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An another homeless shot in Paris in front the subway.
Who may be insensitive to a such look?
Thank you for staying true to my camera.
This is a single-exposure shot of a road map reflected in the front windscreen of a car. The car was traveling north on a motorway in the US, headed for home. The drive would turn out to be about twelve hours long. As far as I can remember, I have liked maps, in particular how they abstract reality in a useful and liberating way. If you have a map and an imagination, the fetters of life can not hold you prisoner, even if you sit at home. I am not sure why, but I like matching up a map to actual surroundings. In this case, the motorway that is seen through the window provides something tangible from the abstract lines on the map. I hope you like image.
Peter 5:5-9
Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
With all the natural humility on the California coast it makes for some wonderful wild flower shots.
If you know me well you tyhat I am a man of great humility, so when I say I am the world's foremost expert on shooting fog you know there is little exaggeration. I grew up in fog and I spend most of waking hours in a fog. SO when it comes to fog I know what I am talking about. Big weather is rare in Los Angles. With fog being a state of mind not an atmospheric occurrence, so when it happens in front of your eyes instead of your mind in LA, at sunset, you go find an iconic building and by golly you go and photograph it. My studio is in Silver Lake. Hence the beeline to the Griffith Park observatory. Well driving around like a head with it's chicken cut off trying find just "the right spot" sometimes you get lucky. This was one of those times.
Nikon D7200, Nikkor 28-300mm lens, Lexar 128 SD, NX-D, Photoshop CC 2014, Nik and onOne software
© Vincent Versace 2015
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-Thomas Monson
An overwhelming amount of disappointment these days. Perhaps I am not cut out for the positions I seek.
Nonethelessss, I can't believe I never processed this guy! This is from one of my very first camera ventures. :)
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Yes, two great words to describe the fabulous Sydney Downunder. Her exterior beauty is eclipsed by her inner humility and grace. I've been shooting her now for over a year, and every time I do another one of her events, I find myself thinking what a lovely drag queen she is - inside and out.
If you'd like to see her in person, she often runs the Wednesday night gay men's social at Stella in Bellingham.
Special thanks to Alex Y. for helping out with post production. You can check out his awesome work at: www.flickr.com/photos/114739792@N02
Macro Monday ~ Humility
Recognition and praise is most given to those who are the loudest and seem to have the most powerful moves. They appear to have greater value and worth. However, one should never underestimate the value of the humble pawn. This is where the game of chess, as well as life, is won.
" A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes." - Jose Capablanca
The Lord of Humility
also known as Apo Pacencia
Middle of the 19th Century
FILIPINO
A wooden image painted in frank imitation of ivory.
Dimensions: 36.5 cm or 14.6 in.
Provenance: The Antonio Martino Collection
Published in:
Jose, R. T. 2004. Power+Faith+Image: Philippine art in ivory from the 16th to the 19th century. Manila (Makati): Ayala Museum. p. 264.
Jose, R. T. 1990. Images of faith: Religious ivory carvings from the Philippines. Pasadena (CA): The Pacific Asia Museum. p. 137.
Special Note: Miniature images (also know as 'Table Top' images) made of ivory or having ivory parts depicting the suffering and passion of Jesus Christ are quite rare. There are numerous images of the the crucified Christ in ivory (both large and small) but Passion images are few and far between.
This image of the Pacnecia is of particular interest because it was specifically finished to look like ivory.
"Goliath:
Courage.
Virtue.
Struggling to do what is right.
Gargoyles and humans want to believe
that we are always in control,
That we can aide our loved ones in any crisis.
But there are times when life mocks our ride.
That is when we learn humility,
and that the greatest of our strengths is to persevere."
Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles - 1997
"In true prayer there is no worshipper and worship;
there is only the worshipped".
(Baba Narinder Singh J)
True prayer is a wonderful channel through which flows the powerful love current from the humble and yearning heart of a sikh to the Lotus feet of his beloved Satguru, from the Lover's heart to the beloved Lord.
A true prayer unites the Lover with the beloved Satguru in a true bond of love relationship.
A sincere prayer from the heart cannot go unheard, unheeded and unresponded.
A true prayer is a total submission, total surrender at the lotus feet of the Lord.
It rises from total humility of the heart; 'I'ego and 'Haumain' remains neutralised.
There is no assertion of individuality.
A true sense of meekness, nothingness, Garibi takes over. With total absence of ego (haumain) a direct divine channel is established and in this channel flows Divine Grace, Bliss, peace to the yearning and thirsting soul.
The greater the sense of humility the higher the force of flow of Grace and Bliss.
In the whole process of his prayer, a true sikh does not loosen the firm grasp and hold of the lotus feet of the beloved Satguru.
He gets what he seeks. In true and sincere prayer the mind sets rolling at the lotus feet of the beloved Satguru; is actually free from all thoughts and desires and seeks from the Lord the Lord Himself; seeking worldly pleasures and material possessions is no prayer.
True Bliss is experienced when ego is non-existent.
True Bliss fills the void created by the exit of ego, of total surrender of ego at the lotus feet of the Lord.
With ego surrendered, there is no more seeking, all desires disappear, the Sweet Will and Bliss of the Lord takes over.
Prayer should not be contaminated with materialistic desires of greed and lust.
Prayer should not be commercialized.
No business and bargaining attitude in a prayer.
Lord is certainly not in need of money and other offerings as He bestows these on all.
This was shot at the Athsath Tirath, in front of the Golden Temple in Amritsar (Punjab).
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In late February, 2018, I trekked across the megalopolis (and prefecture) known as Tōkyo, where, by the late afternoon on this day, scattered rains had crept their way across the Kantō Plain, showering the streets with cold winds and water, adding to the already brisk air blanketing the city (and her wards), and granting me a dramatic view from the highest observation deck at the top of the Tōkyo Sky Tree, 451 meters above the ground.
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The sight was truly beautiful to see (and this image hardly does it justice), as the sprawling jungle of human construction, which stood as a marvel of progress and achievement, was yet still humbled beneath that which the Lord hath made.
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It shows us that, no matter how great we pridefully boast to be, or how advanced we think we are, we are - in all actuality - tiny by comparison to all that God has created, and we should never forget as such.
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Yet being humble before such a reminder doesn't mean you can't marvel at the sheer beauty before your eyes, and being tiny by comparison in no way means you're insignificant either.
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Truly we are capable of great and meaningful things in our lifetime. Tōkyo itself stands as proof of such a statement. But none of that comes without hard work, some sacrifice, being of service, having humility, and enduring and learning from a little adversity along the way.
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So take up thy courage, leave thy bubble, and embark on an epic journey down a path of achievement to great and meaningful things! Yet while you do, don't forget to bask in the glory of all the Lord has created, be thankful for all He has provided, and humble enough to know your place in the world...
Monday - Wash Day
Lord, help me wash away all my selfishness and vanity, so I may serve
you with perfect humility through the week ahead.
Tuesday - Ironing Day
Dear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles of prejudice I have collected
though the years so that I may see the beauty in others.
Wednesday - Mending Day
O God, help me mend my ways so I will not set a bad example for others.
Thursday - Cleaning Day
Lord Jesus, help me to dust out all the many faults I have been hiding in
the secret corners of my heart.
Friday - Shopping Day
O God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase eternal
happiness for myself and all others in need of love.
Saturday - Cooking Day
Help me, my Saviour, to brew a big kettle of brotherly love and serve it
with clean, sweet bread of human kindness.
Sunday - The Lord's Day
O God, I have prepared my house for you. Please come into my heart so I
may spend the day and the rest of my life in your presence.
Traits valued in women of the samurai class were humility, obedience, self-control, strength, and loyalty. Ideally, a samurai wife would be skilled at managing property, keeping records, dealing with financial matters, educating the children (and perhaps servants, too), and caring for elderly parents or in-laws that may be living under her roof.
- from wiki
Note: constructive critiques accepted, i'd love to know my mistakes and ways to make better images in the future.
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Yokohama, Japan
October, 2009
"We're sitting on our blessed Mother Earth from which we get our strength and determination, love and humility, all the beautiful attributes that we've been given. So turn to one another; love one another; respect one another; respect Mother Earth; respect the waters-because that's life itself!" ~ Phil Lane, Sr. YANKTON SIOUX
Our entire point of view can be altered by making one change to align with the principles of the Great Spirit. Let's say we decide to become respectful. As we become respectful, our attitude
will change. We will automatically draw into our lives knowledge about the other principles of the Great Spirit such as love, appreciation, trust, beauty, and peace of mind. By focusing on these principles, we will let go of selfishness, self centeredness, self pity, dishonesty, and fear. You focus on respect, you get respect; you focus on love, you get love; you focus on the Red Road, you get peace of mind. Great Spirit, let me learn the lessons of respect.
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(Chorus)
Wade in the water.
Wade in the water, children.
Wade in the water.
God's gonna trouble the water.
Well, who are these children all dressed in red?
God's a-gonna trouble the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God's a-gonna trouble the water.
Chorus
Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the Water
Must be the Children of Israelites
God's gonna trouble the Water.
Chorus
Jordan's water is chilly and cold.
God's gonna trouble the water.
It chills the body, but not the soul.
God's gonna trouble the water.
Chorus
If you get there before I do.
God's gonna trouble the water.
Tell all of my friends I'm coming too.
God's gonna trouble the water.
Chorus
*Wade In The Water* ~ by Cedarmont KIdshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERpRj8ZmLsA&list=RDERpRj8ZmLsA&start_radio=1
"O God, you led the blessed Martin, your confessor, to heavenly glory along the way of humility; grant, we beseech you, that being made humble by his example, we may deserve to be exalted with him in heaven. Through Christ our Lord. Amen."
– Collect for the feast of St Martin de Porres (3 November).
Statue in the Basilica of St Dominic in Cordoba, Argentina.
This is the city seen from the 30th floor of the US Bancorp building, where the Portland City Grill restaurant is located. The restaurant was quite crowded, and all the booths bordered windows overlooking the city.
Since I had traveled from Seattle to attain such a view (digitally), I was determined to get some photographs, even if it meant having to ask customers in the middle of their meals. Yes, it was bound to be awkward as I scrambled through the crowds of residents and tourists to find a good vantage point.
Luckily, one gentleman was sitting by himself at a booth overlooking the vista you see here. I decided to simply inquire if he would mind me taking a few shots. He was very pleasant and said he was waiting for his girlfriend to arrive so it wouldn't be any problem.
As I took photos of the city, he started to explain the history and details behind the urban planning of downtown, which was very interesting. We probably talked for about 10 minutes, and he thanked me for being a good listener, saying most people do not seem to care about how a city comes to be what it is.
I said it was I who should be thanking him because he was so kind to let me interrupt, and for the best gift I had received that day. When he asked me what I meant, I explained it was my birthday (and it was!) and he had helped to deliver the gift I wanted -- this photograph. He wished me a happy birthday, and a happy stay in Portland. After the brief crossing of paths, we both returned to the regular routines of our individual lives.
Enjoy, and never be afraid to ask! Humility and politeness do go a long way, as preposterous as that may sound in this day and age. Nevertheless, occasionally the gesture is returned and you both gain something from the exchange. That's how life should be, I suppose.
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Devotees entering Golden Temple do total surrender, which is called "Matha Tekna". Humility is one of the virtues of Sikhism.
"Tan Man Dhan Sab Saunp Gur Ko,
Hukam Maniey Paiey" - Sri Guru Granth Sahib Page 918
Created for MacroMondays - theme - Humility
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” - Isaac Newton
MacroMondays group has become a great inspirational boost. I am always left in awe of the wonderful contributions to this pool, hoping that just a spec of the talent from others might rub off on me allowing my petals to open more fully. Thanks for being such a great group! :D
Happy MacroMonday!
Modern man is gradually recovering from the shock of realizing that, intellectually, he has no right to dream any more; no right to mourn his lost craving for that which he may need but to which he has become indifferent.
-God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
The sublime is not opposed to the beautiful, and must not, furthermore, be considered an esthetic category. The sublime may be sensed in things of beauty as well as in acts of goodness and in the search for truth. The perception of beauty may be the beginning of the experience of the sublime. The sublime is that which we see and are unable to convey. It is the silent allusion of things to a meaning greater than themselves. It is that which all things ultimately stand for; “the inveterate silence of the world that remains immune to curiosity and inquisitiveness like distant foliage in the dusk.” It is that which our words, our forms, our categories can never reach.
-God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
oh... still found another oldie and added Shana Rae's textures.
"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all." ~William Temple~
textures Shana Rae - you can view her page here
Thank you, in advance, to those of you who take a moment to leave a comment and/or fave my photo. I appreciate it tremendously.
Stained glass window produced by Morris & Co., titled Humility, Mercy, Generosity, Charity, Justice, Liberty, Truth, Love, Faith and Courage (c. 1898)
David Healey was the mayor of Heywood, Lancashire, England. Over one hundred years ago, he made a substantial donation to the local Unitarian Church (a church that his father had helped to found). His donation enabled the congregation to commission a beautiful 15-foot tall stained glass window for the church chancel. The window now bears his name: the David Healey Memorial Window.
The piece was acquired in 1999, from collectors in Carmel, California (USA). The couple who last owned the piece bought it in 1967 from the now-demolished Britain Hill Unitarian Church in Lancashire, England (where Morris & Co. had installed it in 1898).
The abandoned church suffered through a fire the year after the stained glass window was sold. The work would have been lost, had it not been sold.
The Huntington:
A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by Henry E. Huntington, an exceptional businessman who built a financial empire that included railroad companies, utilities, and real estate holdings in Southern California.
Huntington was also a man of vision – with a special interest in books, art, and gardens. During his lifetime, he amassed the core of one of the finest research libraries in the world, established a splendid art collection, and created an array of botanical gardens with plants from a geographic range spanning the globe. These three distinct facets of The Huntington are linked by a devotion to research, education, and beauty.
In 1919, Henry and Arabella Huntington signed the indenture that transferred their San Marino property and collections to a nonprofit educational trust, creating The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, which hosts more than 500,000 visitors each year.
“Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them” (Proverbs 26:12). God hates pride. How do we explain God’s abhorrence of the haughty heart? Simple. God resists the proud because the proud resist God. Arrogance will not admit to sin. The heart of pride never confesses, never repents, never asks for forgiveness. Pride is the hidden reef that shipwrecks the soul.
Pride comes at a high price. Don’t pay it. Choose instead to stand on the offer of grace. “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (1 Peter 5:5). Isn’t it easy to see why? Humility is happy to do what pride will not. The humble heart is quick to acknowledge the need for God, eager to confess sin, willing to kneel before heaven’s mighty hand. And because God’s promises are unbreakable, our hope is unshakable!
Unshakable Hope. Max Lucado
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I know...humble pie would have been a better choice of picture. :-) :-) :-)
the moment I think i am, i'm not!
Screwtape examines the virtue of Humility:
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, ‘By jove! I’m being humble’, and almost immediately pride—pride at his own humility—will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt—and so on, through as many stages as you please. But don’t try this too long, for fear you awake his sense of humour and proportion, in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed.
But there are other profitable ways of fixing his attention on the virtue of Humility. By this virtue, as by all the others, our Enemy wants to turn the man’s attention away from self to Him, and to the man’s neighbours. All the abjection and self-hatred are designed, in the long run, solely for this end; unless they attain this end they do us little harm; and they may even do us good if they keep the man concerned with himself, and, above all, if self-contempt can be made the starting point for contempt of other selves, and thus for gloom, cynicism, and cruelty.
From The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis
Florence, Baptistery, South door
Humilitas, the virtue of Humility holding a candle [1330]
Andrea Pisano
Florence, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
original photo by courtesy of Steven Zucker, smarthistory
About You
OUR TRUE SELF
It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man’s city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else’s life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone…
And so it takes heroic humility to be yourself and to be nobody but the man, or the artist, that God intended you to be.
You will be made to feel that your honesty is only pride. This is a serious temptation because you can never be sure whether you are being true to your true self or only building up a defense for the false personality that is the creature of your own appetite for esteem.
But the greatest humility can be learned from the anguish of keeping your balance in such a position: of continuing to be yourself without getting tough about it and asserting your false self against the false selves of other people.
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation, 100-101
Consider a humble artisan assuredly creating great masterpieces. Thinking them mere happenstance, when, in actuality such a supple intelligence portrays an artful sensitivity skilfully executed to spark moments of discernment.
Her nature, being modest, wanting nothing but to share her passion for the wondrous yet often hidden and unsung treasures. Permitting only humilities garments to frame her magnanimity, she is content with somewhat anonymity.
Humilities virtuosity in keeping with its innocence will never succumb the ego of this practitioner the impertinence of self praise, even the well deserved adulation from another will most often be set aside for modesty’s sake..
Henceforth such wonders are born to us in magnificent grandeur, thusly we are enriched by unintended circumstances. Artistic virtuosity humbly rendered to awaken us from seemingly perpetual slumber. Such depth of spirit duly submerged in the love of humanity deserves the crown of praise.
One year, two perspectives. This image is part of a 365(+1) project, my friend Tilo and I are working on. If you want to see more, check out our website zweisichtig.de.
One year, two perspectives. This image is part of a 365(+1) project, my friend Tilo and I are working on. If you want to see more, check out our website zweisichtig.de.
According to Wikipedia's article on the language of flowers, white roses can stand for humility and I am constantly humbled by the incredible talent and generosity of my Flickr contacts! I've been busy but will try to visit your wonderful streams in the next few days.