Y2 Day 313... notice

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith
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Y2 Day 312... marvellously grand

…the transformative photographer embarks upon an intuitive, insightful path which opens into an innate understanding of how marvellously grand everything is…whether small or big, micro- or macrocosmic, minute or immense…it is all blow-your-mind incredible, in the sense that the «all of it» is simply awesome.- Simhananda - "Towards a Transformative Photography

Y2 Day 311... bad day over

The sun sets on a bad day and I am very glad it is over...

Day 310... cup day

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races. Conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria, the event starts at 3pm (daylight saving time) on the first Tuesday in November
Studying the form did not help me at all....

Y2 Day 309... beer

May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."
-Old Irish Toast

Y2 Day 308... my prize

This was my prize for winning an Olympus competition on Facebook... other than a few shots just playing with it when it arrived I have not used it so my goal for the week is to use it.

Day 307... Mother's love

The palm on your fevered brow, the soft kisses when you need them most,

the grip that steadies you on rocky roads,

the hand that feeds and nurtures you,

the voice that tells you that you are loved,

the shadow that walks beside you unconditional and enduring,

a mothers love.
Sunita Sharma

 

This rose is called a Mother's Love, it is from a plant that was given to me after Ryan's accident...

roses from this plant were on his coffin and now 6 months later it is flowering again.

Day 306...

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

- Garry Winogrand

Y2 Day 305... launch

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau

I have been away for some time now... life has got in the way and a lack of motivation... today I re-launch myself on the wave, let's see where it takes me.