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For Thomas, self-realization in the larger story calls for a reinvention of ourselves as participating in our genetic relatedness to Earth, as well as in the material elements of the universe. The challenge that Thomas himself underwent by integrating cultural and evolutionary history became his prophetic call. He called humans back from a hyper-individualism trapped in a use-relationship with an objectified, dead world. The three mediations evident in the cultural historical record inspired him to call for a communion experience with the Earth community as continuing the emergence of the universe.
--Thomas Berry, “The Role of the Church in the 21st Century,” in The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth, ed. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2009), 58.
Well, the images from Svalbard are posted, and some repeats will surly return later. I close this series with captures from Oslo, before the strike, before the realization our luggage will have its own trip, before the arctic magic. Summertime in Oslo. Here a chick is demanding dinner.
Marimurtra, Blanes, La Selva, Girona, España.
Situado en Blanes, en la Costa Brava, el Jardín Botánico Marimurtra es uno de los jardines más bellos de la orilla del Mediterráneo. Sobre unos acantilados que bordean el mar se pueden contemplar algunas de las panorámicas más espectaculares de la costa y conocer más de quatro mil especies vegetales, la mayoría exóticas, así como un buen número de ejemplares extraordinarios por su edad o dimensiones.
Marimurtra es la obra de un hombre apasionado por la naturaleza. Carl Faust (Hadamar, Alemania 1874-Blanes 1952), empresario establecido en Cataluña, dedicó su ilusión, su esfuerzo y todo su patrimonio a la realización de su sueño, el Jardín Botánico Marimurtra.
Located in Blanes, on the Costa Brava, the Marimurtra Botanical Garden is one of the most beautiful gardens on the Mediterranean shore. On some cliffs that border the sea, you can see some of the most spectacular views of the coast and get to know more than four thousand plant species, most of them exotic, as well as a good number of extraordinary specimens due to their age or size.
Marimurtra is the work of a man passionate about nature. Carl Faust (Hadamar, Germany 1874-Blanes 1952), businessman established in Catalonia, dedicated his illusion, his efforts and all his assets to the realization of his dream, the Marimurtra Botanical Garden.
Marimurtra, Blanes, La Selva, Girona, España.
Situado en Blanes, en la Costa Brava, el Jardín Botánico Marimurtra es uno de los jardines más bellos de la orilla del Mediterráneo. Sobre unos acantilados que bordean el mar se pueden contemplar algunas de las panorámicas más espectaculares de la costa y conocer más de quatro mil especies vegetales, la mayoría exóticas, así como un buen número de ejemplares extraordinarios por su edad o dimensiones.
Marimurtra es la obra de un hombre apasionado por la naturaleza. Carl Faust (Hadamar, Alemania 1874-Blanes 1952), empresario establecido en Cataluña, dedicó su ilusión, su esfuerzo y todo su patrimonio a la realización de su sueño, el Jardín Botánico Marimurtra.
Located in Blanes, on the Costa Brava, the Marimurtra Botanical Garden is one of the most beautiful gardens on the Mediterranean shore. On some cliffs that border the sea, you can see some of the most spectacular views of the coast and get to know more than four thousand plant species, most of them exotic, as well as a good number of extraordinary specimens due to their age or size.
Marimurtra is the work of a man passionate about nature. Carl Faust (Hadamar, Germany 1874-Blanes 1952), businessman established in Catalonia, dedicated his illusion, his efforts and all his assets to the realization of his dream, the Marimurtra Botanical Garden.
First afternoon off work because I felt like it...upon arrival...the realization that idle time is a burden set in...the mind wanders...there was only one solution...take a walk with the MKIII and the 100-400mm. After about 15 minutes in the still 85 Deg F heat I was done...my first thoughts on what to call this shoot was "Butterflies & B.S." A Variety of Things Seen.
The Swallowtails were on the Ironweed as was eye too...like an Angel spreading Its Wings...inviting a path to salvation...to be lifted from the rabble.
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First afternoon off work because I felt like it...upon arrival...the realization that idle time is a burden set in...the mind wanders...there was only one solution...take a walk with the MKIII and the 100-400mm. After about 15 minutes in the still 85 Deg F heat I was done...my first thoughts on what to call this shoot was "Butterflies & B.S." A Variety of Things Seen.
There had been a passing shower and these little pink wildflowers were glistening in the late afternoon Sun.
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Walter C Snyder
It matters not where I go while moving about in nature. I do not need to take costly trips to far away locations. It would be cool to see Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and so many other great national parks, but the thought of big summer crowds always keeps me away.
For me, there is still so much to see in the Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and the North Cascades, that I truly feel as if my roots will remain home. The next 25 plus years will be here and I like it that way.
I am at peace in any forest setting with moving water near by. The Gray Wolf River above gave me a chance to sit and marvel at how lucky I am to live here in Washington state.
Please use the mirror-shaped teleporter located on the side of the white garden teleport arrival point.
The Outer Garden
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The motif of the new garden is the Noh play "Hagoromo."
Noh is one of Japan’s traditional types of theater with more than 600 years of history.
In the story, a fisherman named Hakuryō finds a celestial robe (hagoromo) on the shore. He intends to keep it as a family heirloom, but the celestial maiden laments her inability to return to the celestial realm without her robe. Moved by her sorrow, Hakuryō sympathizes and agrees to return the robe in exchange for witnessing her celestial dance. Although the celestial maiden initially hesitates, fearing Hakuryō's doubt, she eventually returns to the heavens after performing her graceful dance, leaving behind blessings upon the land.
The garden's design draws inspiration from traditional Japanese paintings, aiming to represent two-dimensional elements in a three-dimensional space. It features representations of white clouds and waves, symbolizing the celestial realm and the waterside, respectively.
As I repeatedly reconstruct the garden to align with my vision, I sometimes doubt whether it truly conveys the warmth I intend. In moments of uncertainty, I find solace in the unwavering support and trust of AKI69, whose presence has been instrumental in the realization of this project. The beauty of the architecture, plants, and creatures within the garden constantly inspires and encourages me.
May this new garden become a testament to beauty, enriching your soul with its presence.
Looking forward to the enchanting presence of celestial beings in this garden where the worlds of the sea and sky intertwine without doubt.
日本語
新庭のモチーフは能楽「羽衣」です。
漁師の伯陵が浜辺で天女の羽衣を見つけ、家宝にしようと手に取りますが、天女が羽衣が無ければ月の世界（天界）へ帰れない事を嘆き悲しむ様に白陵は同情し羽衣を返す代わりに月の舞（天界の舞）を見せて欲しいと願います。天女は羽衣がなければ舞えないので先にお返し下さいと言いますが、白陵は羽衣を返せば天女は舞を踊らず、すぐに帰ってしまうのではないかと疑います。天女はそれは人間が持つ疑いで天界には偽りは無しと語り、白陵は天女を信じ羽衣を返します。天女は鳳凰の如く国土に瑞兆を降ら踊りながら天に帰っていくシンプルながら気高いストーリーと美しい舞が特徴の能楽です。
庭の構成は、立体を平面で表現し続けた日本の絵画から着想を得て、白雲と白波を製作し月の世界と水辺の階層表現としました。
自分は何度も庭の基本を組み、より目指す庭に近くなるようオブジェクトや構成を変えて組み直し完成を目指す中、庭の持つ温度が伝わるのかを己を怪しむ自分がいるのも確かです。
不信の時に、もしかしたらあの人ならば伝わるかも知れないと願い確固たる至心の存在AKI69に感謝と信頼を。貴方の存在なしでは完成まで至らなかった、美しい建築や植物達、愛らしい姿を見るたびに勇気を与えられ満ちていく。
庭に来てくれた方々の中へ新庭が美しさの塵となって降り積もっていく事を願う。
疑心なき月の世界、白陵が生きた海が空と交わる庭に麗しき天人天女の皆々様が現れることを楽しみにしています。
As seems to happen over and over, I quite literally stumbled upon this scene the other evening. I was working a local car show that was nearing its conclusion. The setting sun was providing magnificent shadows and backlighting. As the sun was on the verge of disappearing behind the roof of the background building, I happened upon this gentleman standing in the bed of a monster pickup truck as he was furling his flags. I asked him to hold the flag aloft and wave it around. Shooting directly into the sun I really couldn't see much, I just locked in the focus and exposure and let the shutter go on continuous mode for several frames. I thanked him and moved on, unaware of what I had captured until the following day. This was the takeaway image. The gesture and flag position, the rays overhead and the sun glowing like an orb. Doubt I could have posed this any better had I planned for it.
This is the path that leads me into the magic of our ravine. My Wolfhound, Ben and I would venture down into the ravine all throughout the year, even in the frigid cold of winter, and with much stealth, we would spend hours in silence, amongst the animal pathways - discovering even more pathways that would take us even further into the depths.
We would run into the occasional coyote, moose, deer, beaver, woodpecker, owl and of course, way too many obnoxious squirrels that took great pleasure to announce our otherwise, covert presence. There was always an adventure to be had!
The ravine used to be a place of solitude.
Since Covid has reared its ugly head, our ravine has been discovered. It is incredibly busy now. Entourages of families, walking or biking. Children hooting and hollering as they gain momentum, biking down the hill, the sweet, musky perfume of the ravine awakening their senses. Lovers, hand in hand, hiding in the bush - or so they think, stealing kisses amongst the many hiding places. I know them all. Photographers, hired to take photos of children, families, couples and wedding parties amongst the falling wardrobe of my favourite trees. Joggers. People with their dogs.
So many people! People that I have never seen before! How did they find our ravine?
My husband and I took our dogs to the ravine last night, just as we have done thousands of times before. There were so many people! We paused by the creek, away from everyone and immersed ourselves in the unfolding symphony of Autumn. I had a euphony. I told him.
“I feel like every time I come down here, I am not making
memories anymore, instead, I find myself recalling the memories.
I must be getting old…”
He didn’t say anything.
I want to covet my ravine. I want to keep it for myself. I don’t want to share it! I want to come into the cathedral of trees, and remember the years I shared with them, my husband, my children, my dogs, my family, my friends.
I know there are many life lessons to be learned in this ravine. It is a place of refuge. A place of discovery. A place to talk, to pray, to wish, to hope. It is a place where I found snippets of peace in a world gone mad.
Life is about change - I am keenly aware of that fact. I know I need to adapt. I know that I need to, in quiet resignation, share my ravine with the intruders and those that dare to walk the path into the magic. They too could benefit from the many gifts that the forest has to offer and perhaps if they learned to respect this hallowed place then the legacy of it would carry on.
I will snicker to myself though, for there is one thing that I know that these new people will never know and it comes from walking these paths for hours, days, years. In the darkness of the evening the sentinels of the forests, our beautiful trees, clock out, and go off duty. They uproot themselves and to the lull of the wind and the music of the night they become as children, liberated, dancing, and frolicking in unabated abandonment, casting shadows throughout the forest. When the whimsy is over they take their positions - but not in the same place as the day before. They are always just a tad off. Perhaps, they too, have come to the realization that we do not live in a perfect world and that change is necessary. They don’t fool me though! I have walked the paths way too long to know better. I can see what they are up to in their quiet rebellion and you can be sure this is one secret I will not share…
First afternoon off work because I felt like it...upon arrival...the realization that idle time is a burden set in...the mind wanders...there was only one solution...take a walk with the MKIII and the 100-400mm. After about 15 minutes in the still 85 Deg F heat I was done...my first thoughts on what to call this shoot was "Butterflies & B.S." A Variety of Things Seen.
The Swallowtails were on the Ironweed as was eye too..just throwing poo at the wall...a couple more butterflies.
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Walter C Snyder
My first time seeing this one. I basically missed it because I was assuming they were all the same species since size was about the same as other parakeets (Red-masked & Mitred). My realization came when I read that the the red & yellow on the underside of the wing was a field mark for the species. It paid to research for sure.
.. الغريب .. أنَّ لحظات الإدراك تأتي تعيسة ،،،
Strange .. Moments of realization that comes miserable
.. أسماء ..
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Abdulrahman AL-Dukhaini .. عبدالرحمن الدخيني .
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أحد النتائج من ورشة تصوير البورترية الخارجي مع المبدعين . . .
المودل حمزة المطرد
المودل سلطان المطرد
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You smiled at me
and suddenly
I realized;
until he found
his flower,
the honeybee
did not even begin
to realize
he was a honeybee
at all.
-Tyler Knott Gregson -
The sudden realization that 'vegan' wasn't a choice on the menu of life!
This owlet was photographed in the wild, non raptor show, non baited, non zoo!
On the far right is the 'down arrow'- click on that to open 'original' size... click 'open' on original size and then hit F11 on keyboard for full screen effect...
captured in palma de mallorca, this photo depicts the silhouette of a man deep in thought, with the shadow of a street lamp cast above him. in german, there is a saying "ein licht geht auf," which means "a light goes on" when someone finds a solution or understands something. the interplay of light and shadow in this image beautifully symbolizes the moment of realization and clarity.
Apps used: ProCreate, Stripecam, iO Crafter, iColorama, Sketchpad, and Superimpose. "I think you can understand the challenge of what Robert Bresson termed "necessary images," especially as it relates to the reduction of the mystery of faith from the broadest of its dimensions to a human 2D image. I have been wrestling with how to move beyond the confines of the iconic and traditional to explore faith and mystery in visual terms that make it intriguing, appealing, and approachable. I suppose it will always be a journey and never a destination"
Sephirot [or "enumerations", Sephiroth, Sefiroth (סְפִירוֹת), singular: Sephirah, also Sefirah (סְפִירָה "enumeration" in Hebrew)], in the Kabbalah of Judaism, are the ten attributes that God (who is referred to as אור אין סוף Aur Ain Soph, "Limitless Light, Light Without End") created through which he can manifest not only the physical but the metaphysical universe.
Through a careful study of the Tanakh, Jewish sages identified ten Sephirot (ten being the number of divine perfection) known by the following names/characteristics from highest to lowest:
1. Keter - Divine Plan/Creator/infinite light/Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh - I AM THAT I AM (Supreme/Total Consciousness)
2. Chokmah - Divine Reality/revelation/Yesh me-ayin - being from nothingness (Power of Wisdom)
3. Binah - Understanding/repentance/reason (Power of Love)
4. Chesed - Mercy/Grace/Love of (intention to emulate) God (Power of Vision)
5. Gevurah - Judgment/strength/determination (Power of Intention)
6. Tipheret - Symmetry/balance/compassion (Creative Power)
7. Netzach - Contemplation/Initiative/persistence (Power of the Eternal Now)
8. Hod - Surrender/sincerity/steadfastness (Intellectual/Observational Power)
9. Yesod - Foundation/wholly remembering/coherent knowledge
(Power of Manifesting)
10. Malkuth/Lower Crown - Kingdom/physical presence/vision and illusion
(Power of Healing/Accomplishment/Level of Realization of Divine Plan)
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De Rotterdam
De Rotterdam is a building on the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam, designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1998. The complex is located between the KPN Tower and Rotterdam Cruise Terminal and was finalized at the end of 2013. On 21 November 2013, the municipality of Rotterdam, as the largest user, received the keys. The design provides space for offices, a hotel and apartments. The 44 floors amount to a total floor space area of about 160,000 m² making it the largest building in the Netherlands.
Realization
Construction began in 2009, when the municipality committed itself to hire 25,000 m² of the office space. The highest point (at 149 meters) was reached at the end of 2012, and the building was ready on its scheduled date of November 15, 2013. The total cost at the start of construction in 2009 was estimated to be €340,000,000.
Appearance and construction
Rem Koolhaas, who once considered a career in film, reasoned that the most frequent view of these structures would be in motion, from the window of a car. As the view changes, the towers, rising from a shared six-story plinth, separate and then mergeThe building consists of three interconnected towers that share a thirty feet high base which includes six floors. The lower two layers form a large glass plinth. At about 90 meters above ground the towers – known as West Tower, Mid Tower and East Tower– are shifted a few meters in different directions, which enhances the wind stability and provides space for terraces. In the original design the towers did not touch each other, but in order to simplify the play of forces and to keep the construction affordable they are now connected in a few places. The facade provides the option of natural ventilation. On the west side there are balconies that are accessible from the apartments.
This is the realization of a trip I have been wanting to do for a long time...
A trio of Deseret Power Railway E60Cs departs the Deserado Mine loadout near Dinosaur, CO with the morning loads for the Bonanza Power Plant near Bonanza, UT. The train will take about an hour to cover the 35 miles between the two points on a line with no rail connections.
I suppose the employee in the truck was wondering what I was up to, but when he saw me scrambling to pack up to get to the next location, he smiled and said "better hurry."
Taken from public property.
*Working Towards a Better World
I just spent a few hours working on uploading 2 photos to my website to have the electricity fail on me, so lost everything and have to go back to square one!!! So I will upload one at a time in the hope that this does not happen again!
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. - Anon
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George E. Woodberry
Unless you do something beyond what you’ve already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborne
The harder the struggle the more glorious the triumph.
Self-realization demands very great struggle. -
Swami Sivananda
Don't cry over the past, it's gone. Don't sress about the future, it hasn't arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful. -
Anon
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. -
Ann Landers
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️
Dem Bones" (also called "Dry Bones" and "Dem Dry Bones") is a spiritual song. The melody was composed by author and songwriter James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. It was first recorded by The Famous Myers Jubilee Singers in 1928. Both a long and a shortened version of the song are widely known. The lyrics are inspired by Ezekiel 37:1–14, in which the prophet Ezekiel visits the Valley of Dry Bones and prophesies that they will one day be resurrected at God's command, picturing the realization of the New Jerusalem.
Well, your toe bone connected to your foot bone
Your foot bone connected to your heel bone
Your heel bone connected to your ankle bone
Your ankle bone connected to your leg bone
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LORN - All Corrupt Everything
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LORN - stunning video!
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always remember - † Forever Lasts The Longest †
if you believe in me i will love you endlessly
the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
the heart-shaped nucleus in the white blood cell shows that it is a young monocyte cell.
Another perspective on the Self-Realization Fellowship. Notice the swans - apparently the symbol of the founder, Paramahansa Yogananda. Shot with Sony RX100.
this sunset moment (captured in Hermosa Beach, California during a get-together with some Flickr friends) is one such expression. an expression of a realization that i don't always see my life with the kind of clarity i always hope for. oftentimes it comes into focus ever so slowly . . . and from within. i wanted to paint this moment but i only had my camera in hand and i thought - why not use it as a "paint brush"? and that was when i began to paint. this sunset was "painted" in camera - no Photoshop manipulation here.