macro the third

This crazy life
This crazy world
We’re living in is
Magical

Fly me away, Goldfrapp


1/1000s, f/5.0

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sunday blues

Hurry up, hurry up and wait
I stay away all week and still I wait
I got the blues, please come see

Sunday Girl, Blondie


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Ominous Fade

Is there any phrase more ominous than “you need to see exactly what you’ve done”?

 – Stephen King, 11/22/63


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GARGABETE

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


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In the middle of winter

“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


24mm ISO64 1/160s f/10

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out of hell

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light
― John Milton, Paradise Lost



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of small things

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.
― Dorothy Parker



*Images made with Nikon D850 and AF Micro Nikkor 60mm f/2.8 D lens and edited in Lightroom*

green new deal?

And now we welcome the new year
full of things that have never been
― Rainer Maria Rilke


New trees, new hope, a pair of robins, a family of blackbirds and assorted wagtails have made their new home amidst the olive grove (well, there are now two such trees). Nature has shown that even a brief respite from the toxic side products of human endeavour pays (green) dividends.

Let’s hope ‘we the people’ can now renew and heal as we transition to a new year, working together to heal differences and put aside toxic divisions.

(newly planted) olive tree: 1/200s, f/8.0, ISO 64

(newly planted) magnolia: 1/200s, f8.0, ISO 64

(precocious) prunus: 1/200s f/8.0, ISO 64

(ready for new residents) White House 1/200s f/8.0, ISO 64


*All images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8E VR lens with limited edits in Lightroom*

after the fall

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
– Albert Camus



*my very first attempt at macro photography, made with my Nikon D850 and Nikkor AF Micro 60mm f/2.8D lens, edited in Lightroom Classic with cool light filter applied*