"For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies".

Quote ― Gisele Bundchen

“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

Quote ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Together in the mist, two, lone, leafless trees seem to support each other through all misfortune.

"Two are better than one ...

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow ... "

~ Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10

Sirocco is a warm wind from the southeast. In the maps, the wind rose was positioned within the Mediterranean and specifically between the Ionian Sea and the island of Malta. Thus the wind that came from the North-East came from Greece and took the name of Grecale. the libeccio wind from Libya.The one that came from the South-East came from Syria and took the name of Scirocco. According to some Sicilian popular beliefs, this wind was considered a harbinger of misfortune and disease. These beliefs had their roots in the distant past, when North Africa was the permanent site of outbreaks of endemic infectious diseases whose germs were transported to southern Italy by mosquitoes and midges, bad flyers but very skilled in exploiting the Sirocco air currents .

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

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Seven-spotted ladybug (also called ladybird)

"The ladybug is considered the messenger of heaven from the mother of god. He should protect the children and heal the sick when he comes to them. However, you must never shake it off or even kill it, otherwise you will attract misfortune.

The name Ladybird also points to this: Because of their usefulness for agriculture, the farmers believed that the beetles were a gift from Mary (mother of Jesus) and named them after her. The seven-spotted ladybird is called "Maria's key maid" in Sweden. The seven points are said to refer to the seven virtues of Saint Mary."

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A bit of trivia:

According to legend, an invading Norse army was attempting to sneak up at night upon a Scottish army's encampment. During this operation one barefoot Norseman had the misfortune to step upon a thistle, causing him to cry out in pain, thus alerting Scots to the presence of the Norse invaders.

"With life I get involved.

I suffer if it is to suffer,

I celebrate if there's a reason,

love without guarantees,

mistake the path, correct whatever is possible,

I lose with the same dignity with which I gain.

Because the only thing I don't want to take with me is the misfortune of not having enjoyed every second of the adventure of being who I am."(Pe Fabio de Melo)

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This non-venomous snake had the misfortune of having me show up just as it attached its jaw to this egg. Lucky for the snake I wasn't a predator and I enjoyed watching it uncoil and carry its prize into the denser brush.

Dismal Swamp, North Carolina

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I named him after having the misfortune of catching a glimpse of him capturing & devouring a Bumble Bee which I have since found he seems to have a lust for bee's in general

From NatGeo

"What is the praying mantis?

The praying mantis is named for its prominent front legs, which are bent and held together at an angle that suggests the position of prayer.

SIZE: 0.5 to 6 inches long"

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Questo scatto mi ricorda la fortuna che ho avuto nell'averlo vicino e nello stesso tempo la sfortuna a non avere nella borsa un obiettivo zoom. Ero appostato con il mio capannino mobile vicino ad un fontanile di montagna insieme al mio amico Davide. Aspettavamo i soliti passeriformi che venivano a bere e rinfrescarsi, quando ci apparve la sagoma di questo magnifico Astore che noncurante dei nostri camuffamenti si poggiò sul bordo della fontana a 6,5mt. dal mio fianco. Avevo l'obiettivo su cavalletto puntato di fronte e non lo vedevo. Sono riuscito però a staccare la macchina fotografica dal 500mm e attaccarlo all'altro unico obiettivo che avevo in borsa, il 400 mm. (avevo lasciato a casa il 70/200mm.) Nonostante mi tremassero le mani, dal buco laterale del capanno il rapace mi ha concesso 19 scatti a mezzo busto. Mi è dispiaciuto per il mio amico Davide che impallato dal mio capanno non è riuscito a fare nemmeno una foto….Abruzzo - PNGSL

This shot reminds me of the luck I had in having him close and at the same time the misfortune of not having a zoom lens in my bag. I was stationed with my mobile shed near a mountain fountain with my friend Davide. We were waiting for the usual passerines that came to drink and cool off, when the silhouette of this magnificent Goshawk appeared, which, regardless of our camouflage, leaned on the edge of the fountain at 6.5 meters. from my side. I had the lens on a tripod pointed in front of me and I couldn't see it. But I managed to detach the camera from the 500mm and attach it to the other only lens I had in my bag, the 400mm. (I had left the 70 / 200mm at home.) Although my hands were shaking, the bird of prey gave me 19 half-length shots from the side hole of the shed. I felt sorry for my friend Davide who was unable to take even a picture from my shed .... Abruzzo - Gran Sasso Laga National Park

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I wish you a happy new year, filled with love, filled with dreams

And above all health, endless tenderness

I wish you to be happy and if you are, to remain so

I wish you all the best that your heart can imagine

I wish you success in achieving the impossible

Yes, you can achieve it because nothing, no, is inaccessible

I wish you to realize how lucky we are to be here

To tell you that in the end, we complain a little too much sometimes

I wish you a happy new year, filled with love, filled with dreams

And above all health, endless tenderness

I wish you friendship, affection, sweetness

Yes, I wish you to share because to many, everything is better

I wish you indulgence for those who see half empty

For those who are not so lucky to have hope in the hollow of the belly

I wish you a mild winter, a spring full of promises

A summer where we don't give a damn, an autumn tinged with joy

I wish you a happy new year, filled with love, filled with dreams

And above all health, endless tenderness

I wish you compassion for all those who hurt you

Because one day, yes, they will understand that it is to them that they hurt

I wish you to forgive and avoid all anger

Of those who only know how to reject their misfortune on the whole Earth

I wish you lightness, to tell you that life is beautiful

To no longer cling to the past, to its eternal complaint

I wish you a happy new year, filled with love, filled with dreams

And above all health, endless tenderness

I wish you magic in all of your projects

To see that above the rains, the sun continues to shine

I wish you to know that by dint of being negative

We can never see the good side, the positive

I wish you never procrastinate, see you later

To never realize it's there, now it's too late

I wish you a happy new year, filled with love, filled with dreams

And above all health, endless tenderness

I wish you a happy New Year

Mainly health

And endless tenderness

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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

~ Voltaire

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A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

To her

a touch is a blow,

a sound is a noise,

a misfortune is a tragedy,

a joy is an ecstasy,

a friend is a lover,

a lover is a god,

and failure is death.

—Pearl Buck

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At the Kanda shinto shrine - Kanda-myōjin (神田明神), Tokyo.

The 4th of February marked the first day of spring, risshun (立春) according to the older Japanese calendar system (based on the Chinese lunar calendar), which resulted in quite a lot of visitors at the time.

This shrine dates its roots back to 730 AD, but it has relocated a couple of times and ended up here in 1603, moved to this place by the shogun (to make place for the expanding Edo castle, though officially to guard against misfortune because of an unhappy kami). Before this, in 1309, the warrior and rebel Taira no Masakado was enshrined in the Kanda shrine as a kami. The other two deities enshrined here are Onamuchi-no-mikoto (Daikoku-sama) and Sukunahikona-no-mokoto (Ebisu-sama). The shrine was added to the Tokyo ten shrines (東京十社 - Tokyo Jissha) during the Meiji era, but the emperor hesitated to do so since Masakado had led a rebellion against the central government in Kyoto in his day. This was resolved with the kami being removed from the shrine. However he proved to be so popular that he was reinstated after the second world war.

The shrine itself, as it stands today, was built in 1934 in the Gongen style after the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 - but using concrete instead of traditional wood, which meant that it actually survived the fire bombings of the Second World War (when not much else in this area did). The shrine was very important for the warriors, and today its proximity to Akihabara has given it a bit of a special niche, selling talismans and blessings for electronic equipment (and all the usual talismans too, for good health, good luck, luck in business, etc).

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At the Kanda shinto shrine - Kanda-myōjin (神田明神). This shrine dates its roots back to 730 AD, but it has relocated a couple of times and ended up here in 1603, moved to this place by the shogun (to make place for the expanding Edo castle, though officially to guard against misfortune because of an unhappy kami). Before this, in 1309, the warrior and rebel Taira no Masakado was enshrined in the Kanda shrine as a kami. The other two deities enshrined here are Onamuchi-no-mikoto (Daikoku-sama) and Sukunahikona-no-mokoto (Ebisu-sama). The shrine was added to the Tokyo ten shrines (東京十社 - Tokyo Jissha) during the Meiji era, but the emperor hesitated to do so since Masakado had led a rebellion against the central government in Kyoto in his day. This was resolved with the kami being removed from the shrine. However he proved to be so popular that he was reinstated after the second world war.

The shrine itself, as it stands today, was built in 1934 in the Gongen style after the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 - but using concrete instead of traditional wood, which meant that it actually survived the fire bombings of the Second World War (when not much else in this area did). The shrine was very important for the warriors, and today its proximity to Akihabara has given it a bit of a special niche, selling talismans and blessings for electronic equipment (and all the usual talismans too, for good health, good luck, luck in business, etc).

Verloren

What’s so special about a wynd noticed by chance

along the way? the bystander stops there,

likewise the photographer and the painter,

well ready to make a picture of it.

Not its present condition, I do believe, unless

we admit to be under the spell of the old

and discarded. Nor can it be its former

appearance, which we can only guess.

What if it is the pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune?

(rossoindia, 2022)

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Sollen es doch Alle wissen

what’s so special about a scrap noticed by chance

along the way? the bystander stops there,

likewise the photographer and the painter,

well ready to make a picture of it.

Not its present condition, I do believe, unless

we admit to be under the spell of the old

and discarded. Nor can it be its former

appearance, which we can only guess.

What if it is the pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune?

(rossoindia, 2022)

Hay algo en este delicado castillo que hace pensar en uno de cuento. ... pero también, y como no podía ser menos, de profunda desdicha.

There is something about this delicate castle that makes one think of a story. ... but also, and how could it be less, of deep misfortune.

Athens, Greece.

“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”

(Epicurus’ Epistle to Menoeceus).

Saw these little Kappas during the hike in Kamikochi, Japan. I was curious what they were and if they had a meaning. This was the very beginning of inspiration to start folding them too, one I found the diagrams. ;-))

""The phenomenon of Kappa also has an educational aspect, as shown in the photo above.

There are many who would explain the legend of the Kappa as a simple story for children to scare them into behaving. One of the most common types of Kappa stories are focused on the creature’s fixation on disobedient children. It was thought that when disobedient children ventured too close to the water without their parents, the Kappa would pull them into the water and drown them. There are several variations as to what would happen next. Some stories simply state that the Kappa kidnapped the children, while others detailed that the Kappa would drink the blood of their victims or eat their internal organs.

It is thought that this tale of the Kappa helped to reduce the number of children who were lost to drownings or other misfortunes by ensuring that the children stayed with their parents and didn’t wander off into danger.""

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Kamikochi (上高地, Kamikōchi) is a popular resort in the Northern Japan Alps of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Salacak, Üsküdar, İstanbul / Türkiye

The Maiden’s Tower (Kız Kulesi) is a distinctive feature of the Bosporus skyline. Built on a tiny island located about 200m from the shore of Üsküdar, the tower is the main subject to many legends.

Among these is the legend of Leander from which the tower takes one of its names (Leander’s Tower).The story of Leander and Hero; Hero was a priestess who lived at the edge of the Dardanelles. Leander, a young man lived on the other side of the strait and fell in love with Hero. Every night he would swim across the sea to be with her. Hero on her side would lid a lamp to guide his way. One stormy night Leander saw a light he thought was Hero’s lamp and swam out into the straight. However it was not Hero but her father, who discovered their relationship, and in his jealously he put out the light. Leander lost his way and drowned in the waves. When Hero discovered his death she threw herself to her own death from the top of the tower. In the end the tower was turned into a light house in honor of their love.

The most popular legend though is about a sultan and his daughter. An oracle prophesied that the sultan’s daughter would be killed by a snake bite on her 18th birthday. The sultan decided to protect her from this misfortune and had the tower built in the middle of the Bosphorus, where she was put to live her life in secrecy and protection.

Finally on her 18th birthday, the sultan brought her a basket of fruits as a birthday gift, not aware of the hidden snake inside. Upon reaching into the basket the princess got bitten by the snake and died in her father’s arms as foreseen by the oracle. Referring to this legend the tower got its name: Maiden’s tower.

Ya know, there are Mondays, then there are MONDAYS. Today is one of the latter. It is getting better though. Everything happens for a reason right? Even if it doesn't music fixes everything! Still not where I want to be with the pics and editing but better than I expected this morning.

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Those who came before me

Lived through their vocations

From the past until completion

They'll turn away no more

And I still find it so hard

To say what I need to say

But, I'm quite sure that you'll tell me

Just how I should feel today

I see a ship in the harbor

I can and shall obey

But if it wasn't for your misfortunes,

I'd be a heavenly person today

And I thought I was mistaken

And I thought I heard you speak

Tell me, how do I feel?

Tell me, now, how should I feel?

Now I stand here waiting

...Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities... by Harvey Mackay

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15/365 "When every day is an adventure" ☼

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace like the ticking of a clock during a thunderstorm. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Que tengamos que hacer desde el tejado, eso espero, a partir de mañana a fotografíar la primavera, aunque sea al lado de casa. Ánimo que ya queda menos para superar esta desgracia que nos ha venido y luego lidiar lo mejor posible con las secuelas...

Serie YoMeQuedoEnCasa.

That we have to do from the roof, I hope, from tomorrow to photograph spring, even if it is next to home. Courage that there is less to overcome this misfortune that has come to us and then deal as best as possible with the aftermath ...

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Verwirrung am Strand

Misfortunes or difficult situations tend to follow each other in rapid succession or to arrive all at the same time.

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When you get caught in the rain

With nowhere to run

When you're distraught and in pain

Without anyone

When you keep crying out to be saved

But nobody comes

And you feel so far away

That you just can't find your way home

You can get there alone

It's okay, once you say

I can make it through the rain

I can stand up once again

On my own and I know

That I'm strong enough to mend

And every time I feel afraid

I hold tighter to my faith

And I live one more day

And I make it through the rain

And if you keep falling down

Don't you dare give in

You will arise safe and sound

So keep pressing on steadfastly

And you'll find what you need to prevail

Once you say

I can make it through the rain

I can stand up once again

On my own and I know

That I'm strong enough to mend

And every time I feel afraid

I hold tighter to my faith

And I live one more day

And I make it through the rain...

The Begonia is a symbol of caution; it’s meant as a sign of warning about future misfortunes or new situations. However, it can also be meant as a symbol of gratitude or respect, so... take your pick. 😍

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After the fall of Brienza we were on the road early the next day on our way to Moliterno, so with no hurry we could just take out time and enjoy the countryside maybe visiting some villages along the way trying to recover from the previous days pitfalls. This shot captures the morning coming over the mountains across the village of Marsico Nuovo one of the many we passed by and enjoyed from a distance without spending any time there but giving us a reason to return.

Perched high above the Val D’Agri at 850m this village has some prime views of the valley and we enjoyed them immensely as we approached from the backside, I avoid the highways whenever I can taking the roads less traveled by tourists and more traveled by Nonna with her trusty Panda. Nobody is quite sure if they named the city after the original residents the Marsi which settled here around the 4th century BC or because of the swamps originally found in the valley that are called Mariscus in Latin.

What can be said about the city is that it was always coveted by somebody else first by the Romans then the Ostrogoths followed by the Byzantines, the Longobards, the Normans, finally the Swabians I guess the idyllic view over the valley enticed many. Despite being favored by so many different peoples it did not keep away misfortune and the city was decimated by the plague in the 17th century halving the population as well in 1857 a severe earthquake that leveled most villages in the area struck damaging a large portion of the city.

I took this on Sept 26, 2018 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f3.5-5.6 Lens at 85mm 1/40s f`11 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO

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Meine Welt ist schön

what’s so special about a glitch noticed by chance

along the way? the bystander stops there,

likewise the photographer and the painter,

well ready to make a picture of it.

Not its present condition, I do believe, unless

we admit to be under the spell of the old

and discarded. Nor can it be its former

appearance, which we can only guess.

What if it is the pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune?

(rossoindia, 2022)

Watching me watching him.

Something incredibly special to me about these animals. They are so intelligent and probably misunderstood by many unless you spend a lot of time around them and watching them. I've been so lucky to have had the opportunities I've had with these animals.

This is another big boar that was downriver quite a ways from the camp area. We don't often see the big boars near camp. Which is probably good because then that allows the sows to bring their cubs into and near the camp area and they are safer that way.

I don't know how I'd react if I ever had the misfortune of witnessing a boar kill a cub. I think my heart would break in a million pieces but at the same, that is just the way of nature.

In the late afternoon we arrived with the last sleigh at the Morskie Oko (mountain lake), we had luck in the misfortune. We witnessed weather caprioles at the mountains and had to walk down 9km in the dark, because our coachman drove back without us :-O

Am späten Nachmittag mit dem letzten Pferdeschlitten am Morskie Oko (Meerauge Bergsee) angekommen, hatten wir Glück im Unglück. Wir wurden Zeugen von Wetterkapriolen an den Bergen und dürften anschließend im Dunklen 9km vom Berg runter laufen, weil unser Kutscher ohne uns zurückgefahren ist.

Tatra Gebirge, Polen. Tatra Mountains, Poland.

Verloren

What’s so special about a heap noticed by chance

along the way? the bystander stops there,

likewise the photographer and the painter,

well ready to make a picture of it.

Not its present condition, I do believe, unless

we admit to be under the spell of the old

and discarded. Nor can it be its former

appearance, which we can only guess.

What if it is the pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune?

(rossoindia, 2022)

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Total Falsch

The working title came from a study shot I took early in the week when all I could find in the house was the crappiest, low quality ball of string you had the misfortune to own.

The original composition I liked but was a little convoluted, I tried reshooting but couldn’t get it to work even after buying the upgraded red twine you see in this shot. So, I stripped the composition back opting to tuck the coin (a 50 Centime coin, where that came from I have no idea, the last time I visited France was as a student around 1992) through a couple of threads on the spool.

Anyway, total cost of photo £1!

HMM

Charles Dickens

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Ravens are some of the misunderstood species. Some say they bring misfortune, others accuse them of stealing or say they are bad and devious. The truth is that they are very social and highly intelligent. And moreover I think they are very beautiful.

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The combination of this Long Hoverfly and Pink-Sorrel brought to mind the plight of Marie Jules César Lélorgne de Savigny (1777-1851). An intrepid naturalist he was with Napoleon during the French Egyptian adventure; moreover, he was a fine descriptor of his finds. But then bad fortune struck; in the process of describing his specimens he slowly and painfully went blind. Regardless he soldiered on.

He described this Oxalis in 1797 before that great misfortune. It had been found by that great naturalist Philibert Commerçon (1727-1773) who was part of the scientific crew of Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), the first Frenchman to circumnavigate the globe (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/2408098566/in/photolis...).

Commerçon collected this Oxalis in the fields around Montevideo (called Monte-Bido in Savigny's description), today the capital of Uruguay.

Proverbio árabe / Arab proverb