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Living Smoke — A Visual Series
This series explores presence without form.
Figures that are not made of bodies, but of movement, density, and absence.
Nothing here is solid.
Nothing here is permanent.
What you see is not meant to be fully understood — only felt.
The images move through a complete emotional spectrum:
• Stillness
• Movement
• Closeness
• Almost-touch
• Contrast
• Fusion
• Dissolution
Each piece captures a moment where something exists briefly,
then fades back into smoke.
This is not a story with a beginning or an end —
but a sequence of encounters.
Seen without seeing.
Felt before it disappears.
It was an amazing sunny and windy morning today........
let the flowers dance....... I liked the blur that came out.....
showing their movement in the wind.
Lotus Flower, specifically the Sacred Lotus or Nelumbo nucifera. Also commonly referred to as a Water Lily, Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA. This was taken in 2007, one of the last blooms of the original planting decades ago. The Lotus Flowers completely died out in Echo Park Lake in 2008 for unknown reasons. There were no blooms in 2008. The city is working on plans to plant them again under more favorable conditions.
These were the best lotus flowers I have seen and I am looking forward to the replacement plants.
Here is a shot of another lotus from the same lake that surprsed me with the mystical inner light they seem to posess...
... or is it purple? The true Peonies colour is deep purple, but taking the photograph
in the worst time to take photographs (high noon with full bright sun) the colour turned
out somewhat near deep pink.
This magnolia stellata is in dedication to my little niece: Stella for her first birthday!
...Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror *
* Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)
There is no postprocessing on this one, only a little cropping.
The wonderful colours of the backround are the newborn leaves of a rose.
It is time for some more kitten pics ;)
This young lady doesn't have a name yet....
Here are some ideas (from flickr' friends):
"Namibia"
"Café latte"
"Caramel".........
My favourite is NAMIB
The very narrow green line over the roofs is the vinyard.......I pass this wonderful little houses every day when I go on my walk (with Sulaika, our dog) into the vinyards.
You come to us
from another world
From beyond the stars
and void of space.
Transcendent, Pure,
Of unimaginable beauty,
Bringing with you
the essence of love
You transform all
who are touched by you.
Mundane concerns,
troubles, and sorrows
dissolve in your presence,
Bringing joy
to ruler and ruled
To peasant and king
You bewilder us
with your grace.
All evils
transform into
goodness.
You are the master alchemist.
You light the fire of love
in earth and sky
in heart and soul
of every being.
Through your love
existence and nonexistence merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane
becomes sacred again.*
*RUMI
Dedicated to my niece Sarah... she has such wonderful inner eyes looking at and commenting my photographs!
While Diwali is popularly known as the "festival of lights", the most significant esoteric meaning is "the awareness of the inner light".
Central to Hindu philosophy is the assertion that there is something beyond the physical body and mind which is pure, infinite, and eternal. Just as we celebrate the birth of our physical being, Diwali is the celebration of this Inner Light.
Diwali celebrates this through festive fireworks, lights, flowers, sharing sweets, and worship. While the story behind Diwali varies from region to region, the essence is the same - to rejoice in the Inner Light.
adapted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali