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“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

Reflections play off the beautiful glow of the August sun.

La vie est belle or life is beautiful—the expression of a new era.

Haruki Murakami's— "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" #💕☔#🌿☁

...

One beautiful April morning, in search of a cup of coffee to start the day, the boy was walking from west to east, while the girl, intending to send a special-delivery letter, was walking from east to west, but along the same narrow street in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. They passed each other in the very center of the street. The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. Each felt a rumbling in their chest. And they knew:

 

She is the 100% perfect girl for me.

 

He is the 100% perfect boy for me.

 

But the glow of their memories was far too weak, and their thoughts no longer had the clarity of fouteen years earlier. Without a word, they passed each other, disappearing into the crowd. Forever.

 

A sad story, don’t you think?

 

Yes, that’s it, that is what I should have said to her. .

.

 

Source: Gravitytrope | On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning — Haruki Murakami

“Learning became her.

 

She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place.

 

Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.”

— Robert Goolrick

“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions.

 

I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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La vie est belle or life is beautiful—the expression of a new era.

Haruki Murakami's— "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" #💕☔#🌿☁

...

One beautiful April morning, in search of a cup of coffee to start the day, the boy was walking from west to east, while the girl, intending to send a special-delivery letter, was walking from east to west, but along the same narrow street in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. They passed each other in the very center of the street. The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. Each felt a rumbling in their chest. And they knew:

 

She is the 100% perfect girl for me.

 

He is the 100% perfect boy for me.

 

But the glow of their memories was far too weak, and their thoughts no longer had the clarity of fouteen years earlier. Without a word, they passed each other, disappearing into the crowd. Forever.

 

A sad story, don’t you think?

 

Yes, that’s it, that is what I should have said to her. .

.

 

Source: Gravitytrope | On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning — Haruki Murakami

“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions.

 

I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”

― Ma Jian

Taking a little break in between catching Pokemon ☀️⚡️✨

“No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace”

 

–Ruskin

This is interlocked angles, because that's all we can give.

 

This is exchanged pulses through intertwined fingers, because you're never close enough.

 

This is the little moments.

 

This is waiting.

 

This is every word I cannot explain, wrapped into one. #sweeterpoetry

stop and ...

take pictures of the books 🌈☁️📓

Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence. We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It’s an existential quality that we are losing. It’s almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.

 

There is, of course, something inherently romantic—if not heroic—about the extreme solitary explorer enveloped by nature. The very image of Herzog on foot recalls the iconic 19th-century paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, especially his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with its lone figure staring out at the wide vista above the clouds.

 

'Truth itself wanders through the forests,' Herzog writes near the end. Yet here he embroiders his memories for effect: The vast swath of geography between Munich and Paris is littered with industrial towns and cities.

 

Once he comes out on the other end, traversing the deforested Champs-Élysées (“We were close to what they call the breath of danger”), Herzog emerges victorious.

― Of Walking in Ice: (Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974)

by Werner Herzog

 

Source: Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests ―A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence. (Noah Isenberg)

Exquisite bones structure is elegantly revealed as light caresses the planes of his face. The low key effect shares the essence of him and gives a more timeless feel.

 

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“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions.

 

I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

Haruki Murakami's— "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" #💕☔#🌿☁

...

One beautiful April morning, in search of a cup of coffee to start the day, the boy was walking from west to east, while the girl, intending to send a special-delivery letter, was walking from east to west, but along the same narrow street in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. They passed each other in the very center of the street. The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. Each felt a rumbling in their chest. And they knew:

 

She is the 100% perfect girl for me.

 

He is the 100% perfect boy for me.

 

But the glow of their memories was far too weak, and their thoughts no longer had the clarity of fouteen years earlier. Without a word, they passed each other, disappearing into the crowd. Forever.

 

A sad story, don’t you think?

 

Yes, that’s it, that is what I should have said to her. .

.

 

Source: Gravitytrope | On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning — Haruki Murakami

Golden Sunset bathing Camp 2 in Mt. Pulag

Sunset in anawangin was breathtaking, even when the sun was behind the mountain, it's dramatic light is so bright any 0.6 soft edge GND cannot take. i was confused on the settings after the mountain hike, makes my mind spin and cleaning the filters, holding the remote, timer, GND on left hand and shutter on right hand??? INSANE. So if your in the same situation, even when the best light is out, don't panic, relax, nail it on the first shot then run. .

 

CPL+ND400+GND

Tokina 12-24, D300

 

Anawangin Cove

Pundacuit, Zambales

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This light, it understand what you have yet to. It has seen the pages you never will. The ones scribbled by unrelenting confusion, smeared by hands over still-wet ink, splotched by tears, scrunched into unreadable folds.

Oh, but it has also seen dreams... Of travels, of moments, of goals, of somedays.

And these dreams, dear one, are what call me onward.

The multitude of faces I see today and each time I revisit echo my own dreams. After staring at the wave on this voyage, I understand how sailors saw mermaids and Davy Jones.

ISCO Tel-Westaner 135mm f3.5 circa 1965 zebra edition lens.

A view Southward towards Portland from West Bay.

My fav of the mornings shoot, not the most successful day, but things can only get better.

 

Used a ND 3 stop Graduated filter to try and balance the shot, but still had to clone out the blown out parts!

A business trip to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam made me realized how much I missed shooting travel and streets.

 

Gearing away from my comfort zone of shooting landscapes, I try to wander the busy streets of Ho Chi Minh.

 

These are my capture of Ho Chi Minh with side trips at Cu Chi and Mekong Delta.

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