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Spring flowers, April 2022
The lily of the valley is a flower that is most often viewed as a symbol of rebirth and humility. It can be used to symbolize chastity, purity, sweetness, and motherhood, too.
Moss is one of my favorite plants, a true pioneer and resilient survivor. But one needs a degree of humility to notice this hero in the shadows.
After a volcano erupts and the harsh lava has completely cooled down, one of the first plant colonizers is going to be moss. Spongy and soft, it covers the lava's sharp edges with a thick, green cushion.
Moss is a producer, since it takes in water and nutrients through its tiny leaves and at the same time absorbs sunlight for photosynthesis. Mosses are therefore able to survive without soil, taking up rainwater and mineral salts through the whole of their body surface. Now, that's something!
And if that's not enough, it's able to tolerate severe drying yet recovers immediately in the first rain shower. It lives and grows in modesty, at a rate of about 1 cm per year.
There are 500-600 different species of mosses here in Iceland and one of the most abundant species is called the woolly fringemoss, which you can see in this image, taken in the National Park of Snæfellsjökull, in the Snæfellsnes Peninsula.
"When pride comes, then come disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom"
- Psalm
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With deep devotion and humility, the elderly pilgrim holds a khata in her hands as she stands in a long line of people offering a gift to Buddha during the Tibetan New Year celebrations at Kirti monastery close to township Aba in the Sertha Golok Nomad region.
Leica M6; Summilux M 1,4/35 mm (Aspherical 1. ltd. Version), Fuji Neopan 400; dev. with Ilford ID 11; sol. 1:1
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“It ain't the heat...... it's the humility.”
Yogi Berra
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"Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow does, and no matter where you go in this world or
the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you."
~Aberjhani
You showed great thoughtfulness, generosity, humility, and creativity. A kind-hearted soul, I will truly miss your words, and mails. Bless you, my friend.
A quiet encounter in the African savannah.
This elephant did not charge, did not perform, did not demand attention – it simply was there.
Calm. Present. Powerful.
Moments like this remind me why wildlife photography is not about the perfect shot, but about patience, respect, and humility. You are a guest in their world.
It is with humility that I share with you some exciting news!
I am honored to be featured on the cover and in an article in the very cool Eclipse Magazine! This is the image I did for the cover.
Here is a link to the magazine which just hit the newsstands today:
Keep shining everyone, and thank you for all the kindness and support that you share with me. I am so grateful to be part of our incredible universe.
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times and often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success.
Agfa Box 44 from 1930s
expired Kodak Portra 160, pushed two stops
Inspired by the movie 'Wings of desire' and its remake 'City of angels', I wanted to do this project for a long time. I even started it some time ago as self-portraits wearing long, leather, black jacket:
www.flickr.com/photos/toguko/4741327405/
But this time, I thought I would do something different. I think the use of the traditional, red, Chinese dress was more for the visual reasons in the beginning. Then I started to think what I wanted to show in this project. And the word 'nostalgia' came to my mind in a natural way - the use of an old camera, expired films, dress from another era, showing longing for the past. But when I developed the films, I was disappointed with the results. I was hoping they would look like old photographs. The colours came out more vivid than when using normal kodak portra 160 (perhaps because mine was expired and pushed two stops when developed). I felt that this is not what I wanted and also that it is not really my style. I guess I had some expectations about the whole thing.
And then I thought that I did the best I could, given the tools I have at the moment (I had to sell all my equipment for personal reasons and only kept my grandfather's camera for sentimental reasons and was left with few boxes of kodak portra 160 that I didn't sell) and that the final results were actually not up to me. I felt that this was a great lesson of humility, letting go, diminishing my ego and expectations, trying to deal with my 'control freak' and perfectionist side. So my new idea for the name of this project is 'humility', for the reasons above but also because of the small figure in the vastness of the landscapes (universe) as I am trying to show how small and insignificant we all are.
The other thing I thought about is what does the model feel/experience. What is her perspective? I feel not many people think about that. So I asked her. She said that in the beginning, the posing didn't feel natural to her, she felt akward standing there looking at all these landscapes in front of her. But in later shots, she started to relax, closed her eyes and meditated.
Changed the name of the project to 'h&n' (for humility&nostalgia but also here&now).
I wonder what you think.
very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent :-)
― Sanaya Roman
HFF!!
raindrops on rose, little theater rose garden, Raleigh, north carolina
I would be perfect :-)
Ted Turner
HFF!!
waterlily, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Here in the northern hemisphere, the long six-month progression into ever increasing darkness comes to a halt today. The winter solstice has finally arrived. Although a full three months of winter lies ahead, at least we've reached the darkest day. That's a huge psychological boost for me. Dealing with cold and snow is one thing, but the shortened daylight is the part that really gets to me the most. I'm a very visually oriented person. Existing in darkness greatly inhibits vision, and as a result hinders my creative endeavors, at least to an extent. Even mundane tasks seem more challenging. I find night driving in particular very uninteresting. In summer, my gaze is constantly shifting as I drive, taking in the scenery and evaluating photo possibilities with each passing mile. Winter night driving reduces my visibility to the narrow cone of light emitted by my headlights. In that sense, my (traveling) world is greatly diminished. Although we have an enormous hole to climb out of, knowing that we are on the side of increasing daylight somehow makes everything more manageable. None of this has anything to do with the photo, yet I still feel a connection. There's a feeling of despair in the model's expression, but somehow a glimmer of hope seems to seeps in. With many time commitments this time of year I'm just not outside shooting as much as in autumn. However I continue to troll my recent photo archives, pulling up images like a squirrel finding buried nuts. My session with Jill has proven to be a veritable root cellar of imagery that might well carry me through spring.
Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk: A mosaic mural consists of thousand of little stones. Some are red, some are green, some are gold etc. When we bring our face close to the mosaic, we can admire the beauty of each stone. But as we step back from it, we can see that all these little stones reveal to us a beautiful picture, telling a story none of these stones can tell by itself.
That is what our life in community is about. Each of us is like a little stone, but together we reveal the face of our Home.
Community is where humility and glory touch. Home is where the heart anchors.
Neighbors gave us this red-flowered plant before moving far away a decade ago. One of many nice ways to remember them.
Demut ist die höhere Form der Liebe.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), in Bengali: Ravindranath Thakur, indischer Dichter und Philosoph, Nobelpreisträger für Literatur 1913
Explore. January 28, 2009.
defiance and humility...
depending on the situation...
choose your pick.
(Behind-the-scene: Photographed last Fall. One of Lucio's very first shots. All settings used were on default, I believe. You would notice that the date is off. A branch sticking out of one of my River Birches. This was the day I knew we were going to be great buddies. Lucio and I. :P)
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Interestingness: #77.
Near my wild river...!!!
To embrace the world, it takes a certain lightness, a certain receptivity, a certain humility, some inner joy i think ...!!! Ü
A philosophical and impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet …!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach …!!!
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Pour se mettre en lumière...!!! Ü
Près de ma rivière sauvage …!!!
Pour embrasser le monde, il faut une certaine légèreté, une certaine réceptivité, une certaine humilité, un peu de joie intérieure je pense ...!!! Ü
Un safari photo philosophique et impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés ...!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau …!!!