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Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
~Cowper~
using bleach bypass..... just to add contrast on this!
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.
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Neighbors gave us this red-flowered plant before moving far away a decade ago. One of many nice ways to remember them.
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times and often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success.
“It ain't the heat...... it's the humility.”
Yogi Berra
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I wasn’t able to take photos inside the temple respecting the Monk’s wishes. I can tell you it was a spectacular display of grace and humility.
California is burning. Oregon is burning. Washington is burning. If you haven’t seen the smoke outside your window, you must have seen some of those eerie Bay area photos from Wednesday that looked more like images from an alien planet. Our air quality indices have been screaming in high hundreds (unhealthy to hazardous), and the faint bleeding sun on our horizon look more like a nightmare than a life-support. As of today (September 10, 2020), 3.1 million acres have burned in California alone (for scale, Connecticut's area is 3.5 million acres) and fourteen thousand firefighters are fighting 29 fires in California. Heroic helicopters have rescued hundreds of stranded people from burning national forests. But, seven folks (including an infant less than a year old) have died from these fires, and thousands of others are left without their homes –temporarily or permanently– under COVID-related restrictions and challenges. In some places, entire towns have burned down to nothing, while others have sustained damage, which will likely remain irreversible under our current economical strains. Who said one must die to be in hell? This is Dante’s inferno personified on our doorsteps. Hell is here, hell is now!
To keep people safe and focus all our thin resources on firefighting, every USFS national forests in California are now closed and our eight national parks should follow suit soon. This mandated forest closure has upset a lot of people; their irritation is evident from some of their social media posts:
”How about we bring back some good old fashioned logging, oh wait the tree huggers said they would rather see it burn than logged. So be it."
”They better be opening them up this hunting season..!”
“Close or not mother nature love to do more damage I guess all Hunter waisted (sic)…”
Who are these people?
And why the hell am I so angry at them?
Well… what I am going to say next will anger them in return. So be it.
It takes only one fool to light a fire, but it takes a battalion to fight it and it takes an entire city, an entire state, and sometimes, an entire generation to pay for it. Similarly, it took our penchant for an easy life to shift our planet’s climate. Now, California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment opined, if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the current rate, the frequency of extreme wildfires will increase, and by 2100, the average area burned statewide would grow by a staggering 77 percent. Should we now get used to red skies and smoky air for every foreseeable Californian summer? Or, is there any hope of retaining our fabled blue skies and breathable air?
Let’s talk hope. Californian redwoods are totems of resilience that live thousands of years despite naturally occurring forest fires; those fire scars are their wrinkles of age. Their thick bark –laden with high water content and fire-resistant tannins– don’t burn off easily and protect the tender sapwood beneath. Pictured above is the view from within the hollow gut of a very old redwood in northern California; you may notice, it is charred, but not dead. We are now charring, but will we know how to protect our sapwood? To survive as a race, we must wake up from our petulant slumber of denial, get past our toxic brand of individualism and, much as our forefathers did, lean back on nature and let her lead the way. Mothers always forgive, if only we can muster the humility to apologize sincerely.
~Charles de Montesquieu on humility quotes (French Politician and Philosopher, 1689-1755)
What makes humility so desirable is the remarkable thing it does to us; it gives us the ability to be close and worship God. Have a blessed Holy Wednesday!
"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
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.
Along the path that harrows at the top of the hill from there, you can admire the peaks. You see them in the majestic solemn enchantment like a god and you owe them to venerate them with your heart that beats, with humility you approach their feet raising your eyes to the top and sighing only remains to you. So powerful and almost alone as queens of peace, they seem like the abodes of saints and your pilgrim ascent will bring you close to God. Cime di Lavaredo Italy
good morning, herr doktor.
ah, my boy! I have news!
what now, doktor?
with my new discovery, I will completely overtake the field of entomology!
wow. that's great!
ha ha! those cretinous insect nerds will bow before me now! the only problem is that I have a deathly fear of spiders.
uh, doktor. spiders are not insects.
what? excellent! world domination is ensured!
such. . . humility.
indeed! another example of my perfection!
One among infinity
Witnessing the majesty
Calm in this humility
Witnessing the majesty
Hope as far as one can see
Witnessing the majesty
Standing on the edge of forever. - MJK
Numero Dos in COtoWA series
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
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raindrops on rose, little theater rose garden, Raleigh, north carolina
I would be perfect :-)
Ted Turner
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waterlily, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
A Flickr friend gave me this piece of driftwood when they came to Toronto to visit us.
Smile on Saturday theme: Cracked
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
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When the eye fails to find beauty---alias solace---it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness. In the first instance, it relies on human genius; in the second, it draws on one's reservoir of humility. The latter is in greater supply, and like every majority tends to make laws.
Когда глазу не удается найти красоту (она же утешение), он приказывает телу ее создать, а если и это не удается, приучает его считать уродливое замечательным. В первом случае он полагается на человеческий гений; во втором обращается к запасам нашего смирения. Которого всегда больше, и поэтому, как всякое большинство, оно склонно диктовать законы.
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 …!!!
For Girls Theme Week Live: 7 Heavenly Virtues
Humility (modesty, opposes Pride) Modest behavior, selflessness, and the giving of respect. Giving credit where credit is due; not unfairly glorifying one's own self.
Orion Orbits Overhead On Stunning Starry Seaside Sky - IMRAN™
The cluster of stars often known as Orion’s Belt is one of the most familiar sights in the sky. It has fascinated humankind for millennia. Who knows if there are living creatures in the universe that also have views of this combination of heavenly bodies. I’m sure the shape would have to be significantly different ... unless their planet happened to be in the same exact linear alignment as our Earth’s position relative to the points of light making up that imaginary figure.
They are all different distances from earth. I was thinking about how the lights from some of the key stars took so many different periods to hit my eyes when I gazed upon them.
Light from one of them that I captured in this image left the star when Jesus was living, 2000 years ago. The light from another of the points is actually from a combination of stars with one revolving around the other every 1500 years. That is about the time since Prophet Muhammad was alive in Mecca.
Just the thought of the cosmic insignificance of our planet and our individual existences sent a shudder down my spine, as did the chilly Florida winter night as I stood seaside at home looking up at the sights past the palm tree. As I clicked the photo on the warm iPhone in the palm of my hand, I felt a warmth in my heart and a fire in my soul....
I got to see these stars’ lights from almost the exact times when God’s favorite prophets had likely looked up towards the stars near their last days on earth. And Allah, the One God, still has given insignificant me, standing alone on the shore on this cold night, on this tiny insignificant planet, to have unlimited powers.... of imagination, thought, and faith.... to achieve anything I dream, desire and decide. God willing.
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