Disruptive Patterns

Disruptive Patterns, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

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Normally my two blogs don't overlap. A Raven Image - the passions of my heart (photography & beauty) and Tom's Mog - the passions of my mind (geopolitics & conspiracy) usually inhabit separate realities, but today they cross-over...

...creating interference or Disruptive Patterns

hopefully thought provoking ones of beauty :-)

Check out my latest post on Tom's Mog - Nanotech is Now! - Hidden Technologies

Magical Mountain Sunset

Magical Mountain Sunset, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others."
— Mikhail Lermontov (Un Heros de Notre Temps)

In September 1887 the sacred mountain peaks, Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and Tongariro were gifted to the people of New Zealand by the Paramount Chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa, Horonuku Te Heu Heu Tukino, thus ensuring their protection for all people for all time. This gift formed the nucleus of Tongariro National Park, New Zealand's First National Park and a dual World Heritage Area.

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Favorite Places/Sacred Spaces Series #3
Sacred Mountain Ruapehu Series #1
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* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

Skies of Glory

Skies of Glory, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Dark clouds are smouldering into red
While down the craters morning burns.
The dying soldier shifts his head
To watch the glory that returns:
He lifts his fingers toward the skies
Where holy brightness breaks in flame;
Radiance reflected in his eyes,
And on his lips a whispered name."
— Siegfried Sassoon (The War Poems)

Otaki Beach, Kapiti Island and the Tasman Sea, New Zealand
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Favorite Places/Sacred Spaces Series #2
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* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot

Creatures of Stone

Creatures of Stone, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

A surprising number of human beings are without purpose, though it is probable that they are performing some function unknown to themselves.
Marion in Picnic at Hanging Rock the 1975 Peter Weir film.

Hanging Rock, the location of the 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay and the brilliant 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock by Peter Weir. - just watched the Blu-Ray version... excellent!! :-)

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Favorite Places/Sacred Spaces Series #1
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Colours of Life

Colours of Life, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
— Oscar Wilde
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Summer Abstractions Series #3
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* Pentax K20D + Samsung 50-200mm Lens - Single Shot

Apis Digitalis Fugo

Apis Digitalis Fugo, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
— James Russell Lowell

just finished re-reading Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan... great book, great series!

You can find me here on GoodReads

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Summer Abstractions Series #2
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Beyond the Leaves of Green

Beyond the Leaves of Green, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."
— Rumi

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Summer Abstractions Series #1
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* Pentax K20D + Samsung 50-200mm Lens - Single Shot