This is a close-up photo of a small plant backlit by the evening sun at Port Maitland Beach.

Striving for that perfect black and white flower shot, whatever that might be.

I am not a "flower photographer", but I do enjoy the challenge of getting a good flower shot. And while I don’t always know what kind of flower I am shooting, on a good day, I can usually tell a rose from a daisy.

Tra due individui, l'armonia non è mai scontata, deve essere continuamente conquistata.

Simone de Beauvoir

Due steli di ninfea si appoggiano l'uno all'altro quasi a volersi sostenere in un punto in cui lo stagno riflette il cielo

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What our senses are after is sense. The goal of all our striving is meaning. Only in sense, in meaning, do our restless hearts come to rest. The end and aim of all our endeavors is also the goal of every ascetical practice. We need asceticism, because our senses do not automatically yield to sense. When we deal with living reality, nothing is ever automatic. Life demands what no machine can give: courage. Unfolding life is an organic whole with death. To live means to die with every heartbeat and to be born anew, to breathe out with every breath what is old and to breathe in what is new. This demands courage to let go. Growing is dying into greater aliveness.

-A Listening Heart, The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness, Brother David Steindl-Rast

Look familiar? I've been working on my masking techniques in Photoshop to create better composites. I'm striving to make my composites appear like in camera originals. It's a bit challenging but I believe I'm making some progress. Thanks for viewing.

Looking close... on Friday! theme : Flowers in Unexpected Places

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My entire philosophy when it comes to railroad photography, is that I strive to shoot both the old and the new, pretty and ugly. As I’ve spent more and more time in this hobby, I’ve watched as things change and evolve. Older power slips off the Class Is and Shortlines get the scraps. Every shot, to me, is a record of what once was, what still is, and what will be. While I’m not too big of a fan of the paint scheme given to this unit, knowing it was leading its first ever train with this livery, I decided to drive the five hours out here and chase. I might not like how it looks, but in twenty years when this thing is rotting away in a scrapyard, I can proudly tell people I was the first person to shoot it in daylight.

Sometimes striving for perfection is the LAST thing we want.

In The Wyre Forest.

... For The Love of Bread

Fin da quando ero bambino, avevo letto delle Nubi di Magellano... due piccole galassie satelliti della nostra Via Lattea, visibili solo dall'emisfero australe come due macchie bianche nel cielo...

Osservare le nubi di Magellano è stato uno dei motivi che mi hanno fatto scegliere la meta dell'isola de La Rèunion... e devo dire che la loro visione (le vedete qui a destra nella foto come due macchie, una sopra l'altra), mi ha riempito di commozione e meraviglia..

Buona serata

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Fence with a tree bokeh 😊

Leith Hall in the summertime with a heat haze..

Shot with the Meyer-Optik Orestor 135mm f/2.8 lens

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My Fence Friday photos set: Here

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Striving for that "perfect" black and white flower shot, whatever that might be.

The process of mountain-building caught in motion using a fast shutter speed.

“Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.”PROPHET MOHAMMAD (ﷺ)

September 26-October 2, 2010

Hello, are you still chasing

The memories in shadows

Some stay young, some grow old

Come alive, there are thoughts unclear

You can never hide

I dare you- Shinedown

I don't know why, but those lyrics came to my mind when I uploaded this. From some odd reason, those lyrics are someway connected to the song and to the photo, even though there isn't much connection shown. It's hard to explain. Hard to put into words. But something amazing happened on week eleven. Something which change my perspective on reaching the immpossible. On striving for for something unreachable. But on week eleven, I truly understood the quote; Impossible says I m possible" . Goals can be reached. They can.

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My adorable cousin is posing for me here. ( thought I should mention that.) And please press "L".

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...strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

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Hydrocotyle ranunculoides L.f.

I strive to get shots full frame. It's not always possible when the birds are too far away. I hope you know what I mean.

Forster's tern

Sterna forsteri

Member of Nature’s Spirit

Good Stewards of Nature

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(Nod the new remake of James Clavell's - Shogun, with Hiroyuki Sanada as Producer and Star)

Taken during one off my 1on1 workshops at antwerp.

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Finally got this piece mounted and framed and hanging on my wall ready for a group exhibition throughout July at Leicester Adult Education College.

'Striving forms' - resist-dyed and collaged paper - 91cm x 135cm -

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Still striving for the ideal Swallow in flight shot - getting closer! Frankley Worcestershire UK - 16-05-23

So much of life is about striving, reaching for something.

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Waking up to another wet, foggy day in Toronto. Best seen large by clicking on the photo. Have a great as t week everyone!

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Natchez Trace, near Nashville, Tennessee

Horseshoe Falls, Tasmania.

I am always striving to improve my processing skills, so it was with pleasure that I've started working through the 7.5 hours of the Lightroom RAW Processing Video recently put together and released by Mark Metternich as Ultimate Lightroom RAW. Mark is not only incredibly skilled as an artist, and filled with more knowledge than I can imagine, he is also a great teacher, able to take things step by step to enable understanding and ease of learning.

So for the processing of this image, I thank Mark.

For the execution, i thank my waders, and a little luck with the sun god.

Nikon D810, Nikkor 14-24mm, f/2.8 @ 14mm.

3 exposures hand blended for focus/depth of field and water motion.

1.6s, 1.0s. 0.5s, f/11, ISO 100

Always striving to go places not many others have is one of my constant goals when it comes to railfanning. I don't see any fun in going to the places that hundreds of unoriginal, boring sheep have milked dry to oblivion such as the iron range, LS&I, Trona, or the Columbia River gorge. On my recent fully self-funded trip (springowski could never), I wanted to explore the deep south and its plethora of rarely documented shortlines, as well as some actually enjoyable class 1 action that the two eastern roads can't provide. Among my main targets was Alabama and Gulf Coast and their newly acquired fleet of GEs. One of those, ex Conrail C40-8W #4055, recieved G&W's 125th anniversary heritage paint. I thankfully timed my trip while it was being used on the turn job from Columbus, Mississippi to Boligee, Alabama and back. Here it is paired with a Columbus and Greenville SD40 as they build their train to head south. This is seriously one of the best looking engines I've ever seen. Hats off to G&W for doing this shit. The train would wait a few minutes as Golden Traingle would depart in front of them, and they themselves would make Watco's Alabama Southern wait at their diamond in the southern part of town. Columbus is an extremely underrated little railroad hotspot with 4 different shortlines and 2 class 1s running locals to town. More deep south content is to come.

He always seems that real life is about to begin but every time there was a ordeal to overcome an obstacle in the way must be passed, the work to be done, religion must be paid, and time must be spent, so life begins, but I finally came to understand that these things were Life is

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Han ser alltid ut til at virkeligheten er i ferd med å begynne, men hver gang det var en prøvelse for å overvinne et hinder i veien må passeres, arbeidet som skal gjøres, religion må betales, og tid må tilbringes, så livet begynner, men livet begynner, men Jeg kom endelig til å forstå at disse tingene var livet er

Spring in Sherwood Forest

Airship

“All strive for victory. But not all understand what it truly is. To a soldier or pilot on the line, victory is surviving the current battle. To a politician, victory is an advantage one can bring to a bargaining table. To a warrior, victory is driving an enemy from the field of battle, or bringing him to surrender.

Sometimes victory is greater than the warrior could ever hope for. Sometimes it is more than he is able to hear.”

- Thrawn

It all started almost two months ago with an idea. Make something for May 4th (I’m late, I know, but cut me some slack). Me and Jan, the Creator are both big fans of the Imperial architecture seen in the Star Wars universe and wanted to do something large in size. After some hours of researching, looking through many concept arts and designs, the plans were put together and we set out to build our creations.

~ Platform ~

The starting point for me here was the platform on which the custom Tie Fighter (designed by Jerac) and many minifigs are standing on. One piece of concept art / Imperial structure we found was a large landing platform on Kashyyyk. To get the shaping right, a combination of corner slopes, hinges and many larger tiles were used to get the look. Since the surrounding area was to be terrain, I went with Dark Orange as the color for the ground. I purposefully left this area more flat and basic to leave attention towards the base. I also wanted a small area below the platform to store speeders which also helps break up the bottom area, giving it some action.

~ Base ~

The base itself was built in two main sections and some medium sized segments at the top. Walls here uses various tiles in LBG and DBG to form this Imperial architecture design. Was quite a challenge later on with the lack of tiles in certain areas so I had to get creative in how I would spread them. Instead of just using regular tile, I also made use of sandwhich tiles, corner faucet cut tiles and some snot to built up this area. Lots of other elements were used for detail including some DBG frames that I attached to tiles to create this column in the middle wall. The key thing while working on this was to keep a balance of simplicity and detail, something that can get lost while working on a larger creation. As we get to the top, you can see more detail and extras, like crates and dishes that populate this area.

~ Minifigs ~

The last thing I want to discuss is the minifigs used throughout the build. The Imperial selection of officers, troopers and crew is very extensive so once again, keeping a balance was important. Me and Jan wanted to include characters like Grand Admiral Thrawn and Moff Tarkin to give these creations a bit more purpose. Perhaps they’re here to inspect something new, here for a strategy session, the point is these two give a presence, even with being two small minifigs. The Death Troopers additionally work well to complement those, giving you once again the feeling that there are things at work here.

Thank you to CTR Bricks for helping edit the picture.

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A tree, struggling for life by the look of it, adds a bit of contrast to the Mountains of the Coulin Forest as seen from the road through Glen Torridon, the northern face of Maol Chean-dearg prominent in the middle of the picture.

The small dark green tree certainly got it!