Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Island Song

Island Song by TomRaven
Island Song, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul."
L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

Kapiti Views Series #3

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Another World

Another World by TomRaven
Another World, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
C.S. Lewis

Kapiti Views Series #2

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Monday, August 29, 2011

Our Golden Star

Our Golden Star by TomRaven
Our Golden Star, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word."
Jack Kerouac (Big Sur)

Kapiti Views Series #1

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Sunday, August 28, 2011

On Mirror Beach

On Mirror Beach by TomRaven
On Mirror Beach, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

My soul was a light-blue gown, sky-coloured;
I left it on a cliff by the sea

Edith Södergran (Poems)

Classic Raven Series #2

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Reflections On Tranquility

Reflections On Tranquility by TomRaven
Reflections On Tranquility, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
Charlotte Brontë


Photographic Memory: New Zealand Series #1

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Sunday, August 21, 2011

International Avenue

International Avenue by TomRaven
International Avenue, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”
Haile Selassie I (Popularized by Bob Marley in the song 'War')

Photographic Memory: Pennsylvania Series #3

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Friday, August 19, 2011

Love Is All You Need

Love Is All You Need by TomRaven
Love Is All You Need, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr.

The Love sculpture by Robert Indiana in Love Park, Philadelphia

Photographic Memory: Pennsylvania Series #1

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Waitohu Stream Reflections

Waitohu Stream Reflections by TomRaven
Waitohu Stream Reflections, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are the eternity and you are the mirror."

Khalil Gibran (The Prophet)

Photographic Memory: Otaki Beach Series #2

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Monday, August 15, 2011

Galatea

Galatea by TomRaven
Galatea, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein (Living Philosophies))

Photographic Memory: Bay of Plenty Series #3

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Looking Back

Looking Back by TomRaven
Looking Back, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

Robert Frost

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Foreboding

Foreboding by TomRaven
Foreboding, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art."
Federico García Lorca

With the financial stormclouds gathering again I fear our much vaunted western civilisation is on the verge of a major shipwreck against the immovable cliffs of our unsustainable lifestyles and expensive foreign wars.

These are the cliffs between Anglesea and Bells Beach on Australia's Surf Coast... otherwise know as the Shipwreck Coast and home to many a shipwreck over the years.

Surfcoast Dreamscapes Series #3

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

Serenity

Serenity by TomRaven
Serenity, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surfcoast Dreamscapes Series #1

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Silence

Silence by TomRaven
Silence, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley (Music at Night and Other Essays)

* Pentax K20D + Samsung 50-200mm Lens - Single Shot

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Procession

Procession by TomRaven
Procession, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
Albert Einstein

* Pentax K20D + Samsung 50-200mm Lens - Single Shot

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Purple Dawn

Purple Dawn by TomRaven
Purple Dawn, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

Deus et natura non faciunt frusta - God and nature do not work together in vain
~
A Year of New Beginnings Series #2

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot SOOC

Monday, August 1, 2011

Definition

Definition by TomRaven
Definition, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
Robert Frost

* Pentax K20D + Samsung 50-200mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR