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This is how Marcus runs at high speed, with his hands held above his head. Once he figures out how to swing his arms side-to-side, he'll really take off!
This shot was taken an the Balanga, Bataan, the site where, on April 9 1942, Maj. Gen. Edward King met with Maj. Gen. Kameichiro Nagano to negotiate the surrender.
The surrender came after a fierce battle lasting 3 days. With 78,000 exhausted, malnourished, sick with malaria and dysentery, Major General King surrendered to the Japanese. It was, and still is, the single largest surrender of U.S. and Philippine Forces ever.
Weldon Hamilton recounts:
"General King got up in front of the troops and said, 'No one surrendered but me. If there's any blame it's mine. I ordered you to surrender. You didn't do anything but take orders.'
"He thought, and we all thought, he might get into trouble. We certainly know from history that Roosevelt said there would be no surrender; McArthur said there'd be no surrender. Wainwright said, but King was in the place. When he got his staff together that last night he asked, 'Can we last 24 hours?'
"They said, 'No.'
"He said, 'Can we do any important damage to the enemy?'
"They said, 'No.'
"He (King) said, "Then I'm going forward and surrendering."
Sweet Surrender – Photo Series
Model: Racheeda2000
Location: Sweet Surrender
Set within a dreamlike coastal landscape, Sweet Surrender unfolds as a visual journey between serenity, intimacy, and quiet strength. The location blends natural elements—rock formations, flowing water, lush greenery, and open sea views—into a poetic environment that feels both secluded and timeless.
Racheeda2000 moves through the scenery with effortless elegance, her presence calm yet expressive. Whether reclining on sunlit wooden decks, resting near gentle campfires inside coastal caves, or standing poised against vast ocean horizons, she becomes an organic part of the environment rather than a subject placed within it.
Soft natural lighting, combined with carefully chosen perspectives, highlights subtle emotions: contemplation, confidence, and surrender to the moment. The contrast between open landscapes and intimate spaces creates a cinematic rhythm—wide shots emphasize freedom and scale, while close-ups draw attention to refined details, facial expressions, and posture.
Sweet Surrender is not just a location, but a mood: a quiet escape where time slows, nature embraces the subject, and beauty reveals itself through stillness and balance.
Simon and Maja know what they want, and when they want it, and there's nothing I can do about it!
some sketches too, on my blog
In 1979, Derek Bishton, John Reardon and Brian Homer set up a self portrait 'studio' on the street outside their workplace in Handsworth. It was an experiment: the photographers surrendered control of the decisive moment and the ‘subjects’ took over and presented themselves to the camera in subtly different ways. The photographs became deeply influential for Bishton, Reardon and Homer, who went on to form Ten.8 magazine which focused extensively on issues of representation and power – and how people who had been oppressed by imagery could, literally and figuratively, put themselves in the frame.
The show progressed from family values to harmless redneck to jingoistic patriotism to military support to lamenting the loss of the "War of Northern Agression." Suffice to say the latter themes garnered the most applause.
The summit of Stone Mountain was the site of the founding of the modern KKK. The Stone Mountain carving of famous Confederate generals was be funded by the KKK. The park is now owned by the state of Georgia.
I just received this as a link on my Facebook page.
This is the first tattoo that I know of, I guess it was done 2 years ago.
So, here I am again
Willing to be opened up and broken like a flower in the rain.
Tell me what have I to do to die and then be raised,
To reach beyond the pain like a flower in the rain?
~lyrics from "Flower in the Rain" Jaci Velasquez
www.dali.com/blog/dali-prints-surrender-of-breda/
Lithograph
Changes in Great Masterpieces
1974
By Paul Chimera
Dali Historian
(Mr. Chimera worked directly with Dali Museum founder Reynolds Morse, as the publicity director of the original Dali Museum when it was located in Beachwood, Ohio)
No artist in history was revered by Salvador Dali more than the Spanish master who painted “Surrender of Breda,” the large masterpiece depicted here, and on which Dali deftly made some eye-fooling, surrealistic changes. That artist was Velasquez, who occupied the number one spot in Dali’s list of his favorite artists, along with such other iconic painters as Vermeer and Raphael – both of whom Dali pays homage to in other graphic works from this “Changes in Great Masterpieces” series.
Scholars often cite “Surrender of Breda” as being one of the most purely Spanish paintings ever created. Salvador Dali agreed. Not only was he profoundly inspired by the genius of his 17th century precursor, but he was especially moved by his monumental canvas, which hangs in Madrid’s Prado Museum – a place Dali visited often to study the brushwork of the masters.
Remarkably, this single Velasquez picture figures in not one but two important Dali works. The first instance was in Dali’s huge and extraordinarily complex and beautifully painted canvas, “The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus” of 1959. Dali paid homage to the Velasquez painting by borrowing the flags and tall lances in the background of the earlier work and recreating them in the background of “Columbus.”
And, of course, the second instance of “Surrender of Breda’s” influence is in the present lithograph. Notice how Dali cleverly implied the illusion of a tear in the Breda work, down the middle. And then again, showing the same see-through background by virtue of the “hole” in the horse at right.
Below the main image is a small sepia reproduction of “Surrender of Breda,” accompanied by Dali’s sketch of the two main figures from the Velasquez work, one handing the key to the city off to the victor.
What a remarkable piece of Dalinian art, created the same year Dali’s Teatro-Museo Dali (Dali Theatre-Museum) opened in his birth town of Figueras, Spain. A tribute to his favorite artist. Adroit tromp l’ oil (eye-fooling) technique. Whimsical sketching. All coming together as part of what has long been considered one of Dali’s most interesting, inventive and important graphics suites.
t:28th August 2005 p:Brighton, UK p:Bharatii, Moksadevii c:Panasonic DMC-FZ10
From the 'Bright On' set.
Despite the clone troopers superior weapons, they were no match against the overwhelming numbers of Green Army soldiers.
Same shot slightly different angle.
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The oldest aristocratic families in Siena date their line to the Lombards' surrender in 774 to Charlemagne. At this point, Frankish overseers married into the existing Sienese nobility. Feudal power waned, however, and by the death of Countess Matilda in 1115 the border territory of the March of Tuscany which had been under the control of her family, the Canossa, broke up into several autonomous regions. This ultimately resulted in the creation of the Republic of Siena.
The Republic existed for over four hundred years, from the 12th century until 1555. In contrast to Florence, Siena was on the Ghibelline side in the dispute between the emperor and the papacy and thus received various privileges. Essentially, however, behind this conflict was an economic rivalry between the two trading cities. The Florentines were defeated at the Battle of Montaperti in 1260. During the golden age of Siena before the Black Death in 1348, the city was home to 50,000 people.
Unlike the Medici, who ruled in Florence, no family was able to establish a stable dynasty. In the War of 1551–59, the republic was defeated by Florence in alliance with the Spanish crown. In 1512 the city found itself under the protection of Charles V. The citizens rebelled against the tyranny of the Spaniards, but In 1555 Siena was taken after a long siege and two years later given as a fief to Cosimo I de Medici, under whom it became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
The church was built by the Dominicans from 1226 onwards, , shortly after Saint Domingo de Guzmán had visited the city. The nave was built between 1246 and around 1300. The stones used for the transept come from the city tower of the Counts d'Elci, which collapsed in 1338. The church is also known as "Basilica Cateriniana". This refers to Catherine of Siena, a Dominican saint. After Catherine's death in Rome in 1380 her head was brought to Siena in 1383. It is now in San Domenico.
In the 14th century, the church was enlarged. In 1430 the church building was included in the city wall ring of Siena. The campanile was built from 1490 to 1517. In 1531 fires affected the church. The fire of December 4, 1531, spared the relics of St. Catherine.
The occupation of the church by the Spanish militia 1548-1552 led to damage, as they expanded the church into a fortress and set up camp there. In 1798, an earthquake caused extensive damage to the church. Because of this, the campanile had to be shortened.
www.basilicacateriniana.it/index_en.htm
You can find many more photos taken in Siena and Florence here
Here the Dutch surrendered to General Zheng Chenggong after a one-year siege of Fort Zeelandia. The 300 survivors were allowed to carry everything of value back to Jakarta, including their slaves. Zheng Chenggong, better known in the west by his title Koxinga (國姓爺) is an interesting character: a capable if headstrong leader who was given to bouts of tactical brilliance as well as madness. He is well remembered in Mainland China, Taiwan and Japan for differing reasons: the PRC emphasized the fact that he drove away foreigners from Chinese territory in the name of the country, the Japanese (when they controlled Taiwan) emphasized his half-Japanese ancestry and his linkage to the "motherland", and Taiwan emphasized the fact that he took the island in the hopes of retaking the Mainland from the invaders, as the ROC had hoped to do.
Chihkan Tower (赤崁樓), Tainan (臺南市), Republic of China (中華民國)
In its broadest terms, religion says
that there is an unseen order and
that our supreme good lies in rightful
relation to it.
- William James
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
~ Julia Cameron
Love isn't as simple as you wish it would be. On the other hand, it's nowhere near as complicated as you fear it is. My advice to you is to extinguish any itch you might have to compel love to serve any agenda whatsoever. Instead, bow down before it with all the innocence you can muster, and declare yourself ready to be its humble student and servant. Celebrate through surrender.
~ Rob Brezsny
SURRENDER
"I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything,
but only God, who makes things grow. " 1 Corinthians 3:6-7
We can put a lot of pressure on ourselves to produce "successful" kids, and there is no question that parenting requires a lot of hard work. But, what exactly is our role in the process? In this passage, Paul explains the role of a teacher. We believe it applies just as well to a family.
Parents are God's representatives in the family, and that role is crucially important. In the end, however, we have to surrender the results to God because He is the One "who causes the growth." He will grow our children into His design. While it is difficult to let go of our design and surrender our kids to God, it is God's will that they grow less and less dependent on us and more dependent on Him.
You cannot force your child to grow up to be a godly person, but you can be a godly parent. Use your children's experiences, your example and gentle exploration to "plant and water" your kids, and surrender the results to God. God Bless