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I like to take simplicity at Face Value at times...
He is an ex-village Sarpanch (Village Head) in one of the villages where ASK had their Sanitation Project running for about an year. A very clear, calm, gentleman... It was a pleasure meeting someone like him...
God Bless
On our way to Big Hill Springs we stumbled across this field. At first there was a shadow cast directly on the house and flowers in the distance. However by the time we got out of the car and got the camera ready the light was gone. I took some of this scene with my F100 as well. We shal see later how those turn out!
This is a Red Lily Beetle. We had an infestation of them this year and they decimated all of my beautiful lillies. The lillies are gone, but they are still hanging around. Hopefully they don't like mums!
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity
~ Plato
Detail of the beautifully simple staircase at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
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...♪♫♪♪ ( Gloomy Sunday )
i dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed,
and that simply by blinking my eyes, i shall make pictures
then, i think, i shall really have become a photographer.
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sueño con que un dia el paso entre mi mente y mi dedo deje de ser necesario
y que simplemente con pestañear tome una foto,
entonces, creo, realmente me habré convertido en fotografo
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(alfred eisenstaedt )
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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
Charles Mingus
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
Oscar Wilde
Griffin City Park Swimming Pool building, Griffin, Georgia
Leica I (C), Elmar 50mm f/3.5 lens and Kodak Pro Image 100 film.
Painted ads from an era gone by cling to the aging brick of this building in a small town in Arkansas. The irony of the title follows the abundant patterns and tones throughout this photograph. Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
Photo # KS4_4394bw3.
(c) Kelly Shipp Photography.
Just cropped and vignette added.
All comments, faves, notes, constructive criticism and suggestions are always welcome. Thank you!
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley Warner
On a less simple note...I got a new laptop today (replacement for a faulty one) and am bogged down with setting it up - mainly because I haven't managed to connect it to the internet - hey ho! So I am not mentally in a very "flickr" mood right now :-)
Will be around to visit a bit later on.....
Flickr Friday theme: Simplicity
Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊
I originally planned to shoot something completely different for my upload this week. It was going to be a rather complex conceptual image with various elements participating within it. For the creation of it I required a cold, frosty, typical winters day but the weather where I live never bows down to your wishes and so instead of frost and fog, I got sunshine and blue skies. Thus, I had to quickly think of something else to shoot. I debated what to do for a while until I stumbled upon this beautiful collection of ivy. The green of the leaves seemed so inviting and I became transfixed with them. I gathered my pure essentials and I simply laid down in the evergreen with its leaves curling around me, enveloping me in their embrace and I looked to my camera, pressed one button and my image was created. I captured three elements in this image; the ivy, the flowers and me. Three simple elements which created an entire image.
What I realised as I shot this image was that many a times within our lives we over dress things. We take something simple and we make it into something complex, we decorate it until it is hardly even recognizable, even to ourselves. We over think certain things, things which require no thinking at all. We take far too much time stressing about things that may or may not happen and as a result we lose vital time in which we could purely be enjoying the moment. I had an intricate idea which I had thought about for days and yet something out of my control prevented me from creating it. Instead, I adopted a new concept on the spot. I let the idea grow there and then as I was shooting. I guess what I realised during that moment was that sometimes we can’t plan everything. Sometimes we have to let life take us where it wants us to go. Sometimes, the simple things are the most important.
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
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This piece of ice rock disappeared into the ocean after a few minutes on shore. It is a reminiscent of life. Our time here is just a short stopover and then we move on.
Near Kühlungsborn, Baltic Sea, Germany. - Set up my tent at the beach last Sunday, only a few steps from the sea and this location, and stayed there alone. While this was very comfortable for shooting and brought me a friendly invitation by two gorgeous girls to a beach party at 1 am, the truly relevant experience has been the simplicity there in relation to my everyday life.
taken using Tamron SP AF90mm F/2.8 (Di) Macro 1:1 lens and handheld camera.
B&W post processing using BW styler plug-in
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication : Leonardo Da Vinci
Things i wanted to include in this shot
- Simplicity (as the title says)
- Parallel Lines (Tilted)
- Negative Space
- Bright Green Color (slightly high saturation to elevate the empty space in the photo)
- Water Drop at one of the corners
What is simplicity? Well it’s something simple. So what simple thing should I photograph? I first thought of simple things like eggs and water but are eggs simple? There’s the chicken and the egg question for starters, did anyone ever figure out which came first? Then there are the dozens of types of eggs, chicken eggs, quail eggs, organic eggs, even platypus eggs. Nope, eggs are complicated. How about water, it’s clear and looks simple that’s for sure, unless it’s polluted. So what kind of water will I photograph, ocean water, lake water, brackish water, carbonated water, ice water, distilled water, rain water. Water was getting pretty complicated too. So when I can’t make up my mind I usually ask an expert and who is an expert on simple things more than children. I asked one daughter what shall I photograph to show simplicity? And she said what's simplicity? I knew I came to the right person. It means something simple darling. What’s the simplest thing you can think of? Immediately she answered, celery is the simplest thing. Celery! Armed with that information I asked my older and wiser child for her opinion. She said the simplest thing is dirt. Well celery and dirt…hmmm…how boring. The topic is simplicity not boring. So what to do? I realized that the thing that was bogging me down were the details. I was over thinking things which I tend to do a lot. So what if I stripped the details away? The first thing that came to mind when I thought of stripping was a person. And a person stripped of detail is a shadow or silhouette and that’s how I figured out what simplicity is.
Taken for our daily challenge - Simplicity
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Saintmartin, Bangladesh, 2014
Life you had, is the life we have
The time you were, is the time we are
Simplicity of life which we are enjoying, is what you lost.
E' curioso a vedere che gli uomini di molto merito hanno sempre le maniere semplici, e che sempre le maniere semplici sono prese per indizio di poco merito.
Giacomo Leopardi.
And 'interesting to see that men have always greatly on the simple ways and simple manners are always taken for evidence of little merit.
Giacomo Leopardi