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For 52.5 of 2010 Theme: This is me and Weekend Assignment and Contest Group
Theme: Out of Place
This is me in my closet showing off all my thrift store finds (Savers is the best thrift store). I never realized how much clothes I had from there until now!
With the image I'd also like to share a little life lesson, popularity doesn't mean S#%@ once you leave highschool and enter the real world. I wasn't at all popular in school but now I'm happy and happily married with two dogs and my husband and I are 22 and 24 we our own house, I've run into some of the more popular girls I went to school with and you know what their not any better off or happier than I am, in fact some of them are worse off. Hope this gives hope to any teens out there who feel like they're a nobody just because their not popular, once you graduate no one will care about what you wear, what music you listen to, the time you dropped your tray in the cafeteria, got stuffed into a trash can (true story) or made the mistake of cutting your own hair and who knows maybe one day you'll be happier than them too.
Only You Can Get You From Your Circumstances To Your Dreams - IMRAN™
You’re not alone. No matter what you’re facing. Are you having a difficult day? Don’t despair. Feeling frustrated by fate? Face it. Challenged by circumstances? Change to counter them. Depressed by developments? Deny doubts and doldrums. Where you are or what you’re going through may not have been in your control. How you deal with it and how you adjust attitude, proactively plan, efficiently execute, and boldly build back what you’ve lost is in Your control. Only you can get you to your dream destination and glorious goals. Take a deep breath, take that first step, to turn adversity that would defeat an average person into opportunity ordinary people don’t dare dream of. Only you can make you be, and achieve, the extraordinary.
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One day my photography friend was discussing with me about Buddhism and photography. He mentioned one of the popular Zen Buddhist teachings in the following verse. It describes the three levels of learning in Zen Buddhist teaching.
Level 1: Seeing mountain as mountain, seeing water as water.
Level 2: Seeing mountain NOT as mountain, seeing water NOT as water.
Level 3: Seeing mountain STILL as mountain, seeing water STILL as water.
We recognize that the same analogy applies to photographic learning process too.
At the very beginning, we are snap shooters. Everything in the world is interesting and they are just what they are. Mountains as mountain and water as water.
Once you are more experienced and learned, you see the scenes as a display of tones, colors, shapes, lines, textures and other compositional elements (e.g. frames etc). Therefore mountains NOT as mountains anymore, water NOT as water anymore.
When you move up to next level of learning, then all the compositional elements are serving you as tools of expression. Mountains STILL as mountains, water STILL as water.
I think this is the stage most difficult to be described.
It reminds me the words of Diane Arbus.
“The thing that’s most important to know is that you never know. You’ve always sort of feeling your way.” - Diane Arbus
I guess I was still in level 2 and seeing things as textures, tones and shapes when I took this picture with my compact camera during my Canadian Rockies trip.
It was taken at a small creek near Bow Lake. I always like to shoot scenes that people could not identify the location. You may say this is somewhere in Vancouver!!
Happy Monday and happy week ahead!
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He who has not lost his head over some things has no head to lose.
- Jean Paul Richter
My yard wrens have been bringing their young to my yard for bug hunt lessons. At least 3 babies, maybe more so it seems there are wrens all over my yard. This is a parent & child in a planter full of lantana. The parent is in front.
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)
Garland, Tx
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"The man who has no imagination has no wings.”~Muhammad Ali
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Explore #353 on Wednesday, March 10, 2010
I’ve been blessed to experience owning a yacht, sailboat, cruiser, jet ski and kayak. Yes, clearly, having a yacht is fancier and more comfy, but, even with the ups and downs of life and economy, being happy is a state of mind, a choice. You should be able to soak in the blissful blues beauty of a moment like this, no matter the size of your boat, or dock, or.... whether you’re just passing by. Just another gorgeous moment at Tampa Bay, in Apollo Beach, Florida, as a beautiful yacht glides by my home and an adventurous kayaking neighbor seems to be racing it.
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A Nepalese dancer performing in a traditional group dance at BOBMC-RM in Pokhara, Nepal.
An interesting thing about the dancers was that their group comprised men and women of varied ages. Some dancers were quite senior while others looked really young. The gentle pace of the dance meant that the seniors and youngsters were on the same page.
People usually differ in their capabilities, whether inherently or induced by the vagaries of time. This can be frustrating for the driven. But then, beautiful things can also be created if one slows down for the disparate, to forge meaningful collaborations.
‘Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, “O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee”?’ - Lord Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi, The Religion of God (Divine Love)
EXPLORE Highest Rank #367
As we have mentioned earlier, the sows would hunt for their catch of salmon and once they were successful, they would sometimes simply stay out in the waters and devour their food. Those sows that were also bringing up cubs would sometimes bring the catch up and deliver them to their cub. If they had more than 1 cub in tow, they had to decide which cub to give it to.
Though it may have been totally random, it appeared to us that the distribution of salmon wasn't always equal. At first I thought that there was some "favoritism" going on, but in reality I think it was by design. For some cubs are naturally more dominant and therefore agressive than others, while others were definitely more submissive. It's perfectly natural as the brown bears follow a definite hierarchial order that is the "code of bears" and most always adhered to. Now that's not to say challenges never happen, but most times there are not pleasant consequences to those challenges.
In this shot, the cub on the left was given the salmon to feast on, but the one on the right, was clearly more agressive, and appears ready to challenge with a "hostile takeover". For those who saw my shot from yesterday, this is the fiesty cub who challenged our "personal space", resulting in an up & close encounter.
This is all part of the universal "survival of the fittest" and the natural instinct of predator animals. Just minutes before, these sibbling cubs were best of friends and probably were right after the dinner was gone. Kind of reminds me of some people I know.
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Happy Hump Day!
69 of 366 A real quick photo after Photo Club meeting tonight.... A brother helps his younger sister climb onto a granite boulder. In this 1940's scene, the girl wears a leg brace, the result of polio. The sculpture was created to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Downtown Rotary Club and to draw attention to Rotary Internationals PolioPlus program.
Olive Oil is the primary, all purpose oil in the healthy Mediterranean diet. It is mentioned often in the Bible.
“A good name is better than precious oil.” This passage is found in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, and I heard it a lot in the home I grew up in. It is truth.
Tribute for this week’s Macro Monday theme. Happy MM.
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We can't accept the scientific basis of Phrenology anymore (see my previous photo), and yet all the attributes of mind attributed to it by the Phrenologists in the 19th century nonetheless do apply. Coupled with Don McLean's song about life lessons, "Dreidel", it does us well to reflect on where our lives are spinning.
Produced with photographs from the Nikon D850 and edited on VideoPad Video Editor.
In Rotation: Green Eyes Erykah Badu
"♫ My eyes are green♫
'Cause I eat a lot of vegetables♫
It don't have nothing... to do ...with your new friend"♪
In Rotation: Ye-Yo Erykah Badu
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"I say the sun's in the east and the moon reflects
Like the knowledge and wisdom, I manifest
If you want to go to heaven lay up on my breast
I'm ye yo, you're ye yo
Ye yo, ye yo"
©2007 kelly angard
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
What do I get my dad who has everything and needs nothing? Ever since I was a little girl I have always struggled with this predicament. After all of these years I still struggle with this but deep down I know what my dad wants for Father's Day. My dad wants me to be happy. He wants all my pain to go away and would take every ounce of it away if he could. He wants me to live a life full of success and wants to see me achieve my dreams. He wants to not only be my father but to be my best friend. No material gift that I could ever buy my dad no matter how expensive it is could ever replace any of these things in the eyes of my daddy. My dad is probably the most selfless individual I know. He puts everyone else's needs in front of his own. He taught me the value of a dollar and what it means to earn an honest days pay. He taught about good old-fashioned values and morals and what one needs to do in life to be a good person in the eyes of God.
On this day when so many of us stop, reflect and remember our dads we all need to remember that the greatest gift a child (of any age) can give their dad is undying love and respect. What is more important to my dad than any tool or material object? What does my dad want for Father's Day? He wants time. He wants to spend time with his daughter. So dad, this portrait of you is my promise that no matter how busy we each become, no matter what comes between us that I will always make time to make you part of my life. After 28+ years I have finally figured out that all you ever wanted for Father's Day was to spend time with your daughter. I resolve to become a better, more loving daughter this year. After all you have done for me it is the least I can do to repay you.
Life Lessons
You may have thought I didn't see,
Or that I hadn't heard,
Life lessons that you taught to me,
But I got every word.
Perhaps you thought I missed it all,
And that we'd grow apart,
But Dad, I picked up everything,
It's written on my heart.
Without you, Dad, I wouldn't be
The woman I am today;
You built a strong foundation
No one can take away.
I've grown up with your values,
And I'm very glad I did;
So here's to you, dear father,
From your forever grateful kid.
By Joanna Fuchs
Kindness is one of the most powerful forces in business. It’s no wonder the act of kindness has been long forgotten and it has taken the backseat when it comes to business strategy. Neil Haboush, a business icon as he unveils kindness as an important key to success in business and life.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. - Bertrand Russell
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