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I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.
[Leona Lewis]
Being aware is being alive, remember that you aren't your mind and your thoughts, you are the one observing it the "I" that is consciousness.
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This gecko kept a cautious eye on me as it hugged this banana leaf.
This is my second shot for the weekly theme of "contact," the second of four themes with which Myla Kent and I have chosen to challenge ourselves.
I like the large version of this one.
Thank you for stopping by.
Thank you Chris Lenz Buscaglia
October
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes' sake, if the were all,
Whose elaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—
For the grapes' sake along the all.
Robert Frost
Green and Blue are the colours used by the charities, in the UK, that raise awareness, and support those with Neurofibromatosis
Macro Mondays
Smoke.
Australia
From 1 January 2022, landlords must install interconnected smoke alarms in residential rental properties.
When one goes off, they all go off, giving everyone extra time to escape.
All other dwellings must transition to full compliance by 2027.
Don’t leave it to the last minute. You could save a life.
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Mankind is about 140 thousand years old. If we compress the Earth's existence into a normal full day of 24 hours, then we’ve been on this planet for... 2.5 seconds.
In 2.5 seconds we’ve become the dominant species with a rapidly growing population, causing a catastrophic impact on the environment. We have created the industrial revolution and burned fossil fuels creating more carbon in the atmosphere than ever before. We have caused global warming at a record pace, endangering our own existence. We have cut trees and destroyed forests more than ever before, polluted air, water, and soil. We have created an island of waste, the size of the state of Texas, in the middle of the ocean. We have caused the 4th mass animal extinction. Three-quarters of Earth’s land surface is under pressure from human activity. In just 2.5 seconds we’ve turned the planet into our own personal factory.
It took almost 4.5 billion years of evolution for us to exist and we have changed so much in so little time.
The problem is us. And it is up to us if we want to make it to the 4th second.
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With my project “2.5 seconds” I hope to bring awareness about climate change, to start a conversation about the issue and to educate more people about the facts, the urgency of the crisis and the seriousness of its consequences. The project is a series of photographs that highlight the environmental crisis through metaphors and symbolism. Each one of them illustrates and represents a specific environmental issue using allegorical figures and subjects, props, costumes and natural landscapes.
I used “2.5 seconds” as a title because I wanted to invoke the power of numbers and perspective to create a strong, straightforward and shocking effect.
It all started with an idea I had almost 3 years ago. I have always loved nature, and have been both amazed and captivated by our planet’s beauty. I've traveled to many places before, but none of them could compare to what I felt and saw in Iceland. Visiting Iceland for the first time had a great impact on me and made me realize that our planet is fragile and its beauty may disappear. The thought that nature is being affected and destroyed by the changing climate became personal, shocking and upsetting. I wanted to capture and preserve Iceland's incredible beauty through my art while I still can.
The pressure from human activity is having a catastrophic impact on the environment that endangers our own existence. But I feel like ecology problems that are threatening our environment and affecting everyone on the planet do not get enough media attention.
I am using photography as my unique voice to express how I feel and share my fear for the future. I want to bring more meaning to my work and create a strong message for all the people out there. I hope my art will be louder and clearer than words.
The time to act is now.
Seems that the signs of fall started early this year, or maybe it's just that I was hoping for a delayed transition to put off winter a bit longer.
Either way, it seemed like overnight the leaves started to change and fall and suddenly the neighbour's had started to clean up their gardens for the change in seasons.
Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.
Click "L" for a larger view.
- she was sitting in the third row from the back
with a few friends and they all went to go home
but - - - she had a feeling that made her wonder -
letting her friends go with a farewell she returned
with one question in the
atmosphere
around her - can it be there is actually
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Trump
May every landscape bring beauty to your lives; and may you always be aware of what, where, or who in your own life brings it color!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Explore #8...wow!
Clay County, Iowa
While many of these people wouldn't proclaim themselves artists, I like to refer visitors of my photostream to some awesome photos that exist in others'. Please visit my favorites from other flickr artists. These people are amazing, and most photos are of places like this.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dko-en
You can buy some of my photos here:
Jasper, Alberta, Canada
FujiFilm X-E1, Fujinon XF 18-55mm F2.8-4 R LM OIS
1/400s f/7.1 at 55.0mm ISO 200
A pair of bighorn sheep are seen near Gardiner, Montana just outside the park boundary of Yellowstone National Park.
dedicated to my soulbrother :-)*
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Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.
Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet ~
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The vision of the center of this mandala beleaguered me in the same night when I completed Kabeirô – and I even was told its name: Worlds within Worlds.
Instantly, I sensed a profound aversion to both the image and the name, and for about one week, I refused to start with the work on the mosaic.
Then, one sleepless night, I had another vision which was very weird: before I saw anything, I had the sensation that my body was a tremendous, overdimensioned black sphere which had a very small white sphere in its midpoint; not till then, I saw the image of the black sphere, but somehow two-dimensional (onyl the small white sphere in the center was three-dimensional), but I knew that my body – more precisely: my whole self – and the image were one and the same, and that something with it was quite wrong.
Then, after some frightening minutes or hours (I really don't know), another image arose: a white sphere, much smaller than the black one, and with a small black sphere in its middle. This white sphere was outside of my body, I only could see but not sense it, and the feeling of something quite wrong got stronger, and very scary.
The third image which arose after another frightening minutes or hours, was exactly the same I already had seen after I had completed Kabeirô: Taigitu, the symbol of life itself as well as the symbol of the polarity which forms the basis of everything in this wonderful and appalling world.
Not until then, when Taigitu arose, I understood what was wrong with the first two images: the black and the white sphere were meant to compose ONE sphere: a complete whole INSIDE myself.
On the following day, I started working on the mosaic, for I was completely aware of the NECESSITY of creating it. I just had one wish: that I was allowed to find a second name for the mandala which was concordant with my longing for staying integrated in the world of Greek mythology.
I worked on the mosaic from sunrise to sunset, and late in the night, I finally got to know the name I could welcome from the bottom of my heart: Kybele.
Kybele (English: Cybele), the great God mother of the mountain Ida (Latin: Magna Mater), was a goddess who originally was deified in Phrygien, together with her lover Attis, and later also in ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. The cult of Kybele and Attis was – similar as the cult of Mithras – a widespread mystery cult up to the Late Classic Period. The whole legend concerns apparently the gender dualism; it explains the origin of the world by an interaction of the male and the female element of the universe: the heavenly Attis must inseminate the mother earth Kybele with its blood so that the world can arise.
The mandala is not yet completed; I suppose that it's going to be quite huge and that I'll work on it for a couple of weeks, but I don't know definitely... – well, we will see. ;-)
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Part of a set I did on self-injury. No, it's not real. Corn syrup and food coloring. But it's a real situation that countless people have experienced.
It was cathartic to do these. I wanted to turn my painful past experiences into something beautiful.
Apparently a friggin' TON of people have viewed this, and yet... no comments.
Come on, guys.
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Shot this with an 8mm fisheye lens.
This image is better viewed: LARGE
Benched in Southern California
Sock Monkeys in Japan support Breast Cancer Awareness
Thanks for stopping by
and BeCome Aware,
God Bless & hugs, Chris
Please go to the first comment to see the gif movement...
Shot this with an 8mm fisheye lens.
This image is better viewed: LARGE
Benched in Southern California
LYRE-TAILED NIGHTJAR Female and Recently Hatched Nestling on Nest Uropsalis lyra. A Lyre-tailed Nightjar female and downy nestling are resting in a recess on the side of an exposed vertical earthen surface which constitues the nest. This nest is located close to the Río Nambillo near Mindo in northwestern Ecuador and was discovered on June 18, 2013.
This is the second Lyre-tailed Nightjar nest of which we became aware in a period of 5 days. The first nest contained a much older and well developed fledgling and I have posted 4 images of that nest to my Photostream.
The fluffy nestling on the left is next to the head of the female on the right, the female's tail extending off to the right.
Una hembra con polluelo recien nacido de la especie nocturna Chotacabras Colilira Uropsalis lyra en un nido en un lado de una superficié vertical de tierra en la falda de una montaña cerca del Río Nambillo en las afueras de Mindo en el nordoeste de Ecuador el 18 de junio de 2013. El polluelito está al lado de la cabeza de su mamá.
For OPTIMAL VIEWING of this Lyre-tailed Nightjar female and young nestling, VIEW AT THE HUGE SIZE (1930 x 1200) using the direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/91377...
I shot this hand-held, but Lightroom still did a pretty good job stitching it together. There's some distortion of the trees, and I attempted to fix it in Photoshop, but in order to crop out the missing pixels it really cuts down on the shot and content-aware fill was struggling to fill in the gaps. So I ended up just leaving the distortion.
