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Tag Archives: photography
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
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
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
Posted in Photography, Visual Soliloquy
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:
Posted in Everest 2010, Photo Gallery, Photography
Tagged 2010, climb, Everest, photography, Seven Summits
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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
Same, Same but Different
Velma the Vanilla Dip Waits to Fly to Guatemala City There is something about getting on an airplane. I just love it. Perhaps, because an airplane is usually a place I feel unusually at leisure in ( I get to … 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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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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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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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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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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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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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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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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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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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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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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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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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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Visual Soliloquy #57 Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss…
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land. –Carter Hayward [tags 2010, Visual Soliloquy, Photography, Quotes, Nature, Travel]
Visual Soliloquy #56 Be careful what you water your dreams with…
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy ##55 Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home…
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. –Matsuo Basho
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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #54 There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief…
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. –Aeschylus
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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #53 Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment…
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. –Jim Rohn
Posted in Everest 2010, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, Nepal, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #52 Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth…
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. –Robert Neelly Bellah
Posted in Life, Newfoundland, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, Jelly Bean Row, Newfoundand, photography, Quotes, St. John's
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Visual Soliloquy #51 You can never step into the same river…
You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you. –Heraclitus of Ephesus
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Tagged 2010, Gros Morne, Nature, Newfoundland, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #50 Today is your day, your mountain is waiting…
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. – Dr Seuss
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Tagged 2010, climb, Everest, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #49 Time is a sort of river of passing events…
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.–Marcus Aurelius
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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #48 The road of life twists and turns…
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.–Don Williams, Jr.
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Tagged 2010, Nature, photography, Quotes, Travel
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Visual Soliloquy #47 The idea is to write it so that people hear it…
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. –Maya Angelou
Visual Soliloquy #46 Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. –Arnold H. Glasow
Visual Soliloquy #45 Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal…
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. –Wayne Dyer
Visual Soliloquy #44 When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but…
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
Posted in Everest 2010, Everest-007, Photography, Visual Soliloquy
Tagged 2010, Nepal, photography, Quotes
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Visual Soliloquy #43 You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out…
You can grunt and heave, sweat and strain, wear yourself out, and unless you simply forget about it and step up, you won’t even get off the ground. — Mike Borghoff.
Visual Soliloquy #42
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. –Pablo Picasso
Visual Soliloquy #41
Just don’t give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. –Ella Fitzgerald
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Tagged 2010, photography, Quotes
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Visual Soliloquy #40
…I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realised, than lord among those without dreams and desires. – Kahlil Gibran
Visual Soliloquy #39
Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. – Irish Proverb
Visual Soliloquy #38
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. –Morris West
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Tagged 2010, photography, Quotes
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Visual Soliloquy #37
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. –Bo Bennett
Visual Soliloquy #36
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. –Carl Sandburg
Visual Soliloquy #35
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. –Thomas Merton
Visual Soliloquy #34
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. –Unknown