Looking quite insignificant in its surroundings 70814 drifts by Washwood Heath with 6V25 Bescot Up Engineers to Hinksey Sidings conveying just a single wagon.

This was taken on a day when the waves down the mumbles were supposedly massive. As in, reach up onto the shore and drag you down, massive.

Me and Phil just missed them though due to uni work, but when we got there they were still rough.

There's nothing quite like the power of nature to make you feel so small and insignificant.

With this re-edit, I hope to have at least started to do the day justice.

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Teide National Park

You simply must not miss this wonderful National Park.

The other-worldly landscapes here will leave you speechless. The pure, clean air of Spain's highest peak will refresh your lungs as you wander amidst solid volcanic magma feeling almost insignificant in this impressive UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The landscape is breathtaking from every angle. The landscape and vegetation and the fauna as well seem taken from another planet

Cañadas del Teide is a gigantic caldera spanning 17 km (10.5 miles) across, from which the summits of Pico Viejo and Mount Teide rise up to 3,718 m (12,198 ft), making this Spain's highest point and the third tallest volcano in the world. Its snowy white peak contrasting with tongues of black lava petrified on the slopes is a unique combination that never fails to surprise.

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Parque Nacional del Teide

No puedes perderte esa maravilla de Parque Nacional.

Los paisajes te parecerán de otro planeta. Respirarás el aire puro del pico más alto de España. Caminarás entre la lava volcánica y te sentirás minúsculo al ver el impresionante entorno declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO.

El paisaje es sobrecogedor se mire por donde se mire. El paisaje y la vegetación y la fauna son como de otro planeta.

Las llamadas Cañadas del Teide forman una gigantesca Caldera de unos 17 km de diámetro sobre la que se asienta el Pico del Teide, de 3.718 metros, que supone la mayor altura de España y el tercer volcán más alto del mundo. La nieve del pico junto a las coladas de lava que se derraman por sus laderas forman una combinación única que no te cansarás de admirar.

Ref www.webtenerife.com/que-visitar/parque-nacional-del-teide...

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Parco Nazionale del Teide

Il picco più alto della Spagna (3.718 metri), dichiarato dall’Unesco Patrimonio Mondiale dell’Umanità, costituisce una visita da non perdere. Bello e grandioso, ti farà sentire minuscolo.

Il crateere conosciuto come Las Cañadas, ha preso il suo nome dalla struttura più tipica del parco: la Cañada, pianura sedimentaria situata normalmente ai piedi delle pareti o anfiteatro del cratere.

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Parc Nacional del Teide

No pots perdre't aquesta meravella de Parc Nacional

Els seus paisatges et semblaran d'un altre planeta.

Respiraràs l'aire pur del pic més alt d'Espanya. Caminaràs entre la lava volcànica i et sentiràs minúscul en veure l'impressionant entorn declarat Patrimoni de la Humanitat per la UNESCO.

El paisatge és colpidor es miri per on es miri. El paisatge i la vegetació i la fauna són com d'un altre planeta.

Les Cañadas del Teide formen una gegantina Caldera d'uns 17 km de diàmetre sobre la qual s'assenta el Pic del Teide, de 3.718 metres, que suposa la major altura d'Espanya i el tercer volcà més alt del món.

La neu del pic al costat de la lava que es vessa pels seus vessants formen una combinació única que no et cansaràs d'admirar.

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1 Corinthians 1:28-29 “God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world —what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in His presence.”

Taroko gorge, Taiwan. Steep, steep marble gorges, tunnels cut through mountains, many rockfalls every year, incredible place.

A sad man walks down a side street next to Roger's Place Arena - in Edmonton. There is no hockey due to the pandemic.

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This was my first experience on a ship out to sea and I was struck with amazement at the vastness of the water, the sky, the enormity of everything and how small and insignificant I was in it all.

Photography on the water, for me became a different and interesting sensation as well, being rocked from side to side, trying to keep the horizon and focus, composition, while moving forward or in this case backward. I have a short attention span anyway :) and saw so many things at once through the lens.

"The presence of curved blades / on the gates withheld / climbers from reducing it / to insignificant metal."

The huge scale of the Greenland landscape can be overwhelming and make one feel quite insignificant, as this image of a photographer on the NE shore of Milne Land demonstrates. The snowy mountains of Renland are in background and one of the low Bjorne Islands in the middle. Scoresby Sund, East Greenland.

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This region is called Moravia, in the Czech Republic.

Living in it:

Catholics

evangelicals

communists

atheists

Mormons

Jehovah's witnesses

Orthodox

Muslims

Asians, perhaps Buddhists

Some foolish gypsies without religion

Jews (after the 2nd World War, leaving only 6)

Everyone here has a church, or a place for meditation.

It works!

There are not detonate bombs like Paris or Brussels.

We want it to be still! Forever!

We are insignificant country!

Telling a story in three simple images let's start with 1) The Good

The Maine Central Railroad was a proud, frugal but also modern, and profitable affair. The small Northern New England Class 1 was beloved by its family of employees and loyal fans both. The 'Pine Tree Route' made its money serving Maine's once dominant paper industry but seemed willing serve every customer siding no matter how seemingly small or insignificant. This logo began to fade from the scene not long after Gullford Transportation Industries purchased the venerable road in 1981 and history has not been kind to the old MEC.

This rusted and faded reminder of better days is found on the flank of an ancient Russell snowplow seemingly long forgotten about in the yard at Northern Maine Junction.

Hermon, Maine

Friday May 13, 2022

Those seemingly insignificant experiences are gradually nourishing our growth.

the pavement is a grid. a map of light and stone. shadows cut across it, long and sharp. geometry of absence. a figure walks in the upper left corner. small, almost insignificant. her shadow stretches before her, a dark arrow pointing the way. she follows it, across the illuminated squares.

Many Chihuahuas ran on treadmills for hours to produce this wonderful art for your enjoyment.

Lydd Town Railway Station, situated 7 miles from Appledore, was a principal station on the New Romney Branch Line. The station had two platforms as well as a passing loop and a signal box on the down side.

The station closed on 6th March 1967 in the face of dwindling passenger traffic and insignificant freight returns, yet the line remained open today for freight traffic to serve the nuclear power station at Dungeness.

These photographs, taken in July 2016, showcase the site as it stands today.

Inspiration for the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.

One of those chance arrangements of completely unrelated and insignificant items that from a particular point of view and framed by the camera take on a mysteriously appealing visual order and something like beauty. I don't think I could or would make this kind of arrangement myself, for the sake of art, yet when approached by chance, it seems as if the arrangement has been preconceived.

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“If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do so, but he who would prefer to be quietly alone with his work, and who wants but very few friends, will go safest through the world and among people. And even in the most refined circles and with the best surroundings and circumstances, one must keep something of the original character of an anchorite, for other wise one has no root in oneself; one must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning. "

-- Vincent van Gogh

If you're drawn to wide open spaces in an emotional/spiritual sense, then there's nothing quite like bearing witness to a new day in Death Valley. I sometimes seek the quiet aloneness that comes from a stark view in a desolate landscape. It's easy to feel insignificant in the face of it, yet it's also easy to become absorbed into a much larger, infinite state of mind..

Death Valley CA

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It has certainly been a joy to get back to using my Nikon D850 again. The Leica D-Lux 7 is a handy camera to have in the pocket, but it is very limited in scope compared to the full frame DSLR. It is not insignificant that the D850 is referred to as a "baby medium format camera". It gives that performance and the images (235MB in TIFF files) are always best viewed large.

After my visit to Melbourne (which you have been looking at for the past month or more), two things forced a layoff from actually taking photographs: The first is that I felt extremely burnt out by the whole social media rigamarole. Frankly I am sick of trying to produce pictures that will garner more views and faves (I gave up chasing Explores a long time ago as Flickr and I continue our cool relationship, and I can't be bothered faving 1000 photos a day to attract the algorithm's attention).

I needed to get back to taking the sort of photographs that reflect who I am and the artistic influences that I respect. And secondly, a change of employment meant that my time has been limited, but I have come to see this as a blessing. Less really is more. So after a deliberate layoff from using a camera for nearly two months, I ventured out for the first time last Saturday to capture some late afternoon street shots and sunsets. I'll let you be the judge, but I was very pleased with the results.

I've used the last two months to think more deeply about my compositions. I've been reading all the time and of course, looking at photographs. I've always been a person that believes sound theory leads to better practical results - and this seems to be very true in photography.

"Among the Reeds" is a direct homage to one of the pioneers of artistic landscape photography, the East Anglian P.H. Emerson (1856-1936). In the previous posting I have described his work in relation to Nancy Newhall's fine biography. I commend it to you.

The light traveled millions of kilometers to find me here, on the insignificant blue rock under all the leaves and trees. What are the odds, really? My photons, all mine! Don't aim your camera into the sun, though...

... when fences become insignificant

Every time I visit this place I get the same feeling of excitement. It's the size or the metallic shine of these titans, the minute-changing weather and everything else about this surrounding that makes you feel so small and insignificant, but also very lucky to be able to experience it's brutal beauty. Very few people actually climb these peaks of Korab mountain. They're not the highest, maybe not the most difficult in the world, but they always make you stop on your way and keep your eyes on this nature's ensemble for as much as you can.

"In the face of all the present turmoil and unrest and unhappiness...what can a photographer, a writer, a curator do?...To make people aware of eternal things, to show the relationship of man to nature, to make clear the importance of our heritage, is a task that no one should consider insignificant...These are the days when eloquent statements are needed." - Letter from Beaumont Newhall to Ansel Adams in 1954

Ten years ago, I never would have considered myself the type of person to get up early on a Spring Break two days in a row to catch a sunrise (two days in a row of sunsets as well) but now, when I am trying my best to meditate, I think about how with each breath the sun comes up a little more and there is a little more illumination of the canyon each time...millions of years of Earth revealed and suddenly turning all shades of brown and red like a magic trick so that it goes all across the sky and then comes back down again and we slowly prepare to sleep with deep blues and purples soothing us on every exhale.

I wasn't sure I was going to really get too much out of seeing The Grand Canyon in real life but I found myself making so much sense of the present moment as completely insignificant in comparison to the rest of it. Time is expansive and to think how short even a very long lifetime is adds quite a bit of perspective.

But, while we are here, we are each here for a reason and we must complete our soul's purpose . We have to look deep into ourselves and ask what this is and we must try our best to love and learn as much as we can here. Most days, this battered ADHD infected planet doesn't seem like a gift but when we look at a beautiful tree or mushroom or canyon, how can we not see it as the most miraculous present we've ever received?

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“To hear never-heard sounds,

To see never-seen colors and shapes,

To try to understand the imperceptible

Power pervading the world;

To fly and find pure ethereal substances

That are not of matter

But of that invisible soul pervading reality.

To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;

To be a lantern in the darkness

Or an umbrella in a stormy day;

To feel much more than know.

To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;

To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;

To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;

To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets

Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.

To be a smile on the face of a woman

And shine in her memory

As a moment saved without planning.”

― Dejan Stojanovic

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❤️ I’m off in a few days, on holiday to Yorkshire, Leeds. My first visit there, so I’m excited. Not sure I will witness anything like this view taken in Manhattan, NYC, but the difference will be no doubt embraced:-)

Dear friends I thank you, from deep in my heart.. for your presence here. It means so much to me, i promise you.

If there are more streams to visit and more commenting to do, I’ll be on to it, on my return.❤️

Polygala vulgaris L. Capture: Llanars, Ripollès, Girona, Catalonia.

FLOR: 4-7 mm.

ENGLISH:

Polygala vulgaris, known as the common milkwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Polygala in the family Polygalaceae.

The biological form of Polygala vulgaris is hemicryptophyte scapose, as its overwintering buds are situated just below the soil surface and the floral axis is more or less erect with a few leaves.

Polygala vulgaris reaches on average 7–35 centimetres (2.8–13.8 in) in height. The stems have many branches and are woody at the base. It has alternating pointed leaves, almost glabrous, 2 to 4 mm wide and 10 to 20 mm long. Basal leaves are spatulate, with rounded apex, while the upper leaves are lanceolate.

The flowers are gathered in long terminal inflorescences. The colour of the corolla varies between blue and violet, it can rarely occur in purple forms. The flower's outer three sepals are normally small, green and insignificant, whilst the inner two sepals are bigger. The inner sepals are usually shorter than the petals. The stalks of the eight stamens are joined together to form a tube, and united with this tube, one on either side, are two tiny petals. On the lower side of the flower lies the third petal; it too, is joined to the stamen tube, but it is larger, and fringed. The flowering period extends from May through July.

Common milkwort is quite similar to the heath milkwort (Polygala serpyllifolia), but in this species the inner sepals are usually longer than the petals. The heath milkwort can be all the same colours except for white. These four possible colours account for the milkworts' Irish folk-name of 'four sisters.

Photographed at Sierra De Pujálavrez Spain

A tiny roadside wildflower that looks insignificant, but when looking more closely it's a very beautiful little flower.

Explored Kystgrisøre vokser fra Skagerakkysten og vestkysten til Nordmøre

A black bear near Merritt B C . He makes the fence look insignificant as a barrier. Anyway he wasn't interested in trying to scare me. He ran the other way.

He was pretty insignificant and unassuming till I saw him through the lens...!!.....he guarded this one flower all day....!

Explore.....July 7, 2007. #330

Whilst walking along the banks of Wastwater in the early morning gloom, our eyes were drawn to a wild swimmer being escorted by a support canoe. Conditions looked calm on the water for the cold swimmer and I thought it might make a dramatic picture with the clouds on the steep slopes of the Screes.

It must take some motivation to get out and take on the cold, deep waters of Wastwater on such a morning. The swimmer looks so tiny and insignificant in this vast landscape. I thought the black and white conversion looked more dramatic than the colour version.

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but then i remember, that i am the only me ever made, and THAT is a special thing.

May your days be filled with remembering you are the only you there is. Smile....that is a special thing too. ((HUG))

It often seems that everything revolves around us. Nothing could be further from the crude reality of our insignificant and ephemeral passage over the surface of "a speck of dust suspended in a beam of light".

Lavender and Milky Way workshop by Nigthcolours. Lighting by @paco_farero and @fuskynocturno.

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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

- Douglas Adams

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Our eyes are still dazzled when we see the colors we saw in Algonquin Park last year: dazzling, intense and brilliant. That now seems like a dream, and we think that right now that landscape will be that beautiful or even more so.

Anywhere you stopped the car and looked at the maples, oaks, conifers, you felt the magic of nature in full splendor, delighting us with its beauty, offering us an unforgettable spectacle, making us feel insignificant in its presence.

We took this photo during one of the several trails we did through the beautiful park, feeling the miracle of nature in full effervescence.

Hoping you enjoy a good day, with great caution, respect and tolerance in these sad times that we live, I send you much encouragement, hope and patience to overcome them.

Best viewed large.

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Orgía de colores en el Parque Provincial de Algonquin, Ontario, Canada

Nuestros ojos aún se sienten deslumbrados cuando vemos los colores que pudimos contemplar en el Parque de Algonquin, deslumbrantes, intensos y brillantes. Aquello ahora parece un sueño, y pensamos que ahora mismo aquel paisaje estará así de bello o incluso más aún.

En cualquier lugar que parabas el coche y mirabas los arces, los robles, las coníferas, sentías la magia de la naturaleza en pleno esplendor, deleitándonos con su belleza, ofreciéndonos un espectáculo inolvidable, haciendo sentirnos insignificantes ante su presencia.

Esta foto la tomamos durante uno de los varios trails que hicimos por el bello parque, sintiendo el milagro de la naturaleza en plena efervescencia.

Esperando que disfrutes de un buen día, con mucha precaución, respeto y tolerancia en estos momentos tan tristes que vivimos, os envío mucho ánimo, esperanza y paciencia para superarlos.

Mejor visualizar en grande.

randoms shot from random walk. Other photo are here tongkm.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/moments-insignificant/

Mt. Titlis

outside of St. Paul's on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula. I liked the contrast and that beautiful mountain. Those hills tend to make me feel pretty insignificant . (best seen large I think)

Do love getting the opportunity to take size comparison shots! Taken yesterday.

Upton Magna - Shropshire

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We explored the "Three Sisters" in the Goblin Valley State Park and I found that they must have been taller in the past. You can see their previous heads on the ground, chopped off by the merciless forces of erosion.

More heads are still up there and wind, rain, freeze cycles and earth's rumbles will continue their work until only an insignificant clump is left.

You can see melted humps of earth all around and wonder what fantastical forms they once had.