Take a break...

Beyond all polarities I am

Let the judgements and opinions of the mind be judgements and opinions of the mind

And you exist behind that

Ah so

Ah so

It’s really time for you to see through the absurdity of your predicament 

You aren’t who you thought you were

You just aren’t that person

And in this very lifetime you can know it

Right now

The real work you have to do is in the privacy of your own heart

All of the external forms are lovely

But the real work is your inner connection

If you’re quiet when you meditate

If you truly open your heart

Just quiet your mind…

Open your heart

Quiet the mind, open the heart

How do you quiet the mind? 

You meditate

How do you open the heart?

You start to love that which you can love and just keep expanding it

You love a tree

You love a river

You love a leaf 

You love a flower

You love a cat

You love a human

But go deeper and deeper into that love

Til you love that which is the source of the light behind all of it

Behind all of it

You don’t worship the gate 

You go into the inner temple

Everything in you that you don’t need 

you can let go of

You don’t need loneliness for you couldn’t possibly be alone

You don’t need greed because you already have it all

You don’t need doubt because you already know

The confusion is saying “I don’t know”

But the minute you are quiet you find out that in truth you do know

For in you, you know

Plane after plane will open to you

I want to know who I really am

As if in each of us, there once was a fire

And for some of us there seem as if there are only ashes now

But when we dig in the ashes we find one ember

And very gently we fan that ember

…blow on it 

…it gets brighter

And from that ember we rebuild the fire

Only thing that’s important is that ember

That’s what you and I are here to celebrate

That though we have lived our life totally involved in the world

We know

We know that we’re of the spirit

The ember gets stronger

Flame starts to flicker a bit

And pretty soon you realise that all we’re going to do for eternity is sit around the fire 

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ƒ/5.6 | 1/125 | ISO400

Terminator

From Wikipedia:

A terminator or twilight zone is a moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body. The terminator is defined as the locus of points on a planet or moon where the line through the center of its parent star is tangent. An observer on the terminator of such an orbiting body with an atmosphere would experience twilight due to light scattering by particles in the gaseous layer.

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ƒ/3.2 | 1/640 | ISO800

Scene on a Friday

Just a simple scene of some people greeting each other at a special spot in town on a Friday afternoon. There is something really lovely about sunny winter days in Reykjavík, when the sun hangs low the entire time and you get the light that cast shadows across the frame.

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ƒ/2.5 | 1/60 | ISO800

HVERFANDI by María Rún Þrándardóttir

A lot of times, the absolute best way to experiment with the camera is to go to art shows and photograph other people’s art work. This is both a lot of fun and slightly frustrating because it brings some questions of whether a photograph of someone else’s work is wholly original to the photographer who took the photograph. There’s a grey area. If I take an amazing photograph of a building, is it the architect who deserves credit for the look of the photograph? What about a dance piece? Where does the line get drawn? For me, the artist deserves the credit, at least in the title, in regards to a photograph in a gallery space as they are the reason the photograph exists at all.

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ƒ/1.7 | 1/60 | ISO1600

Biggi Veira

The absolute best part of social living is dancing to good music. I love it more than any other form of socialising, everyone is letting go of their pretences and enjoying themselves while listening to great music. This is another reason I love the compact camera as an every day camera. Being able to dance and be discreet with the camera allows me to get results like above.