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Our perseverance is a gift from God. In our salvation, God blesses us with assurance through His gift of perseverance (2 Thessalonians 3:5). However, many Christians lack full assurance of their salvation because their understanding of assurance is founded on the constantly changing emotions of their hearts rather than on the eternal Word of God. (Burk Parsons)
Even several days after being cut down and shoved into the yard waste can, with the leaves wilting, this one flower still shines on.
Selective coloring is a process I have long been fascinated with but not yet mastered. Here is another of my meager attempts at it.
Looking up the Stone Door in the middle of the path. The opening of the great Stone Door from the top is a 10-foot-wide but the steps are about 2'-3' long and 6"-10" wide and the stone path is quite narrow over 100-feet-deep crack in the sandstone bluff!
I decided I'd make may way down to the beach before work on Friday. This was certainly not a morning when everything went as I wanted but then again when does that ever happen? A look out of the window at 5:30AM confirmed the weather forecast was well wide of the mark as I surveyed a scene that provided little in the way of optimism. Still as I was up I made my way down anyway with a hit of rain in the air on a cold breezy morning. Next challenge was the high tide was not quite as high as I'd hoped rendering my intended subject to far up the beach. Still I had spied a large piece of drift wood close to the base of the cliffs and so set about manhandling it down to the tide line. Five minutes of struggle later and with the tide flowing nicely over the sand and around the log I had an image.
There are lots of factors that need to be in sync for me to make the final decision to go out on a nightscape photography shoot. Last Friday night (Sept 11) those ducks were all in a row for me, as the saying goes. The weather forecast included cloudless skies; the Moon wasn’t due to rise until around 2:00 am on Saturday; the Milky Way would be in the western sky for hours on end, and I could sleep in once home and the daylight hours came around.
Despite all of that fortune, there were several times on my outbound trip that I found myself wanting to turn my car around and go back home. The gnawing self-doubt that assails me during most of my waking hours was once again urging me to give up, to head for home and to stop kidding myself that any of my photographs are worth looking at, let alone posting online.
After working on today’s photo, though, I’m glad that I pushed through. Being able to capture and share the beauty that I saw in the sky–and the wonders that only the camera can record–reminds me that perseverance often pays off. The Milky Way was very low in the southwestern sky over this man-made pond in the Jerrawangala National Park when I shot the two frames that I used to create the final stitched composite image. You can see the stretched reflection of the red supergiant star Antares on the muddy pond’s surface, with the star itself hovering over the eucalyptus trees in the distance.
I captured the two individual photos that make up this final image with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/2.0, using an exposure time of 13 seconds @ ISO 3200.
Getting this lighting was an accident. I was using a cereal box as a light modifier. I was going for a narrow slit of light and somehow got this. At first when I saw this on the back of the camera I was like what is going on here! And how the box was positioned. But as I was going through the photos I took, this caught my eye. I spent way to much time on this photo in post. I wanted to like it in color but it just didn't work. I took a break, came back worked on this for two minutes and finally got something I love! Finally getting something to work, ahh that's what it's about.
Standard mass produced line infantry rifle, made by the northern continent's Rivacheg Company, the steel as always forged in their own magma forges.
Starting the flesh out the setting, will probably do some brain storming to get a nice bit of info for the next one perhaps.
Nearing the top of the long slog out of the Sandouling open cast coal pit in NW China.
This JS 2-8-2 locomotive is kept in steam 7 days a week and hauls a 400 ton train from the loader to the washery and return approx once every 2 hours.
Her days are numbered as she approaches the end of her working life. With Chinas environmental programme this pit is due to close in April / May consigning the last five locos to the scrapyard.
Statue of the Buddha submerged within the roots of a Bodhi tree at Wat Mahathat (วัดมหาธาตุ พระนครศรีà¸à¸¢à¸¸à¸˜à¸¢à¸²), Ayutthaya, Thailand. The Bodhi tree is a sacred fig tree species, as the Buddha attained enlightenment while sat under the Bodhi tree in 500 BC. Because of the symbolic role in Buddhism, the tree is also called the Tree of Awakening or the Tree of Enlightenment.
Mai: I won't give up! I need to defeat the boss! >=/
Mai is a very perseverant person, if she want something, she'll fight for it! ^^
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Mai: Eu não vou desistir! Não vou parar até conseguir derrotar esse chefe! >=/
Mai é uma menina bastante persistente, quando quer alguma coisa, luta por ela até o fim! ^^
We had a major snowfall last week, two days of what you see here. I forced myself to go out. Often I wait it out, hoping for a sunny morning the next day, pretty scenes of snow laden branches (the prairie isn't entirely treeless), and so on. On this day, I went out looking for ways to capture the snowfall itself. I tried this and that, most of which did not work very well, and that's okay - we don't grow as artists by endlessly repeating what we know will work. We have to be willing to risk failure.
This was one of my last shots, late that afternoon with the gloom of dusk closing in and the snow continuing to fall. I liked the way the distant shed, probably a grain storage shed decades ago, was half obscured by the millions of snowflakes. The autofocus kept picking up intervening flakes and focusing too close, but with some perseverance I managed a few shots where the shed was in focus. I placed it dead centre in the viewfinder, thinking a square crop might work best.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2019 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Photo taken in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain.
A very dear person recently celebrated her birthday.
So I bought her this bouquet of flowers.
I told the florist approximately how much I wanted to spend, and she could develop her own creativity.
The result was this work of art.
I'd also like to take this opportunity to congratulate my good friend from Berlin, Wolfgang Radochla, who celebrates a wonderful 88 years today and continues to dedicate himself to photography.
Every day he publishes two or three photos on Flickr, or more, setting an example of perseverance and determination for us all.
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Happy birthday, my friend Wolfgang!
Ich möchte diese Gelegenheit auch nutzen, um meinem guten Freund aus Berlin, Wolfgang Radochla, zu gratulieren, der heute wundervolle 88 Jahre feiert und sich weiterhin der Fotografie widmet.
Jeden Tag veröffentlicht er zwei, drei oder mehr Fotos auf Flickr und ist damit für uns alle ein Beispiel für Ausdauer und Entschlossenheit.
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, mein Freund Wolfgang!
¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!, 2025
Foto hecha en Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, España.
Una persona muy muy querida ha cumplido años recientemente.
Asà que le compré este ramo de flores.
A la empleada de la floristerÃa le dije cuánto me querÃa gastar aproximadamente, y que ella misma desarrollara su propia creatividad.
El resultado fue esta obra de arte.
Aprovecho también para felicitar a mi buen amigo berlinés Wolfgang Radochla, que hoy cumple unos maravillosos 88 años y sigue dedicado a la fotografÃa.
Cada dÃa publica dos o tres fotos en Flickr, o más, dándonos a todos un ejemplo de constancia y voluntad.
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Muchas felicidades, mi amigo Wolfgang!
Undertake your passage
in trust and innocence,
for such is the Warrior Way.
And at the end,
send heavenward
the feathered arrows
of your perfect faith.
Perseverance often pays off in landscape photography. On this particular morning, we had to hike around a mile in the dark. It was snowing and blowing so hard it was difficult to see with our headlights. By the time we reached the rim, visibility couldn't have been more than 5 ft! Everyone in our group thought we weren't going to get anything good. But as it happens so often in the desert Southwest, suddenly the snow stopped, the sun found a small break in the clouds, and it was a complete transformation. These are the moments we live for as landscape photographers!
And still this flower spike grows, and tries to follow the sun. It's developing a pinkish tinge now.
Crane_Corr
Secret Knowledge, Patience, Longevity
"Corr brings the qualities of patience and perseverance. The crane is capable of standing for hours motionless in the water waiting for the right moment to capture its prey. ... Together with the ability to operate in the Underworld, the crane symbolizes science arcana, the Secret Knowledge, which in the Druid tradition is represented by the writings of Ogham - the tree language of the Druids. In a broader sense learning this language requires the ability to read the 'Book of Nature'."
Gru_Corr
Conoscenza Segreta, Pazienza, LongevitÃ
"Corr porta le qualità della pazienza e della perseveranza. La gru è capace di stare per ore immobile nell'acqua aspettando il momento adatto per catturare la sua preda. ... Insieme alla capacità di operare nel Mondo Sotterraneo, la gru simboleggia la scienza arcana, la Conoscenza Segreta, che nella tradizione dei Druidi è rappresentata dagli scritti di Ogham - la lingua arborea dei Druidi. In un senso più vasto imparare questo linguaggio richiede la capacità di leggere il 'Libro della Natura'."
Testo tratto da L'oracolo dei Druidi. Lavorare con gli Animali Sacri della Tradizione Celtica. Text taken from The Oracle of the Druids. Working with the Sacred Animals of the Celtic Tradition.
www.edizionilpuntodincontro.it/libri/l-oracolo-dei-druidi...
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photo prise de la fenêtre (29 décembre)
HAPPY NEW YEAR
forecast for 01/01/2017
Sunrise at 08:08 AM - Sunset at 04:25 PM
Temperature from 1°C to -3°C
This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (the European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 mission is part of a larger program that includes missions to the Moon as a way to prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Patience, light and perseverance. For me and many others, these are three of the fundamental elements of landscape photography. I've visited Gribdale several times this year, and never come away with anything I was particularly happy with. On this visit, I decided to avoid the classic view towards Roseberry Topping, and after a bit of searching, settled on this composition looking towards Great Ayton and the setting sun. There was much more cloud than forecast, but after 90 minutes of waiting, the sun burst through a gap in the clouds and lit up the scene in front with beautiful, golden low angled light. Less than a minute later, the sun was back behind the clouds and didn't make another appearence.
Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria) is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne (currently Cardinal Joachim Meisner), and is under the administration of the archdiocese of Cologne. It is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of German Catholicism in particular, of Gothic architecture and of the continuing faith and perseverance of the people of the city in which it stands. It is dedicated to Saint Peter and the Blessed Virgin Mary. The cathedral is a World Heritage Site, one of the best-known architectural monuments in Germany, and Cologne's most famous landmark, described by UNESCO as an "exceptional work of human creative genius".[1]
Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and took, with interruptions, until 1880 to complete– a period of over 600 years. It is 144.5 metres long, 86.5 m wide and its two towers are 157 m tall.[2] The cathedral is one of the world's largest churches and the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe. For four years, 1880-84, it was the tallest structure in the world, until the completion of the Washington Monument. It has the second-tallest church spires, only surpassed by the single spire of Ulm Minster, completed 10 years later in 1890. Because of its enormous twin spires, it also presents the largest façade of any church in the world. The choir of the cathedral, measured between the piers, also holds the distinction of having the largest height to width ratio of any Medieval church, 3.6:1, exceeding even Beauvais Cathedral which has a slightly higher vault.[3]
Cologne's medieval builders had planned a grand structure to house the reliquary of the Three Kings and fit its role as a place of worship of the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite having been left incomplete during the medieval period, Cologne Cathedral eventually became unified as "a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value" and "a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian belief in medieval and modern Europe".
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Clearing Storm
Thor's Hammer with a Rainbow
Bryce Canyon National Park
For the record, it was the coldest temperature I have ever experienced, a minus 17 degrees fahrenheit, with the wind chill it could have been 10 degrees much lower. It was also, the first time I saw that my tripod, bag and everything I took out freezes in an instant. My last photo for the winter. Spring has come! :-)
Even several days after being cut down and shoved into the yard waste can, with the leaves wilting, this one flower still shines on.
Some years ago a tiny seed carried by the wind settled into a crack in a rock formation, being trapped it made the best of an unfortunate situation. If all goes well, our little tree will crack open it's prison walls. The boulder will give up the struggle and break apart into a pile of stones.
Another weathered old barn.. but with great strength of character which the years have bestowed upon it.
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18/02/2017; After a tranquil sunset, the blue hour also happened to be nice and calm at the Leiden harbour.
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**A quick break from my Build-A-MOC-A-Week project**
My son wanted to build the landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars, so with a little help from Daddy here we are 😊
The inscription reads: Liberatoribvs Americanis Popvlvs Belgicvs Memor (IV.VII.MCMXLVI) or "The Belgian people remember their American Liberators – 4th July 1946"
The Mardasson Memorial pictured here is located near Bastogne, a municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg. It honors the memory of the 76,890 American soldiers who were wounded or killed during the Battle of the Bulge.
On my way back and fourth to Brussels over the past couple years I have many times wanted to exit A4 and head north on A26 toward Bastogne to visit this historical place of 3/4 of a century ago. I finally took the time to do so last week and it was well worth the stop.
Once a tree gets established in a rock its roots will break the rock apart over time. I was trying to think of something philosophical to add but all I could come up with was a quote from Jack Handey,s Deep Thoughts:" If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."
Ain't no rain gonna make this woman take the day off.
If you want to see how I took this photo, please watch the beginning of this video:
This modern shellfish vessel seen returning to Bridlington Harbour after visiting the local fishing grounds,
Even though uprooted and dead for years, this tree remains standing. This is as close to giving the finger to adverse life conditions as a tree can get. I am impressed.
To take this image, I had to get up at 130 am and hike for 90 min through a dark forest and across a pebbly beach. This was time spent in awe - I listened to the sounds of the night forest, I saw the sea opening up before me when leaving the forest and climbing down the cliffs and I watched three otters play and hunt.
100% human made photographic image without any use of AI based content creation tools such as Midjourney, DALL-E or Stable Diffusion. ;-)