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Life Taken By Slice
Life is filled with events that beg for good photographs that capture their essence. Next in the series on photography and photograph composition. Life Taken By Slice by Michael Doyle Birthdays, weddings and holidays Special occasions in a million ways … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Being, Bind, Birthday, Blow the Candles Out, By Slice, Cake, Candid, Caption, Capture, Catch, Colors, Count, Detail, Details, Don't Stop the Action, Drama, Draws In, Emotions, Essence, Events, Every Angle, Face, Fade Into Night, Find, Fly On the Wall, Force, Glasses Raised, Glorious Moments, Good Times, Grab, Hard, Holidays, Homework, Humans Being, Impossible To Replace, Life, Life Goes By, Life's Events, Light, Long Exposure, Main Dish, Meaning, Moments, Moments of Joy, Most, Neglect, Nothing, Photograph, Photographs, Photos, Poetry, Presents, Remember, Respect, Round of Drinks, Satisfaction, Saving Aside, Scout Out, Seasoning, Seen, Sight, Slice By Slice, Soak, Something, Spark, Special Occasions, Spice, Stolen Kiss, Stop Time, Stuck In Mind, Stuff of Life, Sublime, Surmise, Surprise, Swirls, Takes, The Best of Life, Thought, Tie, Toast, Wedding, Whisper, Wish, Wonderful
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Thought For the Day: If Thoughts Can Corrupt Language, Language Can Also Corrupt Thoughts
“If thoughts can corrupt language, language can also corrupt thoughts.” – George Orwell Just say, no! No to the thought police who want to demand we reshape our language to conform to their ideology. That is a sure sign … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Usage, Corrupt, George Orwell, Imitation, Language, Spread, Thought, Thought For the Day, Tradition
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It’s No Mystery
A thought that occurred to me over and over as I drove through Amish Country yesterday: It’s No Mystery by Michael Doyle Every day that we get to live We have to give what we can give To show that … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepting Differences, Adds Up, Amish Country, Answer, Appears, Better, Blessing, Blindness, Brothers, Chance, Change Our Ways, Choose, Conquer, Different Fate, Drive, Each Other, End of Days, Every Day, Feel, Forgotten, Freed, Give, Grateful, Greater, Greatest Commandment, Greet, Hate, Hearts, Help, History, Kindness, Learn, Learn To Love One Another, Learned, Left, Lessons, Let's Talk, Live, Living, Looking Deep, Love, Love One Another, Love the Lord God, Moment, More Faith, Mystery, Need, Open Fist, Page Turned, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Right, Said, Second Guessing, See, Seeing With Another's Eyes, Seeking, Show, Sisters, Smile, Stop Forcing, Sunrise, Surface, Take Hand, Than Fear, This World, Thought, Turn That Page, Understand, Walk Together
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Indiana Back Hills
I am not sure really how Google’s mapping GPS works. It usually gives me the most direct and quickest route to my destination. On my way home last night, I received directions that could not have possibly have been the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Too Near, Angel, Ask, Back Hills, Back Road, Being Alone, Belong, Blind, Bones, Burning Down, Capture, Catch, Close, Cool Breeze, Cross, Direct Route, Endless, Except, Explore, Fall, Feel, Fill, Find, Four Wheels, Good Kind of Tired, Google, GPS, Gratitude, Grow, Growth, Headlights, Here, Hold Me, Indiana, Last Light, Lonesome, Long, Loose, Map, Mask, Me, Meander, Memory, Mile, Moment, Moon, Need, Night, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Probably, Raccoon, Rain, Read, Rearview, Rise, Road, Roll, Secrets, Seem, Shadows, Signs, Slow Down, Smile, Somewhere, Sun's Eyes, Sunrise, Surround, Takes Me There, Tears, Thought, To Do, Today, Tomorrow, Too Busy Looking, Track, Trees, Twilight, Two Angels, Unexpected, Unfold, Unseen, View, Whisper, Wish, Without You
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Dragged Into the Streets
Thinking a lot on education and civilization and why and how there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to how each is allegedly to work out. Fairly serious stuff and yet how can a person not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Alienation, Ancient, Avoid, Backside, Bad Advice, Belong, Bowl, Capable, Chase, Civility, Civilization, Confusion, Convenience, Convenient, Cruelty, Curious, Darkness, Days, Deal, Desire, Different, Done, Doubt, Drag, Drink, Education, Fish, Flag, Gin, God, Good, Happy, Head, Humor, Interest, Lazy, Life, Luck, Manage, Mentally, Miserable, Monkeys, Moral Courage, Mortals, New Life, None, Now, Ought, Photograph, Pit, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Problems, Puzzles, Raps, Reverent, Run Away, Sail, Set Out, Sink, Sit, Solemn, Somehow, Sought, Street, Struck, Sun, Taught, Tell Me, Then, Think, Thought, Time, Trappings, Tree, Turn, Tutor, Unteachable, Want, Wince, Wish, Wonder, Workings, Wrong, You
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Specter of A Well Aimed Gun
Between the chase scenes, I believe science fiction grapples on some of humanity’s biggest questions. Do you? Specter of A Well Aimed Gun by Michael Doyle Specters of a gun take aim Innocent of the perceptions slain Fooled by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Analogy, Analysis, Big Questions, Convention, Dare, Deception, Deduction, Dream, Electric Dream, Essential, Exact, Fact, Fantasy, Fiction, Fool, Glasses, Grapple, Gun, Hesitation, Humanity, Inception, Influence, Innocent, Interplay, Inventions, Lift, Operation, Paralysis, Perception, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Reach Out, Scene, Science, Science Fiction, Seen, Shake Down, Slay, Specter, Thought, Translate, Veils, World
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First Principles: Having Lived Long, I Have Many Instances of Being Obligated…To Change My Opinions… I Thought Right But Found To Be Otherwise
“Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obligated, by better information or fuller consideration, to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I thought right but found to be otherwise.” – Benjamin Franklin, Speech on Sept. … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Better Information, Change, Experience, First Principles, Found, Fuller Consideration, Important, Instances, Lived, Long, Obligate, Opinions, Otherwise, Right, Subjects, Thought
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An Introduction of Light
Photography is a trick of light crafted to create the illusion desired. It depends on ambient or found light and that introduced light that we use to reflect how we choose to see what we are viewing. Or, ummm… something … Continue reading
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Tagged Add, Attempt, Beauty, Bring, Capture, Control, Craft, Create, Day and Night, Days, Definition, Depend, Depth, Desire, Detail, Diffusion, Experiment, Exposure, Eye, Fill Flash, Flash, Gift, Harshness, Illumination, Illusion, Immensity, Intensity, Introduction, Light, Overhead Light, Party, Photograph, Photography, Photos, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reflect, Reveal, See, Shadow, Show, Shutter Speed, Side, Sight, Softness, Sought, Starkness, Strobe, Thought, Trick of Light, Unusual, World
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