“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?” – Friedrich Nietzsche Writing with fountain pens—a disappearing style, do you think?
Archive of posts tagged photo
April showers bring…
…an April snowstorm. Photographed at night in the northern latitudes. “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and [...]
Environmental portraiture
One of three construction workers repairing exterior of a house after a porch fire. Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm, 18mm, f/7.1, 1/160sec, manual exposure, -0.3ev, ISO640, monopod, no strobe and no Photoshop. Converted from 14-bit RAW to jpeg using Capture NX2.1. Shot for an exercise at RedBubble.com. Wikipedia.org has this to say about an environmental portrait: [...]
Seeking courage and a peaceful soul
I stumbled upon an interesting post about breakthroughs and a woman’s shame during some sort of breakdown. What interests me about the post is the discussion, not of shame, but of growth after a traumatic event. The woman (who wrote a book about this, of course) mentions a spiritual awakening, not in the sense of [...]