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View from Morro Bay Marina boardwalk at sunrise. The tide was rising quickly and the birds were in abundance!
One of my peonies has opened out beautifully so I took two macro shots and blended them...as well a few other slides. HSS
Coastal California presents a study in layers. Here, the land, sky, and sea compose a seamless and ever changing symphony, where the spaces between the movements are felt by the senses, long before they are understood by the brain.
Happy Slider's Sunday everyone.
Bean Hollow CA
Looking eastward from an inner bench along the South Kaibab Trail, a small portion of the Canyon catches pools of shadow from the slant of winter afternoon light, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.
So much has burned in the American West since I made this photo not that long ago, and so much land is currently burning. The Front Range of Colorado recently experienced some of the most polluted air in the country as we navigate one more summer with heat and drought that conspire to loft incinerated forests and their previously sequestered carbon pluming into the atmosphere to trap even more heat. At the same time, we have deeply feckless leadership in all branches of government in the United States, and many other countries are also run by grasping charlatans and their brethren. It is hard to watch so much life burn for the benefit of so few.
I suppose one of the Canyon’s teachings is accreted amongst the very layers of its depths. The stone strata speak of Earth’s immense history, soliloquizing with their fossils of the evolutionary experiments that arose, flourished, and then disappeared, with only the minerals entrusted with their tales. Almost every species that has ever existed has found its way into the stone eventually. Some lineages like the Nautilus persist, relatively unchanged after 500 million years. Others flourish spectacularly like the dinosaurs and then meet an untimely cosmic end after 160 million years. Collectively, the fossils, the paleontologists, and the geologists tell us that individual species typically exist for 5-10 million years before going extinct. The hominid lineage, of which our own species is a part, is thought to have existed for approximately 7 million years, and the genus Homo is estimated to be 2.8 million years old, and Homo sapiens, little old us, has stretched out its neck to peer at its surroundings for a mere 300,000 years. Will our story, once it is written into a compressed layer of Canyon time, be one of wisdom or of folly? Perhaps the Nautilus can tell us.
Collective 52 Photo Project. 9/52 Layers.
For this weeks theme ''Layers'', I used a collection of 5 original photographs, processed in Lightroom and layered in Gimp.
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Layers of land. Creative edit of Eucalyptus tree bark. Through my eyes and lens a mountain dreamscape.
This is my latest holiday souvenir that came from the Basque Country. I believe it is called shale and is a sedimentary rock that is formed by layers of mud, clay and bits of minerals that were deposited on top of each other. There were then compressed for millions of years. My geography teacher used to compare rocks to pastries and this one I'd say is like a burned mille-feuille.
Lots of holiday pictures to follow in the next few weeks. HMM everyone!
For Macro Mondays
Subject: Layers
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Layers of fabric in the sunlight. HMM, everyone ! !
The rock strata of Elgol at low tide acts as a stage, with the gorgeous backdrop of the Black Cuillin across Loch Scavaig.
Layers of a big pine cone, they are covered in dried lichen.
This is 5 cm.
Happy Macro Monday
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Real knowledge, or what is better called wisdom, is not a triumph over mystery but a rapport with the mystery—and with the meaning for which it stands.
-Approaching God, The Way of Abraham Joshua Heschel, John C. Merkle
Dante had become a not unfamiliar figure in Verona. Boccaccio tells of several Veronese ladies who saw him walking by one day. They were struck and a little frightened by his appearance, his face fixed in gloom and smudged as though by soot, his beard bristling as though tinged with fire. He seemed, they thought, a character emerging from his own Inferno.
-R. W. B. Lewis, Dante; A Life
"Un pessimista vede solo il lato scuro delle nuvole, e si deprime;
un filosofo vede entrambi i lati e se ne infischia;
un ottimista non vede neanche le nuvole… perché cammina su di esse."
Leonard Louis Levinson
Strati di nuvole basse adornano le pendici delle prealpi Trevigiane. Foto di archivio
Buona giornata :)
Well we headed to White Rock which I don't often do because of the crowds of people. Well on a mid-week morning not only was there no crowds but the parking was free, oh and the views are decent ;) Kris...