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captured at a paris café, this image speaks to the quiet, introspective side of city life. amidst the afternoon bustle, these two figures share a table but remain in separate worlds, each lost in thought. the play of light and shadow, reflections on the glassware, and the subtle details of their expressions capture a timeless parisian moment—one of quiet presence and understated connection. it’s a glimpse into the beauty of everyday solitude in the heart of the city.
Feeling introspective this morning. Maybe a little moody. I think I need some sunshine instead of day after day of dreary rain...
(Textures and large bird brush by Distressed Jewell. The rest of the birds are mine and they're real!)
Introspective old woman.
The 6.5 earthquake that struck Ormoc left many houses in the mountains unliveable bringing with it a large number of evacuees from mountain barangays to the various makeshift evacuation centers scattered around the city. Their living conditions are poor and the rainy season makes it worse.
They still need your help.
Be Your Own Beloved Selfies - Day 22 - Celebrating our individuality. I am quirky, silly, weird, geeky and playful - always have been, and always will be. Yes, I am far too serious and introspective too, but some part of me never wants to grow up. I suppose that this is my own kind of balance :)
Did you ever believe?
Were you ever a dreamer?
Ever imagine heart open and free?
Did you ever deny?
Were you ever a traitor?
Ever in love with your blood, lust and need?
A moment of quiet reflection captured in a stunning portrait. The woman's closed eyes and gentle expression evoke a sense of peace and introspection.
"New Born" - Muse
Link it to the world
Link it to yourself
Stretch it like a birth squeeze
The love for what you hide
The bitterness inside
Is growing like the new born
When you've seen, seen
Too much, too young, young
Soulless is everywhere
Hopeless time to roam
The distance to your home
Fades away to nowhere
How much are you worth
You can't come down to earth
You’re swelling up, you're unstoppable
'cause you've seen, seen
Too much, too young, young
Soulless is everywhere
Destroy the spineless
Show me it's real
Wasting our last chance
To come away
Just break the silence
'cause I’m drifting away
Away from you
Link it to the world
Link it to yourself
Stretch it like it's a birth squeeze
And the love for what you hide
And the bitterness inside
Is growing like the new born
When you've seen, seen
Too much, too young, young
Soulless is everywhere
Destroy the spineless
Show me it's real
Wasting their last chance
To come away
Just break the silence
‘cause I'm drifting away
Away from you
I felt inspired after seeing portraits done by French photographer Philippe Echaroux using just an empty big mac box, a torchlight and a straw to make a DIY lighting rig. He used the built to take some stunning photos (of course heavily photoshopped but terrific nonetheless). So I tried to build my own lighting rig using an emtpy cardboard tea box, some kitchen foil and a torch light. The photo was taken by my wife and then processed by yours truly.
Here is the link to the original idea I came across: www.boredpanda.com/big-mac-box-iphone-portraits-philippe-...
Shin pencil 6B on paper
Kitajima Hirofumi ___contemporary art Contemporary Art CONTEMPORARY ART Automatism Surrealism
Mee is an introspective korean Literature Student, who spends most of her free time at home, reading.
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What a sweet song of beauty. Again this is from my archives from my first shoot with her in the summer of 2012. You can see more of her many moods and expressions in my set "Alexis". Best in lightbox. Canon 5D Mark ii taken in Hopeland Gardens Aiken South Carolina.
A deeply introspective man, Perrin is torn between his human nature and the wolf-like abilities he reluctantly acquires. Though his golden eyes and heightened senses connect him to wolves, Perrin struggles with accepting this side of himself, fearing it will lead him to lose his humanity. His inner conflict is a constant battle, as he prefers peace and order, yet is forced to wield violence and his animalistic instincts to protect those he loves.
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” - Maya Angelou
When I saw these today I thought of Spring ... and of this song:
"When it's Spring again I'll bring again
Tulips from Amsterdam
With a heart thats true I'll give to you
Tulips from Amsterdam
I can't wait until the day you fill
These eager arms of mine
Like the windmill keeps on turning
That's how my heart keeps on yearning
For the day I know we can share these
Tulips from Amsterdam
When it's Spring again I'll bring again
Tulips from Amsterdam
With a heart thats true I'll give to you
Tulips from Amsterdam
I can't wait until the day you fill
These eager arms of mine
Like the windmill keeps on turning
That's how my heart keeps on yearning
For the day I know we can share these
Tulips from Amsterdam"
~ Ernst Bader, 1914-1999 ~
But I also came across this and a fellow Flickrite has been opening my mind to the poetry of Sylvia Plath, whose fascinating, if disturbed, life made for some deep and introspective poetry. The tulips in my image here are quiet and orderly .... and perhaps this is more what Sylvia Plath meant. Sorry this is so long but it tells a story.
"The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.
I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.
I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses
And my history to the anaesthetist and my body to surgeons.
They have propped my head between the pillow and the sheet-cuff
Like an eye between two white lids that will not shut.
Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in.
The nurses pass and pass, they are no trouble,
They pass the way gulls pass inland in their white caps,
Doing things with their hands, one just the same as another,
So it is impossible to tell how many there are.
My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water
Tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing them gently.
They bring me numbness in their bright needles, they bring me sleep.
Now I have lost myself I am sick of baggage ----
My patent leather overnight case like a black pillbox,
My husband and child smiling out of the family photo;
Their smiles catch onto my skin, little smiling hooks.
I have let things slip, a thirty-year-old cargo boat
Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.
They have swabbed me clear of my loving associations.
Scared and bare on the green plastic-pillowed trolley
I watched my teaset, my bureaus of linen, my books
Sink out of sight, and the water went over my head.
I am a nun now, I have never been so pure.
I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted
To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free ----
The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,
And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets.
It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them
Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.
The tulips are too red in the first place, they hurt me.
Even through the gift paper I could hear them breathe
Lightly, through their white swaddlings, like an awful baby.
Their redness talks to my wound, it corresponds.
They are subtle: they seem to float, though they weigh me down,
Upsetting me with their sudden tongues and their colour,
A dozen red lead sinkers round my neck.
Nobody watched me before, now I am watched.
The tulips turn to me, and the window behind me
Where once a day the light slowly widens and slowly thins,
And I see myself, flat, ridiculous, a cut-paper shadow
Between the eye of the sun and the eyes of the tulips,
And I hve no face, I have wanted to efface myself.
The vivid tulips eat my oxygen.
Before they came the air was calm enough,
Coming and going, breath by breath, without any fuss.
Then the tulips filled it up like a loud noise.
Now the air snags and eddies round them the way a river
Snags and eddies round a sunken rust-red engine.
They concentrate my attention, that was happy
Playing and resting without committing itself.
The walls, also, seem to be warming themselves.
The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals;
They are opening like the mouth of some great African cat,
And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes
Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.
The water I taste is warm and salt, like the sea,
And comes from a country far away as health."
~ Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963~
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The eye explores,
with vivid and childlike curiosity,
the much-loved and less well known places in the French capital.
The photograph uses a long-exposure technique,
and refusing the use of a solid tripod,
he walks around, discovers and experiences Paris during the same shoot,
creating introspective, expressive and dreamy images,
that describe the vibration of his exploration of the urban space.
dig·ni·ty
noun
the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.
“a man of dignity and unbending principle”
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this portrait of patrick morarescu, a german photographer and artist living in mallorca, was taken during a joint photowalk in el arenal. patrick wanted to show me the influence of indirect, reflected but natural light on a photo. i found his pose, his expressiveness and the light great and photographed him. I got to know patrick when he photographed me for a german magazine. i found his work great and asked him if he could imagine coaching me occasionally. you can find his work at morarescu.de/.
Belgian postcard by Boomerang for Extrazone. Photo: Warner Bros. Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Reloaded (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 2003).
Keanu Reeves (1964) is a Canadian actor, producer, director and musician. Though Reeves often faced criticism for his deadpan delivery and perceived limited range as an actor, he nonetheless took on roles in a variety of genres, doing everything from introspective art-house fare to action-packed thrillers. His films include My Own Private Idaho (1991), the European drama Little Buddha (1993), Speed (1994), The Matrix (1999) and John Wick (2014).
Keanu Charles Reeves was born in 1964, in Beirut, Lebanon. His first name means ‘cool breeze over the mountains’ in Hawaiian. His father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr., was a geologist of Chinese-Hawaiian heritage, and his mother, Patricia Bond (née Taylor), was a British showgirl and later a costume designer for rock stars such as Alice Cooper. Reeves's mother was working in Beirut when she met his father. Upon his parents’ split in 1966, Keanu moved with his mother and younger sister Kim Reeves to Sydney, to New York and then to Toronto. As a child, he lived with various stepfathers, including stage and film director Paul Aaron. Keanu developed an ardour for hockey, though he would eventually turn to acting. At 15, he played Mercutio in a stage production of 'Romeo and Juliet' at the Leah Posluns Theatre. Reeves dropped out of high school when he was 17. His film debut was the Canadian feature One Step Away (Robert Fortier, 1985). After a part in the teen movie Youngblood (Peter Markle, 1986), starring Rob Lowe, he obtained a green card through stepfather Paul Aaron and moved to Los Angeles. After a few minor roles, he gained attention for his performance in the dark drama River's Edge (Tim Hunter, 1986), which depicted how a murder affected a group of adolescents. Reeves landed a supporting role in the Oscar-nominated period drama Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988), starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich. Reeves joined the casts of Ron Howard's comedy Parenthood (1989), and Lawrence Kasdan's I Love You to Death (1990). Unexpectedly successful was the wacky comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989) which followed two high school students (Reeves and Alex Winter) and their time-travelling high jinks. The success lead to a TV series and a sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (Pete Hewitt, 1991). From then on, audiences often confused Reeves's real-life persona with that of his doofy on-screen counterpart.
In the following years, Keanu Reeves tried to shake the Ted stigma. He developed an eclectic film roster that included high-budget action films like the surf thriller Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991) for which he won MTV's ‘Most Desirable Male’ award in 1992, but also lower-budget art-house films. My Own Private Idaho (1991), directed by Gus Van Sant and co-starring River Phoenix, chronicled the lives of two young hustlers living on the streets. In Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Reeves embodied the calm resolute lawyer Jonathan Harker who stumbles into the lair of Gary Oldman’s Count Dracula. In Europe, he played prince Siddharta who becomes the Buddha in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Italian-French-British drama Little Buddha (1993). His career reached a new high when he starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the hit action film Speed (Jan de Bont, 1994). It was followed by the romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds (Alfonso Arau, 1995) and the supernatural thriller Devil’s Advocate (Taylor Hackford, 1997), co-starring Al Pacino and Charlize Theron. At the close of the decade, Reeves starred in a Sci-Fi film that would become a genre game changer, The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1999). Reeves played the prophetic figure Neo, slated to lead humanity to freedom from an all-consuming simulated world. Known for its innovative fight sequences, avant-garde special effects and gorgeous fashion, The Matrix was an international hit. Two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1999) and The Matrix Revolutions (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1999) followed and The Matrix Reloaded was even a bigger financial blockbuster than its predecessor.
Now a major, bonafide box office star, Keanu Reeves continued to work in different genres and both in big-budget as in small independent films. He played an abusive man in the supernatural thriller The Gift (Sam Raimi, 2000), starring Cate Blanchett, a smitten doctor in the romantic comedy Something’s Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers, 2003) opposite Diane Keaton, and a Brit demon hunter in the American-German occult detective film Constantine (Francis Lawrence, 2005). His appearance in the animated Science Fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006), based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, received favourable reviews, and The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti, 2006), his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, was a success at the box office. Reeves returned to Sci-Fi as alien Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (Scott Derrickson, 2008), the remake of the 1951 classic. Then he played a supporting part in Rebecca Miller's The Private Life of Pippa Lee (2009), which starred Robin Wright and premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival. Reeves co-founded a production company, Company Films. The company helped produce Henry's Crime (Malcolm Venville, 2010), in which Reeves also starred. The actor made his directorial debut with the Chinese-American Martial arts film Man of Tai Chi (2013), partly inspired by the life of Reeves' friend, stuntman Tiger Chen. Martial arts–based themes continued in Reeves's next feature, 47 Ronin (Carl Rinsch, 2013), about a real-life group of masterless samurai in 18th-century Japan who avenged the death of their lord. Variety magazine listed 47 Ronin as one of "Hollywood's biggest box office bombs of 2013". Reeves returned as a retired hitman in the Neo-Noir action thriller John Wick (Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, 2014). The film opened to positive reviews and performed well at the box office. A sequel, titled John Wick: Chapter Two, is currently in production and is scheduled to be released in 2017. This year, he could be seen in the psychological horror film The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016) and the romantic horror-thriller Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2016).
Reeves’ artistic aspirations are not limited to film. In the early 1990s, he co-founded the grunge band Dogstar, which released two albums. He later played bass for a band called Becky. Reeves is also a longtime motorcycle enthusiast. After asking designer Gard Hollinger to create a custom-built bike for him, the two went into business together with the formation of Arch Motorcycle Company LLC in 2011. Reported to be one of the more generous actors in Hollywood, Reeves helped care for his sister during her lengthy battle with leukaemia, and has supported such organisations as Stand Up To Cancer and PETA. In January 2000, Reeves's girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth eight months into her pregnancy to Ava Archer Syme-Reeves, who was stillborn. The strain put on their relationship by their grief resulted in Reeves and Syme's breakup several weeks later. In 2001, Syme died after a car accident.
Sources: Biography.com, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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10/52 - Introspective photo of the week.
Not a good week, not a good school, not a good thing. I do not like this photo. Expresses discomfort. And I'm tired of expressing discontent. It 's sad.
But I feel in a cage, I feel suffocated, why doesn't my body respond? I cry when I cannot.
I would not cry when I do it instead.
I have no control. Passive.
Take it such an introspective photography, sorry.
destinations
soon after i moved in
new neighbours moved in too
about a hundred and twenty lambs in the field next door
they were like me
looking everywhere
but
lacking my years of introspective training
they
were not expecting the unexpected
any sudden noise or passing car
sent them hurtlesurfing up the hill
a single empty-minded wave of white
then
just as suddenly
(threat forgotten)
the breaker dissipated
leaving strands of light across the heather
curiosity returned
(i spent a hurried half hour plaiting pine branches into the fence
to deter ovine trespassers)
life settled down
the day was all over
baa
the shouting
they
and
i
watched the sun set over macleods tables*
i was up at six
loving the dawn spreading over a new landscape
watching patches of alternating sun and shadow
scud across the glen
occasionally
a ruminating neighbour would look up
looks like we’ve fallen on our communal feet guys
graze elegy man
this place takes some bleating
i watched all this
(smiling at their puns)
then
likes cracks across a green mirror
the flock fragmented again
a large ominous truck pulled up by the pens at the gate
three men and three dogs appeared
the latter loped across the field
effortless in speeding curves
that were much more than running
they took up their positions
froze
lay flat
then darted like canine electricity
to cut off stragglers
and guide them all towards the edge
a little give
a little take
some fancy footwork
jive and hootchy coo
but the lambs were lost in more than music
dogs held the floor
before i’d even finished my coffee
the lorry was loaded
three floors of woolly puzzlement
looking out like pensioners on a coach trip
as they drove off up the lane
me
i had a second breakfast
taking a while to chew over my marmalade and metaphor
…………………………….
*flat-topped hills near dunvegan on the isle of skye
this young lady was preparing for her dance....what a lucky capture....i really like how the tepee frames her....and the eagle inked onto the canvas is stunning....wow....love the colors...love the introspective look of this young lady
Cunit, Tarragona (Spain).
ENGLISH
I've been tagged (several people simultaneously, it is stranger, Bruane, La Vieja Sirena and Karol@), and now I must explain 16 things about me. I have never stopped to define myself. I have always thought that this work has to carry out the people who know me, to be they those define and catalogue to me, and for those that do not know me personally, I believe that they can obtain enough from me while watching my photographies.
After a deep introspective analysis that took me 2 days, this is what I have found:
1.- I do not conceive a world without paella nor beer.
2.- When I stopped smoking I realized that I was able to obtain any thing.
3.- If I were rich I would buy an island with a lighthouse in the north of Scotland, or a castle in the Scottish Highlands... What the hell! The two things, that for that I am rich.
4.- I do not support the violence in any of its variants. It is not justifiable.
5.- I am untidy, but I do not support to see a crooked picture or a clock without the exact hour.
6.- I like to have the planned things, although I make hasty decisions usually.
7.- I love to cheer the life to those that surround to me.
8.- I am bad-tempered, although it costs to me to lose my cool.
9.- I do not like to arrive behind schedule at the appointments.
10.- I love to drive, and mainly to discover new places. I like to travel my own way.
11.- I am a perfectionist. Everything what I do, surely that can be done better.
12.- I enjoy learning. I want to know everything, why the things are as they are, and for what.
13.- I don't like my face and I am not photogenic. For that reason I do not appear in photos.
14.- In the school I did not like history, but now it fascinates to me.
15.- I have much patience, but sometimes I am impatient myself.
16.- I am contradictory and sometimes unforseeable, but at heart more simpler than the mechanism of a thumbtack.
It thought that it was more difficult to find 16 things about me, but I began to throw the thread and in the end even I remained short. Now I must tag another 16 of my contacts. Will be you?
More info: know me.
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CASTELLANO
Me han pillado (varias personas a la vez, es curioso, Bruane, La Vieja Sirena y Karol@), y ahora tengo que explicar 16 cosas sobre mí. Nunca me he parado a definirme a mí mismo. Siempre he pensado que esta labor la tienen que llevar a cabo las personas que me conocen, ser ellas las que me definan y me cataloguen, y los que no me conocen personalmente, creo que pueden sacar bastante de mí mirando mis fotografías.
Después de un profundo análisis introspectivo que me ha llevado 2 días, esto es lo que he encontrado:
1.- No concibo un mundo sin paella ni cerveza.
2.- Cuando dejé de fumar me dí cuenta que era capaz de conseguir cualquier cosa.
3.- Si fuera rico me compraría una isla con un faro al norte de Escocia, o un castillo en las Highlands escocesas... ¡Qué demonios! Las dos cosas, que para eso soy rico.
4.- No soporto la violencia en ninguna de sus variantes. No es justificable.
5.- Soy desordenado, pero no soporto ver un cuadro torcido o un reloj sin la hora exacta.
6.- Me gusta tener las cosas planificadas, aunque suelo tomar decisiones precipitadas.
7.- Me encanta alegrar la vida a los que me rodean.
8.- Tengo muy mal genio, aunque me cuesta perder los estribos.
9.- No me gusta llegar tarde a las citas.
10.- Me encanta conducir, y sobre todo descubrir nuevos lugares. Me gusta viajar a mi aire.
11.- Soy un perfeccionista. Todo lo que hago, seguro que se puede hacer mejor.
12.- Disfruto aprendiendo. Quiero saberlo todo, por qué las cosas son como son, y para qué.
13.- No me gusta mi cara y no soy nada fotogénico. Por eso no salgo en fotos.
14.- En el colegio no me gustaba la historia, pero ahora me fascina.
15.- Tengo mucha paciencia, pero a veces me impaciento.
16.- Soy contradictorio y en ocasiones imprevisible, pero en el fondo más sencillo que el mecanismo de una chincheta.
Pensaba que me iba a costar más encontrar 16 cosas acerca de mí, pero empecé a tirar del hilo y al final hasta me quedé corto. Ahora tengo que pillar a 16 de mis contactos. ¿Serás tú?
Más info: conóceme.
Alexis is such a stunningly beautiful woman. This is again from my archives from my first shoot with her in the summer of 2012. I am totally in love with her expression here - it is so enigmatic and it strikes me as leaning heavily towards the sexy side. But it's meaning is open and you can interpret it as you will. You can see more of her many moods and expressions in my set "Alexis". Best in lightbox. Canon 5D Mark ii taken in Hopeland Gardens Aiken South Carolina.
Delight in the enchanting charm of this small dog sitting on a bed of moss, beaming at the camera with a big, joyful smile. Set against the backdrop of a serene forest, this portrait perfectly captures the dog’s happy spirit and the peaceful beauty of nature, creating a heartwarming scene that exudes warmth and tranquility.