I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks
*All images made with Fujifilm X100F with fixed 23mm f / 2.0 lens with Classic Chrome film simulation added*
Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is.
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
*all images made with Nikon D850 and Nikon AFS 70-200mm f / 4 lens*
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart
― Rainer Maria Rilke
*images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/4 G ED lens*
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
*Nikon D850 with AF Micro Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D*
This crazy life
This crazy world
We’re living in is
Magical
1/1000s, f/5.0
1/800s, f/4.8
1/125s, f/4.0
1/1000s, f/4.5
1/1000s, f/4.5
1/1000s, f/5.0
*Images made with Nikon D850 with AF Micro Nikkor 60mm f/2.8 D lens all at ISO 200*
Hurry up, hurry up and wait
I stay away all week and still I wait
I got the blues, please come see
*images made with fuji x100f*
Is there any phrase more ominous than “you need to see exactly what you’ve done”?
11/22/63
*Nikon D850 with AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 E VR lens, edited in Silver Efex Pro 2 using ‘Ominous Fade’ filter*
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
― Jack Kerouac
*Images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 16-35mm f/1.4 ED lens*
“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate.
This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now.
In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus, L’été
*images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm F/2.8 E VR lens*
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