This image is based on the proverb: “He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself.”

It is an ancient saying, born from popular oral tradition and passed down through centuries, but it also appears in biblical wisdom literature, where the same idea is stated clearly: whoever prepares a pit or a trap for someone else will end up falling into it. This is why very similar versions of this proverb exist in many languages — it is a truth that crosses time and cultures.

Its meaning is simple and universal: those who set traps for others often become trapped in the consequences of their own actions. It is a human mechanism before it is a moral one: deception leaves traces, manipulation creates returns, and what is built to crush others can eventually become a danger for the one who built it.

In this image, the proverb becomes a scene: a woman has been thrown into a pit. The signs of what happened remain, along with the object abandoned mid-gesture: the shovel. The pit is not a final place — it is a trap built by someone. And the proverb reminds us that, sooner or later, that trap changes its target.

This image was created using Artificial Intelligence as an expressive medium, not as a replacement for art or photography. I use digital tools to build visual allegories and turn proverbs into images, but the control remains human: I choose, correct, intervene, and refine the work myself so that the scene stays credible and faithful to the meaning of the saying.

Seven year old Amish girl working in the family stall at the Farmers Market in Bloomington on a Saturday morning. She and her family come from Odon, IN about 30 miles to the south. The Amish population has doubled since 2000. 80% of young Amish stay with their community and become baptized after Rumspringa (Running around)

Opportunities like this are why I carry a camera :-)

A LEOPARD CANNOT CHANGE ITS SPOTS.

This proverb speaks a simple and merciless truth: sooner or later, a person’s nature shows.

Masks can change. Roles can be played. People can pretend for a while, and even convince others — but what someone truly is cannot be erased.

The “spots” are not decoration: they are the deep structure of character, instinct, and intention.

It is a proverb about human truth: certain patterns always return, like a signature.

Those who are loyal tend to remain loyal.

Those who are false eventually fall back into falsehood.

Those who harm often find a way to harm again — even after presenting themselves as “changed”.

This does not mean nobody can improve.

It means real change is not a statement: it is long, serious work — and it is rare.

And when that work is not real, reality resurfaces.

Like the leopard’s spots.

I create and publish these proverbs through digital images made with Artificial Intelligence not because AI can replace photography or “pure” art, but because I want to use a new medium as an expressive tool.

I do not become a servant of the machine: I use it.

I bend it to my own language to build symbols, to break patterns, and to remind that the truth about human beings — for better or worse — always leaves a mark.

The early bird catches the worm.

This proverb isn’t about virtue. It’s about timing.

The advantage rarely belongs to the strongest — it belongs to the one who moves first, while everything is still quiet and undecided.

Being early means seeing clearly before the fog of excuses, denials and rewritten versions arrives.

It means leaving the first trace — the first honest account — before anyone tries to bury it under convenience.

In the end, the “worm” is not a reward.

It is the truth: uncomfortable, real, and impossible to unsee once you’ve found it.

Blessings & Beauty, Breathtaking Sunset Tampa Bay Florida Panorama - IMRAN™ (SOOC)

Even though it was tempting to brighten and equalize the dark blue shades and hues of the water, I chose to present this breathtaking sunset on Tampa Bay, Florida, as a stitched image from 11 magnificent Nikon D850 photos straight out of camera, with ZERO color editing or tweaking of any kind. The image had to be straightened because I seem to always tilt my camera to the right in portrait orientation photos, and the top edge had some content aware fill artifacts cleaned up to fill blank white spaces. But, the tones, the shades, the colors, the hues, the magic, are all as I saw them and as the Nikon faithfully captured them. What a blessing to experience this moment at my blessed home in Apollo Beach while I am alive and able to, by God's blessings. These sunsets and ends of the days will continue long after the end of our days on earth. But, what better way to have lived than to have appreciated every moment, every blessing, every experience, and having been fortunate enough to capture some of those magical glimpses into the beauty of nature for posterity. Thank you for the love and prayers, always, as I bow my head in prayer to the Almighty Allah, the One God of all creation, and heaven and earth.

© 2019 IMRAN™

I was in Parkanaur forest park one evening last year and only had my phone with me... ever the opportunist, I snapped these gorgeous rhododendron blossoms and was pretty pleased with the result.

Just a few days later and the petals were gone..... As always, nature has a way of teaching us life lessons... In a day and age when looks and beauty are counted so important (by the fashion/beauty industry - not by me!!!) it's wise to remember that these things only last for a while and that real beauty comes from deep within, it's the heart that counts!!!! and that's not just something "ugly" people say! :)

I will be off air for a while - have an important visitor from Canada coming to stay with me for a couple of days - so i'm busy making fudge, banoffee pie, chocolate cake and loads of other goodies lol

Have a great weekend everyone and thank you for your views, comments and faves :) :) :)

July 26th 2010

Don't be in such a rush to grow up, Kitten. The World has many lessons to teach. Not everything you learn comes from a book.

Take a moment to smell the daffodils, make a mistake and rely on the experience of your elders. They have a lot to teach, you only have to listen, for respect is earned, not given.

It's a great big world, Kitten, and it's yours for the taking. However, you can not have it until your ready. You just haven't earned it yet baby.

As early evening approaches the cubs got very active.

“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”

In this image, the protagonist pulls a chain with both hands: each link looks solid, bright, compact. But at the center there is one fragile point—darker, worn, weaker. And that is exactly where the chain gives way.

It is a truth that always applies: a system does not break where it is strong, it breaks where it is vulnerable. One weak link is enough to compromise the whole structure.

This is a virtual image created with Artificial Intelligence.

Not to replace photography or “pure” art, but to use a contemporary medium as a symbolic language. I do not become a slave to the machine: I use it to build metaphors, to provoke thought, and to remind human beings who they are—before any system, or any technology, tries to devour them.

This artwork is a visual representation of the famous warning regarding human nature and the abuse of availability. The title faithfully reflects the Italian proverb "A chi dai il dito si prende anche il braccio," an expression rooted in Italy’s popular wisdom to describe the insatiability of those who, having received a small concession, take advantage of it to demand far more. From a philological perspective, while the Italian version uses the "finger/arm" anatomical metaphor to stress a direct physical imposition, the English equivalent "Give them an inch and they'll take a mile" shifts the metaphor to linear distance, symbolizing a territorial invasion. Similarly, the German variant involving the hand ("Nimmst du den Finger, so nimmt er die ganze Hand") confirms how the upper limb is a universal symbol for aid and its exploitation. This image was conceived and realized using Artificial Intelligence, which I employ as a technological evolution of my creative process. I use AI as a strategic tool and "digital brush" to illustrate abstract concepts, not to replace the purity of classical arts like painting, photography, or sculpture. My goal is to harness the power of AI to give visual form to oral traditions, transforming the wisdom of proverbs into sharp, symbolic contemporary visions.

Gorgeous Green Trees Line The Racetrack Road Of Life's Years Flying By - IMRAN™

I am sure these trees have seen many decades or even centuries of travelers pass underneath during our worldly journeys in our earthly journeys. It is amazing how the years fly.

I took this photo 15 years ago and did not get a chance to post it until now. I was driving with a beautiful beloved, Christie, as we went from my then fabulous Singer Island Tiara Condo north on A1A in Florida. The Nikon Coolpix E5700 photo did not have GPS embedded in it, but I believe it is somewhere in the areas of Jupiter to Hobe Beach.

We later met with my dear friend Roger and his wife Joyce, at a nearby airport, They had flown in on their beautiful Piper Dakota, with a powerful 235 HP 6-cylinder engine making it effortlessly fly the four adults in it. .

Roger let me fly his plane and we went to Sebring, Florida, for lunch and a gorgeous day of flying, as some fabulous sports-cars raced around the track, before we headed back home.

In the race of life, the years fly by... and the road ahead may have expected turns and unexpected potholes, cool shades and dark shadows, living tree trunk and dead tree stumps. It is our choices today on what we see and avoid, what we embrace and enjoy, what keeps us rooted, what we leverage to help us stand tall, or even what we allow to stump us along the way.

Choose wisely, as the decades will surely fly by faster than you can imagine.

© 2005-2020 IMRAN™

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A baby woodpecker was practicing food finding skills on my pecan tree. They listen for sounds of bugs hiding under the bark then use their tongue to go after them. Pecan trees are good sources since they have soft wood. It is easy to pry under the bark for the goodies.

Juvenile Red-bellied Woodpecker (melanerpes carolinus)

My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com

Gli errori segnano, proprio come il tempo scolpisce la montagna. Ma gli errori anche insegnano. E' così che impariamo a conoscerci, a cambiare direzione, a crescere.

Ogni caduta, ogni inciampo è parte del nostro cammino.

Si impara sempre, si migliora sempre — non importa l’età.

La vita non chiede perfezione, ma il coraggio di imparare e andare avanti, con poca paura, un grande sorriso e un delicato sogno di felicità.

Nella foto, di qualche tempo fa, Veneto: le Tre Cime di Lavaredo, i Cadini e un cielo pieni di grandi nuvole veloci.

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I fully understand that I am a philosophy freak and idiot.

This is just repost of an old picture taken in the summer.

What is life?

Life is a messy scene with all the details and mixed lighting like what we see in the indoor public market.

Life is buying and selling all the time.

Life is like cooking food from raw to processed.

Life (in photographic terms) is shooting with JPEG in the wrong white balance and sadly with irreversible processing.

Life is everyday being one day closer to the end and that is the point when we can see Robin Williams again and listen to his wonderful jokes.

What is life looking like to you?

I just tried again the film simulation bracketing with my X-T1 and I have used Standard Provia, B&W with yellow filter and the Pro Negative High while I went shooting in Richmond Public Market.

Surprisingly I find the Pro Negative High film simulation is extremely good especially for indoor mixed lighting. What do you think?

If you happen to be a X camera user also, can you please give me your opinion about Pro Negative High?

Have a great evening!

人生是一場大買賣，買很多的希望，人脈，名聲 ; 出賣更多的自尊，自由，以至你的靈魂。

人生就像一卷電影錄像，在開始時，它有點像慢鏡頭，中年過後，它播放的速度越來越快，你正要尋找你的遙控器，調整播放速度，電影卻已然終結。

Fuji X-T1 camera

Fuji XF 23mm F1.4 lens

awaken sweetly with you

Life is fragile. I have heard the story of a person diagnosed with cancer and passed away in a month’s time.

Yet life is strong and tough. Many living beings survive in tough conditions.

It looks contradicting. The lesson is like what is being said in Buddhist teachings.

There is no constancy in life. There is no norm or constant rule in the world.

Don’t ever think these norms are always happening.

When you work hard, you will be rewarded.

When you study hard, you will get high grades.

When you make great arts, you will be recognized as a great artist.

When you love, you will be loved.

Some people say we should live like life ends tomorrow.

Do what you want to do before it is too late. May be this is a hug to yourself?

Happy Thursday!

This is the close up in Van Dusen taken a few weeks ago.

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

“So often goes the cat to the lard that it leaves its paw behind.”

This proverb speaks about temptation and habit: when you keep going back to the same risk, the same vice, the same mistake… sooner or later you pay the price. Not because of fate, but because repetition leaves traces — and traces become proof.

I chose to represent this saying through Artificial Intelligence not to replace photography or “pure” art, but to use a new medium as an expressive tool.

For me, AI is not a master and not a shortcut: it is a contemporary material, like light, a set, collage, or editing.

I use it on my own terms, to step outside conventional boundaries and translate universal concepts into images — without becoming a slave to the machine, but remaining the author.

Another image I shot from when I went to Birmingham the other day! Thank you to @richjjones for the really good advice and life lessons, I learnt a lot from this day! I hope to shoot more and better composed images in the future. One big thing I took away from that day is that setting your camera aside and exploring your subject is better than just rushing to take the image!

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#KeepMoving

When you land here you can pretty much say good bye to all of your money!

Limpopo province, South Africa

Each hammer has a job that is does...

The top hammer does roofing...

The middle hammer does metal working...

The bottom hammer works the midnight shift at MacDonald's...

😋😵💫😬😎

Time/Line(d): Joys Of Random Alignments 02:11:11 01/02/2021 - IMRAN™

Got a second? Lend a hand. Or two, or three. Not to me but to your own self. Take a moment to align ... all three hands on the long arms of time of our too short journeys... live, love, laugh.

I happened to see the seconds-hand of a brand-new clock moving towards being totally in-line with the minutes & hours hands on this wall clock I just mounted. I bought it to match the wall color in my living room when the previous timepiece died.

I took the photo just half a second before their total alignment would’ve made it impossible to make out the three separate hands. Nothing earth -shaking to commemorate, it would seem, right? Just another second of the thousands we take for granted, daily. True. But.... stop, see, speculate.

It is a very special event. Not because of the random alignment of the hands on a wall clock, which literally happen every hour at different spots on the clock face. Not because I hung a new thing on the wall. Instead, realize and appreciate that this is another moment you’re blessed to have. Another opportunity to appreciate the tiny details of life which can be routinely ignored or regularly missed, — or by choice turned into something to celebrate,... a moment of joy, a tiny synchronicity, something more to smile about and be grateful for.

Gather enough of moments like these and even the most ordinary days can add up to a happy life fully lived, totally savored. Have you smiled at some random moment of joy today? Do it now. Tick-Tock. Tick-Tick-Tock.

© 2021 IMRAN™

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Although the little squirrel and the man do not speak a common language, they do understand each other pretty well I am guessing.

This is repost of an archive picture. The following is the original story.

The squirrel runs on to the man's lap and picks up a peanut. Then the squirrel stays at a distance and starts enjoying the meal. The same repeats for a few times before I take the shot. There is no begging by squirrel, no demand on anything from the man, keeping a distance between the two, equal status despite of difference in size and the consistency in the behaviour of both parties.

Is this something an inspiration for us about how to build the mutual trust between two parties? It could be partners, married couple, friends, family, business or other relationships.

A snapshot at Minoru Park.

Happy Wednesday!

Ci sono momenti in cui ci troviamo di fronte a un vuoto profondo, quello dell'anima, quando ci rendiamo conto di ciò che ci manca davvero. Ma è nei panorami del mondo, nella bellezza infinita della natura, che possiamo trovare un rifugio. Forse non riusciremo a colmare il vuoto interiore, ma almeno possiamo riempire gli occhi e il cuore di meraviglia, lasciando che l'immensità del paesaggio ci ricordi che c'è ancora tanto da scoprire.

Punto panoramico Monte Ceva, Parco Naturale Colli Euganei

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New Zealand Photographic Road Trip

Day 1

Rakaia Gorge - Day 1 starts with a visit at Rakaia Gorge, Methven, located in the Mt Hutt area of the Canterbury region. Many of the riverbeds are braided. Braided rivers are those that, over some part of their length, flow in multiple, mobile channels across a gravel floodplain.

Dive into it and swim through to the other side....Try to resist it and it will knock you down.

That's a life lesson for all of us when we're hit by any unwanted change. Don't resist!....Dive all the way in until you've made it through.

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Forget Silver, Darkest Clouds Have Gold Linings - IMRAN™

Forget about dark clouds having silver linings. Here, right in front of my eyes, and for all who live in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area and happened to see this breathtaking, dramatic, sunset tonight, darkest clouds have gold linings. But, not matter where you are, no matter what your situation, no matter what your challenges, just know, it is after the worst storms, the most whipping winds, the darkest clouds, and the choppiest seas, that the most magical of experiences worth their weight in gold emerge. You are not alone. You will overcome. For tomorrow is a new day, and tonight you just have to learn to savor the darkest experiences for the golden dreams they can uncover.

This is a 560MB panorama from just 3 handheld Nikon D850 photos, merged in Lightroom. NO editing was done to ANY part of the clouds or sunset, which are SOOC (straight out of camera colors and tones). The water was too dark in the combined image so only that was brightened so you can see the wavelets, and the signs. It will be posted as a JPG of 37MB. But FaceBook will reduce the quality to near useless levels. For example, can you see a pelican soaring over the horizon towards Saint Petersburg in the FaceBook photo? I will post a little clip of that part of the image in comments to show how much detail images lose in crappy FaceBook image versions. Always check out flickr.com/ImranAnwar to see much better quality of the photos.

© 2019 IMRAN™

that is true

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™

i dedicate this picture to lucille and ken.

they say a picture tells a thousand words but the story behind this photo i would need a thousand books to write it . so all i can really say is that this dedication is from the heart to some one who has been a total and complete inspiration influence and great teacher of life to me and a total joy to know and so much fun along the journey .

i know you loved this place so much when i brought you here and i just love the stone work of this building very much ..........

irene

this is your special song ken

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VqoxOcEqpk

this one is from me ( my fave ) as you know

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEEpavnk7Uw

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“First learn stand, then learn fly".

Life is about balance, strength & freedom!

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Unless you change yourself nothing is gonna change.

isn't it wonderful how even though broken and weary at times , nature never gives up ..... this little guy was so broken and yet he followed me everywhere i went today as if to teach me another one of God's glorious lessons ....