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Taken on a local back road next to a lovely little reservoir hidden in the East `Renfrewshire Countryside.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Willemsplein, Boompjes, High rises, Signal pole, Grafitti (slightly cut from all sides).
Sometimes grafitti (stencil) artists are very much context sensitive. The person involved found a fascinating place: under anti-climbing spikes on an electronic mast of the Rotterdam harbour tracking and guidance radar system.
Guidance (1) is : here.
In January 2020, I brought a couple of friends out to Sugarloaf rock, Western Australia to capture a photograph of them under the night sky.
I wanted the image to be immediately striking. Capturing the viewers eye to the couple looking over a dramatic landscape. However, the early season milky way in australia lends itself drastically different compositions compared to the peak season in the winter which is when I normally shoot.
I usually face towards the south or towards the west when capturing ultra wide panoramas of the milky way. But at this time of the year, I face towards north-east to capture the most interesting parts of the night sky.
I framed the couple under the milky way, looking out towards the rocky landscape and the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse towards the left of the frame. In the sky, the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud is shine bright and the faint glow of Barnard's Loop becoming visible around Orion.
See you under the stars
Parental guidance.
A proud parent of these cygnets is keeping a close eye on its off-spring and no doubt offering some guidance in the feeding and foraging process.
During the whole process it is offering parental guidance.
Harrington Park.
New South Wales.
Australia.
Mike Skinner has been part of the HRG team since August 2013. After participating in PDS and Time Trial events in his 2004 street GT3, Mike bought an HRG-built fully race-prepped Boxster and set out to earn his POC Cup Racer License. Indeed, Mike earned his Cup Racer license in mid-2014 and has been improving his skills by participating in every single practice, qualifying, race or enduro available.
Mike has already earned two podium finishes, and eagerly solicits guidance and direction from HRG’s VP of Operations and team coach Eric Oviatt. It’s no secret that Eric expects safe driver improvement and isn’t shy about giving directions. He currently races his #698 Boxster in POC GT5.
Mike is married to Wendy and has 3 adult children and two neurotic chihuahuas. Mike and his family live in West Hills, CA. In his spare time Mike watches every race broadcasted by his cable provider. In the winter Mike and his family are snowboarders in California’s local mountains.
Photo of Turtle Lake captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 50-135mm F/3.5 lens. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. On the first day of June 2018.
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-160 * Aperture: F/5.6 * Color Temperature: 5050 K * Film Plug-In: Kodak Portra 160 VC
Antennas just outside Inuvik on the Tuk Highway.
If you know what they are used for, let me know.
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
The trees always make me feel like I'm finding my way home.
Taken yesterday in the magical woods with a fellow photographer, Curis Parratt. And the 4th in my 52 week project called "Wonder Weeks", the theme this week is "Directions" and you can join here:
A land suspended between sky and water, history frozen in stone, accidental monuments bearing witness to wind and heat.
Les Bouches du Rhône, tamed and yet indifferent to the passing of man. The ceaseless wind, silencing our fleeting words.
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
A series built under the inspiring guidance of Klavdji Sluban in Arles, May 2024.
You can find the entire set on my website at www.giomagphoto.com/and-time-stood-still
Not what you expect of a Spring night, but the water droplets that made up the mist at least gave a resting place for the rays of light emanating from the lighthouse.
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… from the Founding Fathers.
OK, I think I'm done posting pics from the Jefferson Memorial for a while. I'll try to go out and shoot something else this weekend.
Processed in LR4
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As I stood before this amazing statue, my mind went into a playback loop trying to comprehend how it was I came to find myself here. One moment I was in a grocery store crowded with Saturday morning shoppers. Next moment I'm here in this desolate burial ground, completely alone in the presence of this figurine. The intermediate movements were already becoming vague. I simply reacted to a sudden urge to gather up the camera and come here. I wandered about for perhaps half an hour, shooting many photos but not feeling fulfilled. My hands were numbing from the cold wind. I headed back in the direction of my car which beckoned me with warmth and security. I stood there for a few moments, but instead of getting in I started walking away. This happens so often I've become accustomed to it although to relate it to others makes me sound like a crazy person. At times I actually feel I'm being led about, guided as to where to go. Sort of instinctual I suppose yet it often feels external, as if it's not of my own choosing. I equate the feeling to a water witch, a person driving for underground water with a dousing rod. Anyway, back in the moment, I felt a spiritual presence even before I saw this figurine. When it came into view I knew immediately this is why I had been brought here. I approached with a sense of reverence. This seemed to be way more than a simple figurine. Everything about it seemed so lifelike. The facial expression was filled with emotion, a weird combination of joy and anguish. It was haunting and so eerie yet comforting to be next to. The entire morning boiled down to this place and time. As usual, the lighting and conditions were perfect, like walking onto a sound stage that had been thoroughly prepared. The heavy Nikon hung uselessly at my waist. It was simply not needed; way past overkill. I pulled out the iPhone and captured not just the scene, but the emotion I felt and the overwhelming serenity in the face of the statue.
Brutal and often relentless wind/rain/sandstorms over an eon have sculpted the soft gypsum laced Moenave sandstone into whimsical shapes & figures. Those same forces also eventually erode and destroy these natural works of art, as these fallen 'heads' silently testify.
Muchisimas gracias a el Maestro de San Clemente, Jim Long for his guidance & leadership, and especially his unparalleled grace & skill with a camp kitchen.
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Teegle Horse Clover the Irish Cob
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Teegle Heavy Harness Bridle
Teegle Heavy Harness Irish Cob
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Beautiful Coat by Texture Barn:
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[monso] Pink Hair
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Mechthild of Magdeburg: God Is Hopelessly in Love
In season eight of Turning to the Mystics, James Finley points to the guidance Mechthild of Magdeburg offers to people in relationship with God:
We turn to the guidance that Mechthild of Magdeburg offers in The Flowing Light of the Godhead. Through what we know about her life, she’s mentoring us and modeling for us this Christlike life. Mystics such as Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and the author of the Cloud of Unknowing all share their way as mystically awakened Christians. They try to offer guidance to help us discern our awakening, with instructions such as how to recognize our awakening starting, how to conduct ourselves, and so on. Mechthild doesn’t do that….
Mechthild shares this deepening love between herself and God, but she doesn’t share it by talking about it. She lets us in on it with the language of intimacy and bears witness to it. As we read her book, insofar as we’re touched by the beauty of what she’s saying about the deepening of this love, we’re being guided by her. The very fact that we’re touched by it and its beauty reveals that we’re also being drawn into this love—or we wouldn’t be touched by it. That’s how she guides us. That’s the intimacy of her teaching.
Finley describes how we might connect with Mechthild’s emphasis on love:
"In a way, Mechthild is playing a violin with just one string on it, which is love. But the more we listen to it, it’s the beauty of the whole orchestra. It’s the beauty that permeates the reverberations of all the various aspects of this. Even though she just stays on point, never leaving this love, she makes stunning statements about love. We wonder, “Where did that come from, seriously?” When we sit with her, we learn these endless variations are unfolding in us. It’s endlessly evocative and she helps us to be sensitized to surrendering ourselves over to that flow of love….
God says to her that he’s so freely chosen to be so hopelessly in love with her, that he quite honestly doesn’t know if he could handle being God without her. And she says back to God, “Take me home with you. I’ll be your physician forever!” [1] The power of these words is that, as we’re reading them, we know they are true of us. We know that God has freely chosen to be so hopelessly in love with us, and that God doesn’t know if God can handle being God without us in our brokenness…. It circulates back around, and we give back to God the gift that God longs for, which is us!...
To sit with Mechthild and to read her is to be taken by the beauty of what she says. It is to sit in silence and ask God to deepen our capacity to realize how the love of which she speaks is already unfolding within us, and how to be faithful to that, and to carry it through the day."
[1] Mechthild, The Flowing Light of the Godhead 3.2.
Adapted from James Finley and Kirsten Oates, “Turning to Mechtild of Magdeburg,” in Turning to the Mystics, season 8 (Albuquerque, NM: Center for Action and Contemplation, 2023), podcast, MP3 audio.
Meiji Jingu, Tokyo, Japan
[Photo Archive] June 2007
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Camera: Nikon D80 + 18-135mm lens kit
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This photo holds a great deal of spiritual significance for me. The circumstances of my life have been nothing short of tragic over the last 5 months or so. Yet, I have made the decision to hold on to God's hand even as I am led into the cold, deep of the ocean. I know I'll be okay...just as long as I keep holding on.
Explore # 68. Thanks all:)
Explored - Highest position: #274 on Sunday, March 19, 2017.
A cold sunday in my hometown Tønsberg. This is the essence of 5 minutes.
Cape Spear Lighthouse, NL
It is natural for us as humans to seek guidance throughout many aspects of our life...seeking out answers that while help us accomplish our goals. Often times hoping that the ones we reach out to have all the answers and that they can layout the path in front of us so that we can just easily walk down it. Even though this may work for certain situations in life this can have a negative effect when it comes to creativity...like photography. When I started out in photography I did just that...seeked out the pros for all the answers. I figured that if only they would share their methods I could be as great as them. I have poured over hours upon hours of tutorials, lectures, interviews, blogs and tips..what I have come to slowly realize is that no matter what I have learned, not matter what they have taught me...I still need to find me..my creative side. That I still need to answer my own questions. What do I like, why do I like it..how can I use the tools and skills I have learned to create or capture what I want. We are often so focused on achieving what others have done that we place a blinder on to our own creativity. When it comes to photography both capturing and processing an image there are so many different ways of doing so that really there is no right or wrong answer. You just have to find out what works best for you...what method or path achieves the look you want or helps you get closer to your goal. Use the knowledge and experience of others like a lighthouse to guide you along but keep in mind you still have to stir your way through to the end.
This image was one I had in my mind for a while. I wanted to capture a series of images from twilight to sunrise and blend them together to simulate all those moments in one image. The fading stars as the sun begins to rise. I love the idea of creating an image that displays moments in time through out a sunrise or sunset.
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse - California
My favorite thing about this shot is that i pulled it off handheld at only 1/6 second and still got it sharp. that and it was a really pretty place to shoot. From my last trip with McMike- down the California coast.