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I love coming to this place. You can be in the city and at the same time be there together with nature. Not too many people around. A great place for meditation. And one of my favorites - Meditation with a camera.
"Gain total clarity. Have unstoppable confidence. Reach social mastery. Become a remarkable leader. Perform at your highest level!" Thank you, my dear. I'd rather stay with photography.
Shocking Pink Gorgeous Display Of Nature's Colors At Long Island Home A Dozen Years Ago - IMRAN™
I took this photo 13 years ago in early fall of 2010 at my home on Long Island, New York. It is one of the 100,000+ pictures I need to make time and post in my life while there is time! Life goes by so fast, like a summer bloom.
These flowers are so long gone even their roots have forever become one with the soil. But their beauty and magic live on forever. Even that can be a lesson in life philosophy for each one of us, for long after we are gone.
© 2010-2023 IMRAN™
Even Storm Clouds Are A Blessing To Be Grateful For - IMRAN™
(My 112th Flickr Explore!)
At first glance it is just another magnificent Florida sunset formed by storm clouds. It is "just" a pretty cool photo captured by someone with a camera living at a beautiful home on Tampa Bay. But to me it is much more symbolic, poignant, and soul-touching than that.
As so many people struggle with their daily lives, whether financially, emotionally, psychologically, or physically, it is easy for many people to assume everyone else has it easy, or at least easier than them. The daily or even lifelong struggles, the constant stresses, the betrayals by loved ones, the difficulty in making ends meet, the responsibilities of caring for sick loved ones, or the pressures of raising kids as a single parent with exes sucking the joy out of life and sabotaging future love and happiness, injustices in society, unfair treatment or exploitation by employers, and so many are things like these are among the many challenges.
There are always storm clouds on the horizons of lives. Faced with that reality, it becomes easy to assume that others are having an easier time without their own storm clouds, just because they are smiling in a photo, or out with a group of friends, or posting a photo of something fun they did. That can make people forget to take stock of how even their terrible situation is full of blessings. But looking around at everything they can realize how much they have to be grateful for, how much what is part of even their challenge-filled life is what so many millions of others are dying wanting to have.
So, as I looked at these massive storm clouds forming, with so many challenges that surround the scenes of our lives, I bowed my head in gratitude even to have storm clouds surround the horizons of life. Think about it. Just being alive, being able to see the storm, hear the thunder, feel the rumble, smell the ozone, sense the electricity in the air ready to strike like lightning, and touch the lightest drops of rain.... how many hundreds of millions who passed before us will never have the opportunity to experience these again.
No matter what it is you are struggling with, think about it... there is someone somewhere who would gladly trade places and their situation for yours. Each and every thing in life, even the storms, when looked at with the right spiritual lens, the with the correct settings in the camera of our souls, are capturing a moment of infinite uniqueness.
No one else in the entire universe, in all of time and for all eternity, will have had the same exact moment, the same exact experience, the same exact privilege of being you in whatever situation you face. Situations change, and they change much faster when you learn to recognize that even the darkest, stormiest, photos of you life are mere dramatic highlights of a beautiful movie of your life that is entirely in your hands, heart, mind, and soul to write, rewrite, and lead to whatever direction and happy ending you choose to.
Embrace the storm, take my hand, let me guide you to turning the most difficult moments into beautiful works of art of gratitude, hope, confidence, joy, and love.
© 2021 IMRAN™
Almost Off The Wall Magnificent Florida Sunset Captured Off The Wall At Home On Tampa Bay - IMRAN™
Wordplay intended, and literal. I literally had the Nikon D850 perched on the edge of the swimming pool waterfall & almost ready to fall off the wall on Tampa Bay at my blessed Apollo Beach home as I captured this HDR almost "off the wall" 'unreal' really really real sunset. A magnificent combination of deep Azure sky, shallow blue waters, vivid green palm trees, glowing golden clouds, and burning red hot sun created this magic. A boat passed by the tranquility of the scene to be etched in the digital history of our planet. Another moment to bow my head in prayer and gratitude at Maghreb hour as the Muslim holiday of Eid was starting.
© 2021 IMRAN™
Magnificent Massive Magical Melting Metal Sunset Shades Stroke Seaside Sky - IMRAN™
The sun, burning hydrogen, a gas, almost 100 million miles away, seems to be a massive ball of molten metal falling into the steaming sea, while the godly colors of the frozen universe interspersed with fiery stars are painted by god's universal brushstrokes on the canvas of the sky. Yet here the sun is seeming to melt into the sea just 10 miles away. And in all that known matter which exists and anti-matter we cannot even understand, we may well be the only living creations that can both make love and make war, pass on passion or inflict pain, create life or disperse death. We may be the only beings that can both understand the science of it and yet bow our head in gratitude at Maghreb prayers to an invisible unknown Almighty for giving us our time before it is the sunset of our lives. Here it was all in one moment. A moment both magnificently profound and profoundly magnificent. I was everything and nothing at all. A painter with vision beyond the limits of imagination and yet merely an insignificant pigment on an infinite painting on the fabric of space and time. May I, and we all, be blessed to shine bright and paint on the canvas of our timeline on earth our own memorable works, using all the God-given paints of life, heart, mind, body, soul, imagination, creativity, and love that we are given. Amen.
© 2020 IMRAN™
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Photage 130: Holiday gatherings are cool. They can also mean more cooking, more cleaning, more family obligations, and might even trigger old family conflicts. Here are four tips to support you through this Thanksgiving holiday:
1. Plan, plan, plan
Different family members tend to have different ideas about how holidays are going to play out. Talk to each other about what you want and need out of the holiday.
2. Consider your options
Tradition tends to rule holiday family gatherings. Tradition is good and at the same time it's okay to switch things up for the better. Consider your options and choose the one that fits best for you and your family.
3. Reward yourself
Holidays can take a lot of time, energy, money, and planning. Be sure to plan and schedule a reward for yourself after all is said and done. This helps to make the holiday not only about family, but also about nurturing you.
4. Have fun!
Yes, there is work to be done in holiday gatherings. But, ultimately it is about connecting. So be sure to enjoy yourself along the way!
Go See Sea Of Green Glow As Sago Palms Grow And Be Inspired To Be You - IMRAN™
There is such an infinite range of beautiful moments, even in the life of an ordinary man like me going about his life quietly, even merely walking past a sago palm, there is no way any one man can even notice, capture, much less share even a fraction of all that.
Imagine that multiplied by the billions of people on this planet alone. Then imagine the billions upon billions of galaxies around us, each with billions and billions of stars with who know how many even more magical moments occurring this very instant.
The sharp but gentle edges of even one "insignificant" plant can teach us a lesson. I see this and it reminds me that even in this vastness of infinite universal variations and a plethora of seemingly identical existences teeming next to each other, each and every one of us can stand apart in our own way.
Every one of us can make it a point to live, ideally as green as we can, an evergreen life, wherever we go, taking every moment to learn and grow, and to shine and glow as examples of our standing apart even among a sea of equals, as this moment in the space-time continuum depicts.
Think about it. What makes you who you are? How do you stand apart from the rest? What are you going to do with the gift of being You?
© 2021 IMRAN™
Handling grown-man business to the N-th degree has unfortunately been forcing me onto the sidelines lately... Life comes before graff, but sometimes you have to press pause and just go paint.
I tried to do something a bit less rigid and incorporate some more curves into this piece, which I feel I did, but I can take it further. Overall I had a really good time painting this.
This wall is a tribute to all the new additions to the 3A junior-division (there are a few) with the storks ushering them in... as well as some advice for life. Stay tuned...
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Action shots: www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/blog/2011/04/21/geser-6/
Stunning Sunset Sky Silhouettes Ship Showing Stellar Signs Supporting Success - IMRAN™
On a blustery winter's day in Florida, this cruise ship departed the Port Of Tampa, headed to destinations unknown. It's proud silhouette crossed in front of the stunning sunset. Magnificent dusk colors filled the sky -- with both bright promises and dark perils. Yet, it aimed towards the light, even knowing the certainty of night.
Even your toughest challenges in life come with opportunities for You to decide your future, your fate. There will be hazards on the horizon and hopeful signs on the skyline.
Falls may be guaranteed, but the Springs to rebound from them are for you to steer. Turn any winter's storm into a future summer breeze.
Let this image and these words inspire you. I hope you can see that choice exemplified even in this photograph.
Stay strong. Stay steady. Stay the course. Amazing destinations await.
© 2023 IMRAN™
Ambition + Action = Tiny Spiders’ Massive Web & Success - IMRAN™
Talk about believing in yourself, and having ambition undeterred by your personal size or stature. Throw in action with perseverance & dedication, and anyone of any size can achieve anything. This almost 10 feet tall 12 feet wide spider web woven by a spider, a fraction of an inch itself, proves it. If this is what it can achieve in one day, imagine what you can imagine in an year, and your remaining lifetime. What are you going to do about it, today?
© 2021 IMRAN™
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When Life Doesn’t Even Give You Lemons, Make An IMRANtini - IMRAN™ (3D)
I don’t drink alcohol, and I don’t even have any lemons. But, no matter what I have or don’t have, I try to concoct something fun and adventurous out of the situation. Even a seemingly broken glass can be full or at least half full! (This one appears to be “broken” because the bokeh effect fools the FB algorithm to make the rear half of the glass look like it’s part of the background).
That attitude will be needed, though it will surely be sorely tested, in the lives of everyone on the planet. So, I say, in trying times find ways to try out new things. Experiment, think creatively, and stay positive. You don’t have to stay parched nor do you have to “drink the Kool-Aid”. Make yourself your own version of what I call the Virgin IMRANtini.
Cheers, and my best wishes to all. Well, except to the ones willingly and deliberately belittling the risks of a global pandemic, spreading lies, disseminating fake remedies, and endangering themselves & others. May Darwin get to work on them and rid the planetary gene pool of the moron-gene. 😄 Amen!
© 2020 IMRAN™
3D on FB: www.facebook.com/134701029880230/posts/3491943427489290/ .
Ensure Leaving Your Sole Solo Soul’s Sole Mark To See On Seashores Sea To Shining Sea - IMRAN™
Even though we are often never alone - whether through work or relationships, family or friends - there is one thing we alone possess and must travel alone... our incredibly unique path across the oceans of times. Think about it.
Out of the literally infinite combinations of possibilities in the known universe, we are absolutely the only ones to have traveled our individual journey across the space time continuum. No matter who comes into or goes out of our lives.
We are the only ones who can, and who must, choose to be shining stars in the heavens of human greatness — from the decisions we make today, the actions we take, right here, right now. Those choices, every minute, every day, starting this very moment, set the course of our walk through life on this planet’s star-walk through the cosmos.
We bear sole responsibility to ensure we walk on the seashore separating the sands that have already passed through our hourglass, and the limitless oceans of possibility alongside us, leaving us a chance to still carve our own path, craving leaving a meaningful mark, on the sandy beach that still lies awaiting ahead.
Our soul, solo traveler temporarily riding the solar system’s journey through a brief eternity, bears sole responsibility to leave a meaningful mark of soles that can be seen along the seashores, from sea to shining sea.
Come along, my precious fellow-traveller through time and I will guide your path when you need me to. But get ready to explore farther than you imagined.
Dare to bare your soul, my dear. Hold my hand and press your sole into the sand. Leave your mark, everywhere, my beloved, forever,.... But step on it.... for time and tide wait for no man, or woman.
© 2020 IMRAN™
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Sometimes, we don't learn it the first time. That's okay. It takes practice and time to master a skill. #ExpectationTherapy - bit.ly/ExpectationBook
Danielle is a life coach and blogger ( Step In Her Heels ) and this portrait is from a TFP session we did when I was just getting into studio work back in 2017.
Terminal Two Too, At The End, I Exit Stage Right - IMRAN™
Al the world’s a stage.... Life is a journey. Et tu... There are many phrases describing our time alive. Dates marking milestones, when we’re embarking on the one way trip, to distant places of our final disembarking. In the long term, no matter what terms we desire or what conditions we live in, the terms & conditions of our earthly contract require that our days contract to zero, even if we’re a hero, in reality or merely in our minds. Mind you, minds fade, bodies contract, but the impacts of our good deeds expand and legacies of great acts grow. One day we all reach the terminus, whether through a terminal ailment, or a crashing end due to the collisions of fate and destiny ending our physical travels through the space time continuum. What continues are the memories we take with us, and the joys we leave behind in those whom we leave behind. The irony, the ones we leave behind continue into the future beyond us, continuing spinning around the solar ace of our planets, finding solace in knowing that in our end we went to a time and space with no end. So, dear fellow traveler today, or a future journeying reader long after I’m gone, gone may be my physical remains, but my presence in your mind and heart shall remain, long after I, IMRAN, EXIT (stage / right). (Thoughts inspired just from placing my name watermark in this Photo I took at JFK Terminal 2).
© 2019 IMRAN™
Take One Step, Seas Life (Of Love(s Of) Life) - IMRAN™
Life is so full of ironies and visual wordplays. Take this photo of my current situation, for example. I'm standing in the cold waters of Tampa Bay on a warming afternoon, outside my blessed home.
I looked down and then up. Things were looking up and I was down with it. Engulfed by natural moistness from the Gulf, these are the thoughts that washed over me... intellectual and emotional waves of pleasure coming in and on a literal wet dreamscape... as I clicked the iPhone button to capture it all in one frame.
Everyone tells us to stay close to home, not venture too far from shore, to resist the call of the sea, to not cross the oceans. We are told to stay grounded, keep our feet firmly planted, not to rock the boat even if we are permitted to get on one.
But to the ones who were born to explore new horizons, travel the world and seven seas, cross every ocean, share the space-time continuum with kindred souls — soulmates and sail-mates, whose hearts, minds, bodies, and souls equally full of love, lust, desire, passion, adventure, and an insatiable hunger experience it all — to live lives even beyond the limits of imagination.
And it is with those distant unseen, maybe even nonexistent, ports of calling in mind, with hearts throbbing to have precious heartthrobs come along on the journey, that we venture out on the oceans of time. The irony of how even getting to the oceans calling our names sometimes means crossing rivers as obstacles along the way.
But the journey of a million lifetimes of love begins with a single step, with one look, with one kiss. Just as you start to get your feet wet, the sea of love itself rises to meet you, greet you, embrace you. And next thing you know you’re knee-deep in it. Hooked to the sea but unleashed in every sense.... nothing between where you are and where you want to be but Fate telling you the plot but you writing your Destiny.
Come, my beloveds, my sail-mates, let my words release the lines that tie you to the ordinary life, let my voice command you to your wildest dreams, let my eyes unwrap the sails draping you, let my fingers plot the poetry of our life’s journey mapped on the perfection of your body, as I penetrate the darkness of the night seas that scare you, together to open beautiful corridors like moist pink morning clouds, ready to be seen & seeded with an unbridled love of life... and an infinite life of love.
That is what I visualize from this photo. Can you see and feel it, my loves!
© 2020 IMRAN™
(I post my words from the iPhone screen as a stream of consciousness without any editing, so I often catch & fix typos or grammar issues later).
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When The Universe Looks Down At You Under A Martian Sunset, What Does It See? - IMRAN™
Take a moment to read this and think, even as you enjoy the video. This is an interesting week in space and planetary news. The moon, which is nearly 250,000 miles away, will appear very close to the red planet, Mars, sometime on Thursday morning.
At that time Jupiter and Saturn will also appear nearby, even though their actual distances are far greater. At different times in their orbits, Jupiter can be 600 million miles away and Mars can be as much as 150 million. Saturn can be just over a BILLION miles away. Imagine that, a BILLION miles.
Yet, we can sit here on our tiny blue planet and soak in their views in the night sky with our naked eyes. As you watch this absolutely unedited, unprocessed, SOOC (straight out of camera), video taken from my DJI Phantom 4 drone three years ago, soak in the mind-blowing sunset at just one secluded spot on Tampa Bay, my blessed home in Apollo Beach, Florida. Then try to think about the countless equally or even more stunning sunset scenes happening even on our own planet at other places around the globe which we may never get to see all of in our lifetimes, no matter how much we travel.
Now imagine, beyond imagination, what visions must be happening this very moment on millions of other spots even on our nearby planets. Then, in an instant, you will realize that even the limitless human imagination cannot begin to fathom what else is happening in other planetary systems in BILLIONS of other galaxies, some of which we cannot even imagine the size and scope of.
Then, imagine, if you can, that nature, or energy, or the universe, or God, or whatever you believe in, looking down at us for one fleeting moment. Imagine that is the only instant you, with your thoughts, and your actions, are going to be noticed. Right here. Right now.
Will you come across as an insignificant non-entity whose absence will not be noticed if you cease to be? Or, will Nature see someone whose deeds and hateful ways would be a benefit to the universe to be without?
Or, by some chance and by some choices you made, are you someone whom even all the powers in the Universe, and all the deities real and imagined, look down at and gasp in awe, when they realize and say, "Here is a person that uplifts the very spirit of life in all its forms! Even as a speck of stardust, or a body of flesh and bones, here is someone who is worth the gods of the universe to look up to, for inspiration."
You choose, by your deeds and words, your thoughts and ideas, your dreams and desires, which of the three categories you belong to. Choose wisely.
Enjoy the sunset, and make the new day tomorrow one worth the opportunity that the universe and God give you, every day, no matter what hardship you face today. Make tomorrow count, every day. Good Luck, and Good Night!
© 2017-2020 IMRAN™
On The Road Of Life, Keep Driving. (Road Trip NY-MA Fall Foliage 10 Years Ago) - IMRAN™
On the road of life, the seasons will change on you with predictable unpredictability. But do not lose sight of your destination. Remember that even after a hard fall you can always spring back. Just don't forget, time flies. See how quickly ten years flew by as this story illustrates.
After the ferry ride (www.flickr.com/photos/imrananwar/50495571767/ ) from Orient Point in New York to New London in Connecticut, I got driving the rest of the way to my meetings in the Boston, Massachusetts area. A lot of trees were still green, but it had been a dry and very windy autumn so many of the trees were already stripped bare, although it was the third week in October and I was not that far North on the eastern seaboard. I decided it was best to pull over and just do a short recording to take in the scenery. Ten years later I just set it to some music to share with you.
Take a deep breath, don't worry about the starkness you may feel surrounding you. Get back in the driving seat. It is your life after all. Get a grip, head up, eyes forward, a quick look over your shoulder to avoid unneeded risk, but do not get hung up looking backward. You're not going that way.
Get in gear, and off you go. Better places than the best destination you could have imagined are waiting for you. See you on the road soon.
© 2010-2020 IMRAN™
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“Someone who doesn’t make you their top priority isn’t worthy of being your top priority.” - IMRAN™
© 2022 IMRAN™
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(Always) Stop To Smell The Roses - IMRAN™
What a wonderful-winter spectacular Saturday simmering summer-like day on Tampa Bay in Florida. It’s literally HOT already even in late February. But a cool ocean breeze is wonderful in the shade.
So blessed, so grateful, so loved, so humbled, I can’t give enough thanks but, yes, I do (always) stop to smell the roses. The most powerful sweet perfume scented ones happen to be on the bushes, like this one in my Apollo Beach home driveway, are the ones I… shall we say… personally nourish and water. 😂
Kennedy, my great German Shepherd Dog, seems to be smiling at the not-so-private joke, while K2 to my right isn’t in the iPhone selfie.
© 2022 IMRAN™
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Blossoming Natural Beauty At International Plaza Tampa Florida 3D - IMRAN™
It was a memorable and precious time spent at the mall with a gorgeous beloved goddess. As she tried on outfits which left me breathless, I was able to step out of the store to cool down. 😄 These flowers caught my eye. They may seem to be average looking flowers to most people, but they too look far more beautiful, exciting, enticing, and delightful, when experienced in 3D of real life. Let the magic blossom, no matter how frustrating and how ordinary you think something may be.
© 2019 IMRAN™
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Your Choices, Every Day, Every (Happy New) Year! - IMRAN™
Happiness Is A Choice, Every Day.
Living Fully Is A Choice, Every Day.
Starting Fresh Is A Choice, Every Day.
Learning Anew Is A Choice, Every Day.
Helping Others Is A Choice, Every Day.
Sharing Joy Is A Choice, Every Day.
Embracing Adventure Is A Choice, Every Day.
Loving Deeply Is A Choice, Every Day.
Make good choices, every day!
Happy New Year! Every Day, Every Year, my loved ones.
© 2023 IMRAN™
#IMRAN #IMHO #life #love #happiness #choices #HappyNewYear #inspired #inspiration #LifeCoach #LifeLessons
Urban Space Rock Sculpture Manhattan Moment Panorama - IMRAN™
I had been up 30+ hours already. It was windy. It was cold. I had rushed by cab from a meeting ending at 2PM at the Wall Street headquarters of one of the largest financial services in the works, to one starting at 3PM at the 52nd Street headquarters of the largest capital markets fund in the works. But the police had E52nd blocked off, so I had a two long blocks walk on top of 6 miles I’d already walked until that time that day. But to me it was just another day of Zen in the life of IMRAN. Even as I marched forward, although there were no roses to smell, I stopped to capture moments of the world as I was blessed to experience it. A Christmas tree, a display, sparrows in 3D,.... a zen space panorama in the middle of midtown Manhattan. Enjoy the energy and the tranquility all in one. Swipe your finger or mouse, or move the mobile device, around to enjoy the 180 degrees view. Can you find my name in the photo?
© 2018 IMRAN™