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"Never stand between two mirrors. Mirrors contain infinity. Infinity contains more things than you think. Everything, for a start. Including hunger. Because there's a million billion images, but only one soul to go around."
~Terry Pratchett
From The Wintersmith (I think)
Got stuck into the whole digital music / Piracy debate tonight with some friends after a small poker tournament (I just met them there - I wasn't playing)
(I'm kinda amazed someone didn't beat me to this?)
For FGR - Warped Self Reflections
Explored :D
Shot taken at Loch Etive, in Scotland, where it meets the roads end of Glen Etive.
Glen Etive is located "on the other side of" Glencoe.
Glen Etive contains a 7 mile single track road, that starts at the Kings House Hotel, at the start of Glencoe.
I used to camp regularly in the Glen.
Here you could camp freely anywhere you wished, unlike Glencoe where the only camping was allowed at the rear of The Kings House Hotel.
Glen Etive is fantastic, as it featured most of the Glencoe Mountains on its northern side, and had a river running through it (to Loch Etive).
Featured in the recent Bond Movie, with Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and that song from Adele (Skyfall).
Believe it or not, Glen Etive is only a 90 minute car journey from Glasgow, and this journey takes you to some amazing places en-route (you travel up the entire 26 miles of Loch Lomond).
If you go to Glasgow on a holiday or short break, hire a car and head North to Loch Lomond, Glencoe and Glen Etive. It will be the best investment that you could ever possibly make for under £100.
Trust me, it is unbelievable scenery, tranquilness and the most tuned to glorious nature that you may encounter here on earth.
I know I may be overdoing it a bit, but try it, and if your are fully dissatisfied get back to me, taking into account that we cannot guarantee, from one hour to the next (never mind day to day) what the weather will be like.
Just take a chance and go for it.
Michael Alfano, 2022, near Seven Stars Bakery, Jewelry District, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, sculpture
In a Google cafe wasting time while waiting for a ride. Should have grabbed an ice cream instead of doing goofy things like this.
Are you sure that you know your true identity? Will you be able to look at yourself without all the distortions created by your subjective world? In general, we are more close to the animal self than to the human self.
The animal self seeks the satisfaction of its own passions at all costs although it may often have to disguise them and present them under the appearance of great saintliness. In this way, this man, that thinks that he 'does what he likes,' is in reality the slave of his own slaves.
J.A. Livraga
Stock used:
Raven here by ~FallowpenStock
Texture here by ~SolStock
Blood brushes here by ~Scully7491
Background is my own stock. It was done last week in west Ireland, in the same place than the photo beside.
Thank you for looking
He leaned against his bookshelf pondering possible outcomes for his maniacal urges. Will logic conquer or will chaotic emotions run it's course?...
Threatening skies loom large over one of the few remaining grain elevators in the district, Andrew, Alberta, Canada
“Silence, or Moksha, is the ultimate goal in life. It is understanding aloneness / becoming silent within & removing all boundaries to exit from the cycle of birth & death… Enlightenment. Look at life. You live and die over & over again. Fear controls the culture / society. Gods & stories are crafted to comfort everyone’s fears. People go insane. It’s all just a big illusion. Learn to be alone, be you. Be Godly to yourself. Love yourself…. Death doesn’t exist within infinity - Time doesn’t exist here either. You put time limits on your life and it creates confusion. The future is an illusion you create. Death controls you, but you are here, death is of the future. Look at the clock right now, it has no time. As soon as you say it’s a time it has already moved past. Now has no time. No beginning or end to it. Just a flow. Live life with no limitations. Be silent within, operate this way & watch your perception move beyond this physical realm. Once you’re beyond, go beyond-beyond. Beyond beyond is home. Your own dimension.” जSड़ोंIभूLमि3गNतCमैं3 by Tony Katai (¾)
Psychologist Phil Zimbardo reflects on his shift from studying evil to studying heroism, with his old TED Talk on the screen of Vintage TED last night.
I love these kinds of shots. The ones you take of yourself in the mirror of your car, or maybe in the window of an airplane or bus! You might be documenting a road trip, or a journey, or just going to visit some friends like I was here. It's not as easy as it looks. This must have been one of thirty or forty tries, maybe even more, to get just the right feeling for this week's BAM.
You see, driving on the highway at 70 mph, with your head half hanging out the window, aiming and focusing your lens, then posing yourself without letting go of the shutter button so you don't focus on the "Objects in Mirror" text or moving the angle where you only get the upper corner of the mirror...well. It's not as simple as it seems. And when you do manage to get the framing right...you probably forgot to look directly into the lens of the camera in the mirror's reflection, so you're looking off into spaceville. And what about expressions? were you smiling? do you have psycho eyes? Is it natural? It's a lot to think about.
But maybe it doesn't have to be this tough. Maybe, if you're on a good vibe, magic happens, and it all just clicks into place. No internal drama, no demands of perfection. But just me, myself, and my canon. Happy to be here. Happy to have the wind in my hair, a smile on my face, my husband at the wheel, heading out on a journey. And now, 30 or 40 clicks and a lot of laughs later, I also have an image to remind me of how care-free and simple life can really be. No perfection needed!
Photo of Luffenholtz Beach captured via Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D AF Nikkor lens and in the census-designated place of Westhaven-Moonstone via Scenic Drive. Humboldt County. Mid October 2013.
I went swimming in the pool at my apartments and the water was sooo chlorinated it stripped almost all the blue and green from the front of my hair...
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