Breathing It In

Breathing It In, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

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Mystigull

Mystigull, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly."
— Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

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Transitory Tracks

Transitory Tracks, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life"
— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Watching It Fall

Watching It Fall, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

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Listen to Joey Fehrenbach - Being Around You

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Hovering Above

Hovering Above, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)

If you look hard you can see the shell the Gull is dropping to break it open on the hard wet sand :-)

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Listen to Koan - Sweet Dream

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Surf Coast Dreamtime

Surf Coast Dreamtime, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

I am a child of the Dreamtime People
Part of this Land, like the gnarled gumtree
I am the river, softly singing
Chanting our songs on my way to the sea
My spirit is the dust-devils
Mirages, that dance on the plain
I'm the snow, the wind and the falling rain
I'm part of the rocks and the red desert earth
Red as the blood that flows in my veins
I am eagle, crow and snake that glides
Thorough the rain-forest that clings to the mountainside
I awakened here when the earth was new
There was emu, wombat, kangaroo
No other man of a different hue
I am this land
And this land is me
I am Australia.

Spiritual Song of the Aborigine by Hyllus Maris, Aboriginal Poet (1934-86)

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Surfcoast Dreamscapes Series #6
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Listen to Joey Fehrenbach - Mellowdrama

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Dreamscape II

Dreamscape II, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

Surfcoast Dreamscapes Series #5
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Listen to O Yuki Conjugate - Ascension

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As Falls Richmond

As Falls Richmond, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

…So Falls Richmond Falls

"All of the waves and waters hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean and all goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another. The water turned into vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed anew, flowed anew."
— Hermann Hesse


A change of pace and a change of style as I look back and conjure up some memories of my childhood in Richmond, North Yorkshire. These are Richmond Falls and I spent many a happy moment diving and swimming here.


Memories of Home Series #1


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Liquid Serenity

Liquid Serenity, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one."
— Henry Miller

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A Tree of Clouds

A Tree of Clouds, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--"
— G.K. Chesterton (The Man Who Was Thursday)

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Bridge To Yesterday

Bridge To Yesterday, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
— Albert Einstein

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Drifting Away

Drifting Away, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)

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Watching The Sun Set On The West

Watching The Sun Set On The West, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

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Drift and Glow

Drift and Glow, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea."
— T.H. White (Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome)

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Raise Me Up

Raise Me Up, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
— Dr. Seuss

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Say Goodbye Blue Sky

Say Goodbye Blue Sky, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

One Blue Day Series #3

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To Catch The Rays

To Catch The Rays, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. "
— Ray Charles

One Blue Day Series #2

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I Raise My Eyes

I Raise My Eyes, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

Next to the sea in the autumn,
your laughter must raise
its foamy cascade,
and in the spring, love,
I want your laughter like
the flower I was waiting for,
the blue flower, the rose
of my echoing country.
- Pablo Neruda

One Blue Day Series #1

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Solitary Psybient Silence

Solitary Psybient Silence, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

...all alone in the psybient silence, with a stick and a prayer!

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
— Ansel Adams

Cloudage Daydreams Series #3

Listening to a lot of Kaya Project lately :-)

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A Parade of Clouds

A Parade of Clouds, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
— Hunter S. Thompson

Cloudage Daydreams Series #2

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Obscured By Clouds

Obscured By Clouds, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

Bridges burning gladly
Merging with the shadows,
Flickering between the lines.
Stolen moments floating softly on the air,
Borne on wings of fire and climbing higher.

Ancient bonds are breaking,
Moving on and changing sides.
Dreaming of a new day,
Cast aside the other way.
Magic visions stirring,
Kindled by and burning flames rise in her eyes.

From Burning Bridges by Pink Floyd from the album Obscured By Clouds

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Kapiti Views Series #6

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Island Blues

Island Blues, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"I've been feeling a little blue - just a pale, elusive azure."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island)

Small puffy white clouds hang over Kapiti Island as it basks like a Crocodile between the deep blue sea and the sky blue sky.

Kapiti Island, Wellington, New Zealand, South Pacific

Kapiti Views Series #5

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