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Proverbs 3:5-6 NASB
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
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Mysterious Ways
Song by U2
Lyrics
Johnny, take a walk with your sister the moon
Let her pale light in to fill up your room
You've been living underground, eating from a can
You've been running away, from what you don't understand (Look)
She's slippy, you're sliding down
She'll be there, when you hit the ground
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
She moves in mysterious ways
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
She moves in mysterious ways, oh
Johnny, take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel
On your knees, boy
She's the wave, she turns the tide
She sees the man inside the child
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
She moves in mysterious ways, yeah
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
She moves in mysterious ways, yeah, oh, ah
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
Lift my days, light up my nights, oh
One day you'll look back, and you'll see
Where you were held now by this love
While you could stand there
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
She moves in mysterious ways
It's all right, it's all right, it's all right
She moves in mysterious ways, oh
Move you, spirits move you (It's all right, it's all right, it's all right)
Move, spirits move you, oh, yeah (She moves in mysterious ways)
Does it move you, she moves with it (It's all right, it's all right, it's all right)
Lift my days, and light up my nights, oh
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A very unusual (for me) MM contribution in quite a few ways, because it is a photo that I have neither taken at home nor specifically for the "dutch angle" theme – this fluffy feather was a chance discovery at last Wednesday's (fabuloutastic, I should add) photowalk at the Olympic stadium; I didn't even think about the theme when I found this pretty feather in a corner of a step of one of the many, many staircases there. And of course this isn't the photo from that walk that I'd planned to upload first, either ;-). But often things don't turn out as expected (something which happens a lot lately when it comes to MMs), and that's not always a bad thing.
This small feather, about 6 cm / 2,3 inches long, came to my rescue when my original idea didn't work out – which every way I tried to make it work (it was a small spoke reflector which I'd once found in the street; the idea was to capture its distorted reflection which made it look like a flowing piece of honeycomb, something that came to my mind because of the reflector's honeycombed structure; well, to make it short, I never managed to get the distorted reflection sharp enough so it would be pleasant to look at; maybe I can still make it work later... I also tried to magnify those honecomb patterns inside of the reflector by using the extension tubes and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens – but, no, it wasn't meant to work).
But back to my "Olympic feather": Most conveniently, I had already taken it at a dutch angle (Mr Freud, can you hear me?). It is a single handheld picture taken with the Ricoh (the GRIII rocks!) which I've sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI, and then further processed it in Nik's HDR Efex Pro – I started with the "En Vogue" preset "Cool Deep" which I'd then still tweaked a little here or there. And because the staircase I'd found this feather on had been in a shadowy corner of the stadium (and the feather in an even more shadowy corner of the step), the DNG outcome was rather dull; to add some much needed light I went into ON1 where I added a "Sunflare" texture filter to the upper left corner of the image; back in LR I added the preset "Soft Fog" and tweaked the luminosity and saturation sliders for a dreamy look.
HMM, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!
Nicht das, was ich eigentlich für's Thema machen wollte, aber das passiert mir in letzter Zeit häufiger ;-) Meine ursprüngliche Idee war es, die verzerrte Spiegelung eines kleinen Speichenreflektors (ein Straßenfund) auf einer Spiegelfliese zu fotografieren; die Verzerrung ließ den Reflektor wie ein fließendes Stück Honigwabe aussehen, was auch schön mit der wabenartigen Struktur des Reflektors korrespondierte – nur wollte es mir partout nicht gelingen, der Verzerrung zumindest ein wenig Schärfe abzuringen. Ich habe dann versucht, die Wabenstruktur im Innern des Reflektors mithilfe der Zwischenringe und der Raynox-DCR-250-Makrolinse zu vergrößern, aber auch hier hatten die Endergebnisse zu wenig Schärfe.
Irgendwann, es war schon ziemlich später Abend (wie immer), gab ich frustriert auf. Zum Glück fiel mir dann die flauschige Feder ein, die ich letzte Woche zufällig auf einer der unzähligen Stufen des Olympiastadions entdeckt und aus der Hand mit der GRIII fotografiert hatte. Die Größe (gut 6 cm) passte, den Winkel hatte ich bei der Aufnahme (unbewusst? Freud lässt grüßen, denn vor Ort hatte ich überhaupt nicht an das Dutch-Angle-Thema gedacht) auch schon passend schräg gewählt... Warum also nicht, auch wenn diese Feder nicht das Foto ist, das ich als Erstes vom (außerordentlich schönen) Fotowalk dort hochladen wollte. Ich habe das Bild dann in Topaz Sharpen AI nachgeschärft (Modus "Stabilize") und in HDR Efex ausgehend von der Voreinstellung "En Vogue: Cool Deep" bearbeitet. Was dann noch fehlte, war etwas mehr Licht bzw. Leuchten, denn die Feder hatte auf einer der Treppen auf der Schattenseite des Olympiastadions gelegen und das DNG war recht flau und trüb. Also habe ich in ON1 noch eine "Sunflare"-Textur drübergelegt und in LR die Weißtöne aufgehellt und als Abschluss noch die Voreinstellung "Weicher Nebel" (mit zusätzlichen Veränderungen meinerseits bei der Struktur, Luminanz und Sättigung) für ein weicheres, verträumtes Aussehen verwendet.
Manchmal kommt es eben anders, als man denkt, aber das muss ja nichts Schlechtes sein ;-) Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt weiterhin gut auf Euch auf!
in more ways than one LOL.
Ok so I am on a roll with Rumblemumbles holiday snaps and superbly edited by her father.
There was more than one take on this balancing act, and i met large numbers of New York pedestrians cruising by.
PS we're not related . . . . really
Can you tell that the sky wasn't quite BLUE? Whoops, I left some litter on the footpath.
Are not always the best. In spite of how the saying goes. This is an old pic of early morning sunshine on the giant cooling towers of the UK's last coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar. A major landmark for miles around and standing here in what looks like fields of gold. The power station finishes producing electricity by burning coal today (01/10/24) after running since 1967. It'll be a significant milestone and could mark the end of our long love affair with fossil fuels.
live my life like a runaway
I hide my dreams in a special place
I'm waiting here for my prince to come
To save me from the darkness
I count the nights, I count the days
The ways, yeah
Don't wanna fight, it would be in vain
So in vain, so in vain
I can run but I can't hide
It's because... I'm living in the shadow of love
Yeah, yeah
To me you are the only one I dream of
I'm living in the shadow of love
Your love surrounds me, it's everywhere
It is my shelter, it is my air
A moon eclipse and a burning sun
Make a shade just for me
For you I wait forever and a day
Yes I would
To be there if your love should come my way
My way
Céline Dion - Shadow of Love (Official Audio)
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Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn't know
I broke everything new again
Everything that I'd owned
I threw it out the windows, came along
Extreme ways I know will part
The colors of my sea
Perfect colored me
Extreme ways that help me
They help me out late at night
Extreme places I had gone
That never seen any light
Dirty basements, dirty noise
Dirty places coming through
Extreme worlds alone
Did you ever like it then?
I would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does
Extreme sounds that told me
They held me down every night
I didn't have much to say
I didn't give up the light
I closed my eyes and closed myself
And closed my world and never open up to anything
That could get me at all
I had to close down everything
I had to close down my mind
Too many things could cut me
Too much can make me blind
I've seen so much in so many places
So many heartaches, so many faces
So many dirty things
You couldn't even believe
I would stand in line for this
It's always good in life for this
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby (oh baby), oh baby (oh baby)
Then it fell apart (it fell apart), it fell apart (it fell apart)
Oh baby (oh baby), oh baby (oh baby)
Like it always does (always does), always does (always does)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
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Used the same feather which I found on street yesterday, the same feather was also in yesterday's shot. This time with my 100mm 2.8L macro glass. First attempt towards photographing water drops on a feather. Though the feather was appearing blackish, I like it was shinning deep purple and blueish when I used flashlight at a certain angle.
Day 92 of 365
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Loreena McKennitt - The Old Ways
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Come, witches, to the dance, to the merry dance!
Our lady loves our lord, o!
With pipe and drum in moon and sun
For fair dian and merry pan
The old ways are made young, o
The old ways are made young!
When midnight fills the sky, my true love and I
Will cast a circle round, o
With voices strong in chant and song
We'll work our will and drink our fill
And dance the darkness down, o
And dance the darkness down!
Chorus: To the lady’s dance of life
Her sweet piper calls
But if you should stumble
If you should fall
Rise up to the rhythm
That embraces it all
Come, witches, to the dance!
All hail the beltane fire! May it well inspire!
Burn triumphant to the lady!
She is crowned this day the queen of may
O’er woods and fields her green sceptre she wields
The mother now holds sway, o
The mother now holds sway
Farewell, our lady green! It is hallowe’en!
Now the crone wields her winter sceptre
Though old and wise, young are her eyes
Though death she brings, “rebirth!” she sings
To all that fades and dies, o
To all that fades and dies
Once in the full moon’s gleam as I lay in dream
Came the lady to my chamber
In earthly form like woman born
All time, all space lay in her face
I rose to her embrace, o
I rose to her embrace
So queenly was she, I fell to my knee
And bent my brow to her, o
“O no!” said she, “kneel not to me
But stand! Arise! Open your eyes!
It is yourself you see, o
Yourself you see in me!”
Come, witches, as before, to the shining door
Fear not to fling it open!
Fear not to see the mystery:
That we are pan and fair dian
And evermore shall be, o
And evermore shall be!