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It matters not where I go while moving about in nature. I do not need to take costly trips to far away locations. It would be cool to see Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and so many other great national parks, but the thought of big summer crowds always keeps me away.
For me, there is still so much to see in the Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and the North Cascades, that I truly feel as if my roots will remain home. The next 25 plus years will be here and I like it that way.
I am at peace in any forest setting with moving water near by. The Gray Wolf River above gave me a chance to sit and marvel at how lucky I am to live here in Washington state.
First afternoon off work because I felt like it...upon arrival...the realization that idle time is a burden set in...the mind wanders...there was only one solution...take a walk with the MKIII and the 100-400mm. After about 15 minutes in the still 85 Deg F heat I was done...my first thoughts on what to call this shoot was "Butterflies & B.S." A Variety of Things Seen.
The Swallowtails were on the Ironweed as was eye too..just throwing poo at the wall...a couple more butterflies.
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Walter C Snyder
You smiled at me
and suddenly
I realized;
until he found
his flower,
the honeybee
did not even begin
to realize
he was a honeybee
at all.
-Tyler Knott Gregson -
.. الغريب .. أنَّ لحظات الإدراك تأتي تعيسة ،،،
Strange .. Moments of realization that comes miserable
.. أسماء ..
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Abdulrahman AL-Dukhaini .. عبدالرحمن الدخيني .
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National parks are touted as America’s best idea. In some sense, they really are a tremendous idea; these are our rare landscape and wilderness jewels, which must be enjoyed and preserved for generations to come. But if one wanders beyond their wanderlust in our parks’ anthropological history, an unsettling realization comes soon: many of these wonderful parks stand on stolen land. For example, what was once Shoshone-Bannock Tribe’s home is today your and mine Yellowstone national park. Yosemite was poached from Miwoks ruthlessly by the Mariposa Battalion, a formal state militia of non-native men, who were largely miners by trade. Glacier National Park was the home of Blackfeet Indians for ages as was the Grand Canyon of Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, and Hualapai tribes. I could go on, but you get the point by now. With the exception of Bear Ears, creation of no other national park was sanctified by formal permission of the land’s original inhabitants. Instead, their blood and tears were abundantly used to ink proclamations for these parks.
The hustle doesn’t end there. The steal comes with a bit of silver-foil wrapping of the stolen product as well. We are told –and most of us innocently believe– that these parks are bastions of wilderness. Are they? Today’s Acadia (where the above photo was made) was the key port of activities for the Wabanaki –“the people of the Dawnland”– long before the pilgrims came and proclaimed the area as pristine land. Similarly, every other national park, often showcased as haven of wilderness, have been lived in by aboriginal Indians for thousands of years before. It’s just that these original land keepers did not construct roads, mines, and dams in their land but shaped it instead with deep reverence. The tribal perspective of ‘take care of the land so the land takes care of you’ left the land sustainable and beautifully wild. Today, to the fool and the uninitiated, such respectfully kept land indeed appears virgin wilderness.
Knowing now what you and I do, what shall we do different from here on? The NPS –to its credit– has made a concerted effort in recent years to include local tribes in maintenance and manifestation of the park idea. Alaskan parks are great models for such inclusivity. Also, the recent appointment of Chuck Sams as the first-ever Native American to head the NPS is an overdue nod towards acknowledging true shepherds of these slices of Eden. However, still a lot remains to be done. More than anything else, we all have a responsibility to undertake –as individuals– when we visit these treasured lands of ours. As one cannot be in the Sistine chapel without thinking of Michelangelo, no one should similarly experience Yosemite or Yellowstone without sparing thoughts for their indigenous keepers and architects. And in doing so, we could reconcile –at least partially and at a personal level– with our inherited sins.
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Background for this post: Recently, I got Rishabh a copy of QT Luong’s epic and much celebrated book on National Parks (Treasured Lands), which QT was kind enough to personally inscribe (made Rishabh ecstatic). While enjoying the beautiful book, I realized how little is spoken in popular platforms about issues highlighted above. Hence, my tiny bit of hope here towards an eventual course correction.
Background for this image: You may remember our busted attempt at witnessing an Acadian sunset from the Cadillac mountain. We went back again a couple of days later, this time to find the clouds rampaging the sky in E minor.
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PS: As an annual tradition now, I have curated ten of my personal favorite 2021 images. If two of your minutes need killing, I could give you ten excuses to do so.
The sudden realization that 'vegan' wasn't a choice on the menu of life!
This owlet was photographed in the wild, non raptor show, non baited, non zoo!
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Un deuxième album consacré à Dusseldorf, si vous le souhaitez, vous pouvez visionner le premier en cliquant sur le lien suivant :
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Neuer Zollhof (le nouveau Zollhof, du nom d'un ancien poste de douane), situé au Neuer Zollhof 2-6, Unterbilk, est un point de repère important de Düsseldorf-Hafen, qui fait partie du port réaménagé de Düsseldorf, en Allemagne.
Dans ce récent « port des Médias », les trois immeubles de bureaux « dansants » de Neuer Zollhof (1998) sont une réalisation de Frank Gehry en collaboration avec BM+P Architekten. Cet ensemble symbolise la renaissance et la force d’innovation de Düsseldorf en tant que place économique.
L’ancien port de Düsseldorf est devenu un centre d’habitations, de commerces, de bureaux, de média et d’arts unique en son genre. Classés monuments historiques, les entrepôts ont été réaménagés grâce à des technologies de pointe. Pour briser l’uniformité, la zone a également été enrichie de bâtisses « design », construites par des architectes renommés. Le soir, le Medienhafen se transforme en lieu branché avec ses bars et ses clubs animés.
Le complexe de bâtiments composé de trois bâtiments distincts a été conçu par l'architecte américain Frank O. Gehry et achevé en 1998. Les plans d'étage et les façades des trois bâtiments se courbent et s'inclinent, ce qui les compare à des tours penchées. Le bâtiment le plus haut mesure 14 étages et un peu moins de 50 m de haut. Chaque bâtiment a un revêtement de façade différent - les deux extérieurs en plâtre blanc et en brique rouge respectivement ; la façade en acier inoxydable du bâtiment central reflète les matériaux et les formes de ses deux bâtiments voisins.
Les bâtiments ont une surface de plancher brute totale de 29 000 mètres carrés. Un précédent concours de conception architecturale pour le site a été remporté par l'architecte irako-britannique Zaha Hadid au début des années 1990, mais jamais commandé.
A second album dedicated to Dusseldorf, if you wish, you can view the first by clicking on the following link:
www.flickr.com/photos/claudiusbinoche/sets/72157626850102...
Neuer Zollhof (the New Zollhof, named after a former customs house), located at Neuer Zollhof 2-6, Unterbilk, is a prominent landmark in Düsseldorf-Hafen, part of the redeveloped Port of Düsseldorf, Germany .
In this recent "port of the Media", the three "dancing" office buildings of Neuer Zollhof (1998) are a realization of Frank Gehry in collaboration with BM+P Architekten. This complex symbolizes Düsseldorf's rebirth and innovative strength as a business location.
The former port of Düsseldorf has become a unique center for housing, commerce, offices, media and the arts. Classified as historical monuments, the warehouses have been refurbished using cutting-edge technologies. To break the uniformity, the area has also been enriched with "design" buildings, built by renowned architects. In the evening, the Medienhafen turns into a trendy place with its lively bars and clubs.
The building complex of three separate buildings was designed by American architect Frank O. Gehry and completed in 1998. The floor plans and facades of the three buildings curve and bow, comparing them to leaning towers. The tallest building is 14 stories tall and just under 50m high. Each building has a different facade cladding – the two exteriors in white plaster and red brick respectively; the stainless steel facade of the central building mirrors the materials and forms of its two neighboring buildings.
The buildings have a total gross floor area of 29,000 square meters. A previous architectural design competition for the site was won by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid in the early 1990s, but never commissioned.
This is the realization of a trip I have been wanting to do for a long time...
A trio of Deseret Power Railway E60Cs departs the Deserado Mine loadout near Dinosaur, CO with the morning loads for the Bonanza Power Plant near Bonanza, UT. The train will take about an hour to cover the 35 miles between the two points on a line with no rail connections.
I suppose the employee in the truck was wondering what I was up to, but when he saw me scrambling to pack up to get to the next location, he smiled and said "better hurry."
Taken from public property.
Apps used: ProCreate, Stripecam, iO Crafter, iColorama, Sketchpad, and Superimpose. "I think you can understand the challenge of what Robert Bresson termed "necessary images," especially as it relates to the reduction of the mystery of faith from the broadest of its dimensions to a human 2D image. I have been wrestling with how to move beyond the confines of the iconic and traditional to explore faith and mystery in visual terms that make it intriguing, appealing, and approachable. I suppose it will always be a journey and never a destination"
Frannie was a year behind me in High School. She was so cute and vivacious. She still is...
It's wonderful that we are still friends...
Photographed in the Self-Realization Meditation Garden. It is a cliff top garden high above the Pacific Ocean 🌊 in Encinitas California - Cardiff By The Sea
a realization that there really isn't much difference between a hide or a skin, except for a splash of color.
captured in palma de mallorca, this photo depicts the silhouette of a man deep in thought, with the shadow of a street lamp cast above him. in german, there is a saying "ein licht geht auf," which means "a light goes on" when someone finds a solution or understands something. the interplay of light and shadow in this image beautifully symbolizes the moment of realization and clarity.
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LORN - All Corrupt Everything
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always remember - † Forever Lasts The Longest †
if you believe in me i will love you endlessly
the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
the heart-shaped nucleus in the white blood cell shows that it is a young monocyte cell.
Peregrine Falcon
- New Jersey
With colder temperatures at night, comes a realization that the Summer is ending. There is always something to look forward to though. That beautiful Northeastern foliage🍁😍
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. - Anon
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George E. Woodberry
Unless you do something beyond what you’ve already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborne
The harder the struggle the more glorious the triumph.
Self-realization demands very great struggle. -
Swami Sivananda
Don't cry over the past, it's gone. Don't sress about the future, it hasn't arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful. -
Anon
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. -
Ann Landers
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali
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Another perspective on the Self-Realization Fellowship. Notice the swans - apparently the symbol of the founder, Paramahansa Yogananda. Shot with Sony RX100.
What will happen when the storytellers emerge?...They will sing our epic of being, and stirring up from our roots will be a vast awe, an enduring gratitude, the astonishment of communion experiences, and the realization of the cosmic adventure.
---Brian Swimme
We're Here! : Witches! (because there's a little witch in every woman)
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Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Rijnhaven, Steenbok, Kop van Zuid, Postumalaan (slightly cut from L&B)
The Boskalis Steenbok Sproeiponton (Spray pontoon) busy with the filling in of the Rijnhaven. The sand slurry is pumped to the pontoon thru the floating pipes on display. The pontoon is positioned with four winches and cables. They are operated by the driver to steer the pontoon in the desired direction.
The Rijnhaven will be partly (30%) filled in to enable the realization of, amongst others, an office/apartment building strip with up to 200m high towers called the 'Skyline Posthumalaan' with an adjacent park and city beach. And there will be the floating Rijnhavenpark, too.
Shot from Katendrecht.
This is number 13 of Rijnhaven - the redevelopment and 361 of Rotterdam harbour and industry.
*:-.,_,.-:*'``'* NEW REALIZATION *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
"Rainer Maria Rilke"
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WIDE ANGLE - MINIMALISM is the Topic for Friday 28th October 2011
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Suizen (吹禅) (“blowing Zen”) is a Zen practice consisting of playing the traditional Japanese shakuhachi bamboo flute as a means of attaining self-realization.[1] Suizen was traditionally practised by the Komusō (“monks of emptiness”), the Zen Buddhist monks of the Fuke sect of Japan who flourished during the Edo period (1600 to 1868).
Instrumental music is rare in all Buddhist practice where instruments usually accompany ritual chants if they are used at all. With suizen, the playing of the shakuhachi as a spiritual exercise is at the core of the religious practice, making it unique in the world of Buddhism.[2][3]
The practice of suizen may be understood in the context of both ancient Buddhist and Chinese classics which exerted a profound influence on Japanese music, which used awareness of sound as a medium of enlightenment.[1]
Breath is also of fundamental significance as the standard practice of sitting Zen meditation (zazen) and so there is a natural link between zazen and suizen. The type of breathing technique required varies from school to school within suizen.[4]
The concept of ichi on jo butsu – the attainment of enlightenment through a single note – became an important aspect of the Fuke sect’s ‘blowing Zen’ as it developed in later periods.[5] The sound produced by the instrument, which was taught along strict and traditional lines in the suizen schools, is not considered important. It is the practice of blowing which leads to enlightenment.
I'm too sick to go out and shoot today, but here's a photo from when I was in LA - this is the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine, in the hills of the Palisades. Shot with Sony a6000 and 55-210mm lens.
There is a peculiar and bittersweet sadness when flowers die, their beauty no longer borne in bright colored petals but in the realization at that very moment their life was sacrificed for ours.
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#treasure #nikon moment of the day #dragonfly ...rarely can I get these shots, especially #babywearing I truly see that moment as a judgment of #selfawareness and I #passed !! :) #blue #green #macro #bokeh #combo