely need an EPIRB, as if something goes wrong, like a leg break or snake bite, it is way too far for someone to hike out for help. But it was AWESOME. After the best part of a week of torrential rain, it was pumping (and thats an understatement). The spray was high and constant, and while one of us shot, the other did his best to keep an umbrella as close to the camera as possible, without covering the top of the falls, which was a real challenge.
So, this image is a 3 shot blend.
Image 1 for the flow was shot at 3 seconds, ISO 100, F11.
Image two to keep the leaves still was shot at 1/100th sec, ISO 400, F11
Image 3 of myself was shot when I got home....me like a right eejit standing on top of my letterbox in the front garden, with the camera on 10sec timer. I needed to shoot myself slightly elevated, as the original image was shot with the camera slightly tilted upwards to get in the top of the falls.
The reason for putting myself in the shot is basically for scale, so you can see the size of this stunning waterfall. With a lot less flow, you could easily walk across to the spot where I am "Standing".
The second fall. every bit as big, is just down on my left hand side from where I took this shot. It was deafening, stunning and an unbelievable sight to behold.
Hope you like "That's Freedom"....cheers, Mike
"Wait for the rivers to run in the opposite direction in the same way that every free-born man is happy to be locked up within precise limits without the freedom to go where he wants"
Sure it's a normal pic ..
but cuz i'd finished my exams ..
i would like just to express :D
So happy - At least i'm free for 2 weeks :D
I rescued this dragonfly while kayaking this morning, I scooped her out of the water and she stayed on my hand while she dried out .. eventually she flew away... I named her Freedom.
Southwest 737-800 #W500NR, aka "Freedom One" prepares to touch down at Chicago's Midway Airport. If you would like to read a little more about Freedom One, check it out here. You can even watch it being painted in hyper speed:
community.southwest.com/t5/Blog/Introducing-Freedom-One/b...
This photo is a representation of freedom and independence. Yes it is a car but stop and think for a moment of all the adventures you can have because you have a car. You have the freedom to just jump into your car and go where ever you want to and are not dependent on anyone else to take you where you need to go. If you are feeling down you can jump in the car, put music on loud and go for a drive. How fortunate some of us are to have this ability to be both free and independent.
Freedom Crossing Monument is located on the bank of the Niagara River in Lewiston, New York, and honors the courage of fugitive slaves who sought a new life of freedom in Canada, and to the local volunteers who protected and helped them on their journey across the Niagara River. It was dedicated on October 14, 2009.
Today is American Independence Day, aka July 4th, 4th of July. I will not be celebrating it in a traditional way with parades, picnics, or family get-togethers, but I did wake up this morning thinking of my country & what it means to me. I searched my home for a symbolic star & was interested to find only one--the simple star in the wooden nativity scene that I display year-round. For me, my love of country & of God are intertwined & I am most thankful for both. Being a librarian, I couldn't resist doing a little research on star symbolism. Not surprisingly, I found a plethora of information. What caught my imagination was a quote from the nineteenth century minister, Henry Ward Beecher (brother of Harriet Beecher Stow, who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"). He said, of the American flag,
"A thoughtful mind when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. And whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag, the government, the principles, the truths, the history that belongs to the nation that sets it forth. The American flag has been a symbol of Liberty and men rejoiced in it.
The stars upon it were like the bright morning stars of God, and the stripes upon it were beams of morning light. As at early dawn the stars shine forth even while it grows light, and then as the sun advances that light breaks into banks and streaming lines of color, the glowing red and intense white striving together, and ribbing the horizon with bars effulgent, so, on the American flag, stars and beams of many-colored light shine out together ...."
May we all celebrate the freedoms & the gifts in our every-day lives. May we nurture them in our various ways, day by day.
July 4, 2008
This is a monument on the downtown riverfront where I live,
Evansville, IN USA...it's a very lovely peaceful place for a stroll etc. A week ago today...things started getting NOT so peaceful at flickr...so thought I'd post this pic...no other description necessary yes?
Best view: Freedom On Black and also try Large :)
>>The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
- Thucydides
>>Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen R. Covey
Shot At: Bhuvanagiri fort, Hyderabad, AP, India.
>>It was really AMAZING to watch sunset atop bongiri hill.
>>One step on the other side and i would have been rolling down the hill ;)
"I've Been Tagged" by Aditya and Natasha (somewhere in Jan) and here are 16 facts about me :)
1.I am e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y lazy. The laziest ass in the world.
2.I am a food lover. I eat a lot a lot and a lot :)
3.I do painting sometimes. The last time I did was during my xth class :P
4.I love Hyderabad. I can argue it to be the best city in the world. Yes it IS.
5.I am a nature lover and love traveling a lot.
6.I love my bike. My driving speed (within city) can vary from 20 to 100 depending on my current mood (boring/sad to angry/happy) and/or on the song currently playing in my iPod :D
7.I seriously think I have some memory loss. I forget everything. :O
8.I bought a new guitar for myself 3 months ago and its still staring at me from the corner of my room. :(
9.I hate reading and also writing, esp. facts abt myself. ;) :)
10.I started compiling these facts since January. huge task :)
11.I love sleeping. If allowed I can sleep all 24hrs. it’s the backbone of my laziness.
12.For me any time before 8am is midnight.
13.I feel Sunday afternoon + bawarchi biryani + sleeping = heaven
14.I love sitting near tank-bund facing Budha at 12 o’clock in the night.
15.I sometimes feel I need to join politics and I alone can change this system.
16.This is longest list of facts I have written abt me. :O
ufff at last i could complete this task : ) : ) "freedom"
Spl. thanks to Adarsh for the click : )
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Candide depuis quelques années avec des photos qui me semblent aujourd'hui si dérisoires, me sentant complètement incapable de traiter un tel sujet ... je vais essayer avec cette série de transcrire ce que j'aurais donc oser capter durant notre marche de rassemblement.sur Dieppe ce dimanche matin glacial mais si bien réchauffé par une foule si attachante, calme, debout et décidée à démontrer son refus à toutes pensées autoritaire, fanatique et meurtrière.
Entre une peine énorme et paradoxalement une joie indescriptible à être un homme parmi d'autres hommes défendant ce que nous avons de plus précieux : notre liberté de ... penser par soi même !
et notre soif d'autoriser toutes dérisions.
Même mes photos dérisoires !
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Candide recent years with pictures that seem now so ridiculous, feeling completely unable to handle such a subject ... I'll try with this series to transcribe what I have so daring capture during our gathering on. Dieppe Sunday frosty morning but warmed by so many endearing, quiet, upright and determined to demonstrate his refusal to all authoritarian thoughts, fanatical and murderous.
Between a huge pain and paradoxically indescribable joy to be a man among other men defending what we most precious our freedom to think for yourself ...!
and our thirst to allow all derision.
Even my ridiculous pictures!
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It took me an hour to pick which crop to use for this.
Note to self: Remember bug spray and a water bottle.
Freedom school is closed... George Washington will turn over his grave and start another revolution.
Des Moines, NM
Nikon F3, Lomo 100
A couple of friends from highschool invited me to go take some shots of the Atlanta skyline with them tonight. This is overlooking Freedom Parkway.
freedom is a song-less bird whose wings beat the rhythm of my longed for younger days.
but it is the choice to be tethered to this too, the here and now, by my
heart's pining to create a nest of a home for them...those whom i
practice releasing, daily, out into the world of charm and light.
freedom is what they'll feel when they rise up, and take flight.
~ this blog is so full of soul...
and i am incredibly honored to have been invited to lift up my voice, in image and words, in a song of freedom and motherhood this week.