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Photo captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens from the Woodley Island Marina on Humboldt's waterfront. City of Eureka. Humboldt County. Late October 2013.
What beliefs are you hanging onto that are weighing you down?
One of the most beautiful parts of creativity IS the ability TO CREATE. Creativity is not bound to something or limited by something. It is free, ever changing, ever growing. Only you can set the boundaries of how far you wish to explore your creativity. Some choose a smaller piece to work from and grow to be amazing at their craft. Others will have no bounds and be forever curious as to what their imagination can create.
My art is entering a very exciting period of freedom. This freedom has come from freeing myself of beliefs that I have accumulated that don’t serve me. You see, opinions can be a valuable tool to be taken into consideration but they are just that and not a life sentence. You are not sentenced by what someone thinks or feels about you. Of course, unfavorable opinions can hurt and as human beings we want to fit in… but at what cost?
Up until this point in 2020, I was accepting every opportunity that I could and clinging to it because I felt like I was not doing enough to support my family. Quarantine taught me how wrong I was. I started to work on myself and on the idea of setting myself free by releasing what no longer serves me or what has never served me – whether that be material possessions, thoughts in my mind or emotions. Let me tell you, this kind of purging is not easy. It takes a great deal of work and courage but the key is to take it one day or layer at a time. Yes, my mind is still cluttered and yes, so is my home but every day I take one step closer.
@dandapanillc taught me this year that one’s call in life should never be dependent on someone or something and this just struck such a strong chord with me. He went on to say, “What happens when that one thing or person go away? You find that you have no purpose now.” For the longest time, my purpose was to help others and then it changed to “be a successful artist.” But after giving this some thought, my life purpose is to love myself just as I am because the being that I am is perfect. And so, with that insight, I was able to set myself free.
✨What is your life purpose?✨
Day 10. This particular 365 is mostly about having fun for me, but I also wish to challenge myself a bit more than I have in recent years. I don't have a fantastic camera nor do I have professional lighting. I don't really care to be honest. While all of that would be fantastic, I can't let that stop me from exploring my own personal goals here. If the camera gods ever descend with better equipment then that's terrific too but until then, let's have a good time.
Photo of Mount Shasta captured from U.S. Highway 97. Siskiyou County. Far Northern California. "State of Jefferson." On the first day of January 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.
Photo of the rugged Santa Lucia Mountains, part of the Coast Range, captured via the HDR methods of photography from Ragged Point alongside Highway 1, the Cabrillo Highway, near the Monterey County Line. Northern San Luis Obispo County. Big Sur. Mid May 2013.
Photo of Big Lagoon looking east captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens in the census-designated place of Big Lagoon. Humboldt County. Early December 2013.
in a quiet moment before the mirror, where lines and stories merge on his skin, the tattoo artist seems to be in conversation with his own reflection. the black-and-white light heightens the contrasts, making the tattoos appear like a wordless diary, telling of experiences, passions, and inner struggles. the gilded frame around the reflection adds a timeless quality, as if this moment hovers between reality and a deeper, hidden self. this portrait captures not only an image of the artist but also a quiet question posed to himself and to us: who are we behind the images we show to others?
Photo captured along the infamous Devil's Slide on Highway 1, the Cabrillo Highway. San Mateo County. Bay Area. Late February 2013.
A hundred years ago Brussels was a majestic city, as we can still see in the museum of fine arts. The visitor is welcomed by some imposing examples of the collection...
Part of a triptych - Larger than life and Selfreflection can be found here.
The task of depth theology, by contrast, is “to keep alive the meta-symbolic relevance of religious terms”; concepts “must not become screens; they must be regarded as windows.”
-Pramuk, Christopher. Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton
Photo captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 75-200mm f/4.5 lens from Samoa Beach in the census-designated place of Samoa. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
Photo of the rugged Santa Lucia Mountains captured alongside the El Sur Ranch on the Old Coast Road in Big Sur. Monterey County. Mid April 2013.
Photo captured near the town of Point Arena and near the Point Arena Lighthouse Station. Mendocino County. Late March 2013.
Photo captured via HDR method of photography along the coast in Crescent City. Del Norte County. Late January 2013.
Day 186 Year 2 There you go again, facing the world beneath it all. Always struggling to get out and still trapped looking up and away.
This shot is SOOC. Again, too pressed to do much else but I like it.
For the FGR theme
Currently #297 in Explore. Thanks everyone.
Self Reflection for Me Again Monday.
I've missed MAM the past couple of weeks ...hey I better get used to that pretty soon!
This is a phone pic/selfie in the mirror of a Vespa ^_^
I thought I would just use this shot as I know taking a 'real' selfie tomorrow just wouldn't happen.
HMAM!! \ ^_^ /
I really should be saying goodnight
I really shouldn't stay anymore
It's been so long since I held ya
I've forgotten what love is for
I should run
On the double
I think I'm in trouble
I think I'm in trouble
I think I'm in trouble
~Lindsey Buckingham
As I said earlier, I'm in a real nostalgic mood tonight. That means 80's music! Listening to this song I can feel the wind in my hair, smell the freshly cut grass, hear the roar of my '72 Chevelle and feel my girlfriend's arm around me as we drive down country roads blasting the radio. Man, those were the days! Someone I ran across on youtube put it this way:
This song takes me back to those long summer nights of youth and the way it felt to be alive and carefree. If only we could bottle up those feelings we have in youth and save it for rainy days of our adulthood when we have lost all those reasons that life is good. God how I miss the 80's and all that it was to me in my life! If only I could go back. It just ended too soon! I miss it all! :-(
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.
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Photo of the Little River flowing into the Pacific captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens at Moonstone Beach in the census-designated place of Westhaven-Moonstone. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
Photo captured near the Canfield Redwood Grove via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens near the census-designated place of Weott. Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.