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... e in lontananza, sulle ali di un vento leggero, la colonna sonora di Shreck ...
Buona domenica !!!
In Lord Bao Park in Hefei, the capital of China's Anhui province. But this could also be in a park of any other Chinese city.
On hundreds of metres of clotheslines hang information about people looking for a partner to marry. These advertisements attract parents of unmarried adult offspring and well-meaning uncles, aunts and older friends of theirs, but especially the curious. The marriage seekers themselves, however, never show their faces in such places. They are too shy.
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I found this flower in the field. It has two blossoms but only one stem.
Each beautiful alone, but extraordinary together as one.
The two shall become one...
Once again craning from a perch aboard the ferry home, this time has me viewing from the port side. The sun is brilliant, overhead and I am witness to a powerful opportunity. There is very little color so a B&W photo becomes the goal. At its peak, the cloud is incredibly white, while the island in its depths, is in shadow and almost black. The contrast is wonderful and makes for a very dynamic result.
The shape too adds to the overall energy of the image. A triangle is a very strong shape in photography, and this moment cooperates in form. I am not concerned with depth, but instead both shape and contrast. And, as good fortune would have it, the grey sky delivers the ideal palette.
AAW April 12 - 19: Single Focal Point
WIT: Today is the anniversary of my parents, so I though I would shoot a tribute to it. I set the camera on a tripod so I could get the low light effect and still have enough light on the subject. In post, I cropped and did a bit of dodge and burn to highlight the focal point.
Made Explore.
A successful marriage requires
falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
(Mignon McLaughlin)
My twin daughters gave these tiny dolls to Freya (their elder sister) and Sam on their wedding day (October 28, 2016).
Last Tuesday, July 10 2018, Freya gave birth to our first grandchild:
a boy named Eli! :-)
an alphabet book - bokeh
Smile on Saturday! :-) - Lucky Charm
(photo by Freya)
mareagrau.blogspot.it/2017/06/marriage.html
Il matrimonio è una tra le invenzioni più belle, non esiste in natura:
lo abbiamo inventato noi
perchè ci piace questo fatto di giurare amore eterno...!
Enrico Brignano
Inside the winter church, crowns are being prepared in advance of a wedding that is about to start very soon. Beautifully decorated against the magnificent iconic screens.
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”
Marriage statistics are disheartening to look at.
Half of marriages end in divorce. It's a fact, but it isn't the full reality. The statistics don't even take "seperations" into account. A lot of people are legally married and yet no longer together. It just costs too much money for the lawyer fees and they don't want to deal with the hassle. I know 3 couples that are in that situation.
So MORE than half of marriages fail.
Yet people are getting married every day even though the odds are clearly against them succeeding.
Why is that?
I guess it's for the same reason Eric and I got married. We want to believe that we're going to be the small percentage bracket that makes it to the end. The old couple on the park bench holding hands and gazing into eachother's sagging watery eyes still with the love and passion that we feel today.
I really believe we will. You can chalk it up to youthful idealism, but thats how I feel in my heart. I look forward to growing old with Eric.
I found these Tiny dolls in a small box of knick knacks I unpacked today. I'm not sure where they came from! I used them to test out the macro function on my Nikon.
It's hard to ignore how they both look a little afraid and uneasy.
For the Smile on Saturday challenge: Kings and Queens.
A marriage of state is a diplomatic marriage or union between two members of different nation-states or internally, between two power blocs, usually in authoritarian societies and is a practice which dates back to ancient times, as far back as early Grecian cultures in western society, and of similar antiquity in other civilizations. A Marriage of State often involved surrendering a female member of a ruling line to gain peace or shore up alliances of state between nation-states headed by small oligarchies or acknowledged royalty. -- Courtesy Wikipedia
Oscars 2020 Best Picture Nominee #6: Marriage Story!
I love Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, but this one was a little lacking overall.
Charlie and Nicole.
3: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
6: Marriage Story
She said, "I will let you know after my lawyer examines the prenup agreement. Thanks for asking. Nice gesture. Till then, let’s stay in touch."
When the groom goes to pick up the bride from her house,
the daughter crying, because he leaves forever his father's house,
and until she goes to the groom's house, she is very sad.
But there she dances with her beloved,
and finally smiles at her new life!
A series exploring points of crisis across the human lifespan, with particular regard to the middle-classes. The aim of the series being to externalise internal trauma.
The amendment of marriage law in Taiwan to meet Marriage Equality is getting volcano hot in past 2 weeks. The homophobic 'churches' that count less than 4% of the population are play extra dirtier since the chances of passing the bill is quite high.
After yesterday's misanthropic view on love -- my rather cruel and unusual picture "Divorce" -- I today return to my roots: The cliché.
(Update: When done reading this, have a look at my "Marriage Revisited" photo as well)
This photo is yet another attempt to follow the #TwPhCh group (Twitter Photo Challenge) here on Flickr. This week's challenge is "rundt" which is norwegian for both round/circular and around.
Here I've used all the cliché's possible: Love, circle of life, the bible, etc. The Bible is even open at the end of chapter 13 of Paul's letter to the Corinthians. You know the quote: "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love" (1 Corinthians 13:13).
But even so: It's a beautiful quote, and I cannot help but feel that the combination of elements looks rather good. Even though we all have seen these kinds of pictures before.
Technical data:
Shot with a cheap 70-300 mm tele zoom with 1:2 macro capabilites. That lens is pleasantly soft.
A flash is place a couple of meters behind and a meter above the ring, pointing down towards the book. The distance is big enough to create harsh shadows. The flash was gelled with a CTO filter to emulate sunset light.
ISO 100, manual exposure, 1/60 and f/8.0. TTL on flash, no compensation. The external flash was triggered by a flash on camera. No flash output from the on-camera flash. I actually thought the sunset effect was too obvious after processing the picture, so I desaturated the picture just a little in Photoshop Elements before uploading it here.
BTW: The ring's the same as on yesterday's picture. But I think the ring likes to model for this picture better than the last :-)
Update: The day after posting this I reached #273 on Explore (May 25), reached #111 the day after that and #57 on day three. Best after that: #50. It's been fun following this development; I think I've learned something about the Interestingness algorithm along the way. Anyway, thanks to everyone who has commented this picture and favorited it.
Update 2: I got third place in this week's Twitter Photo Challenge with this picture. Thanks to everyone who voted for my picture.