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Category Archives: Photography
Visual Soliloquy #91 Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go…
Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”–Karen Ravn
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Tagged 2011, Kilimanjaro, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #90 Risk, there is no real living without it. Die we all must, but try to knock all risk out of our lives…
Risk, there is no real living without it. Die we all must, but try to knock all risk out of our lives and we lock ourselves tighter and tighter into a safe, comfortable, deadly box, and we die too, without … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #89 The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives…
The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ~Robert Brault
Visual Soliloquy #88 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race…
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells
Visual Soliloquy #87 When one’s lung-ta is low obstacles constantly arise. When lung-ta is high good opportunities abound…
When one’s lung-ta is low obstacles constantly arise. When lung-ta is high good opportunities abound…–Unknown
Visual Soliloquy #86 Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be…
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be. –Anna Freud
Visual Soliloquy #84 Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience…
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged 2010, Everest, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #85 My profession is to always …
My profession is to always find God in nature. – Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged 2011, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #83 Nothing will come of nothing. Dare for mighty things…
Nothing will come of nothing. Dare for mighty things. – William Shakespeare
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Tagged 2011, climb, Everest, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Aconcagua Photo Gallery
Here are some of my favourite photographs from my climb of Aconcagua in December of 2006. To read the dispatches from the mountain, please click here.
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Tagged 2006, Aconcagua, Argentina, photography, Seven Summits
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Visual Soliloquy #82 The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play…
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. –Arnold J. Toynbee
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Tagged 2011, Newfoundland, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #81 The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water …
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. –Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged 2011, Newfoundland, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #80 Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted…
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. –Mary McCarthy
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Tagged 2011, Nature, Newfoundland, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #79 Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing…
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. –Bill Cosby
Visual Soliloquy #78 Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat…
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat. –Jean-Paul Sartre
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Tagged 2011, photography, Quotes, Travel, Vietnam
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Visual Soliloquy #77 Three Rules of Work…
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.–Albert Einstein
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Tagged 2011, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #76 To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle…
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. -Albert Einstein
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Tagged 2011, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #75 Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say…
Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say – So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. –Emily Dickinson
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Tagged 2011, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #74 Simply the thing that I am shall make me live…
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.–William Shakespeare
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Tagged 2011, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #73 Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you…
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Tagged 2011, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #72 Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world…
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. –Alan Alda
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Tagged 2011, Guatemala, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel, Xela
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Visual Soliloquy #71 Keeping Taglu in My Heart
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. –Marjorie Garber
Visual Soliloquy #70 There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope…
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. –Bern Williams
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Tagged 2011, Guatemala, Nature, photography, Quotes, Santa Maria, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #69 Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles…
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. –Mary Schmich
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Tagged 2011, Antigua, Guatemala, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #403: The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action…
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action. – Madame de Stael
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Tagged 2012, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Everest 2010 Photo Gallery
Here are some of the favourite images from TA’s Everest 2010 expedition. To read training updates, dispatches from the mountain and follow-up posts, please click here:
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Tagged 2010, climb, Everest, photography, Seven Summits
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Climbing Volcan Santa Maria
After explaining Boxing Day to our traveling companions over breakfast, we packed up and headed south of Xela to the trailhead for Santa Maria. This 3772 meter volcano towers over Xela and is often climbed by locals who ascend it … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Tajumulco
Tagged Guatemala, Hat Trick of the Americas, Santa Maria, Tajumulco, Xela
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Welcoming the Light
Just back from an awesome unanticipated “Hat Trick of the Americas” where we celebrated Winter Solstice with a full moon and full lunar eclipse on Volcan Pacaya. We traded our ascent of Volcan Aqua for the opportunity to camp out … Continue reading
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Tagged Antigua, Guatemala, Lunar Eclipse, Pacaya, Solstice
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Visual Soliloquy #68 Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated not by a single burst of energy or effort…
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated not by a single burst of energy or effort, but by consistent application of the best you have within you. –Og Mandino
Around Town
Another fine day in Antigua! We met up with the rest of our group which turns out to be smaller than intended as two of the folks are stranded by the blizzard in Heathrow. So we are a group of … Continue reading
Visual Soliloquy #67 At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person…
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. –Albert Schweitzer
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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #66 The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch…
The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. –Erica Jong
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Visual Soliloquy #65 The true measure of one’s worth lies not where you come to be at journey’s end…
The true measure of one’s worth lies not where you come to be at journey’s end, but in the lives you touch along the way. –Anonymous
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Visual Soliloquy #64 Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal…
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. –Eliza Tabor
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Visual Soliloquy #63 To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw,…
To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed. –Gretel Ehrlich
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Visual Soliloquy #62 Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. –Paulo Coelho
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Visual Soliloquy #61 We all have our time machines…
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. –Jeremy Irons
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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #60 All human wisdom is summed up in two words–wait and hope…
All human wisdom is summed up in two words–wait and hope. –Alexandre Dumas Père
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Visual Soliloquy #59 Our life is composed greatly from dreams…
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. –Anais Nin
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Tagged 2010, Chile, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #58 The harder I work the more I live…
The harder I work the more I live. –George Bernard Shaw
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Tagged 2010, Everest, photography, Quotes, Travel
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