sea mirror

[18mm.f/11.1/400sec.ec-0.67]

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Mary Kay Ash

the coconut

[105mm.f/5.6.1/1250sec.ec-0.67]

Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe me.”
Look what happens with
A love like that.
It lights the whole sky.

by Hafiz of Persia

sunrise from pocket to DSLR

[48mm.f/11.1/30sec.ec-0.33]

“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.” Horace Mann

Batu City at Night

[18mm.f/8.30sec.ec-0.37]

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde

Coban Rondo Waterfalls

[18mm.f/20.5/8sec.ec-0.67]

“Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.” Fulton J. Sheen

splash!!

[25mm.f/5.6.1/640sec.ec+0.33]

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

- Susan B. Anthony

silhouette

[105mm.f/18.1/1600sec.ec-0.33]

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.

- Saint Francis de Sales

the waves

[18mm.f/11.1/1250sec.ec-0.33]

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

God’s Creation

[18mm.1/7.1.1/640sec.ec-0.33]

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

- Louisa May Alcott

waterfalls

[18mm.1/8.1/13sec.ec-0.33]

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

- Benjamin Franklin