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Looking in the glass door first thing in the morn, anticipation on what the day may hold. Self-reflection - cool!
Brad sitting beside the set of rocks resembling an Inukshuk is reflecting on his journey and the expansive landscape of Auyuittuq, As clouds roll in non-chalantly from time to time, I considered how these Inukshuks were used for navigation by the Inuits. As the climate continues to change, would the usefulness of these landmarks be compromised by surroundings that we don't recognize anymore?
The third of a new series ... 'self reflection' ... iPhone and Canon 40D combined image ... the first reflection is in a balti bowl after eating a rather good curry!
While attempting (and failing) to sleep, I took pictures of myself. I thought this one turned out a bit (accidentally) nifty.
Is it a bad sign that I have no idea what the brown object in this photo is, nor what the reflective surface is? There's just so much crap on my bed. I think the reflective surface is a DVD-R that failed to burn properly, but one can never be sure.
“Sustainability” is a widely discussed topic among domestic and international corporations and is also a commitment that a company makes in its pursuit of corporate social responsibility (CSR). When Cathay FHC contemplated the word “sustainability”, Cathay Dupont Award initiated a process of self-reflection. Cathay's development started at the family level: one out of every two people in Taiwan is a Cathay FHC customer, and over 12 million clients have entrusted their precious assets to Cathay. The current state and scale of our group is a sign of approval by families in Taiwan. Apart from building a sustainable and outstanding enterprise that gives back to society and fosters stability, Cathay should strive to broaden our Asia market to becoming the top financial corporation in Asia.
In the past, the concept of CSR might have left the impression that corporations only need to manage issues such as charities and environmental protection. However, the underlying connotation of corporate sustainability (CS) further encourages corporations to embrace environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues as a strategic tool to modify corporate management system and operation model while seeking profits. Cathay FHC recognizes that “sustainability in the macro-environment” is the foundation of corporate sustainability. Being entrusted with the responsibility of managing important money flow, we hope to simultaneously increase asset value for clients, create additional bonuses for the environment and the society, and reduce unnecessary risks.
Hence, in 2013, we updated the report title from “Corporate Social Responsibility Report” to “Corporate Sustainability Report”, internalizing the concept of sustainability to all levels of the corporation. Through rigorous risk analysis, we defined three major risk factors: business changes, climate changes, and social changes. In order to implement the principles of sustainability, coping mechanisms were devised to master both external and internal risks in order to bring Cathay FHC even more business development opportunities. read cathay dupont award articles here
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
― Melody Beattie
Holding the sunglasses by one hand, while the other hand press the shutter. Picture taken at River Kwai Rosotel, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. While waiting for collegues, I did try few experimental pictures. This picture make use my own sunglasses.
I'm going to use this post for a moment of self-reflection.
Here's the general format for a tour of Ruby Falls. What happens is you show up at the gift shop in that castle built in the 1930s with your intellectual telephone already showing your ticket long enough before your scheduled tour to mill about for a while near a big door. And then when the appointed time comes, some tour guide calls your tour group forward, and you all walk down a hall with your fellow tourists to a gate next to an elevator. A Ruby Falls employee at the gate scans your ticket, and you're directed to an elevator where you wait for the rest of your touring party. If it's a holiday weekend and your tour party is very, very large, then you go down the elevator in shifts. At the bottom of the elevator, you are in the cave, and people direct you through one of those mandatory photography sessions to take a picture you won't buy later. Then they send you to an appointed spot -- this spot -- to wait for your tour guide to gather the people behind you.
Somehow, I wound up at the head of this line of probably about 40 people. The tour guide, who had to keep running from one end of the group to the other to make sure everybody was moving the way they were supposed to, decided that this made me the group leader, and he kept telling me to move to various locations where I was supposed to keep everybody behind me in line.
This sort of thing happens to me a lot. I always wind up being the leader of things. And the thing about that is that while some people are born natural leaders, I'm just not very good at leadership, and I don't like doing it. And yet it doesn't matter whether it's groups of family, friends, or strangers, I wind up being the leader all the damned time.
I don't know why it works out that way.
Robin says it's because I have no patience. And I can acknowledge there's truth in that. A good way to summarize social interaction and my approach to it is to describe two people who get to a door at the same time. Both people stop and look at each other for a second. One holds out his hand and says, "After you." The other says, "No, I insist, after you." The first says, "No, you were here first," even though they were there at the same time. The second says, "I think you were." And on it goes. But if one of those people is me, and I get to a door at the same time as some other guy ... I just go through the door. I don't waste a bunch of time with some kind of false politeness that just slows everybody down. I just keep walking, and the guy walks behind me, and we're both through the door in less time than it took the first of those other guys to say "After you." This doesn't necessarily make me right or wrong -- it's usually not even a question of correctness -- it just makes me ... fast.
Then there's the situation where some batch of people just aren't sure where to go, so they all just drift around each other, bumping into things, waiting for somebody to come tell them how they have to be moving. Nobody ever looks into the idea that maybe they can figure it out, that maybe they can walk far enough until they eventually see a sign. No, they just drift in a cloud. I've got no patience with cloud drifters. Just make a decision. It doesn't matter if the decision's right or not. If it's wrong, you can figure it out and backtrack. But just do something. Don't wait for the world to work itself out for you.
And so, what happens, I guess, is that the tour guy calls our group down the hall, everybody drifts around for a while unsure of anything and unwilling to figure anything out, and I walk down the hall like I know where I'm going even if I don't. Then everybody winds up following me, and I wind up leading everyone even though I don't want to. Drives me nuts.
Moral of the story: If you're in a group, don't get mad at the guy who winds up in front. You probably could have gone up there yourself if you'd wanted, and it's not that guy's fault you decided to hold back.
A photo serioes of self portraits taken by my friend Nick Larson. This is a depiction and representation of diving deeper into myself. A conceptual thought process of who I am.
I took a street photography class and my street stuff wasn't coming together very well. I gave up one day and sat down for a whiskey in Flowers Bar, got a few shots I liked. So I ended up doing my whole final project from the same chair. Street photography. Hah!
This was the sharpest I caught any of the reflections in these bubbles. Having a big sensor is nice because I can crop right in, but I was pretty close up to this anyway. First time I've really experienced the power of manual focus while having to shoot fast. It was pretty exhilirating (I don't get out much)