"Sadness flies away on the wings of time. "
— Jean de La Fontaine
I'm on the move again!... ツ ツ ツ
*Pentax K20D DSLR with Pentax DA 18-55mm II AL Lens
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Flying Away
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Growing Towards The Sky
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness."
— Khalil Gibran
Ah bliss... hot summer sun, just in time for the Olympics! ツ ツ ツ
Blue Sky Series #3
* Sony Alpha α SLT-A77 DSLR and a Sigma 10-20mm EX DC Zoom Lens - 5 shot HDR
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Summer's Sunset Sky
"My soul is an empty carousel at sunset."
— Pablo Neruda
A delightful sunset sky over the Welsh valleys from a recent evening on the Ridgeway. ツ ツ ツ
* Sony Alpha α SLT-A77 DSLR and a Konica Minolta AF DT 18-70mm Lens
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Solar Descent
"I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (History)
Soundtrack: Solar Fields - Summer
*Pentax K20D DSLR with Pentax 18-55mm Lens
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Over The Valleys II
New era, new camera! I have been feeling a little lazy and uninspired lately, hence all the shots from my extensive unposted archive. Now I have a new camera (a Sigma SD15) I have made a resolution to get out shooting more often and post a lot more recent shots.
Nothing like a new toy to inspire a man :-)
*Sigma SD15 DSLR with Foveon X3 sensor & Sigma 17-35mm f/2.8 EX DG Lens
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Bullrushes
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
— Horace Mann
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The first photo post processed on and uploaded from my new Netbook - a modded BenQ Joybook Lite called Loki :-)
Monday, April 23, 2012
Pentland Hills
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
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*Samsung EX1 - 3 shot HDR
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Causeway
"The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. ...The law is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely."
— Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons)
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Morning Trees
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Waterway
"Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future."
— Harlan Ellison
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Sunday, April 8, 2012
Watching The Day Float Away
The Beach As A Mirror
"Did Nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began? With equal complacence she saw his misery, his meanness, and his torture. That dream, of sharing, completing, of finding in solitude on the beach an answer, was then but a reflection in a mirror, and the mirror itself was but the surface glassiness which forms in quiescence when the nobler powers sleep beneath? Impatient, despairing yet loth to go (for beauty offers her lures, has her consolations), to pace the beach was impossible; contemplation was unendurable; the mirror was broken."
— Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse)
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
The Drifting Stick
"Love is an anchor -- it stops you from drifting away. Love is sticking up for your friends and family, or even your pets. Love is being brave and saying what you feel. Love is making music or playing tennis; it's doing what you want to do. Love is holding on and not letting go."
— Robert Corbet
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Resting Dragon
"Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills."
— Jorge Luis Borges (The Book of Imaginary Beings)
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Magic Magnolias
"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
The magic of light and of spring Magnolias blooming...
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Birth of Light
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Spring Forward
"I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
— Pablo Neruda (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair)
Spring has arrived, here in the UK, and the clocks go forward 1 hour this weekend...
Sunday, March 25, 2012
In Infinite Eternity
"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Golden Rays
"A lonely sail gleams in the morning
A lonely stranger in the sea
What does he seek in country foreign,
What kind of trouble does he flee?
The waves are swelling, wind is whistling
The mast is bending with a creak
It is not happiness he's seeking
And it's not happiness he flees
The stream beneath is bright as azure
Above the sun sends golden rays...
Yet he, the rebel, seeks a tempest
As if the tempest brings him peace."
— M. Lermontov
Somehwere in the Caribbean Sea between Cuba and Haiti...
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Island Freedom
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
— Jim Morrison
Listen: The Doors - Universal Mind
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Thunderhead
"The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning."
— William Faulkner
Somewhere in the Caribbean Sea between Panama and Jamaica...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Horizon Line
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. "
— William Faulkner
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Storm Glyphs
"No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm."
— Slash (Slash)
after the storm...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Solar Backlight
"Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve
on the beach, may your eyelids never flutter
into the empty distance. Don't LEAVE me for
a second, my dearest, because in that moment you'll
have gone so far I'll wander mazily
over all the earth, asking, will you
come back? Will you leave me here, dying?"
— Pablo Neruda
Into-the-sun sihouette time...
Friday, March 9, 2012
By Mystic Isle
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
In Azure Space
"You sit at the edge of the world,
I am in a crater that's no more.
Words without letters
Standing in the shadow of the door.
The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,
Little fish rain from the sky.
Outside the window there are soldiers,
steeling themselves to die.
~
The drowning girl's fingers
Search for the entrance stone, and more.
Lifting the hem of her azure dress,
She gazes --
at Kafka on the shore"
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
Nothing but endless blue sky and azure ocean...
Wide Open Series #2
Sunday, March 4, 2012
On Golden Beach
"Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?"
— Rumi (The Essential Rumi)
A bracing stroll in the vast expanse...
Wide Open Series #1
Friday, March 2, 2012
Beyond The Dunes
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
— Frank Herbert (Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1))
Beyond the dunes lies the endless ocean...
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Three Dog Dusk
Music at night, and the moonlight on the sea,
The beat of waves upon the rocky shore
And wild white spray, flung high in ecstasy;
The faithful eyes of dogs, and treasured books,
The love of Kin and fellowship of friends
And all that makes life dear and beautiful.
From I Thank Thee God That I Have Lived by Elizabeth Craven (1750 - 1828)
Freedom! - Three dogs bounding along the beach at dusk...
Monday, February 27, 2012
Ebb & Flow : Come & Go
"Algebra applies to the clouds, the radiance of the star benefits the rose--no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who could ever calculate the path of a molecule? How do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by falling grains of sand? Who can understand the reciprocal ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abyss of being and the avalanches of creation?"
— Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
Life's ebb and flow... good times and bad times come and go!
Sunday, February 26, 2012
The Bonfire of Dusk
"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life."
— Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities)
To my father... just a boy who died young!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
The City of Brotherly Love
"I never use a big word when a diminutive word would suffice."
— Phillies coach Pete Mackanin
Thus ends this series of some of my favourite cities...
Cityscape Series #3 - Philadelphia, USA
Friday, February 24, 2012
Cast Up By The Storm
"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
— Hunter S. Thompson
I'm liking this Cinemascope letterbox format...
Cinemascope Series #3
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Rich Evening Light
"Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"you owe me."
Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky."
— Hafiz of Shiraz
Cinemascope Series #2
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Wind Blown Coast
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
From Sea Fever by John Masefield (Sea Fever: Selected Poems)
Cinemascope Series #1
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Learning To Fly
"The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams (Life, the Universe, and Everything)
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Pacific's Triple Star
God of Nations at Thy feet,
In the bonds of love we meet,
Hear our voices, we entreat,
God defend our free land.
Guard Pacific's triple star
From the shafts of strife and war,
Make her praises heard afar,
God defend New Zealand.
E Ihowā Atua,
O ngā iwi mātou rā
Āta whakarangona;
Me aroha noa
Kia hua ko te pai;
Kia tau tō atawhai;
Manaakitia mai
Aotearoa
- The New Zealand National Anthem (Thomas Bracken 1870's)
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Reflections of Sunset
"Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket."
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)
Looking east at sunset...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Pink Skies Over The City
"I recall one particular sunset. It lent an ember to my bicycle hell. Overhead, above the black music of telegraph wires, a number of long, dark-violet clouds lined with flamingo pink hung motionless in a fan-shaped arrangement; the whole thing was like some prodigious ovation in terms of color and form! It was dying, however, and everything else was darkening, too; but just above the horizon, in a lucid, turquoise space, beneath a black stratus, the eye found a vista that only a fool could mistake for the square parts of this or any other sunset. It occupied a very small sector of the enormous sky and had the peculiar neatness of something seen through the wrong end of a telescope. There it lay in wait, a brilliant convolutions, anachronistic in their creaminess and extremely remote; remote but perfect in every detail; fantastically reduced but faultlessly shaped; my marvelous tomorrow ready to be delivered to me."
— Vladimir Nabokov
Perfect pink skies over the Sydney cityscape...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Sunset Thirty Four
"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."
— John Cage
I never tire of watching the sun set over the ocean...
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Sunset Thirty Four
"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."
— John Cage
I never tire of watching the sun set over the ocean...
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Breeze On Tranquil Waters
"My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze."
— Anne Brontë
By the silent stream a breeze stirs my soul...
Friday, February 10, 2012
Steady As A Rock
"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
— Thomas Jefferson
Meanwhile on a coast lapped by the Tasman Sea...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Living In The Rainbow Vale
"Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live."
— Nora Roberts
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Living In The Rainbow Vale
"Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live."
— Nora Roberts
* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR
Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Walking Into A Dream
"I was born to catch dragons in their dens
And pick flowers
To tell tales and laugh away the morning
To drift and dream like a lazy stream
And walk barefoot across sunshine days."
— James Kavanaugh (Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights)
* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 1 Shot
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Life On The Edge
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Island Drift
"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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