View allAll Photos Tagged selfreflection
Photo captured on Avenue of the Giants near post-mile marker 18.59 in the census-designated place of Weott. Humboldt County. Mid July 2013.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Hello Flickr!!!!!! I hope you have been doing well! I have been super busy and the coming month or so is going to be even more full. I just wanted to stop in to say hi and that I miss hanging out here with you!! This was taken over the weekend at Bristol Renaissance Faire (was there for the second time this summer). It was a fun day there on Sunday after a fantastic day spent hiking and canoeing on Saturday.
Only two more days until the holiday weekend! Enjoy the downhill slide!!
Instead of a Christmas tree... On New Year's Eve, I want to congratulate everyone with this photo.
Bellow I wrote a short (actually not...) congratulation for everybody in Russian. It would be quite hard for me to make it in English with all meaning I want to share, so feel free to use translation services you prefer to get the ideas...
Искренне желаю всем (в том числе и себе) плодотворного нового года. Для тех, кто использует празднование нового года в качестве точки отсчета, желаю преуспеть в том, чтобы всегда и везде фокусироваться на том, на что можно повлиять, как-то изменить. Остальным же желаю получить прекрасные плоды вашего труда (в том числе и над собой). Пусть всё, что вы посадили в этом году, во всех предыдущих годах прорастет в этом году и даст свои плоды. Но также желаю вам помнить о том, что нужно ещё и регулярно поливать и ухаживать за растениями… Желаю всем принятия того, что вы можете повлиять лишь на малую часть от того, что вас окружает. И вдохновения для того, чтобы продолжать свой путь, продолжать сотворять свою жизнь, делать ваш внутренний и окружающий мир лучше, добрее, наполнять радостью. Пусть всё способствует вашему росту и слиянию с Природой, своим чистым Сознанием.
В эти дни непременно стоит отметить для себя и поблагодарить себе и окружающему миру за все пройденные уроки, приобретения, провалы, ошибки. За то, что ни смотря ни на что мы продолжаем наше космическое путешествие. А если нам до сих пор трудно понять кто мы такие и что мы делаем в этом мире - то это повод начать предпринимать маленькие, пусть даже крошечные действия… Стоит фокусироваться на действиях, а потом уже на размышлениях или рефлексии…
Пусть в Новом году будут только благостные последствия наших действий (или бездействия). Пусть окружающие вас люди и обстоятельства всячески помогают вам, а вы в свою очередь инвестируйте в них. Что стоит наша жизнь, если в ней отсутствуют другие люди?…
Мира, Гармонии и Целостности в Новом году!
Happy Holidays everyone!
1) I’m a night owl...rarely go to bed before midnight and rarely get up before 8 a.m.
2) I love the experience of reading - not just the feel, texture, smell but losing myself in the lives of other people - real or fiction. Recently got a Kindle and love the instant gratification - maybe more than the feel, texture, smell.....hmmmm....wonder what that says about me...
3) I must nurture my creative side or I get cranky...photography, scrapbooks, music all quiet my soul.
4) I like a house that’s clean...enough.
5) I’m developing my own style of photography and I’m slowly accepting that it is what it is.
6) I would like to be remembered as.....well, I’m not sure.....I just don’t want to be forgotten.
7) I’m pretty computer literate for a gal my age.
8) If weight weren’t an issue, I’d eat chocolate ice cream every day.
9) I’m not a loner, but I do need my alone time...solitude and reflection ground me.
10) Without my faith or my family, I would be a mess!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our Daily Challenge: Framed
113 in 2013: #81Copycat - copy a photo or idea you admire on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/gillettephotography/8378190102/) who copied from (www.flickr.com/photos/artistboutique/8343888713/)
Beyond Layers Day 13: Ten Truths About Me with Kim Klassen's happy heart texture
What do we see in art but ourselves?
View On Black - Part of a triptych - Larger than life and The fountain of inspiration can be found here.
Photo captured along the beach at Dry Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
And yet routinization is like spiritual poison: “This is the tragedy of every man: ‘to dim all wonder by indifference.’ Life is routine, and routine is resistance to the wonder.”13 One of the crucial tasks of religion, Heschel therefore insists, is to struggle against the anesthetizing effects of our over-familiarization with life and reality, and to instill in us a sense of “perpetual surprise,”
-Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence by Shai Held
/************************************************************************/
“ideological fervour is a distraction from the fundamental task of all seekers of truth which is to explore what lies in the complex and needy hearts of human beings – our own first”
-Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed by Patrick Woodhouse
/*************************************************************************/
Behind the Mask
Behind white beams I do hide
Within shadows will be a gaze
Never shall I step in front of the mask
To render a deeper truth
Reserved is this inner I
Spiritual flesh protected from tear
Securely, I have stepped back
Exposure held behind this concrete
Peering out I do perceive
Powers waiting beyond sight
Quietly, I turn my head
Where a vast desert invites
Am I torn between these worlds?
Preferred is this inward landscape
-Robert Cowlishaw
shot for Renato's challenge introspective/meditative/contemplative over at the clobal camel committee.
strobist info.
main photo: one flash to the right through 80cm umbrella, another on the left through mini softbox.
framed photo: single flash subject left, throug grid. used the umbrella from the main shot to reflect a bit of light to the dark side of my face. Both shots combined in PSE 8.
Sure I believe in all the right things. I even try to do the right things. But really now. Is it real? Is my heart into it? How many times a day do I say to myself, "that wasn't how it is supposed to be?" I don't try to be a saint. I just wish I could really be me!
There is a story about a saintly Rabbi who lived about 300 years ago, Rabbi Zushia of Anipoli. He was very very modest and humble. He would say, "When Zushia goes to the heavenly court, they won't ask why you were not like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or Moses. They will ask why you were not Zushia!"
from time to time one cannot resist, especially when being surrounded by such superbe piece of architecture :)
© Ruby Huang, All Rights Reserved
"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny."
-Mahatma Ghandi
I have been reviewing some Vietnam scans and came on this one which I never bothered with before because it was kind of ordinary. Until I realized it might be an accidental selfie. (A word that did not exist in 1967) If you look closely at the very right of the frame you can see me, reflected in the window.
A solitary woman stands beneath a large flowering tree silhouette on a gentle hill as the sun sets, creating a peaceful, contemplative scene that evokes nature, calm, and quiet reflection.
I slip away to where the soul unfurls alongside the first spring flowers.
A moment, a flicker of will, a pinch of imagination — and I melt into serene unity with nature, leaving the mundane rush behind. Here, breaths grow deeper, exhales turn whisper-soft, and thoughts slow their frantic dance, shedding the weight of needless noise. Whatever storms may rage beyond — I am anchored here and now. All that exists is mind, body, and the primal dance where I become spring’s partner.
The chill breeze still carries winter’s echoes, but March sun kisses the earth with gilded rays. Light wraps around my being like a silken shroud. Flesh seems to dissolve into radiance — warmth seeping into every cell now surges outward, merging with sunlit sparks.
I am a ray caressing the meadow where snowdrops bloom skyward. I am a stem drinking the cold soil’s moisture and sunlight’s vital sap. My leaves, petals, veins — fragile bridges between two realms. I am Darkness and Light’s child, born of their eternal embrace. Is this not Love’s truest dance? Wordless. Unconditional. It needs no language — only colors splashed across thawing snow, only the tremble of a sprout straining toward life…
The wind brushes me, and I recognize an ancient companion. Then a new touch — a delicate tickle on my petal. Is it a bee, bearing my pollen in golden leg-baskets? Or a gnat weaving my essence into its flight? I no longer separate them from myself: their wings are my wings, their hum — my heart’s song.
I become the grass’s whisper and the woodpecker’s call in the distant woods. I am the spark within a dewdrop, the shadow cast upon a stone, the quiver of an aspen leaf. I am spring’s hymn, sung by every shoot, every drop of sap, every whirling pollen grain. Here and now, boundaries vanish — only life remains, flowing from form to form.
Time to return? But how can one depart from Home? I am where I’ve always been: in the roots’ murmur, the hawk’s glide, the earth’s steady breath. Here and now is no mere place. It is eternity’s heartbeat — where I am the world itself.
The rules change at 40 piersey.com/hormones-humbled-me-at-40/ Hormones shift. Cravings get weird. Stress lands heavier. This post breaks down how I stopped fighting it and finally built a lifestyle that made sense for this season of life.
A hundred years ago Brussels was a majestic city, as we can still see in the museum of fine arts. The visitor is welcomed by some imposing examples of the collection...
Part of a triptych - Larger than life and Selfreflection can be found here.
Most people, cameras in hand, capture endless photos the exact moment when the sun lowers on the horizon. Unfortunately, those people simply leave and end their moment on capturing that quintessential sunset. However, the moment after the sun sets is truly when the magic happens. An array of colors burst out of the ether as if the heavens above express the amount of love and positive vibrations they have for us earthlings. Enjoy each and every moment of a sunset and your life, not just the highlights. Photo captured from the Humboldt Lagoon State Park Visitor Center at Stone Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Late August 2013.
The task of depth theology, by contrast, is “to keep alive the meta-symbolic relevance of religious terms”; concepts “must not become screens; they must be regarded as windows.”
-Pramuk, Christopher. Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton
Photo captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens from Samoa Beach in the census-designated place of Samoa. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
Photo of Mount Shasta captured from U.S. Highway 97. Siskiyou County. Far Northern California. "State of Jefferson." On the first day of January 2013.
Photo captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens from the Woodley Island Marina on Humboldt's waterfront. City of Eureka. Humboldt County. Late October 2013.
What beliefs are you hanging onto that are weighing you down?
One of the most beautiful parts of creativity IS the ability TO CREATE. Creativity is not bound to something or limited by something. It is free, ever changing, ever growing. Only you can set the boundaries of how far you wish to explore your creativity. Some choose a smaller piece to work from and grow to be amazing at their craft. Others will have no bounds and be forever curious as to what their imagination can create.
My art is entering a very exciting period of freedom. This freedom has come from freeing myself of beliefs that I have accumulated that don’t serve me. You see, opinions can be a valuable tool to be taken into consideration but they are just that and not a life sentence. You are not sentenced by what someone thinks or feels about you. Of course, unfavorable opinions can hurt and as human beings we want to fit in… but at what cost?
Up until this point in 2020, I was accepting every opportunity that I could and clinging to it because I felt like I was not doing enough to support my family. Quarantine taught me how wrong I was. I started to work on myself and on the idea of setting myself free by releasing what no longer serves me or what has never served me – whether that be material possessions, thoughts in my mind or emotions. Let me tell you, this kind of purging is not easy. It takes a great deal of work and courage but the key is to take it one day or layer at a time. Yes, my mind is still cluttered and yes, so is my home but every day I take one step closer.
@dandapanillc taught me this year that one’s call in life should never be dependent on someone or something and this just struck such a strong chord with me. He went on to say, “What happens when that one thing or person go away? You find that you have no purpose now.” For the longest time, my purpose was to help others and then it changed to “be a successful artist.” But after giving this some thought, my life purpose is to love myself just as I am because the being that I am is perfect. And so, with that insight, I was able to set myself free.
✨What is your life purpose?✨
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Viktor E. Frankl