I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus
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"Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile" .... mygallery
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Edward Weston
Wow, look at that tail feather! What a beauty. Sorry I took so long to comment, Charlie. I'm paring down a list of 300 posts to comment on and want you to know that I intend to see them all! I did look at this in the VB and knew I was coming back to it. I like the way you cropped it and made the bird look like he fits the frame on the diagonal.
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes