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A girl with long hair and a confident expression, showcasing Korean-style beauty. She wears elegant clothes in an urban setting with soft colors, blending fashion with street photography for a modern, stylish look.
"If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name."
Truman Capote
"I'd like to have my ego, tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's."
Truman Capote
"I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like... It's like Tiffany's... Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty."
Truman Capote
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (English, "The Luncheon on the Grass")
"I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant."
Oscar de la Renta
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My sister displays one of the artifacts excavated from a pre-Indus site called Chilgiri, deep inside Baluchistan province, Pakistan. This site is being excavated by locals without any guidance from qualified archaeologists. A local wadera (big landlord) takes most of these prized and rare artifacts and sells them to interested parties. In short, he is openly stealing them. I took away some to show Pakistan Archaeological Department that this site exists; they were blissfully unaware of it till then. Read further here:
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A crystal-clear look at the mineral-rich textures of a full moon suspended in the quiet dark
📍 Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Camera: Canon EOS R6 Mark III
• Lens: RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF1.4x
• Focal Length: 700 mm
• Aperture: ƒ/11
• Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec
• ISO: ISO 200
• Exposure: 1/200 sec at ƒ/11
• Edited in: Lightroom Classic
Captured on a crisp, freezing winter night in Fort Wayne, Indiana, this high-resolution shot reveals the stunning geological colors and deep impact craters of our closest celestial neighbor. Reaching out to 700mm allowed for incredible clarity, bringing the delicate mineral blues of the maria and the bright ejecta rays of Tycho crater into sharp focus. 🌕📷
A girl with long hair and a confident expression, showcasing Korean-style beauty. She wears elegant clothes in an urban setting with soft colors, blending fashion with street photography for a modern, stylish look.
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picture of a tall fitness model with alluring look wearing fun bluesy colors and boots. photographer souleye, sharpfocus photography, washington dc
picture of young model with print t-shirt and tight fitting jeans and boots posing in front of a blue canvas, washington dc - sharpfocus photography
Sea Green Defiance: Summer might be over, but the sparkle didn’t get the memo. A quick Halloween session turned into a farewell to warm days, part tease, part defiance, all attitude.
"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
Elizabeth Bowen
"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."
Rainer Maria Rilke
American Bittern raises foot while hunting in marsh. For several days I had been hearing this creature, and had never seen it. Ever! So I practiced imitating it's booming call and this morning made use of my imitation. After about 3 minutes of this trial a American Bittern showed up and slowly moseyed along across the marsh in front of me. It's a whole lot of fun to try and imitate their call and then have some evidence that they are responding to you! Since I had not practiced a great deal it is a real surprise as I had no idea it would work. I'm tempted to tell my wild boar story but everybody will think it is just BS.
"I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour?
Colour is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness. Because I’ve listened to souls whispering – like the susurrus of the wind – from book to book and object to object for tens or thousands of years, allow me to say that my touch resembles the touch of angels. Part of me, the serious half, calls out to your vision while the mirthful half sours through the air with your glances.
I’m so fortunate to be red! I’m fiery. I’m strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted."
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
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"Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies”
Lord Byron
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look..."
Peter Ustinov
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"I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying,
things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing."
Mark Van Doren (1894-1973), U.S. poet
"I welcome this new day.
It is a gift to me, a new creation, a promise of resurrection.
Greetings to the Four Realms, the Goddesses and Gods, and the Kindred of Yore.
I salute the Sun, the Earth, the Seas, and the Sky..."
"With the first gleam of morning rays, the garden is a prism of a thousand hues
refracted in tiny does of crystal dew, a dazzling quilt of millefleur colors covering
the sleeping flower beds."
Duane Michals, The Vanishing Act
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep."
Rumi
Great horned owl in flight with impressionistic mood. The light was almost gone when I found these owls, but this image seems to have some snap and should hold your attention at large size. Hopefully! The shape of the body is very unusual for a bird. It looks somewhat like a women would after tightening up on her girdle good and tight. What the heck is a girdle? My mother used to wear one and it went around the waist with a bunch of straps that you cinch down tight to try and gather in and smooth out the lard. Nowadays they just suck out the yellow fat with a suction device.
Any way these birds must weigh a ton and they look that way when they fly off a branch. They don't head straight out but dip down quite a bit before the wings come into play. Shutter speed wound up at 1/60 sec. with a 400mm lens and the iso at 1000.
"I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself."
Petrarch
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OUCH!! That looks like it hurts!!
This little guy lives in my koi pond. There is now two of them. He is not hurt at all. This is just an odd position that he has himself in and he was afraid to move in case I saw him... well... I saw him!!!
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"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
Blaise Pascal
There are moments he stares out, quietly.
No bark. No tail wag. Just watching.
Like he’s remembering something he never lived.
Or waiting for someone only he can still see.
Ncop — the old soul.
"Hearts live by being wounded."
Oscar Wilde
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'The stars shine down
And watch us live
Our little lives
And weep for us."
Sidney Sheldon
Happy New Year My Dear Flickr Friends!
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HYPER-REALISM / PORTRAITS.
Larger scale correlates the image with advertising or political posters. The traditional technique, the classical museum coloring and disregard the standards of photography casts doubt on the commitment to the canons of popular culture.
Early hyper-realistic painting - a portrait of Sasha Chulikov, photographer of Konstantinovskaya Wool factory, Domodedovo. Painting were displayed at the traveling exhibition of artists of the Moscow region in 1986, and (simultaneously with two other works) at the All-Union youth exhibition in March-April 1987 in the Moscow Central Exhibition hall Manege. It was published in album by Alexander Yakimovich "Young artists of the 80's" (1990).
When I was picking up this canvas from the Moscow Regional Union after road shows (`peredvizhnaya` exhibition) during 1986, full-time art critic from Regional Artist`s Union asked: "Is your personage smiling, as if his mother-in-law died?"
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fragment of a picture as a report from the interior of my art-studio before the thesis defense in the Pedagogic University (April 1985).
The peloton (from French, meaning little ball or platoon and related to the English word pellet), field, bunch or pack is the main group of riders in a road bicycle race. Riders in a group save energy by riding close (drafting or slipstreaming) near (particularly behind) other riders.
(from Wikipedia)
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Messing around with an out of sync flash to get different areas of the image to appear with a black bar on them
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
Corinthians 13:4-8, New International Version (NIV)
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"There is a harmony in autumn..."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools."
Henry Beston
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"...tulips living into their death" (Denise Levertov)
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"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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Exquisite high-resolution capture of a male Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) in eclipse plumage, delicately feeding on a Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus). Shot with the Sony A7V and FE 600mm f/4 GM OSS, this image showcases the lens's signature creamy bokeh and the camera's precision AI autofocus. The soft morning light emphasizes the bird’s iridescent teal feathers and the flower's intricate textures, making it ideal for premium editorial use.
picture of a curvy model with beaufitul figure blue eyes and enigmatic smile. souleye photographer, sharpfocus photography, washington dc
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Alstroemeria, commonly called the Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alstroemeriaceae. They are all native to South America. Almost all of the species are restricted to one of two distinct centers of diversity, one in central Chile, the other in eastern Brazil. Species of Alstroemeria from Chile are winter-growing plants while those of Brazil are summer-growing. The genus was named after the Swedish baron Clas Alströmer (1736 – 1794) by his close friend Carolus Linnaeus.
"Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this."
Sandra Hill, Tall, Dark, and Cajun
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