Persistence sometimes does not pay but with weather and surroundings like this who would care,

Thank Goodness... That's what keeps me going !

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Persistence

Arches National Park, Utah

Balanced Rock has always reminded me how temporary and fragile everything really is, yet how much strength stands in the quiet moments. I photographed this scene as the Milky Way drifted across the sky, lighting the night with that soft green airglow that shows up only when conditions are perfect.

This place holds a special meaning for me — a reminder that even the most delicate things can endure through time, weather, and every storm thrown at them. Sometimes that’s all any of us can hope for: to persist, to stand our ground, and to keep our balance when the world around us keeps shifting.

I had spent a good deal of time looking for field patterns when I just about stopped looking. It was time to make my way back to the crossroads where I had started and make the long trek home. When I arrived at the crossroads, it was necessary to pull over and put my equipment away.

When I stepped out of the car, this is the image that lay in front of me and the very shot I had been looking. The sun had set and subtle colors stood on the horizon. The organized and straight lines in the field lay in perfect contrast to the sweeping blue cloud above them. And the color on the horizon separated the two.

Sometimes it is patience that pays off in photography, sometimes it is just plane luck. But now and then I find persistence in both life and photography pays off in dividends. I have been searching for this shot for many months to deliver on a challenge from a flickr friend named Frank Gadarowski. To "find a Prairie field that just seems to go on forever", like this one.

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Thomas Carlyle

Tis the season for permanence, perseverance, and persistence ...the holidays are approaching like a freight train, straight for us....stay strong my peeps...stay strong!

( I am SO much more cut out for the 4th of July, on the beach with a blanket and a book or Halloween, awed by the creativity of the costumes that i see, than for the cold frenzy of the holiday season. It is hard for me to explain and hard for most everyone i know to understand...)

Don’t get me wrong...i love giving...it is the getting that i struggle with.. i do not enjoy the attention, It makes me uncomfortable to have to be in any form of spotlight, and “Thank you” never seems to be quite enough. I always feel like that is so inadequate for the gifts i get. i just want to see everyone else smile...and i just want not to be judged because i am the quiet one in the corner of the room taking in everything around me and leaving now and then to regroup and breathe...even if it is just to slip into the bathroom and lock the door and absorb the quiet that is there. I will cope...and come out the other side of the holiday frenzy intact.

For those of you that love all this...the hustle, the noise, the presents, the food, the craziness....Bless you all...please feel free to enjoy every last bit of mine, while i watch you from a quieter place and smile! That is my gift to me!

Covilhã, 2008

Capitol Reef National Park

Utah

A woodpecker looking for food.

Persistence and a bit of luck paying off as things finally come together. EZY1895 from Manchester to Berlin TXL cruising high above the country at 39.000ft.

Grand Canyon South Rim.

A solitary leaf still hanging on to a stalk in my garden after all the rain, wind and snow since the fall!!

Interpreted in monochrome using a Topaz preset that brings out the contrasts and details of the image.

Missing EXIF info:

F-stop: f/7.1

Exposure: 1/800

ISO: 250

Focal length: 150mm

Looking for a bird to shoot is definitely getting harder these days. But with persistence, I found a bird so common that my backyard gets filled with them when my wife feeds them in the morning. Today, I traveled quite a few miles to find this Blue Jay with an acorn on a setting I couldn't resist. He gave me a only couple of shots but I am pleased.

Canon EOS 7D Mark II, EF500mm f/4L IS USM, f/4.5, 1/400, ISO 1600

I've shot at this location more times than I care to remember. I like the composition but the conditions were never right in regards to the sky. All that changed today and I came home reasonably happy. Sunset at Gosforth, New South Wales. Australia.

Small waterfall at Juara Village in Tioman, Island Malaysia. D800E | F11 | 6 Sec

Thanks for your visit.

AKA, The Persistence of Memory (Dali), Customized. Hillary Clinton in pop art.

I see sunflower seeds !

... a late-blooming marigold

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins. Not through strength, but through persistence.” ~ Author Unknown

#2 of 5 new uploads....thought I'd return to some shots from our fall trip to Yellowstone....this series of shots was taken in the Lamar Valley near the Lamar Ranger Station (aka the Buffalo Ranch). Every season offers a unique perspective into the beauty of this landscape, and I cannot wait to return after Christmas for some winter shots :-)

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving (or Thursday)....and wishing everyone a fabulous weekend. Thanks for all your wonderful comments & visits!!!!!

Here's a different angle and view of the waterfall I found that took me so many attempts to get to.

This black squirrel is persistently trying to get up the bird feeder pole. He made it once and I raised the baffle up a bit higher. I'm sure we will have fun trying new ways to discourage his scavenging.

Ballarat, California

Death Valley National Park

Upper Hungarian Falls in the Keewenaw Peninsula Michigan

"Persistence" - Exodus Fleet Mobile Construction Yard

Length: 105 studs

Number of parts: not a clue

This is where most vessels in the Exodus fleet are constructed and repaired. The mobile refinery supplies the construction yard with refined metal from nearby asteroids.

Currently a batch of fighters are loaded up for testing in the main hangar. In the mid ship construction dock a new Attack Frigate is under construction.

This is my SHIPtember SHIP for 2016. My goal was to use that big yellow Duplo part, and use some kind of lighting. The ship's interior is somewhat lit up by a EL-wire and the construction dock is lit by lifelites.

So the second lesson learned from my House of Refuge shoot was persistence. I went with the intention of getting some great wave action and I chose this shot to show it. I pretty much stood near the edge getting splashed and soaked and I kept wiping the lens until I got something I liked. So I remained persistent and got a shot that I love. I actually learned one more thing at that moment... Bring a raincoat next time lol.

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We watched this sea otter for quite some time. He found several clams that he had a real tough time with. He would try to open some for a very long time - this is just a short clip of this persistent otter. He was well fed by the way!

I caved...he is too cute, but he is still bad!

My persistence paid off (and all of my bribes to the guards)! You never know if following age old rumors and stories will lead to an actual find, but this time they did. The Laird definitely was successful on the High Seas. Now to see if I can convince the estate to let me keep some of this, or at least donate it to the people that work in the castle.

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Persistence pay's off sometimes.I have been looking for Red Dragon Fly's all Summer.

Persistence pays off (sometimes!).....

Taken a couple of days ago during my most recent sunrise visit to Chalky Beach, NSW; Australia.

Living nearly 1 hour away from this location, I can't always rely on the accuracy of the weather forecasts or other apps such as Skippy Sky to give me the information as to how good a sunrise might be.

So I get up and leave home in the dark and wait before arrival hoping that I might have chanced a good sunrise - but this location seldom fails to reward anyway, as it has some amazing rock formations with wonderful textures and is relatively safe during most stages of tide!

As you can see, I managed to get some nice golden light at sunrise, and that teamed up with the Chalky rocks; I hope I have provided an image that appeals to you!!!

Helped by using my Lee .6 ProGlass ND + Lee .9 Hard Grad filers to counter exposures.

Have a fantastic day and week - thanks again for any comments, viewings or favorites - greatly appreciated as usual!!!

Persistence.

There’s a flutter of grey through the trees:

Ah, the exquisite curves of her dress as she passes

Fleet with her feet on the path where the grass is!

I see not her face, I but see

The swift re-appearance, the flitting persistence—

There!—of that flutter of grey in the distance.

Around the Grid for the final two stanzas of this poem by Arthur Symons, and the fashion details.

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Photographed in Chiaroscuro region

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