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After meeting up with Wayne and Sandra at Shiprock, we spent the second day shooting the Valley Dreams in the Bisti Badlands and then decided on the third day that we would head over to shot some ancient ruins.
As evening approached I check the weather radar which showed a break in the clouds approaching and in fact the sky starting to break up and it was looking like there might be a good chance for a colorful sunset. So Sandra and I headed over to the ruins with high hopes. This was taken at one of the ruins just after closing time, you know the closing time that is way too early to grab a sunset. The horizon was completely blocked until the last five minutes when a slight amount of color popped through. As we where shooting, the ranger arrived and announced over the P.A. in his truck that the area was closing. We shot on, ignoring him, well I should say I shot on and Sandra headed back towards to car park. The sky kept getting angrier and more dramatic by the minute but I couldn't pull myself away just yet. Then the ranger getting angrier and more dramatic yelled out that if we weren't there in 2 minutes that we would be receiving tickets, or something to that effect. I looked over at the trail and could see Sandra at a full run, and I was still shooting away. This was the last shot before I quickly packed up my gear and broke into a full run back towards the parking lot, my backpack full of gear was hammering my back as I ran and I could see Sandra trying to waylay the ranger trying to convince him to spare us a ticket, I'm assuming. We loaded into the car to head out, but the ranger who obviously didn't trust us followed right behind us all the way to the gate.
That was the first time I sent a letter to the U.S. National Park Service, but not the last time. I have been trying to convince them that extending the closing time would benefit the tourist industry because of social sharing of beautiful sunset photos will only help pay their wages and support the parks.
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!! Have a great week ahead everybody!! :)
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Sorry, couldn't convince her to stand IN FRONT OF the car LOL
Or..Trying to get a better view of the fireworks!
Similar to a previous posting..I love this place..the light is always different! I bet it is amazing out there today because we have just had a huge wind storm. May try to convince hubby to drive out tonight. Live Web cam on Dec 27 shows the wave action: www.novascotiawebcams.com/en/webcams/peggys-cove-lighthouse/
The setting sun highlighting the beauty of a pine tree in the town of Changwon, South Korea.
Quote Of The Day:
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. That government is best which governs least." (Thomas Jefferson)
Almost three weeks ago, I was really excited to see and photograph a European Robin here in Jordan but could not convince the subject Robin to move to a another location where there might be a better, less busy, background...
Well, on Saturday, apparently the Robin decided to cooperate... and I do think it's likely that it's the same bird... and not only be cooperative but be responsive to suggestion to stand up straight and not hunch your shoulders, Anyway, I was excited again to be able to get a pretty good look at her... she's pretty cool...
I was experimenting in the garden for Macro Mondays theme this week. This spider didn't make the cut as chosen by my daughter (she's scared of spiders, or convinces herself she is), however, I like it.
Sometimes I wonder how Mike puts up with me. I'm not exactly a "normal" wife. Not only am I generally uninterested in things like cooking and other traditional wifely arts... I spend a lot of time doing messy things that would make most "normal" people shake their heads.
Last week, I flagged down a local parks crew. They'd been out pruning the ornamental plums and cherries that make our corner of the world so pinkly magical in early spring. For years, I've been asking the dudes to tell me when and where they're pruning... so I can grab some branches before they hit the chipper.
This year I hit the motherlode.
The dudes pulled over in their truck and, when I asked for branches, handed me some clippers and told me to take whatever blooming sprigs I wanted. I looked at the clippers in dismay. "Can't I just take them all?" I asked. And the dudes pretty much just shrugged and said, "Um... yeah... sure... if you want them." So I hauled them all... a truckload of small-tree-sized blooming branches... into the back yard.
Over the weekend, I used some sprigs (along with tulips, daffodils and Dutch irises) to make a bunch of bouquets, which I placed all over the house in vases.
But the real fun started when Mike went to work, and I was free to drag said tree-sized branches into the house. (!!!) I made a huge mess, but... whoa... you should've seen my office filled with blooming branches!!! They're still here. Rather brown and dry... and shedding petals like crazy. But I'm not ready to give up on shooting their shadows yet.
So I really really appreciate that Mike obligingly turns a blind eye to the... ahem... organic matter littering the hallway, stairs, etc. As he turns an obliging blind eye to the various things I leave lying around... plastic eyeballs, doll parts, waterbloated books, hairy crab shells, huge creeping roots covered in sticky mud... etc.
In my defence, I come by this naturally. Just the other day, my mom was telling me how very tolerant my dad has become... how he rarely if ever remarks on the stuff that SHE has strewn around (I'll spare you the list, but it's frequently weird).
So... yeah. Anyway, this is one of those pics that turned out pretty much almost exactly as I'd imagined it. And it's pretty much straight from the camera (I just bumped up the contrast a bit to try to bring out the shadows a little more).
Happy first day of spring. May all your metaphorical offices be filled with metaphorical cherry blossoms.
Well here we have another useless item that sits on a shelf in the living room. This time its a monolith of cherry wood from a large beautiful burl I found on a piece of fire wood I was cutting up. This little piece (1.5 X 1 X 2.5 inches) was left over and it looked too nice to burn so I squared it up, sanded it, added a little oil finish and voila, a finished useless wood chunk to add to my collection! Now I know what you're thinking, my kids are the luckiest kids on the planet because they'll inherit all this really cool stuff! Well, most likely, they'll convince the undertaken that I loved this stuff so much, all of it should be buried with me in my coffin!
Dedicated to my friend Gary Brooks (aka "GSB" in the flickr world). Happy Birthday, Gary! This shot will certainly convince you that the aliens are out there!
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Orada’s Convent (“Convento da Orada”) was built on the 18th century (inaugurated in 1741) and shows the traditional baroque style used at that time by the religious orders. It is located in the Alentejo region (in the south of Portugal), very close to Monsaraz.
Unfortunately it has been abandoned and is now in ruins.
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Monsaraz, Alentejo, Portugal
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P.S.: The image may seem the result of exposure blending, but that isn’t the case. It’s the result of post-processing just a single RAW file. As well, the shadows you see projected on the convent’s façade were created by light filtered through surrounding trees (although how the sensor got that light comes always as a mystery to me in this kind of shots, as it was pitch dark...).
© All rights reserved Rui Baptista. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Réalisée le 05 juillet 2015 à l'île Bonaventure en face de Percé, Gaspésie, Québec.
Un regard qui en dit long.
Made on July, 05th / 2015 on the Bonaventure Island, in front of Percé, Gaspesia, Quebec.
This only look is enough to convince anybody to stay away of its nesting spot..
I looked at this image long and hard before I decided to process it for posting today. The reason I thought about it so long was because I couldn’t tell if I loved or hated the effect of the blur caused by the weed in the foreground. I was forced to look several times to convince myself that the rocks and the hills are actually in focus and that it wasn’t just a shaky hand making the image look soft. Please let me know if this has the same effect on you so I know it’s not just my eyes. Oh, by the way in case you didn’t recognise it this is Elgol beach on the Isle of Skye.
Mount Vernon, Washington is at the heart of Skagit Valley, famous for its tulip fields. Old image, but it must have looked the same this year, too :-)
Flickr's outage this week makes me very upset. Even now, they did not fully recover. The site is slow, a lot of things fail sporadically, and e-mail notifications are mostly not coming. [Update two days later: things are mostly back to normal. I'm trying to convince myself that the level of disruption was acceptable. Ideally (speaking as a software professional) no, pragmatically - yes. Amen.]
Shot from an overpass looking through the lavender and grasses at the street and lights below.
Flickr is getting rid of the People feed (People you Follow) on July 1, without consulting any of its paying customers - us. Unless we can convince them otherwise, the only way to go through all the images of those you follow, will be to use the Activity Feed, which means you can't just go from one image to the next. It is incredibly cumbersome and not in the least user friendly.
I've added my frustrations and requests in the Flickr forum, and hopefully as many people as possible will do that, and maybe the "higher ups" will reconsider. Here is the link to the forum in case you would like to let them know how you feel about that.
www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157721800883239/
Happy Friday!
It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.
― Susan Gregg Gilmore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubvV498pyIM
It's funny how I find myself in love with you
If I could buy my reasoning I'd pay to lose
One half won't do
I've asked myself
How much do you commit yourself?
It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends
Funny how I blind myself
I never knew
If I was sometimes played upon
Afraid to lose
I'd tell myself what good do you do
Convince myself
===Take me away from me
Melt my skin little by little
Make me see the end
Convince me
Convince me
Confess love to me
And leave the fear, breathe
Confess your love to me
That time is going, breathe
And I spoke with the night so that it does not dawn
To be able to enjoy it whole
And I spoke with the moon so that it did not leave
So that you can drink me whole===
"One day they will come to tell you
how they believe in you, they love you
and how they want you.
Keep your mind on the child,
lock the door,
they are lying..
Someday gnostics will come,
educated and literate,
to convince you.
Keep your mind on the child,
lock the door,
they will sell you...
And when the times come
that the candle will be extinguished
in the storm,
defend the child.
Because if the child survives,
there's hope. "
Taken @ Quoted Memories
“It’s not your job to convince anyone of what you know to be true of yourself. It’s not your job to convince someone that you are worthy. It’s not your job to alter yourself to fit someone else’s liking. It’s not your job to convince someone that you are magic. You know it exists in you. You know the beautiful, hard-working, caring, and strong-willed person you’ve spent days building yourself up to be. You know your proudest and darkest moments and everything else in between. You know that despite what anyone else thinks of you, what you think and believe about yourself triumphs anything else. You know you are magic. You are magic. And you don’t need anyone else to see it to believe it.”
Great Egret in flight.
From Wikipedia:
The great egret is a large heron with all-white plumage. Standing up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, this species can measure 80 to 104 cm (31 to 41 in) in length and have a wingspan of 131 to 170 cm (52 to 67 in).
From bioGraphic:
Ironically, some of the very women who once wore egret-plumed hats were responsible for the species’ recovery. In Boston, socialites Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall discovered that their fashion choice was destroying great egret and other bird populations, and they went on the offensive. The two women founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society as part of a campaign to convince their peers to give up the feathered hats. Similar societies formed in a dozen other states, eventually coalescing into a national association. The resulting National Audubon Society helped enact the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, an administrative success that made it illegal to capture, trade, sell, or buy any part of a migratory bird, egrets included, and effectively put a stop to the plume trade. Today the great egret remains the symbol of the National Audubon Society.
I post this photo for the Happy Caturday theme "Memories". Tofu wants to show you what he looked like when he was a tiny kitten. It was the time when he earned his nickname "Dragon" because he tried very hard to convince the other cats that he wasn't just a little kitten but a big scary dragon. It didn't work. :)
Happy Caturday !
Coolatai, New South Wales
A second lot of chicks have just hatched, the parents are now trying hard to convince the chicks from the previous brood it's time to leave home. There were 5 older chicks, only two remain and seem reluctant to leave.
I looked inside a lie
And I realized that it is a disease
That in the end can never be cured
And I tried to convince myself
That you don't have it
And I got the impression
That they were stealing my time
and that you ... you are stealing my love
But then I walked a lot
and outside there was a great sunshine
That I no longer thought about all these things
And that's okay .... Wordlessly
Vasco Rossi
Corpus Christi Art Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas
You can't convince that I'm not getting better at these..:)) If I could just figure out how to make the reflections look wavy on choppy water I could sale it..;)
Anyway, here's more info: The Art Museum opened to the public on the Corpus Christi Bayfront in October 1972. Constructed entirely out of white shellcrete and plaster, it seems to radiate with the strong South Texas heat and light. This was the purpose, as stated by Philip Johnson: "Light is the essence, and light coming in from all sides is especially bathing and soothing." The floor-to-ceiling windows offer a spectacular view of Corpus Christi Bay as well as the Harbor Bridge.
They said it couldn’t be done.
This light is actually heavy sludge.
It makes it a challenge for even one to move through
like an atmospheric acrobat.
And you want to dance?
A whole group of you
all in different directions?
How will you not fall down?
How will you convince gravity to lose?
How will you not get stuck?
How will you keep your own identity?
How will you coordinate your own survival?
We really proved them wrong, didn’t we?
**All photos and poems are copyrighted. Please NO graphics**
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
- Lao Tzu-
Anche se un tot di gente ancora non ci crede
Che io e la mia signorina stiamo bene insieme.
È l'unica che è vera veramente
Io e la mia signorina stiamo bene insieme.
E forse c'è troppa gente che amore non ne vuole
Però la mia signorina cerca sempre il sole
Mi lascia andare lontano, tanto poi lo sa che io ritorno qui
E non c'è niente di strano se non ha bisogno di convincermi
Potrei anch'io fare il presidente
Ma sto con lei e non mi manca niente
Io e la mia signorina stiamo bene…
(Neffa)
Miu la mia gattina.
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Even if a lot of people still don't believe it
That my miss and I are fine together.
It is actually what it really is
My miss and I are fine together.
And maybe there are too many people who don't want love
But my young lady always looks for the sun
He lets me go far, so he knows that I come back here
And there is nothing strange if it does not need to convince me
I could also be president
But I'm with her and I don't miss anything
My miss and I are fine ...
(Neffa)
Miu my kitten.
Poem by Kathleen Ossip
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58458/old-s...
A story is only good if it’s made up
but convinces you it’s true.
Even better if one of the characters
is someone who could be you.
How else do you know who you are?
Photo taken in SL @ Naturally Naughty Studio
If today I could convince you and take you to the open country, it will be for you to talk to me and do what we cannot always do.
Luna Ray trying to use her telepathic powers to convince me to let her inside. What you don't see is Elsie behind me, who is bracing to be chased and pounced on. Make good decisions this weekend everyone. B
Usually cats jump into every open box but it took an eternity to convince Linus to climb into this old suitcase. I found this suitcase in the basement when I cleared out two rooms there before the renovation started. It had belonged to my grandparents. I thought it could be fun to use it for taking photos of the cats. Not sure if Linus had fun, though. :)
As it is one year to the day since I put up my first photo, I blew a bubble in celebration!! :^))
This is the second of these tiny flies that I have caught blowing a bubble - I put one up last year which I will link below, but this is a much clearer photo and additionally I upscaled it x2 so that you can see really clearly, it did a pretty good job - worth a double click.
It is a very small fly indeed, not like a house fly and I had no idea he was blowing the bubble, I just took several photos and this was the only one in proper focus. Last time someone suggested it was perspiration, but that doesn't convince me, I rather think it has more to do with feeding and digestion. Just before moving to the petal he was mooching around the centre of the flower which is a small dahlia. I can't say if that was the same with the other one, which was on a Crane's-bill Geranium but I suspect it was.
Any suggestions as to the purpose - beyond celebratory, please add a comment.
A quick search just now and a science mag says it is to cool them down - so I guess *the science* is in then! I'm still not convinced - there, that should set the science police on me, what a rebel I am! Gosh! Who'd have thunk we can think for ourselves? I still think something to do with aiding digestion.
.....Further research diptera.info proposes perspiration or food digestion. He or she was definitely feeding just prior so I still plump for some kind of oxidization aid to digestion. If you look closely there appears to be some sort of debris / food / matter in the bubble. Also it seems they do not secrete the bubble, they pull it back in which doesn't seem to fit with perspiration.
The other photo is here -
www.flickr.com/photos/magoo7/52523052146/in/dateposted-pu...
♫ You know those days when you wanted to choose
To not get out of bed and get lost in your head again
You play the game but you gotta cut
'Cause you're coming down hard your joints are off stud
I tried to say that's not the only way
I never knew if I could convince myself to change
You were pacing, I was insecure
Slip and fall I got the calls of the prison I was living in ♫
Tune: youtu.be/ABzh6hTYpb8
On Dacio
Head - Lelutka
Body - Legacy
Face/Body Skin - Not Found
Hair - Modulus
Eye Patch - Cubic Cherry
Eyes - Fuoey
Ear - Mandala
Tattoos - Prodigy Ink
Body Hair - Cheerno
Mask - Random Matter
Harness/Top - Salem
Arm/Hand Bands - Matova
Shorts - Legal Insanity
Rings - RealEvil Industries
Sim location: Tralala's Diner @ Pine Lake - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pine%20Lake/170/156/28
My dear sweet Atticus went to the bridge yesterday. Any dog owner knows how hard it is to love a best friend so much and the day comes when you have to say goodbye. You try and prepare yourself for that day when you start seeing signs that he is aging. Stumbles up the stairs, quits taking those long, cherished walks with you, no longer can sleep in your bed because it is just too high. The signs increase daily but somehow you just convince yourself that tomorrow will be better. Sweet dreams my friend. You have left me with such sweet memories and I will forever hold you close to my heart.
I looked back at my photos and feel, (at least for today) this image depicts loneliness, sadness and an overall numb feeling. Atticus loved the snow and the lake, as you can see in my photo stream. I know in time I will be back posting cheerful photos, which is my style. I know time will heal...it always does.
What do you want to remember?
The warmth of the sun on my face... the songs of the crickets and the wind trying to convince the leaves to dance... it's the time when summer seemed to last forever...
Those moments still exist, you can go back anytime, just remember to come back... don't stay too long... And now, close your eyes and step into that memory...
I'd usually describe myself as a confident person. Even when I don't talk much, I'm pretty sure and believe in whatever I do. But there are some days, and it's been like this for me for as long as I can remember, that I would get so unsure, so insecure, and doubtful whether I'm enough or not. No matter how 'mindful' I try to be, just the tiniest thing could trigger all those insecurities to surface. Sometimes they don't stay as long, but way too often, those doubts would eat me up; all situations in the past would miraculously come up and convince me that I was no good at all.
It makes me afraid to do the things that I love.
This song "Only The Winds" by Ólafur Arnalds speaks to me somehow. The melodies...the videos...
I'm not sure how you interpret it, but to me, it's about finding the right thing/method to keep you strong enough against the "storms" ... and when you've grown enough... know enough... believe in yourself enough... you've become so strong that you don't need those things anymore.
I am lucky to have friends and family to help me keep myself together whenever I have to withstand those storms. They remind me when I forget who I am or blind to my own good qualities... They are... h e r e.
I believe I have come very far, and I'm learning to be stronger and stronger. Of course, there are those gloomy days sometimes, but no storms can last forever! I may need those strings to hold me up now, but I'm also on my way to not needing them! 💛
... Only the Winds ...
More information about "Art as Mindfulness" Project
can be found Here
Taken @ Mindful Cove
I really lucked out on spotting these 2 puma kittens that were hiding in some rocks while waiting for mom while out on the hunt. One of them just happened to twitch an ear as we drove by - - I told our guide and driver that we had just driven past a couple of kittens and they totally didn't believe me. I had to convince them to back up. We climbed up a hill beside the road in order to get eye-level to where they were on the other side of the valley we were driving through
Good size crop but it works.
Puma / Mountain Lion / Cougar - - Patagonia, Chile
This Supernurse is trying to convince us of something:-) Her scalpel suggests another surgery(re open)
Here's a nice male Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus) who dropped in to pose for me. I couldn't convince him to turn just a bit to the right!
… Look into Jimmy’s eyes and ask yourself whether he – or any ape for that matter – belongs to a zoo, even as well intentioned and caring an institution as ZSL London Zoo.
I try to convince myself that the facts he was born in captivity and Northern white cheek gibbons are almost wiped out in the wild matter… then I take another look at his face…
go forward or backward ...
a veces pensamos que seguir hacia adelante sin mirar atrás será la mejor opción …
Pero a veces el corazón y los sentimientos te hace retroceder
Y lo peor de todo es quedarse con la duda de lo que pudo ser
una lucha entre tu corazón y mente que te intentan convencer
y mientras ahí estas tú parado en medio de la nada …
esperando que las cosas sucedan ... pero las cosas no suceden si te quedas parado sin hacer nada sin avanzar o retroceder ...
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Sometimes we think that moving forward without looking back will be the best option ...
But sometimes your heart and feelings make you go back ...
And worst of all is to remain in doubt of what could have been
a fight between your heart and mind that try to convince you…
And while there you stand in the middle of nowhere …
waiting for things to happen ... but things don't happen if you stand still without doing anything without moving forward or backward ...
For those who may not know somehow, mansplaining is definitely not a new term but I'd define it as when a man decides that, because he's a man, he has certain knowledge or skills that a woman (because she's a woman) doesn't have and therefore the woman should definitely listen to him and consider that she could be wrong. I was thinking maybe this is something that actually happens sometimes after a bad date too when a man tries to convince a woman her perception of him wasn't correct and to give him another chance.
We should all actually listen to and respect each other and also gender is a construct. Have a nice day!
**All photos are copyrighted**
„Die Dahlie und ihr Admiral"
Dahlia
Dahlie
Vanessa atalanta, Syn.: Pyrameis atalanta
To be quite honest: This lens is a pain in the butt! As many of you liked the other two pictures before, I will give it back on the market again.
Already a bit older I have to start to economise with my remaining life time 😎 It simply takes too long to work out shots of this lens until I get a result that convinces me.
Basta.
Um ganz ehrlich zu sein: Diese Optik ist ein Schmerz im Hintern! So gut Euch auch die beiden anderen Bilder gefallen haben, ich werde sie wieder abgeben.
Schon etwas älter muß ich beginnen, mit meiner Restlebenszeit zu haushalten 😎 Aufnahmen dieses Objektivs auszuarbeiten bis ich ein mich selbst überzeugendes Ergebnis bekomme, das dauert einfach zu lange.
Basta.
XT18596
Tofu thinks the other cats sleep too much and occasionally he tries to convince them to rather play with him. It's not a very good idea to wake Sethi up, though, and Tofu knows that. That's why he approaches Sethi quite carefully. :)
As this photo includes Tofu's shadow I decided to post it for the Happy Caturday group theme "Light & Shadow". It's probably not the perfect choice but the alternative would have been no photo at all this week.
Happy Caturday !
Well I won't hold you in suspense any longer. Here it is, built in 1836 and the third oldest bridge still in use in Australia. It is perhaps the supreme masterpiece of all convict constructions in Australia. Now I'll admit that's a big claim, but later on in this series when we devote several days to studying this bridge closely, I hope to convince you that this is true.
This shot was taken late in the day as you can see by the long shadows and the golden light.