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A scrawny, shade-grown neighborhood impatiens, nearly smothered by late October leaves, still puts out a flower, a bright spot amidst the brown.
Persistence and Patience.... The love-hate affair between me and this majestic eagle started around a year back. We used to sight this Eagle everyday in our grasslands, where it used to perch on top of the tallest perch and observe...Just observe.. With those watchful eyes... Once we started sighting this one regularly, we developed a routine which we followed.. Sight the bird in the early morning (around 6 am), stop our car around half a km away so that it doesn't get distracted and wait. Simply wait. Sometimes even till 11 am... With all the hope that it would hunt a snake in front of us, someday at least... It wont be an over exaggeration when I say, i used to go late to work on weekdays only because of waiting for that moment :) But things had its way of working out. We never got an opportunity to see it on the ground making kill in front of us... The hunts used to happen away from us many a times and we were just plain unlucky on most occasions.Patience and Persistence.Finally after a close to 2 year wait, the moment came when we saw the Short Toed Snake Eagle try to hunt a Rat snake ... In front of us... ! A moment i've waited for a long time... A moment which was worth it . All of it...
I thought it was impossible to get a shot of lightning with my camera. I mean, it's got a max exposure of four seconds -- hopeless, right? But I was stubbornly optimistic, and set up my tripod, and pressed the shutter... again, and again, and again...
...until... on the 39th shot....
This happened. SUCCESS!!
Cropped and sharpened a smidgen, otherwise as shot.
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins. Not through strength, but through persistence.”
John Muir
La catedral de Colonia (en alemán, Kölner Dom —oficialmente Hohe Domkirche St. Peter) es un templo católico de estilo gótico, comenzó a construirse en 1248 y no se terminó hasta 1880. Está situada en el centro de la ciudad de Colonia. Con sus 157 metros de altura fue el edificio más alto del mundo hasta la culminación del Monumento a Washington en 1884, de 170 metros. Es el monumento más visitado de Alemania. Es además la sede del arzobispo de Colonia y de la administración de la arquidiócesis de Colonia. Fue declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1996.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_Colonia
Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day,[5] and currently the tallest twin-spired church at 157 m (515 ft) tall.
Construction of Cologne Cathedral commenced in 1248 and was halted in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work restarted in the 19th century and was completed, to the original plan, in 1880. The cathedral is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spires. The towers for its two huge spires give the cathedral the largest façade of any church in the world. The choir has the largest height to width ratio, 3.6:1, of any medieval church.
Cologne's medieval builders had planned a grand structure to house the reliquary of the Three Kings and fit its role as a place of worship for the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite having been left incomplete during the medieval period, Cologne Cathedral eventually became unified as "a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value" and "a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian belief in medieval and modern Europe".
No doubt, some will find this ugly. But to the rest of you who find ALL of Nature beautiful...
First, my apologies to Salvador Dalí and his haunting painting, "The Persistence of Memory," from which I borrowed for the latter part of the title.
What you're looking at is a leaf that has fallen perfectly centered to drape and fold itself neatly over a branch - and there to remain over time to slowly decay. The tree is deep in thick woods, so the leaf has not blown away. I have no idea how many season cycles it has taken for the leaf to reach this stage in it's decomposition, but I would guess at least a couple.
I was lucky - as I was walking through the woods on a nice Fall afternoon in finding sunlight "winking" at me from off to the side of the path. I found it to be coming at me through the few transparent/translucent sections remaining in this persistent beauty.
Sorry for the inevitable few green light spots in the photo, but they came with the angle required in order to get the shot and light I wanted. So be it - Nature is never perfect nor neat.
PERSISTENCE OF THE HORIZON / THE FINAL / CHRISTELLE GEISER & AEON VON ZARK / NAKED EYE PROJECT BIENNE / ALTERED STATE SERIE / THE WEIRD DREAM / PORTRAIT.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.(Hal Borland
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Thanks very kindly for any gracious comment, views and invites. Much appreciated!.... Peace and love be with you.
Namaste.
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A big tree had come down in the sandstone slot that marks the entrance into Mermaid's Cave. A Banksia had also taken a tumble, but was still alive, and growing over the fallen tree. Life finds a way! [Blue Mountains, NSW]
This fella found me particularly annoying, and flew to three different perches to try to shake me. Persistence pays!
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
— Calvin Coolidge
Dedicated to my daughter, who persists in everything, including climbing 500 foot sand dunes, where you slide back 2 feet for every 3 feet you ascend.
After several failed attempts (done by cloud, DVT leading) I finally bagged this shot at Huttons Ambo. 68029 “Courageous” heads 1F62 1034 Scarborough-York.
“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” – Marabel Morgan
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity .. on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory . Creativity ²
stratified as:
Memory . Creativity ² = ∪ { Mimesis . Catharsis ² }
Mimesis . Catharsis ² = ∪ { Metabolê . Catabolê ² }
Metabolê . Catabolê ² = ∪ { Mitosis . Cytosis ² }
Mitosis . Cytosis ² = ∪ { Molecula . Chymia ² }
Molecula . Chymia ² = ∪ { M . c ² }
. . and . . M . c ² = ∪ { E }
. . whe(re)n . . ∪ { E } ≤ Entropy
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Study of the day:
Rien ne sert de mourir, il faut savoir disparaître.
There is no point in dying, we must know to disappear.
( Jean Baudrillard )
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Quelle est l'épaisseur des apparences, Jean, vue de l'hyporéalité ?
. . . .. siaM ! ercalumis nu'd ellec ,fej emêm al tnemetcaxE-"
. . . "! secnerappasèd releppa sel ed siamrosèd ètnet tôtulp sius ej
What's the thickness of appearances, Jean, seen from the hyporeality ?
. . . .. tuB ! murcalumis a fo eno eht ,fej emas eht yltcaxE -
. . . ! "secnaraeppasid" meht llac ot detmet erom m'I ..
approximate deciphered translation with the hyporeal authorization of Jean:
. . . - Exactly the same jef, the one of a simulacrum ! But ..
. . . I am more tempted now to call them "disappearances" !
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| . rectO-persO . | . E ≥ m.C² . | . co~errAnce . | . TiLt . | . pOla. |
These tiny little white flowers are very presistent......trying to survive the bitter cold weather. They are only about 1/4 inch in diameter and so sweet.
...longing for warmer weather myself!
A lone leaf still hangs on a branch of a European Beech tree at the Morton Arboretum on January 2nd, 2021. Snow and freezing rain the previous evening made for a tough night in Chicagoland but a beautiful morning afterwards.
Persistence pays off! So happy to have finally seen the elusive black-backed woodpecker. Well worth the wait as he was so busy pecking, he paid no attention to his admirers.
I saw these flowers poking through the fence on my way to work when it was foggy out. I made a mental note to go back after work and when I did, these lovely clouds were out to make the perfect backdrop. I was laying on my back shooting as cars were driving by : )
A Catawba rhododendron (Rhododendron catawbiense) hangs on, barely. This is part of a disjunct/relict community of typically montane plants, in the Hollow Rock area of New Hope Creek.
Pentax K-1, pixel-shift mode
Mirex tilt/shift adapter
Pentax-A 645 macro 120/4
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I am in the tedious and exciting process of scanning and editing forgotten and found images from the 50s. It's quite moving to discover places that are no more, people that are most likely gone and parties nobody remembers. I have fallen in love with that wonderful shot and decided it deserved to be shared. It also seemed to illustrate a song I enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmh1cZQuXk
When I’m traveling far from home
On the wide horizon
I can feel you’re still around
And the dream overtakes me
Then I know, you’ll stay in this moment
We’ll go where it’s flowing
You’ll be what you want to be
Right here, with me
When I’m out here on my own
And it all cuts through me
I see you’re safe alone
Ah, then it hits me
And I know, you’re here in this moment
Right where it’s flowing
You are what you want to be
Right here, with me
Stay in this moment
Go where it’s flowing
You are what you want to be
Right here, with me . . . with me . . . with me. . .