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When being inspired, thoughts slowly start forming in mind. While some of them merge, others are quickly discarded. Though at this point, everything is still open, over time, a few become real convincing options that seem worth being put into practice.
Full of motivation, it is easy to plunge into an adventure quickly. But a rapid, rough landing frequently follows a too fast run-up. In many cases, its impact is too strong, and as a result, frustration rises. Regularly, this leads to the discarding of sparkling ideas.
If counting on persistence rather than pace, it is likely to gain more. There is more time to make mistakes, learn and develop. Yet, being tenacious appears harder than achieving the actual goal itself in many cases because too often, we stand in our own way.
Rounding the curves south of Koringberg on 17 June 2002 with 15F no 2916. The last in a series of very decent runpasts in constantly changing misty conditions courtesy of a Dave Rodgers chartered tour train.
Western Cape, South Africa
"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."-- Jim Watkins. I thought of this quote while standing across from this waterfall, which was a little difficult for me to get to because of how much water was flowing in the Hassayampa River in the Prescott National Forest compared to the last time I was here last year.
Some persistence paid off, and I went back again today. Light was good but the bird stayed distant, but this one looked sort of alright.
Taken the other weekend on a walk... turned into a bit of a trek, however, good fun and nice to be out in the snow!
Persistence Of Information
Influences surround me, from the concrete blocks of my childhood through surrealists, fiction and technology and even nature, I absorb them and combine them in my sleep. The end results nestle within this presentation.
In some of the darkest moments of my life, when there were no answers for my questions, for some reason, I just kept straining to see over the horizon for a glimmer of hope. I could have lost faith, I could have given up, I could have fallen into a deep depression, but for some reason, my eyes were fixed in the distance, where I knew hope waited, even though I couldn't see it. I still see that in this photograph. And I know that, just over that hill, hope awaits.
Found in Explore on December 17, 2019.
‘Get up the wall son’ I can hear the Robin say ( expletives deleted ).
I hope you have enjoyed this interlude in the coronavirus pandemic. We all need a distraction. This one is somewhat less destructive than those that thousands have opted for.
So watch this space, I don’t know what my next fixation will be.......that is the attraction of anticipation. David H.
For my one thousandth post, I offer this artistic rendering of the windswept Jeffrey Pine on Sentinel Dome that Ansel Adams made famous when it was still alive. By 1981, it was on its last legs, its needles gone, its bark beginning to flake off--but it still had character. I was fortunate to see it against a very dramatic sky at sunset.
Compare this tree with normal Jeffrey pines.
For other images of this picturesque Yosemite icon, visit my sentineldome tag. The color version Yosemite's Aged Lookout has been one of my most popular photos. Thanks for stopping by, and happy Thanksgiving!
Two delicate saplings face the setting sun on the banks of Belton Lake outside Belton, TX.
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There are rooms I'll be the last to enter – what a curious feeling that is. In a house completely hidden from sight, up a staircase so rotten it's barely standing, to a bedroom caving in on itself. Here on a mouldy mattress lie two pillows, settled exactly as they were left the last time someone laid here. Given unspoken weight and grand persistence, the half-life of human memory reaching closure. We all want to be remembered, but I find myself wondering why I've always wanted it more than most. From the earliest moment I pointed a camera at something, and decided to take it home with me, I've been aware of just how rare that is. If you've ever sifted through a stack of prints in a thrift store, you've been in touch with the notion of separation. Everything is gone but the memory itself, no way to connect with its creator. Like the opposite of dementia patient, who has life without memory, those photos have memory without life. If I manage to make mine linger together, I've lived up to my greatest hopes.
August 24, 2022
Queens County, Nova Scotia
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Persistence pays off! I stood under some trees for my entire lunch hour today, trying to get a leaf in mid-fall. It took probably a hundred shots to get this one
Actually taken at Radnor Lake, but I have lots of other shots to share this Saturday so I wanted to go ahead and post this one now!
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Common mullein or great mullein (Verbascum thapsus), with a velvet leaf, thrives on disturbed soils, or even cracks in asphalt driveways.
A mural, in an alley just off Ave. du Parc, Montreal. I guess the melting watch is a reference to `the persistence of memory` by Dali?
Anger, he smiles in shiny metallic armor.
~ J. Hendrix
All I am surrounded by is fear ... and dead men.
~ Darth Vader
You know, Sometimes I amaze even myself.
~ Han Solo
Window Display at Best of Times. West 7th Street, St. Paul Minnesota.
Of Course This Is Better on Black | Full Stream on Black
It seems that no matter how far I run, he's never far behind...
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Window light only. In the morning before breakfast.
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This is the third time in the last few days that we've found a fully built nest on one of the van tires. With all of the perfectly nice trees & bushes to build a nest in, we're wondering what this bird is thinking!
Shot this guy at Black Lane on the CSX St. Louis Line Sub near Caseyville, IL.. Waited for over half an hour for this thing to finally move, and the waiting sure paid off.
I decided I didn't really like the idea I had to "start over fresh" on a new account, so I'll continue using this account for now. It was kind of a spur of the moment idea to start over fresh, anyway.
"Persistence Pays Off"
10/8/2019
This was the only sunset where the skies decided to cooperate during my trip to Acadia National Park last week. I took this after sunset and there was no color until several minutes after the sun had officially set. A lot of people had left thinking the sky wasn't going to be pretty, but I know better when I see high clouds like this that it's worth sticking around for a little bit.
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As goofy as Mr. Personality is, he never gives up. Points for persistence & ambition. Unfortunately, I got distracted by a raptor flyover & didn't see what happened. The log was empty when I next looked.
Mississippi Map Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni)
Yellow-bellied Slider x Red-eared Slider intergrade (Trachemys scripta scripta x Trachemys scripta elegans)
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