Manhattan, NYC. This gentleman was actually signaling to his girlfriend (she had gone into the subway entrance behind the window).

A Tricolored Heron's perch sinks into the water.

♫

When you love somebody

They'll always leave too soon

But a memory, a memory

Can make a flower bloom

We wanna be remembered

Don't wanna live in vain

But nothing lasts forever

This world is in a losing game

I wanna mean something to somebody else

Feel a significance in the real world

It's not enough to live out a lucky life

I'm forever chasing after time

But everybody dies, dies

If I could buy forever at a price

I would buy it twice, twice

But if the earth ends in fire

And the seas are frozen in time

There'll be just one survivor

The memory that I was yours

And you were mine

Hair: .Olive. Hair - Moonie

Clothes: !Rebel Hope - Rina Mesh Shirt Dress

Socks: [BB] Sports Socks - Maitreya Lara

Headphones: [The Forge] - Bass Heads White (gacha)

Pose: [DB]Poses - "music on world off"

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.

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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Walter C Snyder

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

Realization | Discovery

Audio Visual room of an abandoned middle school

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.

The best realization is often when you are alone staring at a sunset.

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Realization to start Monday in another week:Love will keep us alive ;o))

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Sooner or Later

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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.

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

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.. 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 . . .

المصور عبدالله الجوير

المصور ريان الشريف

االمصور مشعل العمران

المودل حمزة المطرد

المودل سلطان المطرد

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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...

white walls studio, studio test shoot.

sydney,

2009

On a bluff overlooking the ocean at the Self-Realization Fellowship in Encinitas, California.

Apps used: ProCreate, Stripecam, Plain, iO Crafter, iColorama, Sketchpad, and Superimpose.

Frannie was a year behind me in High School. She was so cute and vivacious. She still is...

It's wonderful that we are still friends...

Photographed in the Self-Realization Meditation Garden. It is a cliff top garden high above the Pacific Ocean 🌊 in Encinitas California - Cardiff By The Sea

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.

Imagined golden morning of awakening to a new thought.

Unity is the key, and after the past events its the only thing we need...Or is it?

Theme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qt2vnjjkPo

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"

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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.

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*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❤️

LORN - All Corrupt Everything

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LORN - stunning video!

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Link to my 2nd 2018 Calendar:

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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.

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Concrete observation structure, Ontario Place, Toronto.

I'm too sick to go out and shoot today, but here's a photo from when I was in LA - this is the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine, in the hills of the Palisades. Shot with Sony a6000 and 55-210mm lens.