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Photo captured from the Humboldt Lagoon State Park Visitor Center at Stone Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Late August 2013.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Be the spark.
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For Me Again Monday - self reflection
in the past when i used to do alot of selfies they always symbolized being loved or being wanting. fear or never being loved of accepted has always been in the back of my mind, something in my past i never healed from. It seems i have returned back to this theme. As i am getting older and i wonder why i am still alone, I am a very independent person and i have never really needed someone to be there but it would be nice to have someone. maybe my time just isnt there yet. as most o my friends are married and have kids and have a stable life. here i am still wondering the what if.
I may again start to make this some what a dairy of my thoughts and dreams, i know when i had my heart on fire account (which i never should have deleted) it seemed to helo tremendously.
so that being said be prepared for more selfies and lots of writings :)
Photo of the Rockefeller Forest Loop Trail at Rockefeller Forest: Lower Bull Creek Flat, captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens within Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Humboldt County. Late December 2013.
A reflection that is not just an image, but a presence.
Within a perfect surface, the world bends, closes in, and returns what is looking at it.
The observer becomes part of the scene, dissolving the boundary between outside and inside.
Light, full and absolute, does not illuminate—it reveals.
Un riflesso che non è solo immagine, ma presenza.
Dentro una superficie perfetta il mondo si curva, si chiude, e restituisce ciò che guarda.
L’osservatore diventa parte della scena, dissolvendo il confine tra fuori e dentro.
La luce, piena e assoluta, non illumina: rivela.
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Lightbox this with L!
The icons are whispering to you,
they're just old men,
like on the benches in the park,
except their balding spots are glistening with gold.
- from "Human of the Year" by Regina Spektor
Today I went out to the backyard/woods to shoot and my cat Albus followed me down. The entire time I was shooting he ran through the grass, under my tripod, and between my legs. So, I finally decided to pick him up and shoot with him. He's in some of my past photos here. He's such a sweet and affectionate boy. You can see him trying to play in my arms. :)
As soon as I got inside though, it started to pour.
This looks kinda silly, I think, but it has a serious meaning. This really is meant to represent the need we all have to reflect on who we are where we are going in our lives. The discarded mirrors littering the ground amidst the dying grass signifies discarded personas we may have once held up.
ETA: I couldn't get the colors right though on the mirrors in the grass. Alas.
Photo captured on Avenue of the Giants near post-mile marker 18.59 in the census-designated place of Weott. Humboldt County. Mid July 2013.
Photo of Big Lagoon looking west (where the Pacific Ocean and lagoon are separated by a thin strip of land at the water horizon, and where the is on the other side of the water horizon) captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens and ND-8 filter in the census-designated place of Big Lagoon. Humboldt County. Early December 2013.
Photo of a redwood grove at Rockefeller Forest: Lower Bull Creek Flat captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens within Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Humboldt County. Late November 2013.
Photo captured along the beach at Dry Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Hello Flickr!!!!!! I hope you have been doing well! I have been super busy and the coming month or so is going to be even more full. I just wanted to stop in to say hi and that I miss hanging out here with you!! This was taken over the weekend at Bristol Renaissance Faire (was there for the second time this summer). It was a fun day there on Sunday after a fantastic day spent hiking and canoeing on Saturday.
Only two more days until the holiday weekend! Enjoy the downhill slide!!
The rules change at 40 piersey.com/hormones-humbled-me-at-40/ Hormones shift. Cravings get weird. Stress lands heavier. This post breaks down how I stopped fighting it and finally built a lifestyle that made sense for this season of life.
I was in the Loop yesterday for a traffic safety class (cough, cough...speeding ticket) and I stopped for a quick bite to eat at a favorite vegan restaurant that happened to be right next door. As soon as I ordered, it started raining hard, so I was glad to have been inside. It stopped by the time I was finished and I decided to walk over to the Calder Flamingo before heading back to my car. I wished I had been like my friend, Seth, and had a bottle of water with me to make a better puddle and get more reflection. ;)
Instead of a Christmas tree... On New Year's Eve, I want to congratulate everyone with this photo.
Bellow I wrote a short (actually not...) congratulation for everybody in Russian. It would be quite hard for me to make it in English with all meaning I want to share, so feel free to use translation services you prefer to get the ideas...
Искренне желаю всем (в том числе и себе) плодотворного нового года. Для тех, кто использует празднование нового года в качестве точки отсчета, желаю преуспеть в том, чтобы всегда и везде фокусироваться на том, на что можно повлиять, как-то изменить. Остальным же желаю получить прекрасные плоды вашего труда (в том числе и над собой). Пусть всё, что вы посадили в этом году, во всех предыдущих годах прорастет в этом году и даст свои плоды. Но также желаю вам помнить о том, что нужно ещё и регулярно поливать и ухаживать за растениями… Желаю всем принятия того, что вы можете повлиять лишь на малую часть от того, что вас окружает. И вдохновения для того, чтобы продолжать свой путь, продолжать сотворять свою жизнь, делать ваш внутренний и окружающий мир лучше, добрее, наполнять радостью. Пусть всё способствует вашему росту и слиянию с Природой, своим чистым Сознанием.
В эти дни непременно стоит отметить для себя и поблагодарить себе и окружающему миру за все пройденные уроки, приобретения, провалы, ошибки. За то, что ни смотря ни на что мы продолжаем наше космическое путешествие. А если нам до сих пор трудно понять кто мы такие и что мы делаем в этом мире - то это повод начать предпринимать маленькие, пусть даже крошечные действия… Стоит фокусироваться на действиях, а потом уже на размышлениях или рефлексии…
Пусть в Новом году будут только благостные последствия наших действий (или бездействия). Пусть окружающие вас люди и обстоятельства всячески помогают вам, а вы в свою очередь инвестируйте в них. Что стоит наша жизнь, если в ней отсутствуют другие люди?…
Мира, Гармонии и Целостности в Новом году!
Happy Holidays everyone!
1) I’m a night owl...rarely go to bed before midnight and rarely get up before 8 a.m.
2) I love the experience of reading - not just the feel, texture, smell but losing myself in the lives of other people - real or fiction. Recently got a Kindle and love the instant gratification - maybe more than the feel, texture, smell.....hmmmm....wonder what that says about me...
3) I must nurture my creative side or I get cranky...photography, scrapbooks, music all quiet my soul.
4) I like a house that’s clean...enough.
5) I’m developing my own style of photography and I’m slowly accepting that it is what it is.
6) I would like to be remembered as.....well, I’m not sure.....I just don’t want to be forgotten.
7) I’m pretty computer literate for a gal my age.
8) If weight weren’t an issue, I’d eat chocolate ice cream every day.
9) I’m not a loner, but I do need my alone time...solitude and reflection ground me.
10) Without my faith or my family, I would be a mess!
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Our Daily Challenge: Framed
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Beyond Layers Day 13: Ten Truths About Me with Kim Klassen's happy heart texture
What do we see in art but ourselves?
View On Black - Part of a triptych - Larger than life and The fountain of inspiration can be found here.
And yet routinization is like spiritual poison: “This is the tragedy of every man: ‘to dim all wonder by indifference.’ Life is routine, and routine is resistance to the wonder.”13 One of the crucial tasks of religion, Heschel therefore insists, is to struggle against the anesthetizing effects of our over-familiarization with life and reality, and to instill in us a sense of “perpetual surprise,”
-Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence by Shai Held
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“ideological fervour is a distraction from the fundamental task of all seekers of truth which is to explore what lies in the complex and needy hearts of human beings – our own first”
-Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed by Patrick Woodhouse
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Behind the Mask
Behind white beams I do hide
Within shadows will be a gaze
Never shall I step in front of the mask
To render a deeper truth
Reserved is this inner I
Spiritual flesh protected from tear
Securely, I have stepped back
Exposure held behind this concrete
Peering out I do perceive
Powers waiting beyond sight
Quietly, I turn my head
Where a vast desert invites
Am I torn between these worlds?
Preferred is this inward landscape
-Robert Cowlishaw
Photo of Luffenholtz Beach captured via Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D AF Nikkor lens (~f/8) in the census-designated place of Westhaven-Moonstone via Scenic Drive, County Road 4M310. Humboldt County. Mid August 2013.
Photo captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens from Samoa Beach in the census-designated place of Samoa. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
shot for Renato's challenge introspective/meditative/contemplative over at the clobal camel committee.
strobist info.
main photo: one flash to the right through 80cm umbrella, another on the left through mini softbox.
framed photo: single flash subject left, throug grid. used the umbrella from the main shot to reflect a bit of light to the dark side of my face. Both shots combined in PSE 8.
Photo of Mount Lassen captured at Lake Manzanita--Lassen Volcanic National Park via the HDR method of photography. Shasta County. Late October 2012.
Sure I believe in all the right things. I even try to do the right things. But really now. Is it real? Is my heart into it? How many times a day do I say to myself, "that wasn't how it is supposed to be?" I don't try to be a saint. I just wish I could really be me!
There is a story about a saintly Rabbi who lived about 300 years ago, Rabbi Zushia of Anipoli. He was very very modest and humble. He would say, "When Zushia goes to the heavenly court, they won't ask why you were not like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or Moses. They will ask why you were not Zushia!"
Most people, cameras in hand, capture endless photos the exact moment when the sun lowers on the horizon. Unfortunately, those people simply leave and end their moment on capturing that quintessential sunset. However, the moment after the sun sets is truly when the magic happens. An array of colors burst out of the ether as if the heavens above express the amount of love and positive vibrations they have for us earthlings. Enjoy each and every moment of a sunset and your life, not just the highlights. Photo captured from the Humboldt Lagoon State Park Visitor Center at Stone Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Late August 2013.
I have been reviewing some Vietnam scans and came on this one which I never bothered with before because it was kind of ordinary. Until I realized it might be an accidental selfie. (A word that did not exist in 1967) If you look closely at the very right of the frame you can see me, reflected in the window.
from time to time one cannot resist, especially when being surrounded by such superbe piece of architecture :)
Photo of McWay Falls at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park captured via the HDR method of photography in Big Sur. Monterey County. Big Sur. Late January 2013.