Ja sä sanoit ettei meillä ole aikaa tuhlata.

"Strength isn't about remaining untouched by time - it’s about facing the first snowfall of another season and choosing to keep standing.” - Peter Hagen

October 11, 2026 • Red Deer County, Alberta

Ever have one of those images that sticks in your mind, You know I was there it looked like this and you just can't realise that moment with the tools at hand?

Our second night at Cradle Mt in 2017 ( four years ago .. four years ?!), Kylie and I shared a 'magestical' sunset at Dove Lake followed by a star filled evening.

I took this frame with gloaming still in the west - you know just enough to see the far peak and light the foreground enough to work.

I set the Pentax K1 up with the DFA15-30 lens on it .. framed the shot and headed off to the boatshed with the extremely bright LED torch I own (Kylie doesn't do sheds and spiders in the dark - who knew :-) ). Called out to Kylie to press the release trigger then did a whirling dervish in the hut trying not to over expose too much (it IS a very bright torch) and headed back to a great night with the Tassy devils and Spotted Quals @ Devils at Cradle

( devilsatcradle.com ).

Probably once a year since I've used that frame as a test frame for my workflow with what ever software I'm using at the time.

With us being in yet another lock down here I stumbled across the raw file for Cradle again today and thought 'why not' - after a couple of casual hours and a half dozen versions I can safely say that this is the final version that captures that evening - and the last time I'll be messing with this one.

It doesn't have the multicoloured rainbow that seems to be the norm these days - personally I'm not a fan, I'd rather share the moment that I saw and felt.

For the record - the techy bit - 13 seconds at f2.8 ISO500 - Raw developed in DxO Photolab4 and detail enhanced in Color Efex Pro 4 with a couple of final tweaks in ON1 Photo Raw 2021.5 (that boat shed did blow out a tad) and 'jobs a goodun'.

Hope you had a good weekend (as well as happy 4th to those folk in the 'States).

BTW did you know that on a still night a decent 'Cooee' from round the back of the boatshed - echoes for a very very long time at the lake ;-)

Small waves roll onto the rockshelf at South Avalon

Beach,supporting a whole ecosystem of plant and animal life along the shore.

Its hard to believe that the whole coastline has been defined' and is constantly being refined, by these waves in less benign conditions.

Persistence in nature. A key element of growth.

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Persistence and Patience.... The love-hate affair between me and this majestic eagle started around a year back. We used to sight this Eagle everyday in our grasslands, where it used to perch on top of the tallest perch and observe...Just observe.. With those watchful eyes... Once we started sighting this one regularly, we developed a routine which we followed.. Sight the bird in the early morning (around 6 am), stop our car around half a km away so that it doesn't get distracted and wait. Simply wait. Sometimes even till 11 am... With all the hope that it would hunt a snake in front of us, someday at least... It wont be an over exaggeration when I say, i used to go late to work on weekdays only because of waiting for that moment :) But things had its way of working out. We never got an opportunity to see it on the ground making kill in front of us... The hunts used to happen away from us many a times and we were just plain unlucky on most occasions.Patience and Persistence.Finally after a close to 2 year wait, the moment came when we saw the Short Toed Snake Eagle try to hunt a Rat snake ... In front of us... ! A moment i've waited for a long time... A moment which was worth it . All of it...

I thought it was impossible to get a shot of lightning with my camera. I mean, it's got a max exposure of four seconds -- hopeless, right? But I was stubbornly optimistic, and set up my tripod, and pressed the shutter... again, and again, and again...

...until... on the 39th shot....

This happened. SUCCESS!!

Cropped and sharpened a smidgen, otherwise as shot.

Persistence and patience... the search for a dark sky.

This Photo was taken in Sutherland (Karoo) in South Africa. On the right of the image - the small and large Magellanic Clouds, they are dwarf galaxies to our milky way.

Sutherland is home to the SALT (Southern African Large Telescope) www.salt.ac.za/

Image Details:

ISO3200

15mm

f/4

30sec

Canon 5DM3

Edited in Lightroom and PhotoshopCS4

Berlin

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins. Not through strength, but through persistence.”

John Muir

Uniquely beautiful carving of the Tennessee rock created by the persistent flow of water makes the new Winding Stair Park in Lafayette a jewel.

Good evening everyone !!

Leica Monochrom & 50mm APO

This was a first for me. This little mushroom somehow grew through this hole in the leaf.

Shot this guy at Black Lane on the CSX St. Louis Line Sub near Caseyville, IL.. Waited for over half an hour for this thing to finally move, and the waiting sure paid off.

I decided I didn't really like the idea I had to "start over fresh" on a new account, so I'll continue using this account for now. It was kind of a spur of the moment idea to start over fresh, anyway.

No doubt, some will find this ugly. But to the rest of you who find ALL of Nature beautiful...

First, my apologies to Salvador Dalí and his haunting painting, "The Persistence of Memory," from which I borrowed for the latter part of the title.

What you're looking at is a leaf that has fallen perfectly centered to drape and fold itself neatly over a branch - and there to remain over time to slowly decay. The tree is deep in thick woods, so the leaf has not blown away. I have no idea how many season cycles it has taken for the leaf to reach this stage in it's decomposition, but I would guess at least a couple.

I was lucky - as I was walking through the woods on a nice Fall afternoon in finding sunlight "winking" at me from off to the side of the path. I found it to be coming at me through the few transparent/translucent sections remaining in this persistent beauty.

Sorry for the inevitable few green light spots in the photo, but they came with the angle required in order to get the shot and light I wanted. So be it - Nature is never perfect nor neat.

"Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel.

It's very natural -

and I wouldn't want to say easy -

but natural and comfortable to write about,

and there are so many different forms of it,

millions of layers -

you could write forever about it."

~ Shawn Mendes ~

When macular degeneration took away much of her ability to see "the whole picture" Jane gave up oil painting for paper collage . . . just another way to express the many layers of her long, phenomenal life, shared in an infinite array of mediums.

Jane loved Sedona and visited there every September to absorb the landscape and interpret it on canvas or in journals.

I'm blessed to be surrounded by her art in every corner of my home, so her spirit will live on forever.

The chase of the westbound Limon local continued into the evening. As we were barreling down I70, Seth had remarked how he loved the open points along the line where we could pace (a verb I had taught him only a few minutes prior) the train on the highway. In fact, at this point somewhere a bit east of Agate, he INSISTED I take a picture across him and out the window of the train. I'm not one to shoot grabs like that, but a little Lightroom later, this would end up being my favorite frame of the entire day.

BNSF 4170 west continues toward Denver with their five cars off the Kyle, dashing across the High Plains.

Having the day off yesterday, I decided to take a drive out to Valley Forge National Park to see if I could capture any remaining fall color. Unfortunately, the peak colors happened a few weeks ago, but I was still able to find some remaining color after some persistence.

5D Mark III

EF 70-200mm f/4L

PERSISTENCE OF THE HORIZON / THE FINAL / CHRISTELLE GEISER & AEON VON ZARK / NAKED EYE PROJECT BIENNE / ALTERED STATE SERIE / THE WEIRD DREAM / PORTRAIT.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.(Hal Borland

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Thanks very kindly for any gracious comment, views and invites. Much appreciated!.... Peace and love be with you.

Namaste.

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A big tree had come down in the sandstone slot that marks the entrance into Mermaid's Cave. A Banksia had also taken a tumble, but was still alive, and growing over the fallen tree. Life finds a way! [Blue Mountains, NSW]

This fella found me particularly annoying, and flew to three different perches to try to shake me. Persistence pays!

Straight from the camera.

Light painting trip with Lauri Laurén. Piece by Kaos.

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

— Calvin Coolidge

Dedicated to my daughter, who persists in everything, including climbing 500 foot sand dunes, where you slide back 2 feet for every 3 feet you ascend.

“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” – Marabel Morgan

These tiny little white flowers are very presistent......trying to survive the bitter cold weather. They are only about 1/4 inch in diameter and so sweet.

...longing for warmer weather myself!

Strypemonde, Voorne-Putten

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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity .. on a 'Pataphysical projectory

Entropy ≥ Memory . Creativity ²

stratified as:

Memory . Creativity ² = ∪ { Mimesis . Catharsis ² }

Mimesis . Catharsis ² = ∪ { Metabolê . Catabolê ² }

Metabolê . Catabolê ² = ∪ { Mitosis . Cytosis ² }

Mitosis . Cytosis ² = ∪ { Molecula . Chymia ² }

Molecula . Chymia ² = ∪ { M . c ² }

. . and . . M . c ² = ∪ { E }

. . whe(re)n . . ∪ { E } ≤ Entropy

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Study of the day:

Rien ne sert de mourir, il faut savoir disparaître.

There is no point in dying, we must know to disappear.

( Jean Baudrillard )

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Quelle est l'épaisseur des apparences, Jean, vue de l'hyporéalité ?

. . . .. siaM ! ercalumis nu'd ellec ,fej emêm al tnemetcaxE-"

. . . "! secnerappasèd releppa sel ed siamrosèd ètnet tôtulp sius ej

What's the thickness of appearances, Jean, seen from the hyporeality ?

. . . .. tuB ! murcalumis a fo eno eht ,fej emas eht yltcaxE -

. . . ! "secnaraeppasid" meht llac ot detmet erom m'I ..

approximate deciphered translation with the hyporeal authorization of Jean:

. . . - Exactly the same jef, the one of a simulacrum ! But ..

. . . I am more tempted now to call them "disappearances" !

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| . rectO-persO . | . E ≥ m.C² . | . co~errAnce . | . TiLt . | . pOla. |

where there's a will there's a way !

Persistence pays off! So happy to have finally seen the elusive black-backed woodpecker. Well worth the wait as he was so busy pecking, he paid no attention to his admirers.

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The image evokes feelings of awe and wonder at the raw beauty and power of nature. The cascading waterfall, surrounded by the rugged textures of the rocks, imparts a sense of majesty and timelessness. There's a serenity in the smooth flow of the water juxtaposed against the jaggedness of the stone. The play of light and shadow creates an ethereal atmosphere, suggesting hidden mysteries and the secrets of the earth. The scene can also inspire introspection, as one contemplates the persistence of nature and the passage of time. Additionally, the secluded nature of the waterfall might invoke feelings of solitude and a desire for exploration.

Persistence and tenacity to hang on - then, you will be "outstanding"

...at last.

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After several failed attempts (done by cloud, DVT leading) I finally bagged this shot at Huttons Ambo. 68029 “Courageous” heads 1F62 1034 Scarborough-York.

I saw these flowers poking through the fence on my way to work when it was foggy out. I made a mental note to go back after work and when I did, these lovely clouds were out to make the perfect backdrop. I was laying on my back shooting as cars were driving by : )