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lab puppy after... playing and being happy and making us happy :)*
her head is so soft... she is whole like a sweet soft toy...
she's not mine, my sisters :) sweet and beautiful girl.
nite nite...
i'm going now to fly to the moon...
ah its so beautiful tonite.
xo
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Shot with a 500w Bowen Softbox to the top left of the image.
I have a blog post about my opinion on self portraits:
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Unconditional Surrender, or Kiss Statue
Tuna Harbor Park
San Diego, California
After arriving in San Diego about noon and getting into our rental car (a chore made longer by the fact Hertz didn't have what we had requested and made repeated attempts to talk me into upgrading to a luxury car), Ruth Ann and I stopped at Top of the Market restaurant for a very nice lunch over 12 hours after our very early breakfast. The restaurant provided a nice view of San Diego Bay, as well as very good food; immediately north was the USS Midway Museum, part of which can be seen here from Tuna Harbor Park, 700 North Harbor Drive.
The 25-foot statue "Unconditional Surrender" (aka the Kiss Statue) by Seward Johnson, resembles the famous Alfred Eisenstadt photo, "V-J Day in Times Square" but is said to be based on someone else's photo from that day, which marked the end of World War II. According to information on line, the statue is controversial, as many feel it lacks artistic merit and grace. The initial statue was placed in the park, property of the San Diego Unified Port District, in 2007 (the USS Midway Museum opened 2004), and three members of the SDUPD board resigned over the decision to erect this permanent, bronze statue in 2013. The harsh light I had to work with doesn't help the statue's appearance.
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Sublime Surrender
Mixed Media on Acrylic
Gregory Scott
In Sublime Surrender, Gregory Scott plunges us into a vortex of radiant emotion—where ecstasy and unease, chaos and clarity, coexist in vibrant harmony. Color itself becomes a language of transformation, flowing through the full emotional spectrum with raw, unfiltered urgency.
This work is not merely seen—it is felt. Like a cosmic release or spiritual shedding, the painting invites the viewer to let go of control and be carried into the sublime unknown. Each brushstroke pulses with movement and momentum, blurring the line between the physical and the metaphysical, the internal and the infinite.
What begins as visual overwhelm becomes liberation. To engage with Sublime Surrender is to yield—to the beauty of being undone, and remade.
---GSP
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"Unconditional Surrender" is a 25-feet high, painted aluminum sculpture erected in 2007 (it's a traveling sculpture; this photo taken in Sarasota, FL). Also called The Kiss, the 6,000 pound statue was created by world-renowned artist J. Seward Johnson commemorating a famous World War II photo. The photo was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse, Edith Shain, in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, 1945, following the announcement of V-J Day. Edith doesn't remember who the sailor was, she just went with the moment.
If any of you will be in NYC on August 14 in any given year, there will be a Kiss-In in Times Square for the anniversary of the end of World War II. Couples are encouraged to kiss in the manner of the Unconditional Surrender sculpture... guys, bring your sailor cap!
244/365 - Our Daily Challenge - "Begins with S"
I love acorns, so I was glad for an opportunity to shoot them today. If I'm thinking literally about the challenge, I could say that S is for simplicity, or seasonal, or seed. But in a figurative sense, I believe the acorn represents surrender. John 12:24 says "unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds". The same applies to acorns. A wise woman said it this way:
"We are being asked to trust, to leave the planning to God. God's ultimate plan is as far beyond our imaginings as the oak tree is from the acorn's imaginings.The acorn does what it was made to do, without pestering its maker with questions about when and how and why. We who have been given intelligence and a will and a wide range of wants that can be set against the divine Pattern for Good are asked to believe Him. We are given the chance to trust Him when He says to us, ' ...If any man will let himself be lost for my sake, he will find his true self."
“When will we find it?” we ask.
The answer is “TRUST ME”.
“How will we find it?”
The answer again is, “TRUST ME”.
“Why must I let myself be lost?” we persist.
The answer is:
“LOOK AT THE ACORN AND TRUST ME”.
(Catherine Marshall)
Trust...that's challenging for a control freak like me. Maybe that's part of why I love acorns so much...because they remind me that my job is not to try to control(control is an illusion anyway)...It's to trust the One who knows what He's doing.
Textures by Kim Klassen: Ugglove and Scripted Autumn
Nikon D5000, 105mm
Autumn Surrender
Lake Erie Metro Park
Brownstown, Michigan
It’s been a great fall for colors, but the shows just about over.
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We-ll, what's black and white and finally handing over his gun? Hahaha!
sigh.
Onomatopoeia joins Freeze, surrendering to Riddler's attack on area 41.
On the Cliffs of Moher.
GhostWorks Texture Competition #54
Texture with thanks to Skeletal Mess
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For the beautiful model.
Thanks to Jessica Truscott for the original photograph:
www.flickr.com/photos/jessicatruscott/6764195815
Thanks to the following for these images:
“Unconditional Surrender” - 25-foot sculpture by Seward Johnson resembling a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. V–J day in Times Square.
Most old cemeteries were planted in places meant to take your breath away. High on a hilltop or precarious position, or perched like this one, overlooking a bend in the Economy River. The pull of this plot really did its work on me, after four straight days exploring abandoned burial grounds – working through corners of my homeland so far unseen by me. It was almost noon when I came here, felt in some strange way like I'd been saving up the mourning, last stop before hitting the long road home again. I picked a stretch of cloudy days for my adventure, checking the weather for the fewest possible breaks in overcast skies before heading out. I don't like direct sun when I'm down with the dead, feels far more human when darkness holds fast through the midday light. These off-white limestone markers cast soft shadows in their carvings, none of those harsh rays coming in from the big, burning ball in space. We're very much of the earth here, turning to dirt and giving back the minerals we borrowed from it. Calcium, mostly, and lesser amounts of phosphorus, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, iodine, chromium, copper, and zinc. We top off that surrender in stone, capped solid and let the leaching begin. Seems to be about a century of stories here, between the 1840s and 1950s. Plenty of time for all who's buried to lose their form, but not quite enough for their tales to get lost. While the Colchester traffic passes steady on a distant bridge, I haunt a place and time containing no breathing body but me.
October 30, 2021
Durning Cemetery
Economy, Nova Scotia
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The Architecture of Fear
Fear is a defense mechanism we all build up on different levels in order to survive. It is our primary response to anything, known or unknown, that could seize our existence. Yet we make it so natural it seems fear creeps in on its own. But that’s untrue: Fear is all our fault. We just happen to lead ourselves astray from that fact so that we won’t realize we’re responsible for it, or we may end up fearing nothing but ourselves.
Doubt – Worry – Reclusion – Defeat - Surrender