“A photograph shouldn’t be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”― Amit Kalantri

 

“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”   ― Mary E. Pearson

“I take a picture, but it’s not about who is in the picture or the background of it. It’s about the memories and meanings it holds.”   ― Kayla Davis

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”  ― Ansel Adams

“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”  ― Abraham Lincoln

“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”  ― Ansel Adams

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”  ― Ted Grant

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”  ― Susan Sontag

I don’t remember how you look.. | johncoyote; #261- Limerick City;  #art, De mi viaje; Venetian Stylin’ #12; Roots; Black and White; Beautiful;  (and so are its birds)!;  Reflections and Shadows; “Cat”  ~F-Stop Fridays; The Street Art of Amman; Arroyo Arenas; lodhi art district’s; Canada 2022 Part Four; LAPC

long shots

llllllaaaaaaaannnnnnnnngggggggg  shotz!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Stay Calm and Carry on

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, ‘Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.’ Tristan Wilds

Chaos runs amok in my life and the lives of my friends these days.  Surgery, work, construction, sickness, death, language practice, social commitments, and just life in general.  It’s always easy after the fact to remember that these things come and these things go.  In the heat of the moment though.. not so easy.  Sometimes I’m just chugging along and “BAM” there it goes again.  When I finally calm down.. I realize it was never that bad.. or even if it was, it’s over and life is good again and I feel silly for taking it all so personally.  That’s one reason I’m so happy to have some visual reminders of the calm that exists in my life no matter how chaotic my mental state can sometimes be. I hope you enjoy the visuals that I have been exposed to recently.  Sunsets, sunrises and grandkids first day of school!

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus

“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.”

“Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.”

“I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Where’s my Backpack,  Leya, WoollyMuses,Roaming Urban Gypsy, Ladyleemanila, Oh, the Places We See . . ., Netdancer’s Musings, Jaspa’s Journal,WordsVisual,  A Day In The Life, ceenphotography.com, Ouch!! My back hurts!!,Mama Cormier,Figments of a DuTchess, Travelrat’s Travels, Out an’ About, Une photo, un poème,  Musin’ With Susan, The New 3 Rs: Retire, Recharge, Reconnect,

 

Two days on, One day off – Accra, Ghana

I was lucky to have an opportunity to participate in a very quick trip to Accra, Ghana for work with a short half day to tour a few markets.  It was interesting to compare Accra to Lagos in the area of food, style, art and living.  So much was familiar with just enough differences to make it quite interesting.  I’m hoping to be able to go back and see some of the people and places outside of the city.  I hope you enjoy.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

I don’t like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets. Dario Argento

Posts I liked

Landscapes; Mostly Monochrome Whitby ; stenoodie; From Hiding to Blogging The Sunrise on Early Spring at Minnesota; Doublewhirler New Zealand’s Landscape; Mittened Hands Winter Desert; Offbeat and Quirky by Henri Bauhaus; Alpine Village – Through the Lens ; ….on pets and prisoners; Cee’s Photography; Steve Says… The Kelpies: Never Look A Mythical Water Horse In The Mouth Unless You Are Taking A Photo… ; Inherently Adventurous Halfway ; de Wets Wild Landscape ; {mary’s chaoticwhitespace}; Landscape – Cinematography; Somewhere In Between – Life Confusions;  Jackobo’s Photoblog Mirror Waters; Reflections for my Soul; scillagrace; the15thday the landscape of my youth; Lost in Translation; la parole a été donnée à l´homme pour cacher sa pensée landscape; HX Report; THE ICONOPHILE The detail is in the devil

Nature and People and Places

Just a few photos from my recent travels that I felt aligned with Sally D’s  Challenge from January 2016.  I hope you enjoy.

Nigeria

Prague or Croatia ??

 

Other  Nature, People, Places Posts I enjoyed

Naturebitch; Sustainability; Patchwork ; Roamingurbangypsy; Piecesofstarlight; Poetry; Naomi; Plants; Still-life; Butterflies; Nowathome