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Ah I am so delighted summer is almost here! Things are slowing down for me a bit before I start traveling again. As always I have missed you all when I can't find my way to Flickr, but so glad to be here today! These captures were taken in Cabo San Lucas in January. If you happen to recognize this gal, yes, long shot I know, but please let me know, because I have at least 25 shots that I would love to give her. I was just behind the scenes while her photographer was clicking away. I was so delighted to happen upon this fun moment! Hope you enjoy :)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
“So it's not gonna be easy.It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you.I want all of you, forever, everyday.You and me everyday.” Sparks
"Marriage" by Chuck Swindoll...."It's rough. It's tough. It's work. Anybody who says it isn't. Has never been married. Marriage has far bigger problems Than toothpaste squeezed From the middle of the tube.Marriage means Grappling, aching, struggling It means putting up With personality weaknesses Accepting criticism And giving each other freedom to fail It means sharing deep feelings About fear and rejection It means turning self-pity into laughter And taking a walk to gain self-control. Marriage means Gentleness and joy Toughness and fortitude Fairness and forgiveness And a great amount of sacrifice Marriage means Learning when to say nothing When to keep talking When to push a little When to back off It means acknowledging I can't be God to you I need Him, too.Marriage means...You are the other part of me I am the other part of you We'll work through With never a thought of walking out Marriage means Two imperfect mates Giving totally In partnership with a perfect God Marriage, my love, means us.
"Love—the Greatest of All"
I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I do not have love, it will sound like noisy brass. 2 If I have the gift of speaking God’s Word and if I understand all secrets, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I know all things and if I have the gift of faith so I can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give everything I have to feed poor people and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, it will not help me. 4 Love does not give up. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not put itself up as being important. Love has no pride. 5 Love does not do the wrong thing. Love never thinks of itself. Love does not get angry. Love does not remember the suffering that comes from being hurt by someone. 6 Love is not happy with sin. Love is happy with the truth. 7 Love takes everything that comes without giving up. Love believes all things. Love hopes for all things. Love keeps on in all things.8 Love never comes to an end. The gift of speaking God’s Word will come to an end. The gift of speaking in special sounds will be stopped. The gift of understanding will come to an end. 9 For we only know a part now, and we speak only a part. 10 When everything is perfect, then we will not need these gifts that are not perfect.11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like a child. I understood like a child. Now I am a man. I do not act like a child anymore. 12 Now that which we see is as if we were looking in a broken mirror. But then we will see everything. Now I know only a part. But then I will know everything in a perfect way. That is how God knows me right now. 13 And now we have these three: faith and hope and love, but the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13
May God's extravagant love touch your life today! Blessings, to you all! :)
Model: Numina
Location: Bar "Mutter" - Kassel
Group fine art females
out of the box
12mm @ full frame
D610+70-200mm f2.8
Strobist:
2 off-camera flash
1 on the front right in a semi-open umbrella
1 on the back right in a home made snoot.
Genre-of-one Zap Mama performing (appropriately) at the Outside-the-Box festival in Boston.
Recommending a single Zap Mama song is a bit pointless: every other album she switches up what she does and how she does it! That said, you can start back at the beginning with "Sabsylma (What's Your Name?)" and just work your way forward. But don't miss out on "Danger of Love", which she sang but is credited to DJ Krush. There are a few versions, of course...
Recommendations:
"Rafiki" live, so you can see her at work....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRp6sfYRXEA
At the start of her career, "Sabsylma" (note, NO instruments, all vocalizations!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bpznfmFQgA&list=PLZN-Qk4Q9OR...
How she created a song, then a live performance of it on stage, "Telephone"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9EA0TAGatc
"Danger of Love"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TMQU7duyFA
"Zap Bebes" (?!?!?!)... seriouusly, call-and-response?!?!
Canon AE1 & Rollei R6 35mm film
Dont have any EXIF, cause its a scan from film without postprocessing.
f8 - 1/250s - ISO 1600
Earlier today I was enjoying a rather relaxing bath, when suddenly it hit me. This fear, this anxiety. I’ve never been one to worry about the future, I figure I still have some good years ahead. But it was not that what troubled me. The fact is, I’ve always been a bit unconventional, ‘out of the box’ if you will. I’m weird about food for instance. I go around yelling “Look! The sea!” in the middle of the city (ok, I did that once.) I choose photos to do which make me jump around the house for half an hour. I don’t go shopping like other women and I know nothing about makeup. I make people walk their bags like dogs.
But that’s not what worried me. The thing is: I don’t want what most other people want. Family, house, picket fence… I don’t really want to get married. I don’t want children. It’s not that I don’t like them, no. I mean, I even was one myself once upon a time. That’s how much I like them! You don’t become a trekkie if you don’t like trekkies.
(Yes. I did just compare children to trekkies. :p)
No, I respect everybody who wants or has children, but I don’t really see the appeal. The thought of having them doesn’t really do anything for me right now. Maybe that’ll change one day. I don’t know.
It’s the fact that I don’t want what most people want, which troubles me. I mean, it is fine now, I’m young and most of my peers don’t have kids or aren’t married. But one day they will. And what will happen to me?
Well, maybe it was the overload of bath foam talking. But I decided to spend some time IN the box today.
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I think the cookies are out of the box. I... may have overestimated how many were left... It's a nice box, though, right?
Submitted for FlickrFriday's "Out of the Box" and MacroMondays' "Member's Choice - Bokeh" challenges.
2017 Marks & Spencer shortbread tin, 1998 Churchill's toffee tin / money box, 1950s Dinky Toys diecast telephone kiosk
A chestnut brown male horse fixes us with a stare at Kastraki, a village beneath Meteora, Greece, seen in the background. He gracefully swishes his bushy tail, as if he were hailing us in his own way.
In the springtime happiness blooms, even during the Holy Week. There is an explosion of colours. Wild flowers and rich grass form a canvas on which Life itself is bursting with energy and excitement. Animals and plants get to take part in overwhelming joy; we, humans, should join nature, shouldn't we?
The photograph breaks a rule requiring religious elements to pictorially co-exist with Meteora, on top of which Greek Orthodox monasteries are perched. So, a pastoral composition was unconventionally shot, instead of one reflecting religious mood.
The colt is the leading element of the photograph, so the photograph's title is:
“A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
—William Shakespeare (Richard III, act V)