Seeking The Horizon
View allAll Photos Tagged seeker
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Please follow me on Instagram as well @gregtaylorphotography
All images are the property of Greg Taylor Photography. Do not copy, reprint or reproduce without written consent from me.
Thanks so much to all who choose to look at and comment on my images. It's very much appreciated.
Created for Let's Go YELLOW !! GLOW March 2017: www.flickr.com/groups/challenges_community_group/discuss/...
Thanks to everyone for your kind comments, awards and faves! I always tell myself that I will go through and thank each individual on each image but I never seem to have enough time. So please know that all of you are very much appreciated!!!
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens
||| Fatai - Hide and Seek | Facebook | 5oo | Video |||
"Solo se riusciremo a guardare l'universo come un tutt'uno in cui ogni parte riflette la totalità e in cui la grande bellezza sta nella diversità cominceremo a capire chi siamo e dove stiamo."
Tiziano Terzani
Taken at Whispering Waters
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Eagleview/171/173/22
Eden Brent - Better This Way"
Stawell's two tallest buildings, the town hall and the local Uniting church were the only parts of the town above the fog on this chilly mid winter morning. Taken from the Big Hill lookout that lies just to the northeast of the main town, this view is looking south and west toward the Grampians Ranges which are just visible on the horizon. The single clear line across the top is the main Adelaide to Melbourne highway and I am guessing that the steady stream of trucks and cars would be keeping it a little clearer. Also, the road itself is just a little bit higher than the surroundings.
The time on the town hall clock was ten minutes to eight (just in case you are trying to zoom in on it!)
▽ Special for LEVEL EVENT top&skirt, ears, ring, sneakers, pose
▽ Seniha cardigan
More info and landmarks: UGLLYDUCKLING BLOG
A dragonfly (perhaps a common darter?) seeking warmth from the wire and wood surrounding a pond at a local nature reserve.
ll semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.
(It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.)
-- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
_________________________
Perhaps the most common recommendation from enlightened minds through the ages, from Socrates to Einstein...yet we continue to struggle mightily to even seek it let alone find it. In that spirit, French for my non-English speaking amis to make it simpler...;-))
(Obviously didn't help the Flickr tagmaster, however, who clearly prefers massive confusion...)
Seek the light is a title from the Waterboys! I was walking across the beach and noticed this small cave in the cliff face was flooded with late evening sun, so guessed it would be a good vantage point!
Spin me round again and rub my eyes.
This can't be happening.
When busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy...
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIAfiVGluk
Pic taken at Insilico Cyberpunk Roleplay
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld
Half-asleep Vas'ka wants me to stroke him until he falls asleep ...
Happy Caturday! Thank you all for visits, favs and comments, it's greatly appreciated!
The Seeker explores the boundaries between the earthly and the celestial.
By stripping away physical detail into a stark silhouette, the subject becomes a universal symbol of aspiration. Captured mid-flight against a brilliant solar corona, the composition utilizes vast negative space to examine the solitary journey toward enlightenment, truth, and the overwhelming power of the natural world.
A singular silhouette cuts through the deep, celestial blue. It rises not just into the sky, but directly toward the blazing heart of the heavens. The sun dominates the frame like a cosmic eye. It casts a brilliant, ethereal ring of light that ripples outward into the atmosphere.
The bird glides with effortless grace, perfectly balanced at the edge of light and shadow. It evokes the timeless myth of Icarus eternally drawn to the sun's majestic, untamed power.
The frame relies on a strong two-element dynamic: the radiant sun on the left and the avian silhouette on the right. This creates a balanced visual weight, where the viewer's eye naturally cycles between the light source and the flyer.
The vast, deep blue sky acts as expansive negative space. It emphasizes themes of isolation, immense scale, and freedom.
The bird is positioned traveling right-to-left, heading directly toward the light. This narrative path gives the composition a sense of purposeful forward momentum.
The photographer chose to expose for the highlights (the sun), which intentionally underexposes the bird into a crisp silhouette. This strips away identifying details of the creature, turning it into a universal symbol of flight.
Shooting directly into the sun has created a massive, soft halo and lens artifacts. While purist landscape photography often avoids direct flare, here it functions as a painterly element that adds atmospheric texture and a dreamlike quality.
The image is heavily reliant on a cool, high-saturation blue palette. This contrasts sharply with the warm, white-hot center of the sun.
The sky features a beautiful transition from a pale, overexposed center to deep, vignetted indigo edges. The wispy clouds at the bottom break up the solid color, adding a necessary organic texture to the lower third of the image.
This image is a compelling high-contrast nature photograph that borders on fine-art abstraction.
"The Seeker" focuses entirely on the subject. It transforms the bird from a simple animal into a character on a deliberate, profound journey toward the light. The bird is angled cleanly and purposefully toward the center of the sun. The title perfectly matches this strict, forward-moving visual momentum. It invites the audience to ask questions: What is it looking for? Is it chasing enlightenment, freedom, or an escape?
Sunrise polder dike Purmer, called Oudelandsdijkje, nearby Purmerend, 2016.
Again, I would like to thank everyone for your support, views, faves and comments!
Yuki and I play hide n seek. Of course I have to be the one to hide every time but Yuki loves searching all over the field until she finds me. I wait until she's distracted and then I jump in the tall grass and give a quick whistle. She knows what to do and the search begins. A treat is always waiting when she finds me.
These little guys are all over the boardwalk, they stay away from the humans for the most part. This one in particular was playing a little hide and seek, but I keep waiting for him to try to sell me insurance.
what a blessing to have so many great artists at my fingertips! i have been very unsettled of late and luckily a bunch of flickr buddies posted water pics today. so i am throwing this one in for solidarity. the sight and sounds of water comfort me. how about you?
This is an emotional image for me any time I see it but right now with all that is going on I find myself more emotional than ever. This beautiful Canada goose frantically flew over me several times going back and forth. It appears to have lost it's mate. It was squawking in a frantic manner until it flew out of my sight then I would hear it coming back over me doing the same thing time and time again. Geese possess a veritably human capacity for grief. Their feelings and emotions are far less different from us than you assume. Quite literally, humans, a dog, and a goose hang their heads, lose their appetites, and become indifferent to all stimuli emanating from the environment. For grief-striken human beings, as well as for geese, one effect is that they become outstandingly vulnerable to accidents; they tend to fly into high-tension cables or fall prey to predators because of their reduced alertness.
There have been reports of pair bonds that are so strong that if one goose is shot down by a hunter, the partner will circle back. Drawn by its need to stay with its lifelong companion, the single goose will often ignore the sound of shooting and return to die with its mate.
In The Pig Who Sang To The Moon, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson writes about a goose who had a broken wing. During the fall migration, as other geese flew south, her gander accompanied her by air and by foot. She was going to walk south since she was unable to fly. He would not leave her, so after flying for a few hundred yards, he would stop and wait for her to catch up. He would call to her with his wildest, most piercing cry, urging her to spread her wings and fly with him to their distant home. He accompanied her until she was killed by carrion eagles and he had to continue his journey alone.
Widowed geese have been observed circling around and around, crying in heartrending sorrowful tones when their partners die or are shot by hunters. The remaining goose may mourn for a period of time and then mate again. Or they may mourn for the rest of their lives and never seek another mate. Just as with people, it varies with individual geese.....Choo Choo Rosenbloom
So I stood in the field with this knowledge and wept as she or he kept flying over me and frantically calling for their mate. It's an incredibly sad thing to witness.
Everyone please be safe. Thinking of you all.