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THANK YOU ALL MY KIND FLICKR FRIENDS. YOUR COMMENTS AND INVITATIONS ARE VERY MOTIVATING AND APPRECIATED.
GRACIAS A TODOS MIS AMABLES AMIGOS DE FLICKR. SUS COMENTARIOS, INVITACIONES Y FAVORITOS, SON MUY MOTIVANTES Y APRECIADOS.
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Querétaro - México.
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We've had a very grey winter so far, but we have days like this every now and then when i get really motivated to just go out and shoot :) Lots of mist on Vattudalen, Jämtland, Sweden.
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Hannah Lee Bratz, une ancienne agente pénitentiaire, a trouvé un but derrière l'objectif de son appareil photo, en découvrant que des animaux sauvés ont trouvé leur maison !
Passant de l'application de la loi au monde compatissant du bien-être animal, le parcours de Bratz illustre le pouvoir de suivre ses passions …
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THANK YOU ALL MY KIND FLICKR FRIENDS.
YOUR FAVS, COMMENTS AND INVITATIONS ARE VERY MOTIVATING AND APPRECIATED.
Have you ever been so busy that the periphery has to take a backseat? Oh, yeah! Yet, there are motivators that have us going after those things that seem just beyond reach. With just such an influence, I left my house in Durham at 9pm after a hectic day. Arriving at an open spot across from the Hawksbill Mountain trailhead some 3 hours later, I covered up and attempted a few hours of sleep. My plan is to waken by 4:30, but at 4:15, I’m fired up, geared up, and headed up the trail, motivated by expectations of beauty. I would not be disappointed.
Beauty, it has always seemed to me, is one of the great arguments for the existence of God. If we are all only to engage in a pitiless struggle to ensure our DNA survives (as Richard Dawkins suggests), why does beauty matter so much to so many of us?
It was the beauty contained in the Gospel (“good news”) that moved me so profoundly that I became a Christian… I was baptized 50 years ago today, Easter Sunday.
With the help of C.S. Lewis and Josh McDowell, both of whom I could relate to, as well as the Bible, I was awestruck. To summarize: God had an apparently insoluble conundrum between his justice and his love. He cannot turn a blind eye to human rebellion and failure without compromising his perfect justice. He had gone before His chosen people evidenced as a pillar of cloud by day and of light by night, directing their steps through the wilderness. Yet, while Moses was gone 40 days and nights to receive the Ten Commandments, the children of Israel fell into abject debauchery. We're not like that, are we? A good look around now shows that little has changed of the human condition over these thousands of years. A term now identifies that condition, “HPtFTU” or “the human propensity to foul things up.” For all that, God’s perfect love means he cannot remain alienated from those he has created and loves.
How could one resolve such a conflict without compromising one of these twin absolutes? By human logic, it is impossible! But, as Jesus taught his disciples, our logic is not the last word. The Gospel of Matthew records that Jesus told his disciples, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” The astonished disciples ask, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus replies: “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
God’s solution is not to sacrifice his perfect standards of either morality or love, but to maintain both by sacrificing himself. That is the heart of what Christians commemorate at Easter: that God himself intervened in human history, humiliating himself by taking the form of a helpless infant, living a life in perfect conformity with his moral law, and dying an excruciating and shameful death on the Cross.
I know that some consider this a vile doctrine, that what God allows to happen to Jesus makes him a moral monster. They fail to grasp the importance of the understanding that Jesus was fully human and fully divine. It is in that way that God himself pays the price for restoring humanity.
Or, as the Apostle John more poetically puts it: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
I love chasing beauty with the camera as much as circumstances allow. But I’ve found that the greatest beauty is moral beauty – compassion, generosity, self-sacrifice – and the most beautiful expression of it that I have found or could conceive of is what Christians celebrate at Easter in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ.
One of the most beautiful and inspirational verses in all of God's word I’ve found is John 20:16 where you begin to realize the restraints to Jesus’ “divine capacity” were off in a most wonderful way… Jesus called a very bereaved Mary by her name. That's literally all there is to the verse... Jesus said, “Mary.” She thought He was the gardener, and she wasn't far off in that assessment. He did create it. That's what makes this verse so powerful; Jesus is the Word that was there from the beginning (John 1:1). He had just proved Himself through the resurrection. He was victorious over death and sin… in that moment, there was nothing in Nature over which He didn't prevail. The very Universe would snap at His command, yet He cared enough for Mary, not even a mere speck in that Universe, to reach out to her with heartfelt compassion. She had gone in search of Him, but He found her. In this, Jesus set a precedent that differentiates Christianity from all other religions… because He cares for us all no less than He did Mary. That’s why He went to the cross! God wants us to know Him. God not only allows, but also encourages such a relationship. That’s because Christianity in its truest sense isn’t a religion; it’s a relationship, plain and simple… and it's a relationship that's available to us all.
Thank God, Jesus is risen… He is risen indeed!
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What can be seen while spending a night on the mountains, above the clouds slightly moved by the wind, is indescribable.
The authenticity and uniqueness of living these moments can motivate an existence.
Here you can find many other night shots
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Of course she was motivating me to stay home and give her cheese instead of going for a bike ride… but still motivating me.
Italy, Venice, … even so the gondolier sings loudly & full-breasted~ "♪ ’O Sole Mio ♫"~, an Italian classic written in 1898,
…but the sun ignores him this morning at the Ponte Rialto…
Modern gondolas are up to 11 mtr long, 1.6 mtr wide & a weight of about 350 kg, made of 280 hand-made pieces using eight types of wood. It takes about 200 hours to manufacture a gondola; at a cost of roughly 30,000 €.
The oar-paddle, which is several meters long, lies in a fork, forcola, which is inserted into a rectangular opening in the hull on the starboard side. To compensate for unilateral propulsion, the gondola body is built asymmetrically along the central axis; the left side is curved more than the right starboard side, so that its contour on the starboard side is about 0.25 m shorter than on the port side.
The oar-paddle is held in an o complicated shaped fork, known as a Fórcola, allowing several positions of the oar for slow forward rowing, powerful forward rowing, turning, slowing down, rowing backwards stopping, shaped individually for each gondoliers style. The ornament iron, called the "fero da prorà" or "dolfin", on the front of the boat is made from brass, stainless steel, or aluminium. It serves as decoration; every detail of the gondola has its own symbolism & needed to balance the weight of the gondolier at the stern, has an "S" shape symbolic of the twists in the Canal Grande. Under the main blade, there is a kind of comb with six teeth or prongs pointing forward standing for the six districts of Venice. A kind of tooth juts out backwards toward the centre of the gondola symbolises the island of Giudecca, the curved top signifies the Doge's cap.
Originally, the designs were not uniform & changed over the centuries. Originally, there were gondolas in all possible colours. The Venetian noble & patrician houses at the time tried to outdo each other in the magnificent equipment of the boats.
In order to put an end to this unbridled pomposity, the Senate of Venice in 1562 passed the expense law. Supported by the church, this law prescribed uniform black equipment for all gondolas; there were exceptions for foreign envoys & for festivals.
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Germany, Hamburg, "Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe",
Museum of Arts & Crafts.
Easy chair “Donna with Bambino”, Woman with Child,
...designed by Gaetano Pesce in Paris 1969 &
manufactured by Cassina & Busnelli
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France, Alsace, Colmar, "Chez Hansi", an old-fashioned Alsatian restaurant in the Rue de Merchants. The restaurant is named after Jean-Jacques Waltz, 1873-1951, nickname, known as "Oncle Hansi" or simply "Hansi". He was an artist of Alsatian origin, a loyal pro-French activist, famous for his quaint drawings & a French hero of both World Wars.
Rue de Marchands, the street is quite short, very touristy, beautiful, charming, all its half-timbered houses & with its centuries of history & secrets, its multiple colours, its scents of gingerbread, its shops with products & souvenirs of the region & the Maison Pfister on the corner towards the cathedral.
As the name, Rue de Marchands / the street of the merchants, suggests, this street is lined with many shops, local gastronomy, souvenirs, restaurants, tea rooms & also the Bartholdi museum.
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France, Alsace, Strasbourg, “La Petite France”, is to be found on the „Grande Ill“, the main island, where the river Ill splits up into a number of canals & cascades through a small area of medieval “Fachwerkhäuser”, timber-framed houses & baroque sandstone buildings. In the Middle Age, the Petite-France was the tanning-houses, slaughterhouses & fishermen’s area. The most prominent building is directly at the channel & represents the tanner house, in the right centre on the photo, “Maison des Tanneurs”, built in 1572. Boats crossing La Petit France have to go into & leave through floodgates due to a roughly 4 mtr higher water level in this area.
The name “La Petite-France”, Little France, was not given for patriotic or architectural reasons. It comes from the "Hospice des Vérolés”, the hospice of the syphilitic, which was built in the late 15th century on this island, to cure persons with syphilis, then called the "French disease".
Strasbourg is situated on the Ill River, where it flows into the Rhine on the border with Germany, across from the city of Kehl on the German side.
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To reach this place you have to climb bare foot 700 steps. This old lady was not able to stand straight but she climbed these many cumbersome steps so that she can pray in this famous Jain holy place.
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Another non motivating day in my life. Today I haven't do any remarkable work except this capture.
Sometimes I have a question why I am here in this Earth?
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A swimmer getting in their morning workout in the San Diego Bay.
I was at Coronado to shoot the sunrise with the Coronado Bridge but couldn't help but grab some pictures of this brave soul as they swam by before the break of day.
Incredible Russian model Sitorabanu in the Bugatti Veyron overlooking the nighttime Dubai Marina skyline.
I think of this beautiful scenery of the distant mesas I will see from the walking path on Scenic to motivate me to walk daily. Best viewed large (not really best viewed in person!)
MOTIVATION
To succeed in the workplace, you need to be at your best, and you
can only truly be at your best when you are motivated to work.
With the proper inner drive, everything can seamlessly fall into
place. So how can you motiv... more
one of my projects for 2015 is to find out "WHAT MOTIVATES YOU?" ...what is it that gets you or someone you know, out of bed in the morning...to get up and into the days activities?????... please let me know either here in this public space or kept private by personal message...
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