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"Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control." Steven Pinker
Dave: Bruno, are you stealing from Santa?
Bruno: Not so much stealing as taking advantage of priority access.
Dave: Really? Getting into presents before Christmas is now called priority access?
Bruno: Yup. I'm all about priority access. You have to remember that I'm pretty big in the Playmobil world.
Dave: Figuratively or literally?
Bruno: Likely both. I'm big compared to the figures.
Dave: True that.
Bruno: And seriously, how are these not meant for me? They're Toblerbones!
Dave: I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Toblerone.
Bruno: Nope. Toblerone is made of chocolate so I'm not allowed to eat it. These treats are shaped the same so I'm dubbing the "Toblerbones".
Dave: Well done on the rebranding. But, can you exert a little self control and not steal the treats directly from the sleigh?
Bruno: Um, Dave?
Dave: Yes?
Bruno: This is self control for me. I haven't eaten Santa yet.
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A little pre-Christmas fun with Playmobil. We were cleaning up the basement the other day and stumbled on this set. I immediately knew it would be part of Bruno's 52 weeks shot. This continues the series of Playmobil shots from previous years which will be linked in the comments.
St. Paul's description of how the Holy Spirit works in the life of the believer, bringing out unselfish love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness and self-control (meekness and temperance in some translations). I need divine help in showing all of these. Taken from Galatians 5:22-23, World English Bible, public domain.
Thanks for looking.
I confess,
My dream’s desire,
Wanting your caress,
You to be my temptress,
Enchantress of heart,
My dream’s desire,
To give you no rest,
Having all of you, no less,
Your fingertips graze my lips,
Self-control you test,
My wanting you.
-Searich
Doesn't mist lend an air of mystery. I wonder if the word mystery is somehow associated with mist. I know as photographers that we all love it and yet it can be the most frustrating of conditions to get an image that does the conditions justice. Some days an image just falls into place, others.... well lets just say the little hair that I have left could easily be lost if I didn't exert the utmost of self control. Thankfully this image was one of the latter. Thanks for viewing my friends and please have a great week ahead.
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South Cape May Meadows, Cape May, New Jersey, USA
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Nikon D500 camera with Nikon 500mm f5.6 E PF lens
1/2000 f5.6 ISO 640
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23
Most of my trips to Venice generally begin and end in the same spot which is right near the lifeguard headquarters. I usually stay away from the pier because I like it better when I have the choice to get the full pier in frame, the deep reflections on the flat shoreline or the sunset towards Santa Monica without moving. This particular location affords me all 3 options with a simple change in direction. Since most of the shooting here came in the winter when light was at a premium, I didn't want to waste time moving from one place to the next since the sky has always been the main attraction anyway.
Each time I visit, I cross the side streets past the last row of expensive eclectic homes that line up against the boardwalk and head straight towards the Pacific Ocean. I admire these homes in passing and sometimes wonder if the view and location were worth the constant parade of (often weird) people walking by but that's generally been the extent of my interest. The tide on the 2 most recent visits was considerably lower than this past winter and the shoreline itself appeared to be at least 40ft wider, giving me a greater access to full frame reflections and a closer setup. Since Venice beach clears out immediately after the sunset, I often will turn to just check and see if I'm the only one left, particularly if it's after dark and and my back is to the beach. I don't need menacing clown with a machete or worse--a mime--sneaking up behind me with all noise washed out by the sea.
I initially set up my tripod about 25ft further towards the ocean than I used to which was a nice for the sunset reflections but when I turned to check my surroundings, I was pretty surprised by the sight in front of me. The dark blue sky and everything beneath it was fully reflected in front of me and it was hard to believe I never noticed this in previous visits. Of course I was much further back this time and the shore had about twice as much surface area as it did in January and February. There was almost no wind and the only light was coming from the homes and just above them so I figured I'd experiment with some long exposure panoramas.
Due to the darkness, I had to play around with shutter speed and aperture to find a time that would suck in enough ambient light to make the scene and details visible. I didn't want the open bulb but also didn't want the colors in the sky to be off or different when trying to merge the panorama later. I know panoramas generally aren't shot below f/8 or horizontally at 18mm but these settings seemed to turn out better than the others i tried and I wanted the 18mm view. I shot this in 5 or 6 total frames with maybe 25% overlap and adjusted focus only on the row of houses. My thought process was to try and capture from the lifeguard headquarters to the very base of Venice Pier and then crop down the sides where necessary if there's any distortion from my positioning or if any parts of the image weren't as clean as I'd like. I probably would've benefitted from being maybe 200ft to the right of this but I ended up choosing the 3 middle images as my panorama.
I'm still trying hard to practice and learn each time I go out, even if it's a style I otherwise never expected to be interested in. Reflections were never much of a consideration because I rarely went to places that offered that option. Panoramas though were never something I expected to enjoy or become interested in. The desire to create a more full frame image than my 18mm wide angle lens and crop sensor camera can afford me was the main reason I started trying this and I'm getting more comfortable with technique each time out. I've been sacrificing long exposures in favor of reflections and panoramas but right now it seems to be the most efficient use of my time. Apparently I do have some self control when it comes to slapping the 10 stop ND filter on after all :)
▪️WHEN & WHERE▪️
•Venice Beach/Boardwalk
•Venice, California
•September 19th, 2016
▪️SETTINGS▪️
•Canon T4i
•EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
•3 shot panorama
•@18mm
•ISO 100
•f/3.5
•5 seconds
Temperance/Temperantia: The opposing virtue to the sin of Gluttony, commonly
refered to as self-control.
"Teeter," an eight week old female Vizsla puppy learning self-control.
Future Grand Champion and Master Hunter... with a little help from her friend.
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Pennypack Trust, Huntingdon Valley, PA. USA
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Nikon D500 camera with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens, 1.4 converter and fill flash
1/1250 F8 ISO 640
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age...
—Titus 2:11-12
Got no self control
And I don't mean cigarettes and alcohol
'Cause when it comes to you I can't say no
I don't wanna taste, I want it all
EXPLORE: Jan 27, 2009 #497
You’re supposed to come back from your summer vacation in better shape than when you left, right? Well, I haven’t always. Sometimes I’ve come back more tired than when I left because I tried to pack so much in. Some people come back from vacations in pain from a sunburn, from physically overdoing it, or they come back broke from spending too much, or with lifetime regrets, or very far from God.
I’m Ron Hutchcraft and you know it can happen in summer, or any time when your guard is down, or you’re away from people who know you, or you have more time on your hands. It’s called a spiritual vacation. It turns into a vacation from God, and maybe losing a life that matters. The most expensive vacation you’ll ever take because your enemy, the devil, never takes a vacation.
Neither does the law that says, “Whatever you sow, you reap” (Galatians 6:7). In the summer, maybe more than any other time, keep these words from the Bible always in front of you, “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Resist him” (1 Peter 5:8-9). On one night of carelessness, one night of spiritual vacation King David made a moral mistake that scarred the rest of his life. Whatever the thrill, it is not worth the bill.
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"Self Control" Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery.
You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life.
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... to fight my inner demons...
( Photo Contest submission )
"Crawling in my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real
There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming, confusing
This lack of self control I fear is never ending
Controlling
I can't seem
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(Without a sense of confidence I'm convinced
That there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure.. "
- LINKIN PARK -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9OhYroLN0
Taken at Eternal Beach
Welcome to my secret den
Nobody will ever stop the Anten-Man
My biggest weapon is a giant Antenna
I am tougher than Richard fucking Crenna
I am living in a Zadar county
Life is here sweet like a Bounty
Ugljan is a magnificent island
Surely more picturesque than a Rhineland
With mass media I control you all
Yes you too lousy asshole
Thanks to my TV channels I have a million eyes
Every day I serve you a bunch of disgusting lies
Father of Mass Communication was Johannes Gutenberg
Kings of mass manipulation are me and Mark Zuckerberg
P.s. You can just kiss my fat ass.
Wacky Chucky: “P.P.S. Only my brilliant mind can write something like this
Big greetings for Tiffany who is resting in the resort
In the land of the money AKA sunny Suisse.”
Yasha Jakovsky: “Special thanks to my friend Colonel Rade for the technical support.”
Chucky recommend you song from Girlschool - I spy (feat. Dio on vocals).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyfT91VMEmc
I recommend you a chilling song from Laura Branigan - Self Control.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HInA9jKyoKE
* Anten-Man is character in hilarious Italian comic book Alan Ford.
* Johannes Gutenberg - German craftsman and inventor in 15th century who originated a method of printing from movable type.
* Richard Crenna was an actor. He is famous for acting in Rambo movies as Colonel Trautman.
* Photo was explored on Flickr, place 189 / 500.
A beautiful woman that can go out and then come home alone and lay in bed alone, is a woman with standards and self control.
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"There's always a wild side to an innocent face." -Unknown
This cat was stalking something in the grass like she was a tiger! Then she looked back at me with this intent gaze. There is a bit of a wild side to her. I want to capture some of my wild side in my retirement years. I have had to practice such self control in everything I said or did with work. I will still be polite....but I will also let myself be freer.
I'm losing my self control
Yeah, you’re starting to trickle back in
But I don't wanna fall down the rabbit hole
Cross my heart, I won't do it again
I tell myself, tell myself, tell myself, "Draw the line"
And I do, I do
But once in a while, I trip up, and I cross the line
And I think of you
Two years, and just like that
My head still takes me back
Thought it was done, but I
Guess it’s never really over
Oh, we were such a mess
But wasn't it the best?
Thought it was done, but I
Guess it's never really over...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEb5gNsmGJ8
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Model - Thanks to my friend DK for posing with me
Venue Credits - Weed Rentals
Photographer - Charlotte Faye ♥
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Angel of the Black Stump
Not knowing their prevalence.
But forever experiencing great pain, loss, and crisis.
Our challenges.
Our recovery.
To deny.
To repress.
Living with disturbance.
And the failure to reach personal goals,
and to self-control unwanted thoughts.
The flames that take us beyond ourselves.
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Now come on, don’t get excited, I’m not talking about ‘alternative’* practices, I’m talking about the 3 celebrity lone trees; Llyn Padarn, Malham and Buttermeres' ‘Seen better days’.
I shot the lone tree at Llyn Padarn last year and had a very interesting dialogue with it. If you wish to waste 5 minutes of your life, please have a read.
I have not visited Malham since I did a Geography Field Trip 32 years ago. It may have been more than 32 years however my work duties only require me to count to 32 and that’s on a good day, so it may well be a little longer.
At that time, I couldn’t care less about a lone tree, I was more interested in the goodies in the lunch box and laughing at silly names like ‘clints and grykes’, come to think of it I probably still laugh at those names. Sadly, I fear that one day adulthood will thrust itself upon me.
So, I made a trip to Buttermere whilst in the Lakes and promised myself I was not going to shoot this tree again. I walked along the lakeside heading for a waterfall, all the time, shielding my face from the tree and getting some odd, questioning looks from a couple of dog walkers. My anonymity was safe however, my face concealed by the balaclava; it was a very cold day!
However, it’s official, I have absolutely no self-control!
She has this mesmerising effect that draws you to her and will just not let you go, and I just had to take one more shot of her. So here is my latest version of this iconic tree. It has lost another major branch since I was last here and I’m sure it withers just a little more with every click of the shutter.
The music for today will be familiar to everyone as it’s the theme from the brilliant Peaky Blinders. My daughter has a thing about Cillian Murphy which is quite worrisome, even more worrisome, and I dare not tell her, but secretly………………….!
*other adjectives may be inserted here.
Great German Shepherds K2 & Kennedy Self Control Watching Neighbor Running Past With Her Dog! - IMRAN™
(My 147th Flickr Explore!)
I had walked the dogs to the empty lot nearby early today. It was a stunning and serene morning on Tampa Bay, Florida.
Kennedy (further from camera) and K2, my great German Shepherds, turned from the beach when they sensed something. I turned and saw a neighbor jogging with her dog going past the lot and my blessed home.
Both my dogs showed such great self-control while being very interested in others going through “our space”. Both of them sat alert, waiting, knowing that the runner & dog would pass by us again after turning back at the cul de sac.
Only after the “visitors” departed did these two move and resume their normal beach play. What a smart breed German Shepherds are! Enjoy the picture in 3D at www.facebook.com/100063547631173/posts/pfbid02b5ZQfZkGB2d...
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I don’t collect many things but I have long held a peculiar attraction to boxes. I particularly like unsophisticated carved wooden ones. These days I am not allowed to acquire more because of lack of space (though I do slip the odd one in under the radar every few years - Shhhh, don’t tell now...).
This box was hand-crafted in India and bought from a fair trade charity. It is of particular significance to me because it was an essential part of a parenting experiment that we did.
When my daughter was young we didn’t give her any pocket money. Instead, we had this box which was alway kept topped up with coins. She could take whatever she liked from it and spend it on what she wanted, though the agreement was that she would put any change from her purchase at the shop back in the box.
We did this because we hoped create a learning experience for her. In our society money is immensely important and I have always felt that being able to budget and manage money is essential for a young person to learn. Self-control in spending money is an important lesson too.
And values are particularly important as the ones we hold largely determine what we do with our lives and the impact we have on others. So we wanted to stop money being a control issue and an addictively desirable object for acquisition.
And the sorts of values we wanted to instil were ones like money only has value when you spend it and that it is meant to be useful or enjoyable, it’s for sharing, it’s a responsibility to be stewarded wisely, that the value of a person is not measured by their wealth but by the quality of their character (to borrow some famous words) and their integrity, that contentment is a better aim in life than success, that financial security does not mean having lots of money but that your income exceeds your expenditure, and, finally, that there is a tremendous amount of fun to be had in giving money away.
And with that rather lofty aim, we could only fail.
Except we didn’t. But I suspect that was more to do with our daughter’s personality (which parents don’t really control) rather than our experiment.
So that’s the story of this particular box. It’s still in use today as a change store, but in these days of contactless pandemics even that is on the decline.
I wasn’t feeling very imaginative today so you have a straight-down shot of the lid. I did try some other viewpoints but nothing was working. To add a bit of interest I used a lighting filter in the processing to add two lights top left and bottom right.
This is for the Smile on Saturday theme Money Box
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday :)