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I originally planned to shoot something completely different for my upload this week. It was going to be a rather complex conceptual image with various elements participating within it. For the creation of it I required a cold, frosty, typical winters day but the weather where I live never bows down to your wishes and so instead of frost and fog, I got sunshine and blue skies. Thus, I had to quickly think of something else to shoot. I debated what to do for a while until I stumbled upon this beautiful collection of ivy. The green of the leaves seemed so inviting and I became transfixed with them. I gathered my pure essentials and I simply laid down in the evergreen with its leaves curling around me, enveloping me in their embrace and I looked to my camera, pressed one button and my image was created. I captured three elements in this image; the ivy, the flowers and me. Three simple elements which created an entire image.
What I realised as I shot this image was that many a times within our lives we over dress things. We take something simple and we make it into something complex, we decorate it until it is hardly even recognizable, even to ourselves. We over think certain things, things which require no thinking at all. We take far too much time stressing about things that may or may not happen and as a result we lose vital time in which we could purely be enjoying the moment. I had an intricate idea which I had thought about for days and yet something out of my control prevented me from creating it. Instead, I adopted a new concept on the spot. I let the idea grow there and then as I was shooting. I guess what I realised during that moment was that sometimes we can’t plan everything. Sometimes we have to let life take us where it wants us to go. Sometimes, the simple things are the most important.
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
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Horsetails and their reflections, seen in someone's back garden pond on our recent May Species Count in the Priddis area, south west of Calgary.
Budapest
Tomb of Guttmann Family
Architect: Béla Lajta, 1908
Secession - premodern style
View the architect's works in my set: www.flickr.com/photos/37578663@N02/sets/72157645708831478
About Lajta Béla: lajtaarchiv.hu/az-archivumrol/?lang=en
Lajta Béláról: lajtaarchiv.hu/az-archivumrol/
"His mature work, striving to look beyond the eventualities of the fin-de-siècle and to create a modern yet enduring style is characterised by reducing mass to basic geometrical shapes, arriving at monumentality through the simplicity of form and the refinement of the choice of materials as well as clearly projecting the interior arrangement of the building onto the divisions of the facade. Lajta arrived at simple geometrical monumentality partly through studying historic architecture, so his work often uses abstract allusions to typical elements of the architecture of the ancient Middle East, Greek and Roman antiquity and other historic periods. He never gave up using ornamentation, thus his characteristically transformed, mostly folk art inspired motifs make a significant contribution to the general character of his buildings."
How happy is the little Stone
That rambles in the Road alone,
And doesn’t care about Careers
And Exigencies never fears
Whose Coat of elemental Brown
A passing Universe put on,
And independent as the Sun
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute Decree
In casual simplicity
Emily Dickinson
taken using Tamron SP AF90mm F/2.8 (Di) Macro 1:1 lens and handheld camera.
B&W post processing using BW styler plug-in
Kamera Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Belichtung 0,006 sec (1/160)
Blende f/16.0
Brennweite 180 mm
ISO-Empfindlichkeit 200
To enjoy in XXL LARGE (What I always recommend) - H E R E
f9.0 − 1/200 - ISO100 - No Flash - Nikon D800 - 46mm @ Tamron 24-70 f2.8
Simplicity, of lovely nature,...
....La simplicité, est le summum du raffinement,....
....Leonardo Da Vinci,...:-)
Marvellous mothers,...
All my friendship,...Real,...:-)
E' curioso a vedere che gli uomini di molto merito hanno sempre le maniere semplici, e che sempre le maniere semplici sono prese per indizio di poco merito.
Giacomo Leopardi.
And 'interesting to see that men have always greatly on the simple ways and simple manners are always taken for evidence of little merit.
Giacomo Leopardi
Painted ads from an era gone by cling to the aging brick of this building in a small town in Arkansas. The irony of the title follows the abundant patterns and tones throughout this photograph. Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
Photo # KS4_4394bw3.
(c) Kelly Shipp Photography.
Flickr Friday theme: Simplicity
Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊
Lurching back into 2015 for this one while maintaining the B7L theme, 61643 prepares to pull away from the eastbound Clydebank Bus Station (Chalmers St) stops at the very start of it's long trek to East Kilbride (Calderwood) in typical December weather.
A fair few B7Ls ran with SimpliCITY branding atop their faded Willowleaf/Barbie colors for a good long while, some being withdrawn in such a condition. 643 would however gain Olympia/Urban livery (retaining the SimpiCITY branding either side of the destination screen) in it's autumn years.
Photo Date: 14th December 2015
Daffodil on a texture from Terry Pellmar, T25 B. Going for a minimalistic look, but still with a bit of a background.
Link to Terry Pellmar's free textures
Saintmartin, Bangladesh, 2014
Life you had, is the life we have
The time you were, is the time we are
Simplicity of life which we are enjoying, is what you lost.
Explorer #344 - March 30, 2008
Nothing is more wonderful that watching a sunset settle over water. Add in the ducks and simplicity and beauty at it's finest!!!
The simplicity does appeal to me.
I know that there are many images like this on Flickr, but I ask you to contemplate if beauty can ever truly be redundant (or "cliché", as some like to call it)? Would love your thoughts on that question.
Please press L
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
- Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
June 25th 2006