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While searching for birds willing to pose I took a break while hiking near the lower part of Bethel Ridge Road and took a few shots of wildflowers. Wind was blowing so these shot are not as sharp as I would like. As always if my identification is incorrect please let me know. Native plant names often seem to change. I used names that I know from many years ago. IMG_7818
Always amazes me how far folks are willing to go risking themselves for an image. ..
From June this year with big sea's rolling in over Bombo Quarry.
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 40-150/2.8 Pro
ISO640 f/4.5 90mm 0ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 8, colour graded in Nik 7 Color Efex and Luminar Neo, tweaked in Topaz AI-3 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Bombo Historic Site, Kiama, NSW
"I am sixteen, going on seventeen. I know that I'm naive.
Fellows I meet, may tell me I'm sweet. And willingly I believe."
2 birds, 1 stone...or 2 ideas, 1 pic.
I've been wanting to do a pic of Bree with reference to The Sound of Music since she turned 16 last year.
Now with the seemingly endless list of movie titles from the GMR, here's my chance (and yes, it was in there - in the end finale film!)
Song here
A Great White Egret posing for me at Gatorland in Orlando Florida. These really are magnificent looking birds that are awesome to watch in flight. View On Black
Day 14 -- October 2024: A month in 31 pictures
Nikon Z 100-400
Taking a brief break from my ongoing Lensbaby explorations to try out my new lens, which arrived today, with the help of Dart, who is ever willing to pose, but also curious as to what's going on around her.
The sun dips low on the horizon sending the murky waters of the swamp into obscurity. Shafts of light poke through flora, randomly highlighting nature’s willing participants just inches above. Sometime the best things to watch aren’t the easiest things to see, and what might seem to be the center of attraction is just a distraction from the true reality that surrounds us.
When I got my new, but old, film camera early in the summer, it came with a 28mm prime and a 28-85mm zoom. The 28mm really didn't come off the camera, but it didn't fit for everything
I really should try the zoom one day, but I kind of like shooting with primes.
So I found an old 50mm 1.4 on Ebay, bid, and won the sale (not a lot of competition).
Thankfully I have my always willing model to try out a new lens. She must wonder sometimes what all this business is about.
And found cobbblesones of ages with stories to tell if you willing to listen... abd marble for the rain water when in drows the city... And I wondered how many feet have stepped on them without take a minute to notive the beauty....
Follow the Star a Celebration of the ending of the Season, the Magi followed a star to the Child, the Quendi followed a star to Valinor.
Lady Dawnbeam and Sir Willing dancing.
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
~William Shakespeare
Happy Sunday y'all
Nikon D5300
This little guy was happily eating away at some seeds someone left on the trail, and so was quite willing to pose for me.
Feb. 13 2016
Carburn Park
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
4-1/2 year old Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abeli), "Aisha" at the San Diego Zoo. Conservation Status: Critically Endangered
Jirasak Sor.Poonsawat trains after school at his gym under the highway in downtown Bangkok. He lives besides the rail tracks and has more hope of a future in Muay Thai than his education at school.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable. Be not afraid of discomfort. The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable, you see what you're made of and who you are.
Sophie always grabs a toy when she knows I am leaving, as if to offer me her toy if I would stay. Heart melting.
Bought at a point I could afford used but with low shutter actuations. The CCD sensor was replaced last year, so with any luck, and God willing, I will use it through the next decade. Being it a Leica, photography becomes a matter of returning to basics and to that time of discovery and delight in which progress is made through an old familiar learning curve. Sometimes regression can be very good for the soul :-)
No, I wasn't working. It had been seven years since I had worked out of Greybull, but as I was visiting friends there, and one of them worked the "Cowley Turn", I decided to spend my 34th birthday taking a ride. He and his crew were willing to make an unsheduled stop in "Himes Canyon", so here's what it looks like without rock climbing skills so ably demonstrated by certain other photographers we know! The Big Horn River flows along and below the BN's Seventh Subdivision of the Rocky Mountain Division.
In our willingness to give that which we seek,
we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
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Dans notre volonté de donner ce que nous cherchons,
nous gardons l'abondance de l'univers circulant dans nos vies.
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Nella nostra volontà di dare ciò che cerchiamo,
manteniamo l'abbondanza dell'universo che circola nelle nostre vite.
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Seven Truths
- “woke up this morning too depressed and shamed to leave my bed, can’t stand to see my own reflection so I hang my head” Two things that keep me from being completely willing and useful for God : fear and lust. Isn’t it sad that I know what they are and I know how to change them yet I still haven’t?
- You really wanna know a secret? Sometimes I start crying for no reason. And I manage to find a reason during that whether its relevant or simply the idea that I’m being weak by crying. But what’s worse is every time I catch my reflection while or after crying in the mirror I try to smile. It’s heart breaking watching someone you know give you that fake smile when you know something isn’t right but seeing it on your own face…it sometimes makes me feel like…I’m not me. Or maybe…that I don’t want to be me.
- I feel beautiful. To myself. But it’s a pattern like the whole ‘im good’ phase and the whole ‘I’m doing bad’ phase. I have a couple weeks where I feel confident and happy whether I like my appearance or not then suddenly I have an ‘ugly week’ (which is what I call it) where I feel hideous. Not just physically…everything is dark and numb and blah. It’s funny, I was told this random boost of confidence is actually a symptom to manic depression.
- My father refuses to take medication for his illness because then he believes he won’t be himself. He’ll be the medication. I personally believe accepting that it is a possibility, means I’m trying to make excuses as to why I’m the way I am.
- I actually just wrote three different truths and deleted them because they were too easy to say. When I’m upset I wrap my arms around me tightly. When I’m in praise and worship I always have finger tips near my heart to just…remind me. I don’t know what of. When I’m nervous I pat the boney part of my chest, right under the collar bones, like it’s a drum over and over. I don’t know why I do it but it’s almost like I need that touch and I have to have it yet I hate when other people touch me. Especially anywhere near there.
- I find everyone so uniquely beautiful. My friends always comment about how I constantly compliment people. I don’t even notice it, I just feel that if you’re thinking something kind about someone else why keep it to yourself? I know when people make little sweet comments to me that I live off it for a while. I don’t know what it but there’s something about people that I find so…well beautiful. Whether they’re stunning on the outside or just simply broken and in a bad situation. There’s always something, sometimes you just have to look for it.
- I’m definitely doing a lot of things outside of my element photog wise. I think it’s because I’ve changed so much lately. I struggled so much with these few things that haven’t changed but my outlook on them has.
1) my smile. I’ve always hated it and I’m still not a huge fan but look at my last upload. It was all smiley. I’m learning to love it just because it’s mine and it’s apart of me.
2) how my mind works on overdrive. I honestly thought I was going crazy at a time but I’m glad I’m this way. I feel like so many other people are missing out on the world because they don’t muse over the tiny, irrelevant details.
3) I was looking over pictures from this time last year when I was struggling with weight issues. I had a pang of jealousy because of how thin I used to be. Then I though, wow that’s wrong. Being jealous of yourself. I’m happy how I am.
Seriously, if you don’t feel comfortable doing the seven truths don’t. But if you reflect even over how much you’ve changed you’ll still learn a lot about yourself.
Ps, I had some random different people tell me they’ve done the seven truths. Then they told me their situation they were in. It’s really amazing how powerful honesty is.
THIS IS CRAZY LONG. If you read this, I appreciate you more than you can imagine.
marriage is uniting two different characters ...
although sometimes it hurts ..
but it's happy
______________________rant73 June 27,2019
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On MARRIAGE
Then Almitra spoke again and said, And
what of Marriage, master?
And he answered saying:
You were born together, and together you
shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white
wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the
silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance
between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond
of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between
the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from
one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat
not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each
other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain
your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near
together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow
not in each other’s shadow.
________________________________. By Kahlil Gibran
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Love is ...
Feelings that must be present for each human being,
it is like a drop of dew coming down from the sky, clean and holy.
Only the land is the one who accepts it ...
If he falls into a barren land, grow because dew is lawlessness, lying, deceitful, stepped up and so on.
But if he falls to fertile land, there will grow purity of heart, sincerity, faithful high manners and other praiseworthy behaviors .
......................................................................... HAMKA
Love is not teaching us is weak, but it generates strength. Love is not teaching us to humiliate ourselves, but to breathe pride. Love is not discouraging, but it encourages -
........................................................................Hamka
Love never asked, he always gave, love brought suffering, but never vengeful, never took revenge. Where there is love there is life; when hatred leads to destruction.
......................................................................MahatmaGhandi
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16 days in to my 365 and I'm feeling a little like this bee. I've got the tools, I've got the know-how, but there's also that nagging self-doubt hounding at me each and every day. Can I really do one [non-lame] photo every single day for an *entire year*? Do I have that kind of commitment, dedication, willpower and drive? Can I ever get even close to the level of some of my favourite photographers or will I spend the rest of my life continually coming up short? Will my life have meant something when I die, or will I be forgotten by everyone except those close to me? At the end of the day, do my photos even mean anything to anyone? Or even just to myself?
I don't know if I'll ever be an amazing photographer. But I guess I'm willing to give it a go. Besides, if nothing else, at least I enjoy my own photography, and I guess that's all that really matters :)
Inspired by a homeless man I saw this afternoon with a sign stating: "Willing to take verbal abuse for money."
These two swans live for many years on the pond in the park. They are always together, but never had children, maybe urban conditions are not favorable? I do not know ...
I like to take photos of them, they willingly pose :)
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