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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Tip Toe Tiger
When she walked…she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle. ~Saskya Pandita
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Caught in The Act : The Butterfly Emerges
WOW… so those dials in Lightroom are powerful creatures. After yesterday’s dive off the cliff of creativity this beauty came to life! Or was I pushed? See what you did Ron Clifford ;o). Something tells me 2013 is going to…
Glowin
“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” ~Trina Paulus
Goin on a Wildflower Safari
Mission 6… Space & Patterns This week’s G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers had us stalking patterns and making negative space positive. My opportunity to commit a felony on nature and perform visual reverse psychology was focused around my first annual…
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Eye Spotted You
“Most people desperately wish to be free. But they are confined by the habitat, not niche, in one corner of the world that some carve out for them.They are limited to themselves, and to much fewer possibilities by the narrowness…
Tagged with: free, Jen Baptist, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Wildlife, nature photography, Pacific Northwest, possibilities, real photography, spotted fish, V.S. Naipaul, vision
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Simply Bee
Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever…
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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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All Aflutter
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Gotcha?
The look in this meerkat’s eyes always piques my curiosity… is it surprise, fear, indignation, curiosity, or playfulness? I never know, I just figure it’s always best to… Be curious, not judgmental. ~Walt Whitman
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On The Wings of A Tiger
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the…
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Who? Me?
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ~Russell Lynes
Cobra Staredown
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the…
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Dancing In The Light
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. ~Rumi
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Peek-a-bee
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. ~Ashley Smith
Tagged with: Ashley Smith, beauty, bumble bee, flower, Jen Baptist, Just Flora, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Quotes, Just Wildlife, live life to the fullest, nature, nature photography, outdoors, plants, real photography, smiling faces
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Graceful Landing
The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. ~Pablo Picasso This graceful landing was…
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Stoic
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. ~Seneca
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Hello There
Look as long as you can at the friend you love, no matter whether that friend is moving away from you or coming back toward you. ~Rumi
Tagged with: Cougar Mountain Zoo, friendship, Jen Baptist, Just Jenuine Photography, Just Wildlife, macaw, nature photography, real photography, Rumi, spirituality
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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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Ruffled His Feathers
after a stare-down via my lens at the Oregon Zoo. It was interesting to watch the transformation from the regal bald eagle shown below… to one in such an agitated state. For a split-second I actually sensed the intimidation, but…
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