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I’ve always loved the way nature overcomes ‘our’ way of unbalancing it. It offers me hope for the future. But wouldn’t it be better for us to help it along by making its job easer?
Anyway, this is an unusual image for me to be posting, I normally focus on pure nature, but even through the image is very industrial for me, it does demonstrate optimism. Anyway this image is from a few months ago, I was stood in the middle of a field trying to get images of northern lights and I was keeping myself busy light painting a dilapidated greenhouse! I particularly like the structure in this and the textures and colour difference between hot and cold I find particularly pleasing.
“Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway.
Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.”
― Amby Burfoot, Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life
The world is so beautiful. Hope you all had a good day! :)
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I took a photo of this tunnel months ago, back in June. It doesn’t feel like months ago, but it was….
I do have more optimism than I did the last time I took an image in this spot.
Photo of oil droplets from the oil & water macro abstract photography assignment captured via Minolta MD Macro Rokkor-X 100mm F/4 lens. Inside the creative halls of the 494 ∞ Labs. Early December 2020.
Exposure Time: 1/10 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5094 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Velvia 50 * Adaptor: 1:1 Extension Tube
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” – Kahlil Gibran
In the morning of her life.
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Gibt es einen Ausweg aus dem Dilemma meines Zweifelns?
Das Leben baut auf Gegensätze auf. Was geboren wird fällt der Zerstörung anheim. Der Tag wird zur Nacht und der neue Morgen erlöst den Geist wieder von den Ängsten der Unterwelt mit ihren Gefühlen von Unzulänglichkeit und Selbsthass. Optimismus baut sich auf und neue Hoffnung lässt dich leben. Doch wenn der Tag sich neigt, tauchen die alten Dämonen der Selbstzweifel wieder auf und der Kreislauf zwischen Verzweiflung und tatkräftigem Mut beginnt von Neuem.
Gibt es einen Ausweg aus dem Kreislauf von Optimismus und Pessimismus, aus Vertrauen und aus Zweifel? Ja.
Dem alltäglichen Bewusstsein ist das allerdings nicht möglich, denn es ist an die Gegensätze gebunden. Dem nicht wertenden Bewusstsein sind beide Erscheinungen gleichwertig. Positives kann negativ werden und Negatives positiv, sobald die Zeitumstände und mit ihr die Wertmaßstäbe wechseln. Es erscheint auch aus diesem Blickwinkel angebracht, Wertungen mit Vorsicht zu genießen.
Unter gewissen Umständen ist das Ego-Bewusstsein sehr nachteilig. Das unerleuchtete Ego ist lästig wie eine Zwangsjacke. Das erwachte Bewusstsein aber bedient sich des Egos bewusst, hier ist das Ego von Vorteil.
Ich selbst empfinde es als sehr beruhigend, dass das Ego eine ambivalente Angelegenheit ist. Man kann fest damit rechnen, dass es eines Tages viel Spaß macht. Beispielsweise an einem frühen Morgen, wenn…
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Digital Art – based on own photography
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"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence." – Helen Keller
This photo is dedicated and inspired by my parents, constantly humble in the face of challenges, eternally supportive, and the most amazing examples of courage and strength. ♥ My father has been courageously fighting cancer for over a year now and is bravely starting a new course of chemo treatments this week. Keep him in your thoughts for me :)
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Gardening has always been a bittersweet activity for me. There's a wonderful sense of hope and optimism setting the plants into the earth in late spring. Feeling the soil in my hands and realizing that winter is truly over and an entire summer lies ahead. I nurture the little seedlings and look after them daily as they grow and eventually mature. Hopefully supplying a bountiful harvest. But even that at times seems secondary to the process of having a garden and tending to it. Very much a Zen experience for me. But suddenly and all too soon (about two and a half months in these parts) the garden slips into decline. Tomato and cucumber leaves wilt and yellow. The once lush plants begin to look thin and leggy. And eventually the plants simply stop producing crops. Inevitably I have to go in and pull up the plants and I always hate that part. All these thoughts and more crossed my mind when I came across this little garden last weekend. One look at the tomato vines and I knew the end was near. I went back today to check on their condition, but there was nothing left. Only the empty planters remained.
It is a bleak day in Toronto, Canada. I took this from the deck of our recreation centre this morning. You can see the lighthouse and all the sailboats put away for the upcoming winter. Best seen large by clicking on the photo,
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[...] A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them [...]
-- Quote by Leonard L. Levinson
Nikon D70, Tokina 28-70 f/2.8, 44mm - f/10 - 1/20s - HDR 3xp +2/-2EV - Cokin Grad Dark Tobacco filter
Petrella Salto, Italy (June, 2010)
The title encapsulates both George's expression here and my life currently. He stopped by for a visit on the weekend and while I unfortunately had to dash his hopes of food, I'm hoping I'm a little luckier.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff - LIFE ON EARTH with Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Official Audio)
Monarchs and flight
Dawns early light
Life on earth is long
And the sun in the west and the one you love best
Life on earth is long
«Think of notes…. Think of songs…Think of strange flowers…. Hear my voice in your favourite songs….»
This was painted on the brick wall surrounding the football stadium back home at Messologhi, Greece.
It’s facing most of the high-school classrooms. Students see this when they glance outside the classroom window…..
We don’t have to search hard to find something to cheer us up…. Joy, optimism and hope is sometimes hidden in the simplest of things…….
The first competitors for the race waiting on the beach as preparations made to 'launch the junior fleet'
إفتحوا نافذة الحياة..تشع أنوار الأمل..تستنشقوا نسيم التفاؤل
بقلمي: لمى الشهيل
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My design..تصميمي وطبعا النافذه من تصويري =)
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Optimism is faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. --Helen Keller
Photographed south of Tomah, WI
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Optimism!! Optimism has magic in it. Looking for beauty and truth and what is right has magic in it. No matter where you are, you can find something about that place that is beautiful, true or good, even if it is simply the lessons you are able to learn there.
Old abandoned farm... full of really awful graffiti.... dead of winter.... sinking through the snow up to your knees (face planting in the snow (unintentionally), nearly frost bitten fingers....
Find the good....
Quiet and peaceful (no one sees you fall flat on your face in the snow), fantastic icicles sparkling in the sun, fingerless gloves with mitten flaps, hand and foot warmers (best thing EVER!!), wool knee socks, scarves, friends willing to brave the cold with you... (learning how to spell Satan....see KTE307)
LOVING WINTER!! ♥
Do it!! Find the good!!!