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As she carefully chipped away the old rock to expose the fossil, the paleontologist imagined what this area must have looked like millions of years ago when it was teeming with dinosaurs.
This Blythe doll is Blue Rabbit, posing for “Old Rock” in Blythe a Day on Flickr. I bought the fabulous background/wall hanging, and the toy dinosaurs a few years ago when there was a full month of dinosaur themes. I’m happy to have a reason to use them again!
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"It can happen any moment
Without reason or rhyme
It might be right around the corner
Or it'll come up from behind
A picture that I thought would fade
I still clearly see
When the thought of you
Catches up with me....."
Bhutan, The Land of The Thunder Dragon, is tucked amongst the Himalaya Mountains. The country is remote making it one of the last few untouched places in the world. Bhutan is almost wholly Buddhist and they measure their quality of life by Gross National Happiness. To visit Bhutan is kin to taking your soul on a journey of self-discovery. It is by far one of the few places in the world I have found myself in complete peace and all cares go away.
There are many reasons to love Bhutan and the Bhutanese. This is my list of 14 Reasons to Love Bhutan::
:: Happiness is the key to life. Instead of Gross National Product (GDP), Bhutan adheres to Gross National Happiness.
:: Colorful festivals including the Paro Festival, which I've included in a previous blog post.
:: The Bhutanese love quiet moments and so do I.
:: Bhutan treats is traditions with respect and faithfully follow what came before.
:: The ancient architecture is simple, yet stunning. Newer construction complements the old very nicely.
:: Majestic Dzongs, or ancient forts, grace every town throughout Bhutan.
:: Bhutan is the Last Shangri-La. Bhutan, or the Land of the Thunder Dragon, is the only remaining Buddhist Himalayan kingdom.
:: If you love trekking, Bhutan offers epic excursions throughout the Himalayan country.
:: When you visit Bhutan, you'll be met with rugged and pristine natural wonders everywhere you go.
:: As you drive through the high Himalayan mountain passes, you'll literally have your head in the clouds.
:: Bhutan's cultural legacy will touch deeply within you. Sometimes you don't realise how much Bhutan touches you until well after you leave
the tiny kingdom.
:: Bhutan is pure. The air is clean and there is an endearing innocence to the people you don't find in western societies.
:: Bhutan is authentic and genuine. When a Bhutanese gives his word, you know it's true.
:: The quiet in Bhutan and the quiet nature of the Bhutanese people show peace is indeed a virtue. You'll be at ease during your time in
Bhutan.
:: Picturesque monasteries, such as Tiger's Nest, will leave you speechless.
That's 15 reasons to Love Bhutan. I got carried away. If you have questions about visiting the Tiny Kingdom of Bhutan, send me an email. I'll be pleased to help.
My affection for Bhutan cannot easily fit into words. When I returned from this tiny kingdom, I couldn't view my photos without tears falling. Something beneath the surface happened while I was in Bhutan and to this day I can't explain what it is. Is it the decided ease and peace I felt; one I hadn't felt before or since? The idea of this is absolutely possible.
Few places in this world take a tight hold on me and touch deep in my soul. Bhutan is one of the places and to this day, it has not let go.
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"The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life."
This phrase from the movie "The Last Samurai" came to mind for obvious reasons as we wandered under the large blooming trees
Our reason for going to the Strahov Monastery was to visit the Theological and Philosophical Halls within the complex. For 50 Korunas any tourist can obtain a Fotolicence and snap away at these magnificent rooms.
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From www.aviewoncities.com/prague/strahovmonastery.htm:
The Theological Hall was built between 1671 and 1679 and houses the theological book collection of the famous Strahov library. Its collection contains over 200,000 books and includes works from famous printers such as Christoffel Plantin. Besides valuable books, the hall also contains several geographical and astronomical globes from the seventeenth century.
The frescoes on the ceiling of the Theological Hall took four years to complete. They depict the profession of the librarian.
The main reason I traveled from Tromso to Senja was to stand on this platform and look upon the fjord (You can watch the vlog on YouTube by searching for Darren Knight Photo).
When Reason Sleeps.
In the silence of shadows, when reason's light is dim, our neglect awakens. "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" unveiled the chaos born through neglected reason. As we slumber, the spectres of tyranny and fear multiply. Let us awaken reason and reignite the flame of liberty for all, vanquishing the shadows of infliction once more.
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This room is closed to photography for some reason! Actually, it’s totally closed to all human traffic. I’m not sure if this was a one-time thing, but I got the feeling it was because the ropes and whatnot that told me not to go in here seemed like they had been there for a while. You know the feeling. Perhaps they only open it for the rare events…
But I went through the silly ropes and took a photo anyway. The security guard came to get me, but he was pretty nice about it. I just told him that the ropes confused me and I figured they must surely be a mistake.
- Trey Ratcliff
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For some reason, this photo gives me a headache. What do you make of that? Weird.
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every silence all around me is screaming through the walls.
( my interpretation to "el sueno de la razon" by Goya )
For some reason, these Royal Spoonbills love this sandbar on the northern edge of the Pauatahanui - probably because it's isolated from the rest of the world by thick and very soft mud! (And trust me: I know just how thick and soft it is!!!).
Because it is isolated from two-legged pests called Humans, the birds are quite comfortable having a Siesta Time in the middle of what was a lovely warm Spring the day!
One other thing...: if you look carefully, you might note that some of these birds are wearing Mating plumage on the back of their necks...
On previous occasions, attempts to photograph these Spoonbills from the road has been challenging to say the least, but with the use of a Monopod, camera shake has been over-come! (Yay!).
The photo bomber in the background is a Black Swan!
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"Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more."
– William Blake
"Bitcoin is getting there. But it’s not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations."
– Rick Falkvinge
I believe that robotic thinking helps precision of psychological thought, and will continue to help it until psychophysiology is so far advanced that an image is nothing other than a neural event, and object constancy is obviously just something that happens in the brain.
– Edwin Boring, 'Mind and Mechanism' (1946)
"If Wikileaks were a print publication, the injunction would be unthinkable. … What distinguishes this case is that the allegedly intolerable materials were published on the Internet instead of on paper. But that's a poor reason to abandon the principles that protect those who want to publish -- as well as those who want to read. Censorship is censorship, no matter the medium."
– Chicago Tribune Editorial, "Electronic censorship" (February 26, 2008).
2015 Autumn in Olympic Tour with Alex Mody
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Brilliant sunrise light illuminates fresh snow at Oregon's Crater Lake.
This is an image I've been waiting years to make. Since first arriving in Oregon a few years back, Crater Lake has been one of my favorite locations, and I've gotten to know it quite well through my many visits - so I knew exactly what I was looking for. When I saw two new feet of snow in the forecast, I adjusted my plans to be here and shoot the day after. For Crater Lake, two feet is a laughable amount, given that it typically receives closer to 50 feet of snowfall per year - but it was enough to make it appealing in an otherwise dismal winter for snow levels here in the Pacific Northwest.
Winter here is beautiful, but it presents its challenges: one can only drive as far as Rim Village on the south rim, and all the best spots that allow one to really incorporate Wizard Island are found on the west rim. This means snowshoeing for miles is a necessity. This wouldn't be such a huge deal, except the best light is at sunrise - meaning you're either camping overnight in the snow, or getting up at 4am.
I chose the latter option, and for the entire second half of the two-hour trek, the sky was already burning pink and red. This motivated me to get the hike done quicker, and I arrived at the end of the red stages of sunrise, as the light started to become orange. Given that the snowpack was 10+ feet lower than it should have been this time of year, my planned compositions weren't 100% ideal, since it was tougher to get above the trees - but I think I still made it work. I always get asked why I don't include the rest of the lake on the left in shots from this area - well, for one, it's rather empty; two, there's a rock wall and some fairly unappealing trees just out of frame to the left; and three, I'd be unable to nail down the composition in-camera (I tend to avoid panos/stitches for this reason).
I chose this particular spot/composition because of the clear views of Mount Scott and Garfield Peak, the elevation above (and proximity to) Wizard Island, the foreground snowdrifts, and the space to allow the trees to cast shadows on the snow. This is the closest spot that I knew would satisfy these requirements, and it was 6 miles round trip. I'm not one to regale my audience with exaggerated tales of the difficulty involved in getting a shot, but 6 miles snowshoeing with frequent elevation change feels more like 15 miles backpacking in the summer - and I had to do it on 2 hours of sleep. Worth the nausea and soreness the next day!
A bit of tech info: this is mostly a single exposure, with some of the brightest highlights around the sun recovered from a darker bracketed exposure. The sunstar/flare is natural - I've found shooting Nikon's newer lenses at f/11 to f/16 will often produce more interesting results than the "traditional" f/22 sunstar.
My dog Katie's paw. She was pretty cooperative..
Taken with OM-D EM-5 with reversed c/y zeiss 50mm 1.7!
Alien art
We have been developed according to the tree of life.
The current biological development-stage is not enjoyable. We suffer from illnesses (mentally and physically), from aggressions we do to each other, etc.
We are that what nature could do until now in our biological development. Our societies couldn’t do much either to lead us to a better life. We are stuck, our scientific, technological and psychological knowledges are no help too. We kill other human beings, inflicting suffering to each other. We are not in a proper stage of our biological development, we didn’t biologically develop enough. We have a lot of warriors and guns ready to kill others. We prepare us and plan for the very sad actions.
Maybe some aliens are very lucky that they could able to pass this horrible stage we are in now.
We are not able get it that "killing any human being for any reason is not acceptable". Our feelings and emotions put us on a road which doesn’t have any exits.
For reasons unknown, she has no tail (though likely lost in a scuffle with a predator?)
Also seen on Birdnote!
I don't get any material advantage from photography. I have less spare time, I run faster to catch up the right times or get more stressed by waking up earlier. I have been walking in the coldest nights in winter, chasing storms or even facing the strong winds, sometimes for nothing. But I am not crazy. The main reason for me to love photography is that now I feel I got a "different" pair of eyes. I might still not be taking good photos, but I feel I know better how to recognise the beauty in the world around me.
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On the Ferry, at dawn, leaving Italy and heading to Corsica.
PS: This is still not the best sky of my holiday (yet!)
La ragione principale
Non ricavo nessun vantaggio materiale dalla fotografia. Ho meno tempo libero, vado sempre di corsa per rincorrere i tempi giusti o semplicemente più stress nello svegliarmi prima. Ho camminato, in certe occasioni, in notti gelide d'inverno o all'inseguimento di tempeste o con il vento in faccia, delle volte per niente. Ma non sono pazzo. La ragione principale per la quale adoro la fotografia è che mi fa sentire di avere occhi "diversi". Sicuramente non faccio delle foto particolarmente apprezzabili, ma sento di aver imparato un po' meglio a riconoscere la bellezza tutt'attorno a me.
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Sul traghetto, all'alba, da Livorno per la Corsica.
PS: Anche questo non è il più bel cielo della mia vacanza!
One of the secret reasons why we moved to Vienna: the old-style tramways
Taken on World 127 Day 2015.
Uno de los motivos secretos por los que nos vinimos a vivir a Viena: los tranvías antiguos.
Tomada en el Día Mundial 127 2015.
Zeiss Ikon Baby Ikonta 521/18
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm 1:3.5
Rera Pan 100, ISO 100/21º
Kinda first photo on 2008. ^_^ I'm hoping tomorrow I get to take some photos outside, because it snowed...yay!
I swear I'll soon make one of my friends to model for me. xD
EXPLORED: Mar 25, 2009 #411- Terima Kasih
Location: Boracay, Philippines
Camera:Nikon D700
Exposure:0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture:f/10.0
Focal Length:56 mm
ISO Speed:400
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Flash:No Flash
Seen in Explore: #194
The pearls of tropical rain are everywhere.
The beauty is abundant, if only the eye will see.
This is one of my favourite photos taken this week.
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Crescent Beach, notice all the social distancing.....this is part of the reason Nova Scotia has NO cases at all of corona virus.
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Crescent Beach is a rare type of beach barrier called a tombolo, approximately 2 km (1.24 mi) long and 40 to 65 m (131 - 213 ft) wide. It divides the head of Green Bay from the tidal flats and salt march of Dublin Bay.
A tombolo is a natural sand bar that heads straight off shore to an island. A tombolo maintains a fragile balance between a building up of sand deposited by wind (generation), and the erosion of sand through wave scouring (degeneration). Most tombolos are therefore mobile, constantly shifting in length and width. Many will eventually disappear completely.
There are four reasons why my photos exist. The first is experience. The moment has to move me, mean something overwhelming real to my heart, or there's no need to keep it. The story behind a picture should never be: "I went out to take pictures". Everything is experiential, I can't be some kind of heartless artist when I should be looking and living. That's what a "professional" photographer does, not a real person. I look as long as it takes, in a rush or in some way meditatively, but always in the moment.
The second reason is when. That means more than subject matter, especially when I know my neighborhood so well. The light and weather is steadily reshaping definition, retelling the same story in a thousand different ways. Even the dullest subject can have a possible spark of magic, so fleeting that it'll move me in a way it might never again. I always care more for when than where.
But the third reason is still where, absolutely. The same places keep calling me back, many dozens of times again. Abandoned buildings (lived-in ones too), ocean views, wide vistas, and small town streets. Beat-up asphalt back roads, and trails through the forest. More than anything, the relationship of human nature. What I mean is, where humans and nature meet, that very tenuous edge of encroaching overgrowing, like vines over tombstones or weedy farmer's fields. Then there's people, the constantly shifting subjects I can take with me, self-portraits and others, giving context to every surrounding. We are the moveable where.
The final reason is technical. Most photographers place this higher up, the need to do it well and do it right. But if I'm not laughing or crying, absolutely overwhelmed with beauty and excitement and loneliness, good photographs are just pretty little lies. There's the basic expectations – focus, level, shutter speed. But I have an expectation for honesty of colour, the aperture opening to let the right amount of light to breathe. I have an obsession with a heartwaking style, the imagination come to life, the dreams made flesh that I'm living in. I'm not a photoshopper, so I've got that one and only chance to get it right.
What little I know about photography is essential to getting it across. You can remember most moments with a quick point and shoot, a cell phone or anything. That's admirable, and I love the accessibility of pictures. But baby, I need that last little reason to wake up my dreams, the subtle edge of good glass and sensor sensitivity. These photos are my version of magic, holy little moments that make me believe in getting out of bed. Couldn't do this life without them.
December 7, 2018
Inglewood, Nova Scotia
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We humans tend to think in straight lines when we rely on only our reason. The Earth tends to feel its way. This is illustrated in the differences in line in this aerial photo of a breakwater jutting into the delicate meanderings of the Fraser Delta.
Single RAW file converted to pseudoHDR.
Another point that moderns do not grasp, is that there is no reason for necessarily seeking the cause of a phenomenon on the plane where it is produced, and that on the contrary one has to consider the possibility of a non-material cause, above all when it is a question of a phenomenon whose beginning is unknown a priori, and unknowable materially, as is the origin of living beings.
Transformist evolutionism is the classical example of the bias that invents "horizontal" causes because one does not wish to admit a "vertical" dimension: one seeks to extort from the physical plane a cause that it cannot furnish and that is necessarily situated above matter.
Even within the order of physical causes, one has to take into account the simultaneous presence of the immanent metaphysical Cause: if a seed is the immediate cause of a plant, it is because the divine archetype intervenes in the physical causality. Geometrically speaking, causes can be situated on the "concentric circles" that constitute the Universe, but other causes - and with all the more reason the First Cause - are situated at the Center and act through the radii emanating from it.
The divine Intellect contains the archetypes of creation, and it is starting from this Cause - or from this causal system - at a given cyclic "moment" of the cosmogonic process, that the "ideas" are "incarnated" which will be manifested in the form of contingent creatures.
We do not ask physicists to be content with an anthropomorphic and naive creationism; but at least it would be logical on their part - since they aim at a total and
flawless science - to try to understand the traditional ontocosmological doctrines, especially the Hindu doctrine of the envelopes (kosha) of the Self (Atma): a doctrine that, precisely, presents the Universe as a system of circles proceeding from the Center-Principle to that extreme limit which for us is matter.
For human science does not derive solely from the need to know and to register; more profoundly its origin is the thirst for the essential; now the sense of essentiality attracts us toward shores other than those of the limited plane of physical phenomena alone.
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Frithjof Schuon: Roots of the Human Condition