Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family ...... every minute should be enjoyed and savored ~ Earl Nightingale.

It is september already, i wanted to do a small tribute to the students, and all people who like to learn :)

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I am resilient

I trust the movement

I negate the chaos

uplift the negative

I'll show up at the table

again and again and again

I'll close my mouth and learn to listen

woah woah ooh ooh

these times are poignant

the winds have shifted

it's all we can do

to stay uplifted

pipelines through backyards

wolves howlin out front

yeah, I got my crew but truth is what I want

realigned and on point

power to the peaceful

prayers to the waters

women at the center

all vessels open

to give and receive

let's see the system

brought down to its knees

woah woah ooh ooh

I'm made of thunder

I'm made of lightning

I'm made of dirt yeah

made of the fine things

my father taught me that I'm a speck of dust

and this world was made for me

so let's go and try our luck

I got my roots down, down deep

So what are we doing here?

what has been done?

what are you gonna do about it

when the world comes undone?

my voice feels tiny

and I'm sure so does yours

but put us all together

make a mighty roar

roar

Give a Man a MEGAPPHONE, and the kid comes out to play!!

🎧 TUNE

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has something new and wonderful to show you :-)

Author Unknown

HFF!!

fogdrops on rose, little theater rose garden, Raleigh, north carolina

Minimalist photography

is a form of photography that is distinguished by extreme, austere simplicity. It emphasizes spareness and focuses solely on the smallest number of objects in the composition process. Minimalist photographers usually focus solely on one particular subject, rather than an abundance of color, patterns and information. ( wikipedia )

I love learning new stuff in photography, and some techniques requires allot of time to learn and understand..... witch I have a hard time to do . This is minimal as can be ( I think)

Song:

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You think you own whatever land you land on

The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim

But I know every rock and tree and creature

Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

You think the only people who are people

Are the people who look and think like you

But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger

You'll learn things you never knew you never knew

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?

Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest

Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth

Come roll in all the riches all around you

And for once, never wonder what they're worth

The rainstorm and the river are my brothers

The heron and the otter are my friends

And we are all connected to each other

In a circle, in a hoop that never ends

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

Or let the eagle tells you where he is been?

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?

Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

How high will the sycamore grow?

If you cut it down, then you'll never know

And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

For whether we are white or copper skinned

We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains

We need to paint with all the colors of the wind

You can own the Earth and still

All you'll own is Earth until

You can paint with all the colors of the wind

Alan Menken / Stephen Laurence Schwartz

Cerro Paine Grande, Cuernos del Paine y Torres del Paine, Chile

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A fellow photographer and friend from the UK wanted to learn more about masking in Photoshop, and Zoom to the rescue. I started with one of my shots that never thrilled me, but thought it was a good simple shot to start with. As far as the dime a dozen shots of '55 Chevys go, IMO, it was just OK, and it's color was not my favorite. Kind of a peach color, ergo the title. I showed him the power of the new Object Selection tool in Photoshop, and if any further cleanup is required a few other tools can be used. However, typically I use the Polygonal tool for that. I went on to tell him that if you are selecting the subject (car here) but want to do something with the rest of the image, (the background) and not the subject, you must click Inverse before doing any of that. I told him that if you are going to spray out the background like above, you can pick any color you want, but a color already in the image usually works well, or as in the case here, a complimentary color. Maybe a bit of a stretch here, and being that the cars color is in the red family, the compliment of red is green, and therefore my reasoning for going with a shade of green. So, as I'm working my way through this demo process with him my original feelings about not liking the image started to change, and I actually kind of like it now. I think it's proof as to how, with a little extra play, you can turn a mediocre image into something a little more special. So, the takeaway here is don't throw in the towel on those "so so" images, there just may be hope for them.

Macro 50mm 1: 2,5

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If life challenges you and makes it difficult for you, you are forced to learn and grow. It is precisely these challenges that make us stronger and value life all the more.

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your garden has something new and wonderful to show you :-)

Author Unknown

Betty Ford alpine gardens, vail, colorado

Located in the small resort town of Vail, Colorado which attracts a global audience for its skiing and outdoor recreation, Betty Ford Alpine Gardens is the highest elevation botanical garden in the world situated at 8,200’ (2,700 m) in the central Rocky Mountains.

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Birthday present

This is an image of wild flowers in brass thimble. This was definately the most difficult assignment so far. I looked like a micro-surgeon, operating on small bouquet: converging lens was above bouquet, in my left hand was a pincette, in my right hand was pair of scissors. Also, I had to work very quickly as wild flowers wilt within fifteen minutes. I've worked on this for two days in order to be ready for the big shoot; I've practiced the speed so I could do it quickly and in enough time. At the end I've managed to capture these small wild flowers in a thimble as I've imagined it.

I wish you a lot of years of succesful work and thank you all for helping me learn so much about macro photography.

HBMM!

As always, thank you so much for your visits, comments and faves!

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Often I hear of people saying how cynical they are getting in places like SL.

Really isn't life all about lessons learned.

I'm a dreamer and I'm a believer. As silly as it may seem. Having said that I'm a realist too. I want to believe the best in people.

🎼: You Live You Learn ~Alanis Morissette~

✈️ : VUK

Oh, oh, oh

I, recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone, yeah

I, recommend walking around naked in your living room, yeah

Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)

It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)

Wait until the dust settles

You live you learn, you love you learn

You cry you learn, you lose you learn

You bleed you learn, you scream you learn

I, recommend biting off more than you can chew to anyone

I certainly do

I, recommend sticking your foot in your mouth at any time

Feel free

"Beauty, you must learn it.

You must accept and yield, and

then you shall see everything is simple." ~ Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

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We are forced by our surroundings to learn how to swim again and again. You think, you are done, but the waters seem to change, flow in an opposite direction than you expect or even creates maelstroms. The changes to our lives are constant. If you ask me, it is not better for any individual. You think you mastered floating around, but NO, life forces you to change from comfortable breaststroke to a powerful crawl. Do not expect anybody to throw you a life saver. You are on your own, buddy.

This corner of Spadina is waiting for renovation few years now. The Hungarian deli, I used to go to, is gone for decades.

992. Toronto 2022-March 29, P1220472. Upload 2022-April 03. Lmx -ZS100.

MF : Faded Godlike – Bento Beard for Lel Heads EON – SKYLER – QUINN -JON – ALAIN – LOGAN @ TMD.

Modulus :   Asad Hair @ TMD. Marketplace

LOB : Bomber jacket @ TMD.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Thank you for your visits and comments.

I'm sorry, my friends, I'm very busy

learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools - martin luther king

Created in Dream by Wombo

Enhanced and textured with Impresso Pro and PicLight.

Prompts: Take these broken wings and learn to fly, detailed, intricate,

ethereal translucent wings, flowing translucent dark blue,

burgundy, viridian, incredibly realistic, centered

Style: The City

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I keep using my textured photo of the female red winged blackbird because the warm brown tones make such a pleasing background. I started out making butterflies but this lovely girl emerged and demanded to be the star. I hoped she learned to fly.

Thank you for all your faves, comments and invites! Always so much appreciated, but I am just happy if you took the time to look closer!

" Learn to be still and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice.” ~ Franz Kafka © www.ludwigriml.com

Learn something about this amazing bird

Learn to embrace the storms of your life

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-Foo Fighters "Learn to Fly"

Rockin'1000 version:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE&list=PLgR08b3J_lG...

Run and tell all of the angels

This could take all night

Think I need a devil to help me

Get things right

Hook me up a new revolution

'Cause this one is a lie

We sat around laughing

And watch the last one die

I'm looking to the sky to save me

Looking for a sign of life

Looking for something help me burn out bright

I'm looking for a complication

Looking 'cause I'm tired of trying

Make my way back home

When I learn to fly

Think I'm done nursing the patience

I can wait one night

I'd give it all away

If you give me one last try

We live happily ever trapped

If you just save my life

Run and tell the angels

That everything is all right

I'm looking to the sky to save me

Looking for a sign of life

Looking for something help me burn out bright

I'm looking for a complication

Looking 'cause I'm tired of trying

Make my way back home

When I learn to fly

Make my way back home

When I learn to fly

Fly along with me

I can't quite make it alone

Try to make this life my own

Fly along with me

I can't quite make it alone

Try to make this life my own

I'm looking to the sky to save me

Looking for a sign of life

Looking for something help me burn out bright

I'm looking for a complication

Looking 'cause I'm tired of trying

Make my way back home

When I learn to fly

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If you have never seen them, please do check out the video of 1000 people playing all together on one song.. It is very uplifting, in my humble opinion :)

Learn to enjoy what you have, while conquering what you want.

Focus stack or focus shifting, #2

“You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."

T.H. White, English author, (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964)

The Once and Future King

And, as David duChemin states, “Try something new.”

February 12, 2023, on his website.

Six shots using Helicon Focus. Note the second hand moved fractionally in the time taken to shoot six frames.

7mm horizontally

Preference between #1 or #2?

Last January 2022 I asked for help and a Flickr support hero removed both of my accounts from the Explore algorithm. I feel more relaxed and in the moment.

Learn the "Painting with KK Brush" via my book HDR Unleashed @ www.facebook.com/hdrunleashed.

You may order now @

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"You live, you learn

You love, you learn

You cry, you learn

You lose, you learn

You bleed, you learn

You scream, you learn"

Alanis Morissette - You Learn

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-Albert Einstein

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Inge and Louis are strangers number 2 and 3. They were having a fantastic time taking photos high above the Los Angeles skyline. They are both on holiday from Belgium.

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The plan was to learn sketching. So much to learn, so little time.

When will you learn, when willl you learn?

It's not all about the money you earn. (No, no, no)

We're gonna lose, if we don't choose.

Oh, let's come together right now.

Deceivers, administrators and the stealers.

The war mongers and the killers.

The drug dealers and the traitors.

When will you learn, when will you learn?

It's not all about the money you earn.

We're gonna lose, if we don't choose.

Oh, let's come together right now,

.

Can't take no more.

Break down these walls,

In Nature's call before we fall.

Traitors, the brainwashers controll us.

The evil history makers,

Exploit and heartbreak us.

Can't take no more,

Break down these walls.

In nature's call before we fall.

Love, Peace, Harmony.

Come on, baby.

►p l a y

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