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Breathing in, I touch the sorrow I have caused.
Breathing out, I hold it with compassion.
Breathing in, I smile at the miracle of being.
Breathing out, I ask—why not joy?
Just thought I would post another shot of Sir Lance-A-Lot standing erect in the same water that he was hunting in. I’m thinking that I might should ask as it could me Miss Lance-A-Lot, but that’s another story. I’ve seen this particular Tri-colored Heron hunt from a number of different position but it really does prefer that skimming the top of the water technique. It’s still beyond me how it spots the prey under the surface of the water at such a shallow angle. BTW, this one rarely misses. Photo taken on Horsepen Bayou.
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try HDR in b/w when black and white are the dominant colours ?
This weekend started in East-Westphalia with heavy snowfalls already on early Friday morning, causing massive problems on the roads. The mild temperatures in the afternoon and early Saturday melted away most of the snow, so we had to speed up to get some Winter shots in the spa gardens of Bad Oeynhausen.
Bad Oeynhausen is a nice little town in East Westphalia, famous as a spa centre for more than a century. My favourite place in town is the Kurpark (spa gardens) with beautiful garden architecture and historical buildings of the early days of the spa era.
I am occasionally asked why I like hill walking so much. After all, as people point out to me, you can get very cold, very wet, very tired and very lost. And there is always a degree of risk involved.
All this is true.
I have been very cold, very wet, very tired and very lost.
But I still love it.
I love the quiet satisfaction of getting from A to B with nothing more than a map and compass.
I love the fresh air.
I love the quietness.
I love seeing the wildlife.
I love the hunger that a day on the hills brings, and the fact that the food tastes so much better.
I love the thirst that a long walk brings and there’s nothing better than to sit in a nice warm pub, with a pint of good beer and let the ache of tiredness waft over me.
But most of all, I love it because I get to see scenery like this.
This week’s Humble Offering of Humbility is brought to you by ms. Donnalee and Jawdoc who voted for a shadows theme this week.
But I’ll do pics of my aunt getting that boil on her back drained instead. j/k :P
Have a creative week, everyone!
WHY IS IT BLUE?
The geothermal water has a unique composition, featuring three active ingredients – Silica, Algae & Minerals.
The blue colour comes from the silica and the way it reflects sunlight. During summer there can also be a hint of green in the water. This is the result of the algae, which multiplies quickly when exposed to direct sunlight.
However, and this might come as a surprise to you, the water is actually white. If you pour it into a transparent cup, it will always have a milky white colour. The sun simply makes it look blue! My 500 link 500px.com/yiannispavlis my facebook www.facebook.com/YiannisPavlis4/ my instagram www.instagram.com/yiannispavlisphoto/
Shimoda Terasawa Fudo Waterfall
下田寺沢不動滝
Why did this tree fall in that direction?
I wonder if it has fallen from above.
なぜ、この木が滝の方に倒れたのかわかりません。
上から落ちてきたのかな。
Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka city, Japan
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"No Filters!"
But of course filters are used, if I have a look at my cameras' settings, I'll discover all sorts of neat little adjustments. Digital adjustments which control the built in "filter" imbedded on the sensor. Camera phones included.
Another question I sometimes I ask myself.....Can anyone tell me "Why do sunsets have to be in color?". Nothing wrong with color, I love color imagery. We punch it up with our articificial software, adding more filtration beyond what our artificial camera/sensor provides (they ALL have built in filters btw, phones included) creating artificial scenes, which is fine if expressing an artitistic interpretation, but then many are then used to promote tourism.....are they *realistic* as to what any givien person would actually see? When we do this, are we bordering on "false advertising"?
Kinda like back in the days of airbrushing the models that appear on the magazine cover....it's fake. The only way to appreciate a scene is to acually see it with ones' own eyes....other than that, it's all "fake news". lol
And yes... I include my own images, but I never make any bones about it.... I'm an artist first, everything else is then my interpretation of what I see with no representation of "Come see this..." ....because it doesn't exist except of course, in my own mind. lol
Image was taken last night in front of our home as the sun was setting. Happy Sunday!
Today 17 babies will die, the tragic victims of stillbirth or neonatal death. This is a statistic that is seeing no signs of decreasing, and behind each number is a family rocked to the foundations by the death of their baby.
This shocking figure, the loss of 6,500 babies every year, is something the public is not generally aware of. Most people think stillbirths don’t happen in the 21st century. Yet stillbirth in the UK is 10 times more common than cot death.
At Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, we feel this number of deaths is totally unacceptable. We have launched the Why17? campaign to raise awareness of this devastating loss and to ask the question:
“Why are 17 babies a day dying and what can be done to halt this national tragedy?”
“I just want to raise awareness of stillbirth. I had no idea that this could happen to me
1) Follow this link, fill in your details to email your MP to make them aware of the parliamentary launch of Why17? on March 4th 2009: www.why17.org/Get-Involved/Contact-your-MP.html
2) Add your name to the list of supporters (petition) : www.why17.org/Pledge-Your-Support.html
3) Make a contribution: donate online; buy a window sticker / wristband / balloon; or plan a sponsored event. More ideas here: www.why17.org/Get-Involved.html
This year we end the Seven Days of Thanksgiving series in Paprihaven on the day after. Why? While it is wonderful to have a day set aside specifically to acknowledge our impossible debt to God by expressing our gratitude, every day should truly be a day of thanksgiving. After the amazing celebration at the Simmons,* the girls are back at Tracy's house.
Tracy: Wow. So tired. What a great time. Thank you, God.
Buckley: I'm so stuffed! I'll sleep on this bench if I can't make it upstairs.
Tracy: Who said you're staying here??
Buckley: You gotta be responsible, Trace! You can't let me drive home in this condition.
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: You're not drunk! You don't even drink!
Buckley: I'm loaded with tryptophan. I can't make it. I'm DONE FOR, offissaaAAaa!
Briar: HAHA! What's 'trippafan'?
Tracy: It's an amino acid in turkey that people say makes you sleepy. I think what happened is we all just ate too much.
Briar: I ate sooooo much! I looooved that corn casserole! Who made that?
Tracy: I think Honor did.
Buckley: Ooohhh, I'm gonna pop. Let's just all get in bed, under the covers, and tell stories til we fall asleep.
Briar: That's FUN!
Buckley: But y'all GOTTA CARRY ME UUUUUUP!
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: Oh, good grief. I'm stuck with both of you tonight. Are you sure you even have homes? You're always here.
Buckley: Oh! Haha! On Paprichat, Sheila Harper posted a video of her poodle grabbing a piece of turkey from the table!
Briar: I want to see that!
Tracy: Can you not be on your phone for like two seconds? And, I want to see too. And, who's Sheila Harper?
Buckley: She's got that pretty green Jaguar? Always real shiny? **
Tracy: Oh, yes.
Briar: I wanna see the video!
Buckley: Then come over here.
Briar: Can't move. You come over here.
Buckley: Uh uh.
Briar: BuuUUUUCK!!!
Buckley: You're outta luck, kid.
*WOOF!*
Briar: Hey, Biff!
Buckley: The Biffster!
Tracy: Wow, what a great day. And now we're just chilling. Peace. Joy. Love. God is good.
Buckley: All the TIME!
Briar: All the time!
Tracy: And, all the time...
Buckley: God is GOOD!
Briar: God is good!
Tracy: Bible challenge, then we somehow struggle upstairs. God's loving kindness. Psalm 117:2, "For His lovingkindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord is everlasting. Praise the Lord!"
Briar: Psalm 63:3, "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You."
...
Tracy: Buckley...
Buckley: Um... What's the one? "Please answer me God because you are loving and kind... and compassionate?"
Tracy: Close enough! Psalm 69:16, "Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me." Okay, upstairs! Up!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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God wants you to give thanks.
Well, Thanksgiving came and went. Did your gratitude last beyond your afternoon nap? For many, that’s the extent of their thanksgiving—a one-time, get-it-out-of-the-way holiday that reminds them to reflect on how blessed they are. Too often and too quickly, people resort back to being ingrates. But God wills us to be thankful all the time, in all things. That’s the point of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 where Paul says, “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” So if you’re saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering, you have one thing left to do in order to follow God’s will—be saying thanks.
Paul’s simple, direct command—in everything give thanks—allows believers no excuse for harboring ingratitude. In everything carries an unlimited requirement. It refers to everything that occurs in life. With the obvious exception of personal sin, we are to express thanks for everything. No matter what struggles or trials, God commands us to find reasons for thanking Him always (Acts 5:41; James 1:2-3; 1 Peter 1:6-9). That’s His will.
If you’re not obeying that command, you’re not following God’s will. Think of it like this: If gratitude doesn’t come easy for you, neither will finding God’s will. Or to put it another way, if you struggle with being thankful, you’ll struggle with following God’s will. Need some motivation? Here are some reasons God wills you to be thankful:
God commands it:
Gratitude should come naturally to believers in response to all God has done on their behalf, but because of our hardness of heart, God enjoins us to thanksgiving with commands (Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Therefore, all forms of ingratitude are sinful. Paul commanded the Colossians, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful” (Colossians 3:15).
When Paul describes the believer’s Spirit-filled life, he writes, “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father” (Ephesians 5:20). God doesn’t merely command those expressions of gratitude and leave believers helpless to comply. He enables us to articulate them (Philippians 2:13), and is pleased when we do.
Joni Eareckson Tada, who was involved in an accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down, writes, “Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it's a matter of obedience.”
Thankfulness acknowledges God’s sovereignty:
The single, greatest act of worship you can render to God is to thank Him. It’s the epitome of worship because through gratitude, we affirm God as the ultimate source of both trial and blessing—and acknowledge our humble acceptance of both.
With a thankful heart, you can say in the midst of anything, “God be praised.” That kind of attitude looks beyond the circumstance to the plan of God. It sees beyond the pain to the sovereignty of God. It remembers, “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). An attitude of thankfulness enables us to deal with those who wrong us, saying with Joseph, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). Those who are thankful see the providential hand of God everywhere and say, “God, I thank You for the peaceful times as well as the hard times—a difficult marriage, a challenging job, a severe illness—because I know You will use those things for my good and Your glory.”
The grateful Christian remembers that suffering perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes him (1 Peter 5:10). God wills that kind of thankfulness.
God judges ingratitude:
William Shakespeare wrote, “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude thou marble hearted fiend.” If Shakespeare understood the hostile attitude behind thanklessness, imagine what God must think about it.
Ingratitude is the very essence of an unregenerate heart, ranking among the most intolerable sins in Scripture. The apostle Paul identified unbelievers as ungrateful: “For even though they knew God [through conscience and general revelation], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21). Because man in his pride fails to honor and glorify God as Creator, he also refuses to thank Him for His gracious provision. Ingratitude betrays unbelief, and both sins bring about God’s judgment.
Although God is the source of every good thing that men possess—giving life, breath, rain, sunshine, and other natural blessings to the just and unjust alike (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:15–17)—the natural man refuses to thank Him. In his fallen mind, to thank God is to acknowledge his own obligation to worship Him.
In summary, God wills our being thankful in all things because gratitude is the ultimate expression of a transformed heart. But thanklessness can infest and destroy a church, marriage, family and home. So cultivate a heart of gratitude. Be thankful for all things and in all circumstances. That’s God’s will. Are you following it?
- John MacArthur, adapted from God Wants You To Give Thanks
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* As seen yesterday!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54950920265
** As seen in BP 2021 Day 107!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51121244013/
Previous Days of Thanksgiving on Paprihaven:
2015:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/22949342829/
2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31221411415/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/37886668344/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31063953947/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49137396007/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50649209702/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51704094592/
2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52521485290/
2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53349976036/
2024:
Wishing to everyone just a stunning weekend!
Happy Hanukkah to all Israeli Frlickrities as well!
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You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream
things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw
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PHOTO:
Lalique Art glass. Boutique "Aurelia Paradis",
Kikar ha-Medina.Tel-Aviv. Taken 24 October, 2006.
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Lalique, René (Jules)
(born April 6, 1860, Ay, Fr.-died May 5, 1945, Paris) French
jeweler and glassmaker. Trained in Paris and London, he
opened his own firm in Paris in 1885 and soon acquired
clients such as Sarah Bernhardt. Reacting against
machine-produced jewelry featuring precious gems, he
designed elegant and fantastic jewelry with less
conventional gemstones (tourmaline, cornelian, etc.) and
materials such as horn.
His designs contributed significantly to the Art Nouveau
movement and later the Art Deco
movement. His interest in architectural glass led him to
develop the style of molded glass for which he is famous,
characterized by iced surfaces, elaborate patterns in
relief, and occasionally applied or inlaid colour.
(Britannica.com)
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Junge Frauen lassen sich aus verschiedenen Gründen tätowieren, oft um ihre Individualität, Persönlichkeit und Selbstausdruck zu betonen. Tattoos können als Ausdruck von Erinnerungen, Überzeugungen oder als persönliche Statement dienen. Sie können auch das Selbstbewusstsein stärken und ein Gefühl der Kontrolle über den eigenen Körper vermitteln.
Young women get tattoos for a variety of reasons, often to emphasize their individuality, personality, and self-expression. Tattoos can serve as an expression of memories, beliefs, or as a personal statement. They can also boost self-confidence and convey a sense of control over one's own body.
Whenever I need you my dear
I find you always near
Thats why I love you..
Whenever we meet
With love you greet
Thats why I love you..
You always look so lovely
And you are so cuddly
Thats why I love you..
You are the apple of my eye
For me, the perfect guy
Thats why I love you..
Our bond is so great
No one could make us separate
Thats why I love you..
You made so many sacrifices
And without regret you paid the prices
Thats why I love you..
End this relationship you will never
I know that you will go on loving me forever and ever
Thats why I love you...
Written by: Me
Dedicated: To all my flickr friends who have been so sweeet to me!!! *hugs*
Why go home...
Why go home...
She seems to be stronger, but what they want her to be is weak
She could play pretend, she could join the game, boy
She could be another clone...
is a question I’m often asked when taking a photograph.
Because it looked interesting.
Because I wondered how it would turn out.
Why not?
Sometimes the scariest things aren't what you'd expect. For me, I am terrified of walking home alone at night incase I get raped or murdered, I am terrified of being in a plane crash, scared of walking on train tracks, moths (the devils creatures) and all sorts of typically scary stuff. But I think the scariest thing at the moment is that I am (once more) losing my hair. I found a bald patch again last night and just broke down. I do not know if I can handle it again. I'd forgotten how scary it is. The thought of losing my hair twice in 2 years is damn scary - I thought after it started growing back the first time that I would be ok, but I have been stressed lately and its taking it's toll. The patch isn't very big, but I know if I don't nip it in the bud, in 3months time I could have lost 2 thirds of my hair again. Which sucks.
Aaron has been amazing, so has my mum. I told him I didn't want him to have a bald girlfriend, he told me that I could buy a million wigs and have a million different hairstyles. My mum has rung up school, and I might be dropping philosophy because thats mainly what is stressing me.
So this photo is here because right now, I am damn scared. Hopefully if I sort stuff out now, no more will fall out. But if not and what happened before happens again, then I will just get through it and make something good come out of it. At least this time I have someone by my side who makes me feel beautiful no matter what.
This is my first ever self-done strobist shot, go me :D Used my new lights. Will take some getting used to, but it was damn fun :)
3 days until I go see Aaron!! Hooray!! :)
new updates on our blog :)
Anacamptis pyramidalis (Pyramiden-Hundswurz, pyramidal orchid) Zölzalm, Eisenerzer Alpen, Steiermark, Austria. They are suffering from the heat and drought he had for last couple of weeks. Taken with a Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.8/35 mm.
I did follow the right train! A pair of Bayline unit made it an easy choice for an all day chaser. A bit later in the morning we see GSWR CAT-04 (Cuthbert to Albany turn) rolling through the photogenic small town of Shellman, GA.
...for a new Furniture?
pART of pAn.K.A*esthetik
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