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is to create good from a bad situation :-)
Wayne Gerard Trotman, Goodreads post, 2020
HFF!! Protest Injustice! Resist!! Vote!!!
rose, little theater rose gaarden, raleigh, north carolina
"...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival..."
— Sharon Kay Penman (Here be Dragons)
Day 43 - Best Viewed Large On Black
Yma Ceir Dreigiau
I was recently browsing goodreads again in the hopes of finding a new literary masterpiece to add to my dreadfully long to read-list when I stumbled upon quotes of The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradburry. [read more...]
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Read all about it ▸ chloedakota.com/2016/10/29/martian-chronicles/
“Find magic in the little things, and the big things you always expected will start to show up.” ― Isa Zapata (according to goodreads.com)
I am always looking for (and sometimes finding) magic in the little things (that's why I love macro images), but I am still waiting for the big things to show up, lol : )) (just kidding)
Today is one of these days I just needed some cheerful bubbly bokeh ... so: Welcome to my Bokeh Party !
[ Pentax K-70 + manual vintage Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI - wide open + strong backlight ]
Take care !
my 6th grade teacher taught us a song she composed on the piano with lyrics from the poem in the link www.goodreads.com/topic/show/12052698-be-the-best-of-what... I often hum it when I have had a tough day:))
I looked at this picture and tried to think up a title. The above words came to mind. And then something made me Google it and I found someone else had got there first. Someone called R. H Sin. Go to his website and he writes:
Dear Reader,
I am writing this at 5:12 in the morning as I've been up since 1:56 am, thinking about my life and the way you'll remember it, the reader. We don't necessarily know one another; we're strangers by definition, but somehow my words mean something to you, and this is why you're probably here. For over 180 days of this year, I've taken time to disconnect from everyday social norms to reconnect with my mind, body, soul, and my family. There are questions that I've had in my heart, and interestingly enough, those answers were sometimes found in my child's eyes.
I could have written that too.
'' The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.''
- Laozi, Tao Te Ching -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/230935-the-tao-that-can-be-told-...
Have a nice weekend my friends. :-)
Sony a6000+ Leica Summilux 50mm 1.4 +Voigtalnder V-E close focus adapter+ Kenko DG Extension tube(16mm+10mm)
Reading "Crucifix Lane" by Kate Mosse, I was reminded of this photo I took in London.
"Streets of London"
Crucifix Lane (Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
London (England/ United Kingdom).
Energy Sprawl Solutions is Now Available!
My recent absence from the Flickrsphere is because I have been working on a new book, Energy Sprawl Solutions: Balancing Global Development and Conservation (9781610917223) and I’m happy to announce that it is finally available! I’m excited to tell you and others about the book and the roadmap it provides for our energy future.
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Learn more about the issue of Energy Sprawl on The Nature Conservancy website: global.nature.org/initiatives/energy-sprawl
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JK
"Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt
Discussion held at Sarah's Books & Coffee
Up Next:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Other Book Suggestions:
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
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“The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”
― Milan Kundera, Slowness
©2023 Peter Mardie, all rights reserved. Protected by Pixsy.
“Glad to meet you,” he said, grinning at me across the front seat. He had two gold teeth in front. “The fortune teller says I’m supposed to meet someone important today. Maybe it’s you.”
(From: Bangkok A-Go-Go, by John Hall, 2004)
Maybe it was her.
She was studying me carefully. She had been studying me for some minutes.
"I know you,' she said.
She wore tropical street camouflage, a Harley Davidson cap and carried a fake snakeskin handbag that seemed heavy.
"Acapulco," she said.
The heat was a clammy serpent squeezing the water from every pore of my body.
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Agent: ZodaZoul
Acapulco? Whatever happened in Acapulco??
www.flickr.com/photos/petermardie/52284638695/in/dateposted/
It's all very mysterious and very strange, I know. If you want normal people please turn on the TV and listen to world leaders. But you didn't come here for reality, did you?
From our series 'Série Noire'.
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The line with the serpent is borrowed and changed from the novella Curtain of Rain, by Tew Bunnag, 2014. I highly recommend this novel set in Bangkok; it's wonderfully written, multi-layered and offers great insights into Thai society. Outstanding novel.
For further info:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21566462-curtain-of-rain
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Our incipient web page:
(poem by A. A. Milne: www.goodreads.com)
Last sunday my hubby and I drove into the country to get some fresh air since I had been working from home and hence staying inside (as requested) for the most part of that week (now it's already end of week 2 of home office and self distancing).
Spring blossoms blown in the wind and with manual focus - so not completely sharp ... but I like the atmosphere !
Taken with my 'old' analogue Nikkor 50mm AI f/1.8 - wide open:
I finally got an adapter for my Pentax body! So I've got even one more Nifty Fifty, lol ... and was very surprised about the 'cheerful' bokeh character of this one : ))
As always these days: Please stay safe and healthy !!
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Ein ziemlich windiger Sonntag - dazu ein manuelles Objektiv: Also nicht ganz scharf, diese Frühlingsblüten ... aber ich mag die Atmosphäre !
Aufgenommen mit meinem 'alten' analogen Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 - Offenblende:
Ich habe endlich einen Adapter für meinen Pentax-Body bekommen! Also habe ich noch ein 50mm mehr zum Spielen ... und war sehr überrascht über den 'fröhlichen' Bokeh-Charakter dieses Exemplars : ))
Wie immer in dieser besonderen Zeit:
Bitte bleibt gesund !
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
Attributed to Frank Zappa
www.goodreads.com/quotes/12280-the-illusion-of-freedom-wi...
For FlickrFriday's #drop theme
I tried this "drop art" a few weeks ago using a rather random multicoloured background. It worked surprisingly well. I've wanted to try it with text / books to see if it could be effective with words.
This is created by a layer of glycerine drops held above my kindle. The kindle allowed me to increase the size of my text as needed to get a good image. It also meant the text was flat, which might have been tricky with a proper book. Because the text was so large, I did struggle to get any interesting words showing through, but I've certainly proved the point I was trying to.
And, yes, clearly the book on my kindle at the moment is not one of the literary greats. In my defence, I've spent several months struggling with a few Classics - Rudyard Kipling's Kim has taken me about 6 months to get through - so I needed something a bit more light weight and fun.
If anyone's interested, this is Cursed Luck, which is the first in a new series by one of my favourite authors, Kelley Armstrong. So nice to have a book that makes me to want to sit down and read, rather than find an excuse not to! I'm having a bad reading year. I've reduced my Goodreads target for the year from 70 to 50 and I'm going to struggle to get to that...
People watching outside a Costa in Sandwich, Kent and this guy sat down with his coffee totally absorbed in his book. Couldn’t resist taking the shot.
Everyone needs a comfy corner to chill and relax, sip tea and enjoy a good read...
I'm so afraid to read the news each morning, the same feeling I had during the past presidency.
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Eͤxͯрⷬloͦrͬeͤdͩ ⍟ March 5, 2022 # 48
Artwork by Bob Nicholls, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nicholls_(artist)
Re-photo from a new book I'm currently reading, "The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World," which is off to a great start:
www.goodreads.com/review/show/4749121072
Definitely one to feed your Inner Dino-Geek! Such as the Texas pteranodon Quetzalcoatlus, which was as tall as a giraffe! Literally! And could fly! Whoa. Likely the largest and heaviest flying animal, ever.
Copyright held by the artist and his publisher, Thames & Hudson, who did great work on this book. This is a re-photo direct from the book, so you can see what a great job of printing/colour balance they did. Check it out!
This is a Murano glass perfume bottle with its stopper. Although I would love to say that I bought it in Murano - because I have been there - the truth is that I found it in a local shop a couple of years ago. :)
For this week's Smile on Saturday group theme, Portray a Book Title. The novel I chose is 'The Glassblower of Murano' by Marina Fiorato. Here's a brief synopsis of the story from the GoodReads website:
Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Manin, sells his methods and his soul to the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, to protect his secret daughter. In the present day his descendant, Leonora Manin, leaves an unhappy life in London to begin a new one as a glassblower in Venice. As she finds new life and love in her adoptive city, her fate becomes inextricably linked with that of her ancestor and the treacherous secrets of his life begin to come to light.
This started off as a double exposure photo of my vertical blinds as the sun streamed through as it was setting. Thus the repeating pattern as the second shot was taken 90 degrees from the first.
"Those who do not learn history ...." bigthink.com/culture-religion/those-who-do-not-learn-hist... . That particular quote has been around for a lot longer than the link indicates - www.goodreads.com/author/show/17142.Edmund_Burke
The stuff of the Universe is waves or fields. / The geometry is fractal. This could be physical or computational. / More : www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/fractal
Just to remember : fluxusfoundation.com/exhibitions/anti-film-anti-art/fluxu...
Suggested reading : www.ramblingonmusic.com/single-post/2011/12/01/cymatics-t...
Fractal IFS created with Apophysis 7X.
My 1979 paperback edition of 'On Photography' which, if nothing else, will make you ask questions about your motivations. Reviews here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/52372.On_Photography Thought I'd show the book with a suitable backdrop, an early-70's Nikon F2S and a cup of Barry's tea.
Inspired a little by a novel I read when I was a kid, "To the Vanishing Point" by Allan Dean Foster
Quote taken from Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill. The book takes place in Montréal, Quebec where the author is from and this photo is from the same city.
This moment made me remember how hard it is to grow up, especially when everyone keeps saying how easy it is to be a child in comparison to being an adult.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/30201327-the-lonely-hearts-hotel
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Created for Treat This # 200 ~ Kreative people
Thanks to CatnessGrace for starter image.
This is another quote from the book The Wanderers by Meg Howrey, which is a little bit science fiction and perhaps even more so delving into the human psyche in interesting ways. Sometimes, when I see all of the people so close yet not connecting and instead so focused on their screens, I think of the emptiness in the world that is being created when we tune out the colors and beauty and focus only on our own interior monologue and anything else that risks us having to think deep thoughts or be bored or uncomfortable. At the end of the world, when all the power goes out, I guess we'll finally get to have conversations with other people.
Here's a link to the book here:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/29966530-the-wanderers
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Lately, my wife and I have been expanding our reading list, and I ended up creating a small library on this rack.
In the year 2020 I ended up reading 13 books, in the year 2021 I ended up reading 28 books.
And on the shelves we can find classics and contemporaries of Brazilian, Portuguese, Russian, English, American, Colombian, Italian literature, among others, and without ceasing to exist my favorite photobooks by Sebastião Salgado and Guilherme Gaensly.
"And while I let the light in, I take the opportunity to sit and enjoy a good read."
Happy weekend my friends.
* I appreciate the visit, faves and comments of my photo.
"In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment."
— Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
I really enjoyed reading Weike Wang's novel Chemistry and I've been waiting since August when I finished the book to use this quote. The characters in the book are well written and clever and the personality of the author comes through as well. Here's a link to the book on Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/31684925-chemistry
The above photo was taken in Montréal, where it might actually get so cold someone might try to punch a cloud now and then...
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Mir-1B 37mm
read ''the yellow arrow'' by Victor Pelevin, as well as his other works, highly recommended.
Life is like a bowl of cherries.
For 115 Pictures in 2015
#57 Food From Fiction
I found this movie clip on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgykbyZBRMs
and this quote at Goodreads “Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.”
― C. JoyBell C.
I have been reading quite a few Nigerian authors lately. I read a really interesting postmodern book earlier this year by A. Igoni Barrett, a Nigerian author. The book is about a Nigerian man who wakes up and is suddenly white except one part of his body and how he experiences life differently-a little not to Kafka at first with The Metamorphosis and a very fascinating story:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23482810-blackass
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(#5)
This is the last one in the series (at least for now) I finished this novel by Novel by Yōko Tawada yesterday and really enjoyed it...made me really think about life in the circus and in zoos from a polar bear's perspective. Also, did you know polar bears can read newspapers? ;)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/29082575-memoirs-of-a-polar-bear
P.S. You can see the snow clinging to the windows of this ceiling
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So, I am a goal oriented person and have chosen to set some goals with my daughter. We love the library and they recently started a promotion to read 1000 books before Kindergarten. Now if you start when your child is a baby one book a day will get you there easily. I have been reading to her daily since she was a baby but this promotion just started, so with 6 months before she goes to Kindergarten we started our march to 1000 books. Currently we are at 285 so we need to kick the reading up a notch to get there. Here is a sampling of our last picks from the library. Goodreads has a cool feature where you can scan the bar code and it automatically will add the books to the list.
ODC - about time (giving my daughter lots of fun reading time)
It was around mid-night. I was sitting on the front terrace with the moonlit sky above, savoring the cool night breeze blowing towards the sea, with my eyes closed. A soft melodious crooning sound wafted through the air into my ears...
"How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?"
I started and glanced around, but found no one. To ascertain that I was really awake and in my senses, I pinched myself... rather hard. Ouch... that really hurt! The crooning sound faded away, but I decided to switch on my cellphone torch and walk around a bit in the terrace garden. And then I noticed the lone dragonfly hanging from a bamboo plant branch, resting for the night. A beautiful dragonfly on a winter moonlit night crooning a Dr. Seuss poem in my garden? :-O I clicked a photo quickly, but knew that I was better off hitting the bed than pinching myself again. The morning next when I awoke the photo was still there, but the dragonfly was nowhere to be seen in the garden...
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"It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea."
— T.H. White (Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome)
* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR
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Here are nine 2022 titles, fresh off the printing press, in children's literary...each perfect, I am sure!
As a former school librarian, I still enjoy doing reviews on new children's literature. I marvel at the work of authors and illustrators and publishing companies that provide great reading materials for the young.
Before I start to read and review these on GoodReads, I thought I would make a poem of the titles. I called it Day Dreaming....
DAY DREAMING
Somewhere
Love in the Library
Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers
I AM Golden
I AM Thinking My Life
The Treasure Box
All from a Walnut
Love, Violet
Goodnight