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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
I finally got to attempt that self-portrait I always wanted to do with my parents' vanity mirror. (I had to nick their tripod to do it.)
We have a love/hate relationship with this thing. The other side magnifies your face to at least thrice its actual size, and you can see everything. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes it isn't.
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.
Early spring this eagle came down for a fish but came up short. He swan to a clump of grass, got out of the water, and after a brief moment flew off with some of the grass.
"Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person, a false self. I wind my experiences around myself and cover myself in glory to make myself perceptible...as if I were an invisible body that could only become visible when something visible covered its surface....But there is no substance under the things with which I am clothed. I am hollow, and my structures of pleasures and ambitions have no foundation. I am my own mistake.....The secret of my identity is hidden in the love and mercy of God."
-Thomas Merton, "Seeds of Contemplation"
self portrait taken in a hotel room in montevideo, uruguay
about me
1. I believe in God, and I am proud to be His daughter.
2. when I was younger, I used to sit outside in the backyard, hug my dogs and cry whenever I was upset. I was and I am still absolutely certain that they knew exactly how I felt. my dream as a child was to become a veterinarian; as a teen, I wanted to be a traveler and a writer.. today, I just know that I want to photograph and travel the world.
3. I love taking buses I've never taken before, sitting by the window and watching the landscape pass by. I believe that joy can be found in such small things, living one day at a time.
sobre mí
1. creo en Dios y estoy orgullosa de ser Su hija.
2. de pequeña, cuando me sentía triste, solía sentarme en el patio de mi casa, abrazar a mis perros y llorar. tenía y todavía tengo la absoluta certeza de que sabían como me sentía. cuando era niña, mi sueño era convertirme en veterinaria; cuando crecí, quise ser una viajera y escritora... hoy por hoy, sólo sé que quiero fotografiar y viajar y conocer el mundo.
3. me encanta viajar en colectivo por caminos que nunca he transitado y, sentada junto a la ventanilla, mirar el paisaje cambiar una y otra vez. creo que la alegría puede ser encontrada en cosas tan pequeñas, viviendo un día a la vez.
나의 대해서
1. 하나님을 믿고, 그의 딸이라는것이 자랑스럽다.
2. 어렸을적 우울하고 슬플 때는 언제나 우리 집 정원에 앉아 키우던 우리 개들을 안으며 울었었다. 그때도 지금도 난 그들이 나의 기분을 정확히 알 수 있었다고 믿는다. 어린 아이였을 때 나의 꿈은 수의사가 되는것이였다, 시간이 흐르고 나이가 들어 여행자 또한 작가가 되고싶었다.. 하지만 지금은 그저 사진을 찍고 세계를 여행 다니며 알아가고 싶다.
3. 버스를 타는것을 좋아한다, 특히 한 번도 다녀보지 않은 길을 다니는 버스에 창문쪽에 앉아, 지나가는 풍경을 보며. 기쁨은 참 사소하고 작은것에 느낌 수 있다고 믿는다, 하루하루를 소중히 여기며.
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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
Threatening skies loom large over one of the few remaining grain elevators in the district, Andrew, Alberta, Canada
title: opal moonstone scan
medium: face scan, self portrait 2008
intended presentation context: for web and print showing
For the past two decades, Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuges have worked alongside local communities to provide science and culture summer camps for rural youth. During these camps, students spend time outside exploring their wild backyards with teachers, mentors and elders, while gaining a better understanding of natural resource issues impacting their lives, and practicing cultural traditions with guidance from village elders.
Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge
Kodiak Salmon Camp
Communities Served: The City of Kodiak and the villages of Port Lions, Old Harbor, Akhiok, Larsen
Bay, Ouzinkie and Karluk.
During Salmon Camp over 150 campers learn about the natural and cultural systems that defi ne Kodiak’s geography. Camp empowers learners to investigate their own connections to this special place through hands-on learning, self-reflection and group discovery
Often in life, one must cleanse the soul; undergoing a series of self reflective exercises to uncover the highs and lows pertaining to one's life. Just like this photo depicts beautiful Mount Lassen, and its reflection on the lake, life sometimes can and will display the obvious to your very own eyes. Live, love and enjoy life. Photo of Mount Lassen captured at Manzanita Lake. Shasta County. Late October 2012.
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!