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Ricoh Diaries

Ocean Beach, CA

I own a Ricoh GR III Diary Edition and this collection of images were mainly taken in Jpeg format with various recipes which can be found at ricohrecipes.com

 

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An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

David Attenborough

 

Look after the land and the land will look after you, destroy the land and it will destroy you.

Aboriginal Proverb

 

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Eckhart Tolle

 

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

The Beauty Of Earth cc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl_kXbhTi8k

 

Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.

Dr. Sylvia Earle

 

Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now. Jackie Speier

 

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

 

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️

So you can better understand what you see here: The stem of the longest specimen of this group of trumpet-like structures is about 1.5 cm long. I found them in the forest on a moss-covered tree trunk.

But what is this? Are these aliens about to take over the world? Or are they the musical instruments the forest uses to produce its characteristic wind sounds?

The world beyond our own "normal" perspective holds many surprises. Things so small that you only see them if you actively look for them, and which then leave us amazed.

This, by the way, which is a completely terrestrial pebbled pixie-cup, is one of them.

 

Damit Ihr das, was Ihr hier seht besser einordnen könnt. Der Stiel des längsten Exemplars dieser Gruppe posaunenen-artiger Gebilde ist ca. 1,5 cm lang. Gefunden habe ich sie im Wald an einem mit Moos bedeckten Baumstamm.

Doch was ist das ? Sind das etwas Aliens, die beginnen die Welt zu übernehmen ? Oder sind das die Musikinstrumente, mit denen der Wald seine typischen Windgeräusche produziert ?

Die Welt außerhalb unserer eigenen "normalen" Pespektive hält viele Überraschungen bereit. Dinge, die so klein sind, dass man sie nur zu Gesicht bekommt, wenn man aktiv danach sucht und die uns dann erstaunt zurück lassen.

Das hier, bei dem es sich übrigens um eine völlig irdische Becherflechte handelt, ist eins davon.

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Book: {geek} – Men Manual – Simplified Edtion NEW @ {geek}

 

I try to understand you,

but your silence is older than time.

You speak in shadows cast by antlers and moonlight,

in echoes that ripple through bones and soil.

 

You were never meant for language—

you are memory wrapped in myth,

a guardian of the line between wild and forgotten.

 

I stand here, unarmed but not unshaken,

hoping that some part of me,

the part that dreams in symbols and listens to the dark,

will finally hear what you’ve never said.

 

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Today is the 11th day of Valentine's month of February, and I wanted to share my love of curiosity, travel, and research. Of course, picking up the camera has enhanced my curiosity and made me even more aware of my surroundings. Art, too, has enabled me to share my feelings more deeply than by word, which is not one of my strengths

 

THE JOURNEY | LEA SALONGA | LYRIC VIDEO

Lorna Yumul Santos

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjJlevOWG8

 

If by Rudyard Kipling

 

To learn while still a child

What this life is meant to be.

To know it goes beyond myself,

It’s so much more than me.

To overcome the tragedies,

To survive the hardest times.

To face those moments filled with pain,

And still, manage to be kind.

To fight for those who can’t themselves,

To always share my light.

With those who wander in the dark,

To love with all my might.

To still stand up with courage,

Though standing on my own.

To still get up and face each day,

Even when I feel alone.

To try to understand the ones

That no one cares to know.

And make them feel some value.

When the world has let them go.

To be an anchor, strong and true,

That person loyal to the end.

To be a constant source of hope

To my family and my friends.

To live a life of decency,

To share my heart and soul.

To always say I’m sorry

When I’ve harmed both friend and foe.

To be proud of whom I’ve tried to be,

And this life I chose to live.

To make the most of every day

By giving all I have to give.

To me, that’s what this life should be,

To me, that’s what it’s for.

To take what God has given me

And make it so much more

To live a life that matters,

To be someone of great worth.

To love and be loved in return

And make my mark on Earth..

 

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

 

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Wernher von Braun

 

Research means that you don’t know, but are willing to find out.

Charles F. Kettering

 

Research is something that everyone can do, and everyone ought to do. It is simply collecting information and thinking systematically about it.

Raewyn Connell

 

Bad news sells papers. It also sells market research.

Byron Sharp

 

A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

Pico Iyer

 

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Sainte Augustine

 

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he comes to see.”

Gilbert K Chesterton

 

Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.

Jacqueline Boone

 

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfilment.

Sir David Attenborough

 

Oh, the places you will go.

Dr. Seuss

 

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.

Louis Armstrong

 

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️

let go of me, my friend, you do not understand; i lay here in your hands, you see now how it ends.

not true. no place can contain me without you. i’ll build you up like pinocchio was made. nobody will know anything, i’ll call your name with that air like we’ve just seen each other and soon we’ll meet again. one eventless day i’ll show up on your doorsteps out of the blue to tell you that everything’s ok; i’ve bought flight tickets, train tickets, ship tickets and we can travel beyond the end of the world. me and you.

What are you doing when i miss you, darling? i feel like dying, i won’t make it not even one more day if i can’t pick you up from the impossible i’m afraid one night you’ll leave, when this will happen i swear on you and the entire water that keeps my boat inclined toward old feels that you’ll remain beyond the shapes and numbers, mine for ever like a shoulder to an arm. What are you doing when i miss you, darling? My eyes are full of tears to my heels.

Drowning ,

… like Jeff Buckley did.

 

Here’s “Forget her”:

youtu.be/HO0svGjVEP8

While this town is busy sleeping,

All the noise has died away.

I walk the streets to stop my weeping,

'Cause she'll never change her ways.

Don't fool yourself,

She was heartache from the moment that you met her.

My heart feels so still

As I try to find the will to forget her, somehow.

Oh I think I've forgotten her now.

Her love is a rose, pale and dying.

Dropping her petals in land unknown

All full of wine, the world before her,

Was sober with no place to go.

Don't fool yourself,

She was heartache from the moment that you met her.

My heart is frozen still

As I try to find the will to forget her, somehow.

She's somewhere out there now.

Well my tears falling down as I try to forget,

Her love was a joke from the day that we met.

All of the words, all of her men,

All of my pain when I think back to when.

Remember her hair as it shone in the sun,

The smell of the bed when I knew what she'd done.

Tell yourself over and over

You won't ever need her again.

But don't fool yourself,

She was heartache from the moment that you met her.

My heart is frozen still

As I try to find the will to forget her, somehow.

She's out there somewhere now.

Oh she was heartache from the day that I first met her.

My heart is frozen still

As I try to find the will to forget you, somehow.

'Cause I know you're somewhere out there right now.

In the future we will have to resort to strange ways of obtaining water or energy. Let us hope that they are all compatible with our environment.

 

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In collaboration with:

B-MADE / B-Made - Garden Hose Set @ new release in main store

EXILE / Exile:: Ethan @in main store

MAZZARO / [MAZZARO] EMANUEL SET @ in Mainstore

THE BEARDED GUY / DtMF Jungle Backdrop PBR - The Bearded Guy @ in main store

VENDETTA / EMILIO SKIN - VENDETTA @ in main store

   

now you may understand why i love this place and return on a regular basis - so windy and this photo captures the moving clouds .Flipped this photo around as it shows the shear drop and how close i was to the edge in a strong wind with my sigma 10-20 :-) I was actually stood on a ledge with molly beside me on her lead so no real danger .View On Black

 

EXPLORE 281 - 20.10.08

“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Frankly, I do not understand the hype about this man. Self-indulgent, bored with himself, delivering so-so performance. I seen him first time and last time. Would not recognize his music. Asked for 'shades' (it was dark), removed them in the middle of the same song. That alone told me who this guy is. I do not normally write anything bad about any musician, but this was not a good show. Glasper must have somehow get to, where he is now, but I did not see anything inspiring in this performance. Using recorded music, (of other artists), in live performance...wtf? Bringing his 4 year old girl on the stage, just deepen my feelings expressed above. And there was one song which basically told me what he is all about: ♫“Fuck yo feelings”♫. I left right after that one......

 

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Seen in Oxford - on a day like to today the seems perfectly reasonable! It's still snowing here!!

Sometimes I struggle to understand modern art. The subject or the message an artist is trying to convey through his work is not always that obvious so quite often I catch myself looking something and scratching my head. I had ... plenty of those moments when I visited the Sydney and Walda Besthoff sculpture garden, next to New Orleans Museum of Art. It's basically a 5 acres garden with trees, ponds and a bunch of pieces of modern art scattered throughout. Not really sure what this one represents but it really caught my eye. Guess it qualified for a Window Wednesday post! Happy Crazy Window Wednesday folks..

 

Πολλες φορες δυσκολευομαι να αντιληφθω την μοντερνα τεχνη. Το θεμα η και το μηνυμα που θελει ενας καλλιτεχνης να περασει μεσα απο το εργο τεχνης του μπορει να μην ειναι παντα τοσο προφανες με συνεπεια πολλες φορες να πιανω τον εαυτο μου να παρατηρει εργα ξυνοντας το κεφαλι μου. Ειχα πολλες τετοιες στιγμες οταν επισκευθηκα τον κηπο Sydney and Walda Besthoff sculpture garden που βρισκεται διπλα στο Μουσειο Τεχνης της Νεας Ορλεανης. Ουσιαστικα προκειται για εναν κηπο εκτασης 5 εκταριων γεματο με δεντρα, λιμνουλες και πολλα εργα σαν και αυτο διασπαρτα σε ολη την εκταση του. Δεν ειμαι και πολυ σιγουρος για το τι αντιπροσωπευει το συγκεκριμενο παρολαυτα μου κεντρισε την προσοχη. Υποθετω οτι κολλαει για αλλη μια Window Wednesday αναρτηση!

*Working Towards a Better World

 

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? - Bob Marley

 

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein

 

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. - Audrey Hepburn

 

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy

 

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. -

Henry David Thoreau

 

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️

   

Why I always get the beach to myself on great days? Maybe cos is stormy, wet, dreich, raining, cold and in general a fine Highland summers day perhaps.

If you understand the title of this photo, you're old. :-)

 

I took this photo in the park which has become my weekly "get out of the condo destination" during the pandemic. It has always been a favourite place to go with my camera and now is a good place which allows for nice walks with appropriate physical distancing from other people.

 

This bird was fairly near the bench I was sitting at, I've never seen a bird like it in this park. I immediately thought it was a chukar (aka chukar partridge) which, although not common are found in the region. Several people stopped on their walks to chat about the bird, all saying that they too had never seen one like it here before and a couple of them expressed the opinion that it was a chukar. Then one guy said the colour seemed a bit wrong for a chukar and I'd been thinking that too so when I got home I did some googling and have decided it is probably a rock partridge which, as it turns out, is very closely related to the chukar.

Those who understand Astronomy say that we owe many things to the Moon, including that life continues to exist.

 

There is no other planet in our solar system that has a satellite proportionally as large as the Moon with respect to the Earth, hence things happen to us that cannot happen on other planets.

 

It was quite a challenge, photographing the Moon on the 11th day of its first quarter, through a subtle layer of clouds and not losing much of its detail.

 

Photo taken from a pedestrian walkway on the M-503 highway as it passes through Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain.

 

LA LUNA A TRAVÉS DE UNA NUBE, 2024

 

Los que entienden de Astronomía dicen que le debemos muchas cosas a La Luna, incluso que siga existiendo la vida.

 

No existe ningún otro planeta en nuestra sistema solar que tenga un satélite proporcionalmente tan grande como la Luna con respecto a la Tierra, de ahí que nos pasen cosas que en otros planetas no pueden ocurrir.

 

Fue todo un desafío, fotografiar la Luna en el día 11 de su cuarto creciente, a través de una sutil capa de nubes y no perder mucho de su detalle.

 

Foto tomada desde una pasarela de peatones de la carretera M-503 a su paso por Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, España.

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