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Masai Mara (MNC), Kenya
Natito's female cub Ndoto deciding that she really does need to come down the tree and follow her mother.
completely personal. completely vulnerable.
today has been awful. i just want everything to end. i can't wait to escape.
i haven't taken such honest picture in a long time. if ever. it says so much. to myself. i put my pain into it.
taking pictures has probably never made me feel the way it did today.
271/365.
Photographed at British wildlife centre.
Hedgehogs are sadly endangered. ptes.org/state-britains-hedgehogs-report-2018/
Do you see Vulnerability or Defiance?
Today is officially something different Friday? :-) So something different from me. I would like to do more shots like these but if I'm honest I found "the body" quite hard a subject to shoot. It belongs together with my other image "Victim or Predator". I hope you like it.
And TFI Friday :-)
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Explore #19
Hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius) "Funani" and her 11 month old girl "Devi" playing with the water stream in the 150,000 gallon pool at the San Diego Zoo.
Devi was born 3.23.15 and is now approaching 500 lbs.
Conservation Status: Vulnerable
"to share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength." - Criss Jami
Model: my daughter
That really is her standing on her toe shoes, I didn't photoshop them, but the antlers..um..well.
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Black Dragon Pool Park
Old Town Of Lijiang
Yunnan Province, People's Republic Of China
"The water that feeds the five-hectare Black Dragon Pool bubbles up
from the foot of Elephant Hill. Here a stone bridge and the elegant
three-tiered Deyue Pavilion offer stunning prospects of the mountain,
trailing a wisp of cloud like a scarf on the breeze" -- Peter Moss
(an excerpt from the book "Lijiang, The Imperiled Utopia")
Now, don't be fooled-- some say that this jungle beauty entices their prey into coming to them...
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I have spent my life fighting alone, like a warrior who had no choice but to keep moving forward despite the wounds. I learned to rely only on myself, to hide my fears behind an armor forged by hardship.
So today, even though I have your support, your listening ear, your love, and your precious words, opening my heart is still a challenge. Not because I doubt you, but because I am still learning that I no longer have to carry everything on my own.
I love you more than words can express, and every day, I try to give myself permission to be vulnerable with you. Because after a lifetime of surviving, learning how to let yourself be loved is sometimes the greatest act of courage.
Thank you for giving me a safe haven where I can lay down my weapons without fear, for allowing me to be fragile in your arms without ever feeling judged. Thank you for supporting me unwaveringly, even when doubt finds its way into my heart.
Thank you for the man you are for your kindness, your patience, your loyalty, and the light you bring into my darkest places. Because of you, I am learning that vulnerability is not a weakness, but one of the purest expressions of trust and love. ❤️
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
Poem:
Cheer up, O grievous snail.
I tap your shell, encouragingly,
not that you will ever know about it.
And I want nothing to do with you, either, sulking toad.
Imagine, at least four times my size and yet so vulnerable.
I could open your belly with my claw.
You glare and bulge, a
watchdog near my pool; you make a loud and hollow noise.
I do not care for such stupidity.
I admire compression, lightness,
and agility, all rare in this loose world.
GTFO JUST TRYING TO BE NAKED IN THE WOODS CAN'T I GET SOME PRIVACY GEEZ.
So glad these thorny asshole bushes finally came in handy.
A group of us non-lafg2013ers decided to embark on a giant collaboration; the first concept we’re attempting is our greatest fear.
At first I wanted to do something light-hearted about my fear of flies or injections or corn (it’s like a million little rotted teeth on a stick…) but I realized that’s part of my actual big huge mega-fear, vulnerability. Not the physical kind--I don’t doubt my ability or willingness to kick some ass in a pinch--but the emotional sort. And don't get me wrong, strong emotional defenses like humor are important, but I think mine are a little much. Long story shortish I was bullied a cray ton in middle school until I just kind of made a little suit of feels armor for myself and I’ve never really figured out how to strip it in the presence of most people. I swear I go through the same argument with the little voice in my head every single time I interact with anyone; if I let my guard down the other person is free to judge and reject the secret parts of myself that make me a unique human in the clusterfuck of all the other billions.
But then I’m all ‘why do I feel so compelled to let others define my worth’ and then I’m all ’social acceptance is pretty important to the survival of things with brains bro’ but then I’m all ‘I mean that’s a good excuse but literally millions of other people have learned to get past that, what makes me special’ and then I wallow, typically. I mean, basically it’s fear of pain which is practically etched into our skulls from birth, so I know I'm not alone in this, but at the same time just aghajakfgl.
And I know I could have it so much worse. I could be afraid of starvation or disease or my own parents. But in the relative scope of my general insignificance my fear of emotional vulnerability is the thing that keeps me up at night so. Welcome to the most personal photo I’ve ever done, y’all.
And you know. The most publicly naked one.
*******If anyone else out there shares my fear there’s an awesome TED talk on the subject by Brené Brown. Even if you don't, just watch it. It's even funny so none of you have an excuse.
Here's to a more fearless 2013 for everybody :)
The Great Curassow is a large, pheasant-like bird from the Neotropical rainforests, its range extending from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Male birds are black with curly crests and yellow beaks; females come in three colour morphs, barred, rufous and black.
This species is threatened by loss of habitat and hunting, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "vulnerable". As this is a difficult bird to find in the wild, I went to see this captive female at Hamerton Zoo which specialises in rare and endangered animals.
To have love and be loved we must be open to be vulnerable or we might miss what that love is. The flowers are just standing letting any one that comes by pick them. we might love them in that vase on the table but the flowers gave their life's away that you could love them in a vase. Love is all about giving a way parts of our selfs.
A jumble of personal and cultural thoughts through photoshop.
A combination of 41 Images and around 84 hours of work.
Done as part of a series of combined images for my graduate exhibition.
He made it on his own through a deadly desert. He crossed the ocean on a small boat that was hardly seaworthy. I think of my own childhood...
Maasi Mara, Kenya, Africa
The Southern Ground-Hornbill, which is found in the savannas of eastern Africa, is the largest and heaviest of the hornbills. The primary food of this ground-dwelling bird is arthropods such as grasshoppers, beetles, scorpions and termites. They will also eat larger prey such as snakes, lizards and rats.
The female Southern Ground-Hornbill can be identified by the blue patch on the red throat skin.
The Southern Ground-hornbill is considered vulnerable because of significant declines in areas where they encounter human density, tree felling and use of poisons and pesticides. Conservationists are currently considering the possibility of collecting second-hatched chicks for reintroduction programs.
"To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength." Criss Jami
Enrico David (Italian, b. 1966) has distinguished himself as one of today’s most original artists, fashioning a universe of imagery that revolves around the human figure and its many states of being. Rendering the body as fragile, vulnerable, grotesque, tortured, and ecstatic, he uses a wide range of media, including sculpture, painting, installation, and works on paper, to achieve an encyclopedic yet extremely personal account of the human form.
The subtitle of the exhibition, Gradations of Slow Release, comes from a sculpture of the same name but also characterizes the circular process of this artist’s work, in which imagery and ideas slowly morph and evolve over time, guided by shared themes that find different but related forms. References to interiority, multiplicity, privacy, introspection, and disembodiment course through his works, which sometimes feel extremely contemporary in their expression and, at other times, appear archaic or timeless. The exhibition traces David’s works made over the past 20 years, revealing the interconnections in his body of work in an attempt to build an empathic relationship between the viewer and the objects he has created.
David lives and works in London and has exhibited around the world, including at Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale.
Galapagos Islands
Off The Coast Of Equador
South America
Santa Fe Island
Land iguana basking in the sun. Shedding some skin.
The Barrington Land Iguana or Santa Fe Land Iguana (Conolophus pallidus) is a species of lizard in the Iguanidae family. It is one of three species of Conolophus. It is endemic to Santa Fe Island in the Galapagos.
Its generic name, Conolophus, is derived from two Greek words: conos (κώνος) meaning "spiny" and lophos (λοφος) meaning "crest" or "plume", denoting the spiny crests along their backs.
The Barrington Land Iguana is similar in every detail to the Galapagos Land Iguana except that the Barrington Island Iguana is paler yellow in color with a longer more tapered snout and more pronounced dorsal spines. The Barrington Land Iguana grows to a length of three feet with a body weight of up to twenty-five pounds.
Being cold-blooded, they absorb heat from the sun basking on volcanic rock and at night sleep in burrows to conserve their body heat. These iguanas also enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the island's finches; the birds remove parasites and ticks providing relief to the iguana and food for the birds.
Barrington Land iguanas are primarily herbivorous, however some individuals have shown that they are opportunistic carnivores supplementing their diet with insects, centipedes and carrion. Because fresh water is scarce on the islands it inhabits, the Land Iguana obtains the majority of its moisture from the prickly-pear cactus that makes up 80% of its diet: fruit, flowers, pads, and even spines. During the rainy season it will drink from available standing pools of water and feast on yellow flowers of the Genus Portulaca. Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. - Source Wikipedia
Month 5/12
So me and my friend Alex started our own little project together. Every month, we're going to pick a concept. Every month, we are going to use up a roll (or two) of film on that concept. This month was vulnerability.
Replaced (again) because you like this one more.