You're every song, and I sing along

'Cause you're my everything

Zenobius - Zafeirios Valvis (1800-1886), 2 times prime minister of Greece in 1863 and 1864, from Messolongi town.

He died very poor, refusing to accept the slightest allowance from the state in order not to burden the state budget.

Guess what. He’s not the one on the stamp above.

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The store fronts along Penn are endlessly interesting. In this scene I liked the palette of blues and greens amidst the range of orange, red, and yellow, and the sort of but not really symmetric layout of doors, porticoes, and boarded-up windows. While everything else is slightly off-balance, the orange cone in the foreground is dead center. Later I noticed that one of the graffitis says "LOST."

I dropped a few rolls of medium format film off yesterday. I didn't get them all back. The one roll was filled with people and places I didn't recognize. The person behind the counter apologized and told me they'd call if my film turned up.

I'm putting the odds at about 50/50.

Nevertheless, the rolls I did get back aren't too shabby. I successfully fixed the light leak on the Pentacon with some gaffers tape along the curtain frame which you can see in the upper right corner of this shot. The imperfect square edge kinda makes it look like an old glass negative. And, with my current addiction to Shorpy, it was nice to get back to shooting classic film, in a classic camera, through a classic lens.

Pentacon sixTL w/ Zeiss Jena 80mm (4f@1/500th) Kodak TMax 100

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In some places is transport very,very difficult...

Woman from a Umm Bororo tribe with everything,what she has...

(Baobab in background is the same one from my previous photo.)

Please,view a bit large:

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(This image is for my one Flickr friend.

Katia-Che-Burashka)

Taken in Eastern Sudan,close to Ethiopia as prevous 3 photos.

I was drawn to this flower because the petals seem almost iridescent.

I went to the Stevens-Coolidge Place in N Andover Massachusetts today. It's a public garden and historic house.

From the official website:

'Formerly known as Ashdale Farm, the Stevens-Coolidge Place was the summer home of John Gardner Coolidge and Helen Stevens Coolidge from 1914 to 1962. Mr. Coolidge, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and nephew of Isabella Stewart Gardner, was a diplomat. Helen Coolidge devoted herself to preserving and improving Ashdale Farm, which her family had first acquired in 1729 and subsequently farmed for six generations. With her husband's support, she transformed the farm into an elegant agricultural estate that exemplified the gracious country living enjoyed then by wealthy Bostonians.'

www.thetrustees.org/pages/366_stevens_coolidge_place.cfm

// Sometimes when everything around us feels so big // And we feel the weight of the world weigh heavy on our heart // We retreat to the private island of our minds // That is where we find our peace //

Everything will change

Last year farm trip

Just Pinned to Everything Gothic & steampunk: Steampunk Art ift.tt/29F2qR1

BOX DATE: 1998

MANUFACTURER: Mattel

MISSING ITEMS: Baby chair, cradle, mirror, tray, 2 hangers, 4 plates, 4 cups, pan, lid, vase, water bottle, picture frame, portable phone/receiver, 4 forks, 4 knives, 4 spoons, bench

SPECIAL FEATURES: Makes sound; rotating wall; fold out tub; shelf folds down into bed

PERSONAL FUN FACT: I'll never forget the first time I saw this compact Family House at the store when I was a kid. Mom, Dad, Colleen, and me were all out shopping at BJ's. Back in the day, there was a small toy section that we always had to check out. I'm not sure what it looks like these days since we haven't had a membership in years. Anyways, Colleen and I saw this house on one of our BJ's excursions. We were intrigued by the concept of a house made for Barbie AND all her sisters. At the time, Barbie's family consisted of Barbie, Kelly, Stacie, and Skipper. It was virtually the same as her current family, only Kelly has been substituted for Chelsea in recent years (no idea why). We were drawn to the iconic dolls that were advertised on the box--Flashlight Fun Stacie, Cool Sitter Skipper, and Cool Blue Barbie. We both drooled over this house that sported so many awesome features--like bed space for each doll and a rotating panel that could dual as a kitchen or desk/bed area! I still recall the way we rhapsodized about the games we could do in such a house. Even though we didn't have dolls with us that day, we were so wrapped up in the potential that the house could have, that we were basically playing anyways. I don't remember anymore if we asked Mom and Dad for the house, or if we knew it was a lost cause, but the house remained a dream. It wasn't until 2019, when we finally got a chance to purchase this house. We may have seen it at the flea market at some point over the years, but doll houses can be hit or miss secondhand. Some sellers want way to much money for Barbie houses that are gutted. Anyways, we unexpectedly came across ours at the local Salvation Army. Colleen and I popped in one Saturday hoping to find her a "fancy" outfit to wear to prom (she was a chaperone). It goes without saying that our first order of business was to investigate the toy section. After finding some Disney dolls we wanted, I noticed a playset tucked on top of a shelf above hanging comforters. I had not previously seen any toys in this particular spot, so I was intrigued. I noticed the $9.99 price tag and the squalid condition of the house and thought we should walk around and think about it before making a decision. The entire time we buzzed through the clothes, my mind kept drifting to the house. After Colleen found an outfit, we pulled the house down and opened it up to make sure it was in decent shape. All the fold out features were intact, and nothing looked broken. There weren't any tiny accessories included, and the house itself was absolutely filthy. It was coated in a brown layer of grime that wouldn't wipe off easily. We brought it to the register and to our surprise, the cashier rung it up for just $1.99! While it was worth the ten dollars to us, of course we loved getting it for a bargain (the cashiers at this location tend to mark the toys down for no reason, probably because they get so many). Once at home, I had the overwhelming task of washing the house. It could not be spot cleaned, and it didn't fit in the kitchen sink. So for a half hour/forty five minutes, I sat on the bathroom floor next to the shower scrubbing every nook and cranny. I had to make certain that each fold out feature was cleaned, and also the bottom of the playset. Then everything had to be left open to thoroughly dry. It was well worth the effort because now the house looks like new, minus a few missing components (listed above). Both Colleen and I felt like little kids living out a childhood dream when we set up the house for the first time!

Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany. - Had a nightmare these days. Somebody broke into our house and cleared it of everything, including all backup copies of the original raw files of my images. I woke up in panic, literally. Tomorrow, I am taking an external harddisk to a safe place outside the house. Above image is one of my oldest with a DSLR and I found it while copying heaps of images to this harddisk.

within.

and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

♬: Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

→: I know they're inevitable but I hate goodbyes. Today we said goodbye to my opa and oma who were here from Holland. It's so hard saying bye to someone when you don't know when you'll see them again.

Life will be life.

Sempachersee Triathlon 2018, Nottwil, Switzerland

Photography and Retouching: Frank Packer

Hair & Makeup: Mish Bratsos

Had to postpone the underwater shoot because it was freezing (It's SUMMER Melbourne) but the 28th December is looking warm enough so fingers crossed.

In the meantime, enjoy this one from last year with one of my favourite creative teams <3

WEEK 30 – Wolfchase Ollie’s, Set I

An overload of wall signs assaults us in this photo, a scene which – if they weren’t used to it already – local Ollie’s shoppers were quickly going to become familiar with XD There are so many of them to be found – not just in this shot, but in this store as a whole – that I doubt I’ll be spending much time describing all of them, so I want to go ahead and encourage you now to always zoom in to the pics in this album and read all of those signs, if you can. In typical Ollie’s fashion, they are littered with amusing(ly bad XD ) puns, so they’re worth it!

(c) 2019 Retail Retell

These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)

Today's edition of "Armchair Traveling During the Coronavirus Lockdown" takes me back to our day in Ollantaytambo, Peru. This town along the Urubamba River in the Sacred Valley at 9,160 feet elevation is known for the Ollantaytambo ruins, a massive Inca fortress with large stone terraces on a hillside. Major sites within the complex include the huge Sun Temple and the Princess Baths fountain. The village's old town is an Inca-era grid of cobblestoned streets and adobe buildings.

Women and children in native costumes were located throughout the town selling trinkets, woven blankets and other products. I had to be surreptitious in my street photography efforts because if you're near them, they put their hand out and expect to be paid for any pictures you take. It bothered me that many school age children were out peddling in the streets rather than attending school.

Everything is going to be all right

Head pressure, medically referred to as intracranial pressure, is pressure between the skull and the brain. Too much pressure in the head can restrict blood flow to the brain and press on structures in the brain. It is a serious medical condition that has the potential to cause severe damage to the brain or spinal cord. Contact your doctor if you experience pressure in the head. Symptoms of abnormal head pressure include lethargy, behavior changes, headache, seizures and vomiting.Even though it is tempting to think of our energy body as a sort of plumbing system with tubes and vents, the reality is completely different. Our energy system is more like clouds of gases that merge and mingle and sometimes cramp up. Or even better, you can imagine it as different coloured streams of water that weave and intermingle and sometimes freeze into ice. These different coloured water streams are our thoughts and emotions and when we try to suppress these thoughts and emotions they “freeze“ and we experience them as “blocks“ in our mind and body.he head chakras (forehead and crown) have to do with the mental part of our being which consists of our thoughts, concepts and beliefs on the intellectual and spiritual levels. When we experience head pressure we are literally suppressing certain thoughts that we do not want to think. It is this suppression that we experience as the head pressure and it happens completely unconsciously. People without kundalini also often unconsciously suppress certain thoughts but due to their greater unawareness they do not feel the pain of this suppression – they are more numb.In the kundalini process, a thirst awakens in us for expanded consciousness and more spirituality. However, there may be still parts of our old ego alive that do not want to have certain spiritual insights and defend themselves by rigorously suppressing ideas that challenge the old ego. So, this is the inner conflict that plays itself out in our head chakras – the fight for spiritual insights and authenticity on the one hand and the resistance of our old ego that is not yet ready to accept some humbling insights on the other.

Before I tell you what kind of thoughts people typically suppress, I need to give you a little warning. If you are a person with head pressure you will probably not like what I am about to tell you for the very reason that you have repressed these kinds of insights in the first place. But everything in this article is based on my work with hundreds of clients who had kundalini syndrome. All the clients who could take the following advice on board now have much less head pressure or none at all.

In my experience, most people with head pressure suppress self-critical thoughts. These people describe themselves as laid-back, easy going and even loving towards themselves. They do not criticise themselves and when others criticise them, they either completely ignore it or they get angry. However, in order to be a spiritually mature person, it is important that we clearly see our many flaws (without beating ourselves up about them) and then get to work to eliminate these flaws.

For people with low self-esteem, this is not difficult to do as they are usually too self-critical to start with. But it is those people who like themselves and have a high opinion of themselves who are most prone to pressure in the head chakras during the kundalini process. (If you do not like this insight, remember that I warned you!

Before I tell you what kind of thoughts people typically suppress, I need to give you a little warning. If you are a person with head pressure you will probably not like what I am about to tell you for the very reason that you have repressed these kinds of insights in the first place. But everything in this article is based on my work with hundreds of clients who had kundalini syndrome. All the clients who could take the following advice on board now have much less head pressure or none at all.

In my experience, most people with head pressure suppress self-critical thoughts. These people describe themselves as laid-back, easy going and even loving towards themselves. They do not criticise themselves and when others criticise them, they either completely ignore it or they get angry. However, in order to be a spiritually mature person, it is important that we clearly see our many flaws (without beating ourselves up about them) and then get to work to eliminate these flaws.

For people with low self-esteem, this is not difficult to do as they are usually too self-critical to start with. But it is those people who like themselves and have a high opinion of themselves who are most prone to pressure in the head chakras during the kundalini process. (If you do not like this insight, remember that I warned you!

Kundalini awakening symptoms include strange body sensations like shaking, tingling or the feeling of moving energy. On the psychologically level we often experience greatly intensified emotions and a general over-sensitivity to ‘everything’. And on the spiritual level we may experience a great increase of spiritual interest but also a lot of confusion.

The first thing that I explain to all my kundalini clients is that a kundalini awakening and its symptoms can be compared with the awakening of our sexual drive during puberty. Both processes have a lot in common.

First of all, both processes are irreversible. No matter, how much we yearn to go back to the carefree innocence of our childhood, puberty endows us with strong sexual urges that cannot be ignored. In the same way there is no going back once kundalini has made its presence known in our body and mind.

In both processes, puberty as well as kundalini awakening, we are endowed with a lot more power than we previously had. In puberty we develop the awesome power to create a new human being and during a kundalini awakening we receive powers like clairvoyance, supernatural abilities and ultimately the ability to manifest ourselves as a divine being.

But until we are able to harvest the full rewards of these newly awakened powers we have to change radically. As we all know, the transition from being a child to a happy parent usually entails many years of difficulties until we learn to channel our sex drive into loving relationships. Everything has to change during these years – our self-image, our relationships, our ability to take responsibility for our actions and generally our entire outlook on life.

In order to manage this process it is paramount to live as peacefully, lovingly and healthily as possible. Anything that could upset ourselves further like taking drugs, having promiscuous sex or experimenting on our mind with meditation without the help of an experienced kundalini teacher should be avoided.

It is good to have a spiritual outlook on life and develop trust in a divine power. But it is important not to overdo spiritual practices as they make the kundalini stronger. If you feel inclined to meditate daily it is paramount only to do this under the guidance of an experienced meditation teacher who has gone through a kundalini experience themselves.

Do ask your local meditation teacher if they have gone through this but do not be surprised if they haven’t because real kundalini awakenings are still very rare. Luckily, in the age of the internet you can also try to find a teacher online and build a trusting relationship in order to get guidance about how to meditate.

It is particularly important to avoid any form of energy healing like reiki or acupuncture. These forms of healing are devised for people who are not in a kundalini process and often do a very good job. But once we have become over-sensitive during a kundalini process these healing modalities can aggravate us severely.

A comparison with puberty can explain why this is. Imagine being upset about your emerging sexual needs and you go to an energy healer to get rid of them. It is obvious that this is doomed to fail. Our libido, as well as the kundalini, is far stronger than these approaches and we will only end up in even more suffering if we try to remove of either of them.

Another thing to avoid is breathing exercises like re-birthing or yogic breathing. Both are powerful ways to alter our body and brain chemistry and can have disastrous consequences if used even slightly in the wrong way. Breathing exercises can be compared with prescription drugs. They should only be used when administered by a skilful physician and certainly not to someone who is seriously challenged by a kundalini process.

I have had many kundalini clients who read all sorts of horror stories on the internet and were very afraid. It is this fear that makes kundalini symptoms far worse than they need be. Just think of how a teenage girl would feel who is repeatedly told that there is the risk of being murdered by her own husband. While this may be true in extremely rare cases, it is not helpful to frighten young people in this way.

The same can be said about kundalini. In rare cases people may deal with it so badly that they end up in a very painful place. But in order for this to happen a lot of negative factors have come together and it is not useful to frighten yourself with these ideas on top of the challenges that kundalini entails anyway. So I strongly advise people to stay away from reading any frightening material about kundalini.

A kundalini awakening is a very individual and personal process, just like the development of a satisfying sexuality after puberty is a very personal process. People usually benefit a great deal from personal guidance in both processes.

For a kundalini awakening, you need an experienced spiritual teacher who has gone through this process themselves – just like all youths need guidance about sexuality and relationships from someone who has mastered these areas themselves.

People also benefit from guidance about how to deal with their budding clairvoyance, which can be very confusing and frightening for the unprepared mind. However, the biggest challenge is always the very personal material that emerges from one’s unconscious mind during this process, requiring personal advice.

Finally, it is paramount to adjust your spiritual practices to accommodate the kundalini so that it flows calmly and steadily and does not erupt in fits and starts. In order to do this, you need a personal relationship to a kundalini teacher who can guide you in this way.

kundalinisymptoms.com/info/help-kundalini-awakening/

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NF She Owns Everything Erin/ I Slay

Yoko's new girl, omg tempting.. she's so gorgeous!

Give me a reason

To end this discussion

To break with tradition

To fold and divide

'Cause I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes

Talking with strangers, waiting in line

I'm through with these pills that make me sit still

Are you feeling fine?

(Yes, I feel just fine)

Tell me that you're alright

"Yeah, everything is alright"

Oh, please tell me that you're alright

"Yeah, everything is alright"

Old Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit Michigan

Selected as LFI (Leica Fotografie International) Master Shot.

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Winter 2011-2012. After the storm ! Lake Leman - SWITZERLAND

i blame this headache on your t-shirts and my lack of sleep. every memory is a little bit gritty and the parts of me only you understood have been traded for a couple hundred sad days. you are my good excuse and bad influence; i tell my mother the opposite. i’d rather throw caution to the cold wind and chase you. this passive love does not belong to you, i long for you, my head’s above the water in the hope that tomorrow will bring me your blue eyes and bony fingers.