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“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
~Ben Okri~
Camera: Minolta X-370s
Lens: Tokina EL 28mm
Film: Fujicolor superia x-tra 400
'The Darkroom' Processed
Multiple Exposure
Just finishing up the tryptic, I can't tell which one is my favorite but I think there is a story to be told here. Thanks for all the positive feedback!
I still have more from the roll to show though so there's still some excitement there!
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Featuring some beautiful new olive trees by Konoha:
Konoha - Olea elena - T2 (wood)
Konoha - Olea elena - T3 (moss)
Konoha - Olea elena - T4 (wood)
Cosmopolitan Event: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/No%20Comment/131/61/22
Konoha Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Whitlock/147/173/2601
Konoha Flickr: flic.kr/ps/3S5rdX
Still the best weeds ever:
Konoha - "Jest" Weeds II
Misc:
..::THOR::.. Wooden Boat - RARE
Heart - WW - Giant Pines - Fallen Log 2,3
Skye Shabby Deck Narrow
DRD - Hackett's Cabin - Cabin
CR Reed Green With Flower
TLC Black Swan
TLC Mallard Female Standing
Thanks for all the support! 😊
It's not easy to overcome the inertia of driving a car, of transporting yourself from A to B. It's not uncommon for a great photo opportunity to emerge somewhere along the way. Sometimes I have the presence of mind to stop immediately to capture the moment. Other times I hesitate in my thinking while the car hurtles along at a mile a minute, taking me away from the scene. And the farther I go, the more difficult it becomes to turn back. Anyway on this fine day, my reaction to these clouds was immediate. I stopped, grabbed the camera and bounded up to a perfect vantage point. I was taken by the cloud formation and how it seemed to undulate in response to the contours of the earth beneath. Almost as if there was some invisible connection. As I stood here in the brilliant light, looking up the slope, my mind flashed back to me as a young child. In this vision, I was hurtling down a snow covered hill much like this one, riding a tiny aluminum saucer. These saucers were intended expressly for coasting, but in retrospect seemed to put the rider in great peril. There was no steering or braking. One simply hopped on, shoved off, and hoped for the best. Totally thrilling as a child, despite numerous rollovers and encounters with trees and rocks. I wonder if those little saucers are still being manufactured, or if the cost of liability insurance and litigation brought about their demise. Or perhaps lack of interest. I rarely see anyone coasting these days. I think my little saucer epitomized the simpler times of my youth.
Just living my life
Creating art and pretending
The world is a beautiful place
Just living my lie
Creating art and telling myself
It's true, it is a beautiful place
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
- Ben Okri
The greuling descent of the 2.2% Kicking Horse Pass grade comes to an end at the grade crossing at Field, BC, the crew change at the bottom of the "Big Hill." Train wreathed in brakeshoe smoke, the five SD40-2's are in full dynamic braking and full set on the train air to bring 8700 tons of train to a stop at 815am on August 20, 1982.
An image from the summer, but which has been catching my attention in the folder due to the lovely combination of silver and gold colours.
Taken with the IR/full spectrum converted Nikon D80, Kolari-like QB19/KG3 filter and 18-55 kit zoom (this was before I sorted out a Helios 44M for IR work).
The source files for this image are fairly poor, the kit zoom simply does not focus properly onto the converted sensor and this is as sharp as it gets. Added to that, the D80 does not have very good dynamic range, meaning that colours are either lost in shadow or highlights are blown out. Added to that, the white balance is "away to Gourock" as we say in these parts, meaning "all off to one side", with a magenta cast to the whites.
To overcome these difficulties, there's been a lot of post processing, with highlights repaired with texture from a bracketed shot and lots of selective colour balance work. Not perfect, but there's a limit to how much effort should be put into rescuing a raw file with problems.
The immensity of our Milky Way galaxy always blows me away every time I see it especially in clear dark skies.
This is my Photo-Heart Connection of June. I had not to think very much because the only photos I have taken along the whole month have been a series of these cherries
The day after I finished checking the paper of my students and once I uploaded their marks, I took my camera. Only a few weeks had passed without taking a single photo, even so, it was like a foreign object in my hand that I didn´t know how to handle. I felt sad and tempted to let it aside, but I had the feeling that this could create a breach, a rupture (...)
read more on my blog: myhealingmoments.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/day-36587.html
A wonderful friend agreed to pose for this image during a workshop I gave last month! I think we can all agree she's the best. :)
It is a place symbolizing the deportation of the Jews and other persecuted peoples to concentration or death camps. It is a place for memory and awareness, a multifunctional center for conferences, seminars and exhibitions so that past atrocities will never find refuge in oblivion. Most importantly, it is a venue for dialogue and interchange among cultures, teaching the new generations to overcome linguistic, cultural and social barriers so that the extremes of brutality witnessed in the twentieth century—the Shoah being the absolute nadir of human barbarity—can never happen again.
“In Jewish tradition, the command to remember is absolute. But its obligation does not end with the cognitive act of memory—it must be connected to both meaning and action. Today, we for whom the memory is burned in our hearts and on our flesh gather to pass the torch of memory to the next generation. We pass to you, as well, the fundamental lesson of Judaism: that memory must be accompanied by action of ethical and moral intent. This must be the foundation and the focus of your energies toward the creation of a better world.” (Yad Vashem)
Esso è dunque un luogo simbolo della deportazione degli ebrei e degli altri perseguitati verso i campi di concentramento e di sterminio. Ma anche luogo di memoria e di conoscenza; un centro polifunzionale dove ospitare incontri, dibattiti, mostre per ricordare le atrocità del passato e, soprattutto, dove creare occasioni di dialogo e di confronto fra le culture e per educare i giovani a superare le barriere linguistiche, culturali, sociali e perché la barbarie del XX secolo che vide nella Shoah il segno del massimo degrado dell’umanità, non possa ripetersi.
"Nella tradizione ebraica l'ordine di ricordare è categorico. Questo dovere, però, non si esaurisce con l'atto cognitivo del ricordare, ma deve essere connesso sia al suo significato, sia all'azione che esso implica. Oggi noi che abbiamo il ricordo inciso nei nostri cuori e nella nostra carne, dobbiamo passare la fiaccola della memoria alla prossima generazione. Vi tramandiamo anche la lezione fondamentale dell'ebraismo, quella per cui l'esercizio della memoria deve andare di pari passo con fini etici e morali. Questo deve essere il fondamento e il fulcro delle vostre energie per poter creare un mondo migliore." (Yad Vashem)
Memorialeshoah.it
Last weekend was a rainy, windy and cold one which of course makes for cool photos especially in a backless dress 😉 I scrambled up the wet rocks trying not to slip and doing my best to not look pained from the cold 😯 my fingers hurt so badly from the cold that I was like I'm never doing that again 😨😲 but who am I kidding I'll always jump at the chance of a good photo opportunity 📷
Narayanganj, Bangladesh, 2008.
Step by step, I overcome my infirmity.
I learn to believe in myself.
I learn to face the challenge, that must be faced.
An old woman is crossing a busy street hastily, which is soaked by a brief rain.
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With the Kansas City Chiefs attempting to overcome the hurdle of the never-to-be-done -before feat of three straight Super Bowl wins (if they get past the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday)...a football memory.
Let darkness be overcome by light.
HAPPY DIWALI TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO CELEBRATE.
I like this picture for the beautiful play of light and shadow on the mountains. Especially the light between the silhouted trees in the foreground and the monastry.
Diwali is the festival of lights celebrated all over India.
View On Black is a must with F11
Dear friends, Kindly excuse me for not commenting on your photos as I am suffering from neck and back pain and I could not work in computer at least for a few weeks. Hope to be with you all soon.
Explored
This was taken on the way back from Portland, OR along the Columbia River Gorge in the Fall of 2009. Yes, I was stopped by the clouds.
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Happy Birthday to my beautiful daughter! It has been so much fun to watch you grow up into the incredible person that you have become. You have made my life so amazing in a million ways! Being your mother definitely brings more happiness. You still continue to amaze me with your brilliance and your singular approach to life! You really deserve the best as you give so much so unconditionally and I love you millions, my gorgeous girl. I am so proud of what you have achieved so far and the obstacles you have overcome. Enjoy your day, my lovely daughter and all your up and coming celebrations.
May God's grace surround you always!
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; - Numbers 6:24-25
Many thanks to all those who view, fav or comment my pictures. It is much appreciated.