“There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself.”

–Virginia Woolf

...and in celebration of their most recent release.

HFF (Happy Fatuous Friday)

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

[Note: Adams died in 2001. Can you imagine what he might think today? His work is recommended reading for those who still do.]

Owl's Head Mountain, Adirondacks, NY. I awake, again. How is it that I come here to get away and there everything is, still banging around in my head. So I get up, and see that the Way has risen as well, and runs like a nebulous cloud above. In the valley below, fog has risen in an inversion layer, lit by the heavens above. I take a few shots, and then sit to watch for shooting stars for awhile. Maybe this is something God wants me to see, that there are endlessly more things out there than my insignificant problems. I yield, and retire to my tent and sleep.

I cannot understand why architects choose this brutal form of architecture when it comes to buildings for people who are sick and in need of help and protection. Brutalism in this context is truly dehumanizing, frightening, and only shows the patient how small and insignificant they are in this context. Accordingly, the employees of this institution also behave. It's so sad

Isaiah 43:19

I know these verses aren't talking about me in particular, or any of us really. However, they illustrate how God works. When something good comes to an end, we mourn. Although I don't think this is a bad thing (in fact, I believe it's healthy), we tend to let it consume us to the point where we forget that God sees so much more than we can see. He will create something new. He will make a way in our wilderness and create rivers in our wastelands. It won't replace the old thing in such a way that it becomes insignificant. No, not at all. That thing was in our lives for a reason. He will, however, create something new beyond what we can comprehend in our sorrow or disappointment.

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I took a night walk in the moonlight at KVR.

I knew the fog would come rolling in from the river. It created an amazing landscape to explore.

How insignificant I felt, yet so amazed at the same time.

Natural colour and light.

A bromeliad - showing the actual insignificant blue flowers set in the colourful 'bracts'

Rocky Coulee Recreation Area, Columbia River and the Channeled Scablands, Vantage, Washington

A week after my rainforest hike, I experienced the complete opposite, heading east to chase the annual Spring wildflower bloom in the desert areas on the eastern side of the Cascade Crest. I did find an abundance of wildflowers blooming in the dry and arid landscape (and hopefully will have time to upload photos of them soon), but it was the fascinating geology of this area that I found equally compelling to my eyes and camera.

These coulees were formed by massive Ice Age floods, the explanation for which took decades of research and controversy to establish. Hiking through this landscape is literally walking on the scars of those floods and there is something powerful about connecting so closely with millions of years of geologic history. Combined with a stop at a nearby state park to view pieces of petrified wood that are over 10 million years old, it was an emphatic reminder that in the big picture of things, one's personal human history is pretty small and insignificant :-)

For those who may have further interest and some time to read, here is additional info about the history and geology of the area:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeled_Scablands

arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/the-scablands-a-scarred-l...

No living thing or person has been made to be insignificant

There are secret places in Iceland that aren't popularized by the tourist industry. They are the places the locals visit. We had this place all to ourselves this day. It seems almost eerie to be up above glaciers in the backcountry of Iceland. Such a strange feeling to walk along these expanses of land completely alone.

This little water cascade would likely be a destination in the states. A marked and named place with significance. In Iceland this is an insignificant waterfall at best, with no name, and just one of hundreds of thousands just like it through out the country. Iceland is more known for it's large waterfalls, with huge force and power behind them.

With an average of maybe 11% chance of sun, this is sort of a typical Icelandic day. Eerie colors, patchy clouds, rain, usually much windier, and sun poking through the clouds here and there. It makes for some moody photography, but it's also dangerous. I shot so much in the rain this day that I shorted out the back screen on my camera. Although the camera still worked, it turned into the equivalent of a film camera, I had to guess at the camera settings, and could not focus on infinity any longer. Luckily this happened nearly at the end of my trip.

Die Natur bietet oft die schönsten Bildkompositionen. Sie sind alle schon da, man muss sie nur sehen und manchmal im richtigen Winkel dazu stehen oder auf den richtigen Moment warten. Sehr hilfreich hierfür ist ein Teleobjektiv. Landschaftsfotografie und Weitwinkel, das ist so ein Klischee. Mit den 24 mm meines Standardzooms komm ich immer sehr gut zurecht. Hab ich noch Platz im Rucksack nehme ich statt des 14-30 mm lieber mein 70-300 Tele mit.

Das Gräntjoch ist ein eher unbedeutender Berg, dem Daniel (2.340 m) südöstlich vorgelagert.

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Nature often offers the most beautiful compositions. They're all there, you just have to see them and sometimes stand at the right angle or wait for the right moment. A telephoto lens is very helpful for this. Landscape photography and wide-angle—that's such a cliché. I always get along very well with the 24mm of my standard zoom. If I have room in my backpack, I prefer to take my 70-300 telephoto lens instead of the 14-30mm.

The Gräntjoch is a rather insignificant mountain, located southeast of Mount Daniel (2,340 m).

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CP 6303 leads what would almost be a '90s throwback consist (save for the new paint on the leader) on train 286 through the curve at Waterford Avenue on Milwaukee's south side. Southbounds here climb Lake Hill, a not-insignificant grade. Combined with the curvature, it's always a good show.

The full belt of the Milky Way stretches across the sky over Winkie Lighthouse at far northern tip of the Isle of Man. I’ve been planning this 16-image panoramic shot in my head for the best part of a year, and it is without doubt one of the most technically difficult images I’ve ever taken. Photos like this can only realistically be taken on a handful of nights each year so after endless preparation when the moment arrived, I set my alarm for 2am and headed out into the darkness alone. The Point of Ayre in the dead of night is quite a creepy place but looking up at the sky and seeing the full arc of the Milky Way instantly helped to ease those irrational night anxieties. The core of the Milky Way Galaxy sits over on the right of the panorama whilst the fainter outer limbs of the spiral sit to the left of the scene. If you look closely on the left-hand side, you’ll see our closest Galaxy neighbour Andromeda making a cameo in the shot. I had a one hour shooting window to get this shot and I completed it literally with seconds to spare! One of the most spectacular photographic moments and sights I have ever experienced! 🌌 ✨

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Why do you always have to go and make me feel so small and insignificant?

This is and edit of an old photo that I never used because I didn't like it. I still don't like it, but the photos I took today were terrible so I had to use an old photo...

It might grow on me though, who knows. It grew on me :)

I was just wondering, if I sold prints, who would buy them? And also, how do I sell prints? Any ideas? Because I really need a new camera, but I need money for that.

Also, at what price do people usually sell prints?

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Went out the next day...gave up quickly...yet two images I liked.

I like the juxtaposition of the once grand and the insignificant so close...so far apart...the blue sparkled like fairy dust on what remained...doesn't mean a thing...

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Dutchman's Pipe Vine (Pararistolochia praevenosa) tiny flower (5mm diameter). The flower is insignificant but the vine is of distinctive importance. It is the exclusive host of the large and beautiful Richmond Birdwing butterterfly (Ornithoptera richmondia). The butterfly is widely distributed in the Gold Coast hinterland, but threatened by habitat destruction for human settlement. This image is a specimen from vines I planted in my Gold Coast hinterland home. We have caterpillars sometimes but the butterflies have eluded us.

In many countries or regions, mountain names are repeated. For example in Scotland where some mountains are given obvious names the result is that there are many called Being Dearg (Red Mountain in Gaelic). In Wales too there are nine mountains named Y Gran (The Cairn).

In this case, this mountain summit is known as Montana Negra (Black Mountain in Spanish). This is located in the southern hills of Gran Canaria but I recognised the name as I have also climbed a peak in Tenerife with the same name.

My hike up this hill wasn't one I had come across in a guidebook. For some reason the British seem to have an obsession with climbing to the summit of a hill, whereas here like most foreign mountain ranges paths take high routes through the mountains and ignore the summits. There was no sign whatsoever of a path up this peak. In fact the only sign man visited was this little cairn which seemed insignificant given the 3,520 height of Montana Negra.

Shirley has long since given up trying to stop me venturing off into the hills on my own whilst on our foreign trips. I must admit that I do like the solitude of being able to explore somewhere new at my own pace.

Shut-Ins Trail

Sam A Baker State Park

Patterson Missouri

Wayne County

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Higher elevations can be reached in steps. Each step almost insignificant,changes so slightly that we are unaware of the change. Once we reach the top our we can see so much more.

Almighty God Gave Me a Second Life

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Almighty God says: “This time, God comes to do work not in a spiritual body but in a very ordinary one. … In Him, you cannot see anything that is different from others, but you can receive from Him the truths you have never heard before. This insignificant flesh is the embodiment of all the words of truth from God, that which undertakesGod's Work in the last days…. He is your gate into the kingdom, and your guide into the new age.” “Though what man sees this day is a God that is the same as man, a God with a nose and two eyes, and an unremarkable God, in the end God will show you that without the existence of this man, the heaven and earth will undergo a tremendous change; without the existence of this man, the heaven will grow dim, the earth will become chaos, and all mankind will live in famine and plagues. He will show you that without the salvationof God incarnate in the last days, then God would have long ago destroyed all mankind in hell; without the existence of this flesh, then you would forever be chief of sinners and corpses evermore. You should know that without the existence of this flesh, all mankind would face an inevitable calamity and find it difficult to escape God’s more severe punishment of mankind in the last days. Without the birth of this ordinary flesh, you would all be in a state where neither life nor death will come no matter how you seek it; without the existence of this flesh, then this day you would not be able to receive the truth and come before the throne of God. Rather, you would be punished by God because of your grievous sins. Do you know? If not for the return of God to the flesh, none would have a chance at salvation; and if not for the coming of this flesh, God would have long ago ended the age of old. As such, can you still reject the second incarnation of God? Since you can so greatly profit from this ordinary man, then why would you not accept Him readily?” (from The Word Appears in the Flesh)

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Dedication on this bench placed in Ynys in a lovely

Viewpoint.

A short walk exploring the tidal island at the edge of Snowdonia

Overlooked by the Moelwyn Mountains that stand just in front of Snowdon, and the Rhinogs to the south east, the small island of Ynys Gifftan is a distinctive and unique feature of the Dwyryd Estuary.

Look across the estuary at high tide and Ynys may seem insignificant, unworthy of exploration and impossible to visit without a boat. But visitors prepared to roll their trousers up can be rewarded with an adventure unlike any other.

This short walk to the tidal island at the foot of Snowdonia is particularly enjoyable in the summer months, when waters have absorbed the heat of the sun.

Skogafoss, Iceland

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Back to a rather wet morning in Iceland just under a month ago. We had stayed at the Hotel Skogafoss overnight and having refueled with a typical Icelandic hotel breakfast we loaded our bags in the vans and walked over to the waterfall. Unfortunately, in early November sunrise was around 09:30 so a number of tour buses were already in the parking lot for the waterfall with the passengers (unfortunately for us Togs) not deterred by the rain.

Although I had the ubiquitous shower cap in my camera bag I decided to try out my brand new Thinktank Emergency Raincover which I actually liked (Thinktank, if you read this…get in touch😉)

I know this shot is a cliche having seen various versions of it but I had it in mind from the start so with the help of a fellow workshop participant and taking advantage of a short lived break in visitors I walked down towards the waterfall and did my best impression of a mads Peter Iverson pose whilst a shot was taken of me.

I don’t normally like to have the tops of waterfalls in my shots as it adds to the mystery of how tall it is and I have various cropped images but I think this shot gives a sense of the scale of the waterfall and how you feel insignificant when stood there looking at the cascades of water falling and spray being blown about - hence the title.

After an hour or so of rather wet shooting we all trapsed back to the vans for our next stop. As we drove out Melvin (the workshop leader) pointed out the newly levelled granular material between the hotel and the waterfall and said it was in preparation for becoming yet another car-park where you will have to pay to park if you want to see the waterfall. Funnily enough this immediately brought to mind Dom Haughton and his views on paid car parks around his Cornish sanctuary😂

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Bryophyllum daigremontianum, (I've read differing Latin names, some say it's related to the Kalanchoe.) commonly called devil’s backbone, mother of thousands, or alligator plant it is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. Growing mother of thousands provides an attractive foliage houseplant. Though rarely blooming when kept indoors, the flowers of this plant are insignificant, with the most interesting feature being the baby plantlets continually appearing on the tips of the large leaves.

Aren't they just made for each other? And clean, satin sheets for the occasion!

What an impact their romance has on us all! We should be kind to bees (and flowers)!

BTW, © is for Colin. - What else?

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Tools of the trade! (new tab) Shh!!! Mum's the word!

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The bee is fast becoming an endangered species in many parts of the world. In France, the newly arrived Asian hornet is just another nail in the coffin. Without the bee, we too could well become an endangered species! :-(( - Love thy neighbour and thy bee however small and insignificant it may appear to be.

"If the Bee Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live" - Albert Einstein

            God slay the Asian queens and save our noble bees!

                 (ironically, to the tune of "God Save the Queen")

Take great care, my friends, and many, many thanks for calling,

Colin ...

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Beauty also lies in apparently insignificant things; it is with the eyes of the heart that we can notice it...

Recently I did a search for a particular keyword in Lightroom and this picture came up. I was surprised to see the hard drive with the Iceland photos from a few years ago still attached to my computer. I am taking this as a sign to look through these and perhaps post some of them before they disappear into my external hard drive mess.

This waterfall here is really insignificant, considering the more famous big waterfalls in Iceland. Perhaps I like it because of that. It's just by the side of the road, nobody else gave it any thought, not worth stopping for. If you are in Iceland. If it was in my neighbourhood here I would visit frequently.

A lone walker descends from the summit of Pen y Fan on a magnificent winter's day.

BC Rail C40-8M's 4623 and 4603 lead an insignificant CN GE and BCOL C440-9WL 4644 west under a relic from the NYC era at CP 435 on the Chicago Line.

www.british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/migrant-hawker

Description

Length: 63mm

Flight Period: August to October (some individuals in July and November)

A small Hawker, not aggressive towards other individuals and occasionally seen in large feeding swarms. It flies late into the autumn and is likely to be the only Hawker found in November. The costa is brown and there is a "golf-tee" shaped, yellow mark on S2.

Male: looks quite dark with blue, paired spots along the abdomen. The pale yellow ante-humerals are indistinct and short and eyes are blue.

Female: brown with similar markings to the male but the spots are smaller and often yellow, occasionally blue. The ante-humerals are insignificant or absent and eyes are brownish.

Habitat

Breeds in standing water but may be found well away from water along hedgerows or woodland edges. Frequently resting low in vegetation.

Status & Distribution

Common and increasing its range. Strongholds in southern England, but now reaching well into northern England and recently appeared in Ireland. Continental migrants may boost the population in late summer.

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In my garden, this is the only plant I do not know the name of!

I bought it on the market, years ago, it had a lovely photo of how it would become, no name though... shows again how deceptive photos can be, LOL!

Anyway, it is not very big, very hardy, with insignificant small leaves, in late Spring... it grows insignificant little white flowers, mostly hidden under the leaves, in Summer it is ... just there?

Then comes Autumn, and the leaves turn on all the colours of the rainbow, for a few short weeks it becomes an ABSOLUTE focal point of attraction in the garden... pure GLORY... then it's gone again... till next year!

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some insignificant wild plant grown in the sidewalk.

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From ancient times to the present, philosophers have repeatedly emphasized the importance of living a frugal or minimalist life. The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes said, “True wealth is not in increasing possessions, but in reducing one’s needs.” Mahatma Gandhi pointed to the destructive side of human greed, stating, “The Earth has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” From the Buddha to Karl Marx, across the passage of time, many have expressed similar ideas. This minimalist concept in philosophy has greatly influenced the photographer, and its mark is clearly visible in his vision and framing.

The absence of color or the use of minimal composition in framing reflects the photographer’s inclination toward a minimalist approach. The fog, wrapped like a thick winter blanket, creates a serene atmosphere. In this calm and pure dramatic setting, human presence becomes secondary. Before nature, even humanity’s vast achievements become insignificant. That is why the photographer has kept humans and their architectural achievements in the background, framing the scene in a minimalist style. Here, nature is the primary subject—not humans or their constructions.

According to nihilism, or the philosophy of pessimism, human life does not has inherent purpose. Evolutionary theory has shown that humans are an unintended outcome of nature’s evolutionary process. Yet human beings, regarded as the finest of creations, continue to exploit all their knowledge and effort into seeking meaning in life. They establish ever-greater architectural structures upon the heart of nature. In proving their superiority, they seem to challenge nature itself. Viewing nature as an adversary, humanity gradually distances itself further and further from it.

Pink eucalyptus blossom: true colours! They really are glorious, and also huge (for gum blossom), about an inch across. Most gums have relatively insignificant flowers which are almost always pale cream to yellow.

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Monastic formation, Nhat Hanh said, had much to do with discovering the significance of “insignificant” activities: cutting vegetables, gardening, pulling weeds, sweeping floors, washing dishes, waiting in line, walking from here to there, paying attention to day-shaping bells.

-EYES OF COMPASSION Learning from

Thich Nhat Hanh, Jim Forest

'In the midst of a gentle rain while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sound and sight around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once like an atmosphere sustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant, and I have never thought of them since."—from Walden by Henry David Thoreau

This random pattern of stones looks beautiful to me. It almost looks like it was designed, but of course it wasn't. It is just the way the world is. But to see it is the really important thing.

Did you know that astronomers have calculated that there are far more stars in our known universe (let alone those we do not know yet) than there are grains of sand on earth? It's hard to get our head around the vastness of this universe, when we realise how utterly insignificant we are by comparison. But as the French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) once said, "Man is only a reed, but at least he's a thinking reed."

As far as we know, human beings are the only creatures in the universe with a consciousness so evolved that we are able to make calculations about the size of our universe. How blessed we are. In many ways the emergence of human intelligence (not always an oxymoron), is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

THE NUMBERS

According to calculations based on rigorous observations, there are 10,000 stars for every grain of sand on earth.

Approximately 7.5 x 10 to the power of 18 grains of sand on earth = 7.5 quintillion.

1 x 10 to the power of 24 to 2 x 10 to the power of 24 stars in the known universe = 1-2 septillion.

Mindboggling. No wonder the Bible translator, J.B. Phillips, once wrote a book called, Your God is Too Small.

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HaPPY BLue SKY WeeK....

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school make me be not so often on this plattform, forgive me.

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I am looking at the darkest sky i have ever seen in my life, feeling so isolated, scary and insignificant in this world, ready to test my new Canon 6D with a Samyang 14mm 2.8. There is a HUGE wind turbine at the left which produces a terrific sound...you wish you were not alone at that place! But that view of this incredible sky rewards me.

..insignificant but worth while seeing..

Am 6. Tag meiner Norwegen-Reise war der Himmel zwar leicht bewölkt, aber es war vollkommen windstill. Auf dem Weg zum Briksdalsbreen, einem touristischen Highlight, hatte ich es eilig und so schenkte ich dem unbedeutenden See am Straßenrand zunächst keine Bedeutung. Auf dem Rückspiegel sah ich dann einen spitzen, symmetrischen Berg, der sich zudem noch perfekt spiegelte. "Ach wie schön" dachte ich mir und fuhr weiter. Man kann ich nicht ständig anhalten und fotografieren...

Doch ein paar Kilometer weiter hab ich mir's dann doch anders überlegt, wendete und fuhr zurück zum See. Eine gute Entscheidung :-)

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On the 6th day of my trip to Norway the sky was partly cloudy, but it was completely calm. On the way to the Briksdalsbreen, a tourist highlight, I was in a hurry and so I gave the insignificant lake on the roadside initially no meaning. On the rearview mirror I saw a pointed, symmetrical mountain, which was also perfectly mirrored. "Oh, how beautiful," I thought to myself and drove on. I can not stop and take pictures all the time ...

But a few miles further I've changed my mind then, turned and drove back to the lake. A good decision :-)

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One of my attempts at the "Looking Close.. on Friday" theme "Round in Vertical Photo"

Shot with a (Tomioka) "Tominon MC 48 mm F 4" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan

For a long time, we've considered nature an ideal prescription for the arrogant, self-centered, or egomaniac human. When we encountered - face to face - this enormous African Elephant (Loxodonta africana), we thought he could provide valuable perspective to such a human. Towering over our boat, 10-13 ft (3.2–4 m) tall at the shoulder and weighing 10,000 - 13,000 lb (4,700–6,000 kg), he quickly established to us just how small and insignificant we are. Also unlike humans, he went about his feeding barely even looking at us. A gentle giant, in this moment anyway.