Okay, this Mission took a long time for me. I drug my heels like never before, had the commitments in my life exponentially explode (in a positive way), and got to have a breakthrough in grasping although my body demanded…
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Unity Belles
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. ~Kahlil Gibran
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Frozen Growth
It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but…
Tagged with: climate, donald miller, frost, frozen, God, growth, Jen Baptist, Just Flora, Just Jenuine, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Water, nature, nature photography, pace life, plants, quotes, raindrop, thaw, water, waterdrop, waterdrops, winter
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Mission 2 : Just Shoot It!
Habits… we’ve all got’m. Rather than share all the ones I have, the ones I like, the ones I make wrong, I will instead dive right into the one selected for development through this program… my voice. Somewhere along the…
Tagged with: focus, frost, frozen, frozen fog, ice, ice crystals, Jen Baptist, Just Flora, Just Jenuine, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Water, nature photography, plants, raindrop, water, waterdrops, winter
Posted in G+ Advanced Photography Mentorship, Jenuine LIfe, Just Flora, Just Water
Posted in G+ Advanced Photography Mentorship, Jenuine LIfe, Just Flora, Just Water
Frozen Beauty
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. ~Camille Paglia
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Stars Reflection
Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of…
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Lichen World Pour
. . . You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone. Rain will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon, long aisles — you never heard so deep a sound, moss on rock, and years. You turn your head…
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Seattle Sight
For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. ~C.S. Lewis I see a heart, a playful otter, and a flexed bicep… What do…
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Posted in Just Quotes, Just Water
Posted in Just Quotes, Just Water
Let The Rain Fall Down On Me
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not television love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much…
Tagged with: autumn, autumn leaves, beauty, deb caletti, Jen Baptist, Just Flora, Just Jenuine, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Water, love, nature, nature photography, Pacific Northwest, purest form, quotes, rain, raindrop, raindrops, water, waterdrops, wet leaf
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Frozen Sight
We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Posted in Just Quotes, Just Water
Posted in Just Quotes, Just Water
Deception Falls
Injured Soul Fainted Eyes Returning from where? Weary feet Weak arms Treading toward where? Struggled in vain battles Fighting delusive enemies Erred by a deception The ancient deception ~Rixa White
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Posted in Just Quotes, Just Water
A Path Before The Fall
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental…
Tagged with: autumn, fall, Henry David Thoreau, Jen Baptist, Just Flora, Just Jenuine, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Water, love, maple leaf, nature, nature photography, path, path of light, pathway, plants, power of thought, quotes, raindrop, real photography, red, self-growth, thoughts, water, waterdrops
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Rippled by The Light
Whenever someone awakens fully, it effects human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a stone into a dark murky pond. Ripples of light! Not one word need be spoken. ~Leonard Jacobsen
Tagged with: dancing light, human consciousness, Jen Baptist, Just Geology, Just Jenuine, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Water, light dancing upon the water, nature photography, quotes, real photography, ripple effect, ripples, ripples of light, river, riverbed, stone, stones, water
Posted in Just Geology, Just Quotes, Just Water
Posted in Just Geology, Just Quotes, Just Water
Fall as They May
May the raindrops fall lightly on your brow. May the soft winds freshen your spirit. May the sunshine brighten your heart. May the burdens of the day rest lightly upon you, and may God enfold you in the mantle of…
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Autumn Growth
Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest or a horse as we like or as they appear to us, but as they really are. ~Franz Marc
Tagged with: arts, autumn, birth, forest fauna;forest, forest floor, green, growth, Jen Baptist, Just Flora, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Water, nature, nature photography, plants, quotes, real photography, water, waterdrop, waterdrops
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Drippin Beauty
Everywhere water is a thing of beauty gleaming in the dewdrop, singing in the summer rain. ~John Ballantine Gough
Tagged with: beauty, flower, Jen Baptist, John Ballantine Gough, Just Flora, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Water, nature, nature photography, plants, real photography, singing, summer rain, water, waterdrops, wet flower
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Refreshingly Pink
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ~Maya Angelou
Tagged with: colors, emotions, flower, hydrangea, Jen Baptist, Just Flora, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Water, Maya Angelou, nature photography, pink, quotes, real photography, waterdrops, wet flower
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Blessing Rain
Soften my heart, O God of living waters, that the shower of Scripture I am about to read may enrich the soil of my soul. Rain down your wisdom in sacred streams to carry me like an upturned leaf through…
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water, Just Wildlife
Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water, Just Wildlife
Loving Assortment
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and count every grain of sand in the sea – multiply it by a thousand and that’s how much I love you. ~George of Langkloof
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Posted in Just Coastal, Just Quotes, Just Water
Not Just Another Sunset
Mission 3… Perspective When I accepted this week’s G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers challenge from Ron Clifford on ‘perspective’ I had no idea of where it would take me… little did I know it would take me through time. I…
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Posted in G+ Photography Mentorship, Jenuine LIfe, Just Coastal, Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Sunsets, Just Water
Washin Over Stone
Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be…
Inverted Beginning
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. ~Richard Whately
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Arrow of Illusion
He who knows that this body is like froth, and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion, and never see the king of death. ~The Dhammapada (c. BC 300)
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Posted in Just Coastal, Just Quotes, Just Water
Blue Dew
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.…
Tagged with: blue hydrangea, cheerful, disposition, dispositions, flower, happiness, happy, Jen Baptist, Just Flora, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Water, Martha Washington, misery, nature photography, real photography, spirituality, waterdrops, wet flower
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Aqua
Love is always thirsty and looking for a thirsty lover. Love and lover follow each other like day and night. ~Rumi
Tagged with: Jen Baptist, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Water, lover, nature, outdoors, raindrop, real photography, Rumi, soul, water, waterfall
Posted in Just Quotes, Just Water
Posted in Just Quotes, Just Water
Child’s Play
His laughter, which was never far below the surface of his conversation, now sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight. ~Joseph Lelyveld
Tagged with: Jen Baptist, Joseph Lelyveld, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Sunsets, Just Water, laughter, nature, nature photography, real photography, sparkle, splash, sunlight, vacation, water
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Posted in Just Quotes, Just Sunsets, Just Water
Bubbles & Clovers
I know a place where the sun is like gold, And the cherry blooms burst with snow, And down underneath is the loveliest nook, Where the four-leaf clovers grow. One leaf is for hope, and one is for faith, And…
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Gentle Lap
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding…
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Posted in Just Coastal, Just Quotes, Just Water
Second Sight
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us. ~Alan Cohen
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Posted in Just Coastal, Just Quotes, Just Sunsets, Just Water
BE Dazzle!
Dream BIG… If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. ~Robert Fritz
Tagged with: Bellevue Botanical Garden, choices, compromise, dreams, elephant ear, Jen Baptist, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, leaf, love, nature, nature photography, plants, quotes, real photography, relationships, Robert Fritz, unreasonable, water, waterdrops
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Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Final Cast
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’… ~Mary Anne Radmacher
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Posted in Just Coastal, Just Quotes, Just Sunsets, Just Water
Posted in Just Coastal, Just Quotes, Just Sunsets, Just Water
Red-freshed
To serve the cause of water adequately… We must get to know it in its true being. And how do we do this? Why, by treating it in the very way exemplified by its own behavior; that is, whenever we…
Tagged with: element, impressions, Jen Baptist, Just Jen, Just Jenuine, Just Jenuine Photography, nature, red camellia, theodor schwenk, water, waterdrops, wet flower
Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Posted in Just Flora, Just Quotes, Just Water
Aquatic Greetings
At the Seattle Aquarium sometimes feel forced, especially on a busy Saturday with small children all vying for the attention of the many creatures within the tanks, but this visit produced some intimate moments for myself and my daughter. The…
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