365 project 3.1 31-12-15... grateful

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/250,
ISO 400,
Focal length: 200mm

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365 project 3.1 30-12-15... signs

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?

Five Man Electrical Band - Signs

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/5,
Exposure: 1/4000,
ISO 640,
Focal length: 53mm

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365 project 3.1 29-12-15... small things

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Liz Vassey

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/1000,
ISO 400,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 28-12-15... beauty

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/5000,
ISO 800,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 27-12-15... hope

“Beginnings are usually scary, endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.”

― Steven Rogers, Hope Floats

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/8000,
ISO 125,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 26-12-15... forward

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”

Denis Waitley

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/4.5,
Exposure: 1/30,
ISO 800,
Focal length: 55mm

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365 project 3.1 25-12-15... Merry Christmas

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Thomas S. Monson

Merry Christmas

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/4,
Exposure: 1/15,
ISO 800,
Focal length: 65mm

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365 project 3.1 24-12-15... magical

There is nothing more magical than decorated trees, lights, presents, family and friends to brighten up your life. Merry Christmas!

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/15,
ISO 2000,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 23-12-15... a different plain

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/2500,
ISO 320,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 22-12-15... raindrop

Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
- Langston Hughes

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/4,
Exposure: 1/60,
ISO 320,
Focal length: 70mm


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Day on the Northern beaches of Sydney

365 project 3.1 21-12-15... different stages

People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.

Craig Brown

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/9,
Exposure: 1/500,
ISO 500,
Focal length: 41mm

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365 project 3.1 20-12-15... growth

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

James Cash Penney

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/3.5,
Exposure: 1/200,
ISO 160,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 19-12-15... radiates

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/400,
ISO 160,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 18-12-15... abstract

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Joel Sternfeld

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/5,
Exposure: 1/500,
ISO 160,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 17-12-15... a little flower

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/4.5,
Exposure: 1/100,
ISO 320,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 16-12-15... link

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Sir Winston Churchill

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/1600,
ISO 320,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 15-12-15... against another

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Edouard Manet

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/20,
ISO 320,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 14-12-15... rest

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/3.2,
Exposure: 1/6400,
ISO 320,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 13-12-15... gift

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/8000,
ISO 320,
Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 12-12-15,,, strength

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”


Mahatma Gandhi

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/4.5,
Exposure: 1/640,
ISO 320,
Focal length: 53mm

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365 project 3.1 11-12-15... Christmas

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

Dr. Seuss

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/5.6,
Exposure: 1.6 secs,
ISO 400,
Focal length: 70mm

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/2.8,
Exposure: 1/3,
ISO 400,
Focal length: 70mm

365 project 3.1 10-12-15... wastin' time

Sittin' in the mornin' sun
 I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes
 Watchin' the ships roll in
 Then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah
 I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
 Watchin' the tide roll away, ooo
 I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
 Wastin' time

Camera: Panasonic DMC-FT25,
 F-stop: f/3.9,
 Exposure: 1/640,
 ISO 100,

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365 project 3.1 09-12-15... light

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
Rumi

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
 F-stop: f/20,
 Exposure: 25 secs,
 ISO 100
 Focal length: 24mm

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365 project 3.1 08-12-15... details

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
 John Wooden

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
 F-stop: f/5,
 Exposure: 1/200,
 ISO 250,
 Focal length: 70mm
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365 project 3.1 07-12-15... perspective

"Too often in life we pass by important things. Let's pause, change perspective and see things more clearly."
Sergio da Silva 
From the book "Water, Mirror of the World"

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
 F-stop: f/4,
 Exposure: 1/320,
 ISO 250,
 Focal length: 70mm
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365 project 3.1 06-12-15... goals

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.”

Elbert Hubbard

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
F-stop: f/3.2,
Exposure: 1/640,
ISO 100,
Focal length: 70mm

365 project 3.1 05-12-15... seeds

Every flower of every tomorrow are in the seeds of today
Anon

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
 F-stop: f/4.5,
 Exposure: 1/200,
 ISO 250,
 Focal length: 70mm

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365 project 3.1 04-12-15... Amazing

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
Gilda Radner


Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
 F-stop: f/7.1,
 Exposure: 1/400,
 ISO 250,
 Focal length: 70mm
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365 project 3.1 03-12-15... take time

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
 Benjamin Franklin

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,
 F-stop: f/7.1,
 Exposure: 1/400,
 ISO 250,
 Focal length: 67mm

365 project 3.1 02-12-15... represent

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,

F-stop: f/8,

Exposure: 1/250,

ISO 250,

Focal length: 35mm

 Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,

F-stop: f/7.1,

Exposure: 1/250,

ISO 250,

Focal length: 42mm

 Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,

F-stop: f/5,

Exposure: 1/160,

ISO 250,

Focal length: 45mm

 Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,

F-stop: f/5,

Exposure: 1/160,

ISO 250,

Focal length: 63mm

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,

F-stop: f/5.6,

Exposure: 1/160,

ISO 250,

Focal length: 24mm

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,

F-stop: f/5.6,

Exposure: 1/160,

ISO 250,

Focal length: 39mm

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III,

F-stop: f/5,

Exposure: 1/160,

ISO 250,

Focal length: 57mm