Reflex photos

Husky

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At the Zoo

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thought of the day ~Kant

The moral worth of an action does not lie in the effect expected from it, nor in any principle of action which requires to borrow its motive from this expected effect.

Festival France

pxite entry.. old film festival held within this building, poster on the gate... and 

just recently learned the large poster is of a woman who was abducted in Columbia...

Balls Portrait

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"Wipe your face, you just swallowed my soul" ~Hugh Prather

From a Different Time

and Place..... 

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When you long for blessings that you may not name, and when you grieve knowing not the cause, then indeed you are growing with all things that grow, and rising towards your greater self. ~Kahlil Gibran

Pluto

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I am an Idea   Conceived in the mind of the Universe   And interpreted in the minds   Of the individuals I meet

Within myself I am constant   Yet, I am as ever changing   As the people who interpret me

I can control my actions   But I cannot control their thoughts   Therefore, I must do what I think is right   And let others -   Think what they will ~Javan

Orange Rusted

old train, Ridgeway, SC

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Speed

fast...40yd. in 4.4 seconds

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Painting

appropriately entered for pxite Painting..... and remodeling

Stones

Westport Harbour in November... pxite entry Stones

Spring Daffodils

To get real, you have to question the unreal over and over until it disappears. ~Deepak Chopra

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Smoke

sunrise smoke

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles ~Blaise Pascal

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Structure

into the tunnell

'It's not the size of the surprise that matters; it's the love that flows through the act that renews the spirit of everyone involved." ~Carolyn Myss

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Single Rose

single spill of light, taken with lensbaby

Energy leaves you in fear and doubt, or in love and trust-G.Z.

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Shiny Atlantis

Atlantis Resort Aquarium...amazing place, good to see different generations of a family vacationing together...

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Happiness...

..and simple things, like remembering a childs excitement and wonder at life

Be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

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Leaf Picking

picked from the tree while skimming the tops in a balloon... incredible

Guardian Angel

I am the bird that flutters against your window in the morning, and your closest friend, whom you can never know, blossoms that light up for the blind.

I am the glacier shining over the woods, so pale, and heavy voices from the cathedral tower. The thought that suddenly hits you in the middle of the day and makes you feel so fantastically happy.

I am the one you have loved for many years. I walk beside you all day and look intently at you and put my mouth against your heart though you're not aware of it.

I am your third arm, and your second shadow, the white one, whom you cannot accept, and who can never forget you. ~Rolf Jacobsen

Yellow

Amber Jack out of Nassau, Bahamas ...beautiful weather for 4 days along with relatively calm seas for cruising, no hurricanes and a wonderful mini-vacation

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Darkness

W. Va. Full Moon

not much time to take photos or post this month... frustrating, however... once all is said and done, I will have new stuff to post with all the traveling that is happening

He Wishes for The Cloths of Heaven ~WB Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,  Enwrought with golden and silver light,  The blue and the dim and the dark cloths  Of night and light and the half-light,  I would spread the cloths under your feet:  But I, being poor, have only my dreams;  I have spread my dreams under your feet;  Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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Art

artist costume sketch from the Ringling Museum in Sarasota... fascinating stuff

As Sweet

It's all because we're so alike-  Twin souls, we two.

We smile at the expression, yes,  And know it's true.

I told the shrink. He gave our love  A different name.  But he can call it what he likes-  It's still the same.

I long to see you, hear your voice,  My narcissistic object-choice. ~Wendy Cope

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Five Giant Links

huge sculpture of a firehydrant... Columbia, SC

Treat the commonplace with the reverence of the sublime

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Wet

Barboursville Winery...wet vat room

Three types of friendships ae beneficial: they are friendships with the honest, the sincere, and the well-informed.

Three types of friendships are damaging: they are friendships with flatterers, with hypocrites, and with the argumentative. ~Confucius

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Character

clown mask from Ringling Brothers Museum in Sarasota, Fla

intelligence is intuitive

you needn't learn to love

unless you've been taught

to fear and hate

~Saul Williams

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Kayakers in Action

down on the Congaree

excerpt from a Saul Williams poem...

"what happens to society when mystery is labeled as evil?

...it yields an ever-connected chain of false labels and misinterpretations."

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Silhouette

Friday morning over Charlottesville,VA                                                   'Say this to thyself...'

Say this to thyself (beneath thy breath, But say it and have be done):  "A mortal's thoughts of dying and death are shadows across the sun."

Say this to thyself (come take some wine, ' Twas ever the coward's mark):  "There will come the time when I and mine  Must ferry into the dark."

Say this to thyself (or sing out loud,  And shatter the windy sky):  "Though sore afraid I shall not be cowed, I live till the day I die."

Say this to thyself (but bail, my friend!  No boat stayed ever afloat):  "From this day forth to the bitter end I shall sieze life by the throat." ~Felix Denis

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Haiku by Daniel Barkowitz

Solitude
in the high open air . . .
Leave the fog behind

thank you Daniel

Love

families taking young ones for a train ride

The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith.  The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service.  The fruit of service is peace. ~Mother Theresa

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Strange

Old Pullman Car from the South Carolina Railroad Museum

Let Me Think

You ask me about that country whose details now escape me.

I don't remember its geography, nothing of its history.

And should I visit it in memory, it would be as a past lover, after years, for a night, no longer restless with passion, with no fear of regret.

I have reached that age when one visits the heart merely as a courtesy...      ~Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984)

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Abstract Shake

a little (lot) camera shake and what you get becomes abstract... with beautiful colors

   Life is a great bundle of little things

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Eyes

Ewell's eyes

"Who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her."               ~George Bernard Shaw

Movie

a movie star smile and more reality TV

I Am a Cameraman

They suffer, and I catch only the surface.  The rest is inexpressable, beyond  What can be recorded. You can't be them. If they'd talk to you, you might guess What pain is like though they might spit on you.

Film is just a reflection Of the matchless despair of the century. There have been twenty centuries since charity began. Indignation is every-day stuff; It keeps us off the streets, it keeps us watching.

Film has no words of its own. It is a silent waste of things happening Without us, when it is too late to help. What of the dignity of those caught suffering? It hurts me. I robbed them of privacy.

My young friends think Film will be all of Art. It will be revolutionary proof Their films will not guess wrongly and will not lie. They'll film what is happening behind barbed wire. They'll always know the truth and be famous.

Politics softens everthing. Truth is known only to its victims. All else is photographs- a documentary The starving and the playboys perish in. Life disguises itself with professionalism.

Life tells the biggest lies of all, And draws wages from itself. Truth is a landscape the saintly tribes live on, And all the lenses of Japan and Germany Wouldn't know how to focus on it.

Life flickers on the frame like beautiful hummingbirds. That is the film that always comes out blank. The painting the artist can't get the shapes to fit. The poem that shrugs off every word you try. The music no one has ever heard. ~Douglas Dunn

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