Ode to the last day of autumn 2012 [#lookingup]

'When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.  When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.'  ~ Ansel Adams

It's another end to something... and this time it is autumn of 2012. Obviously one can't record the whole season how much one would try... one can only attempt to record those  fleeting moments. In this case, I tried 'quoting' the end of autumn 2012 in between lunch. The weather is sunny, not too cold & the shapes, shades & colourss provided by nature are spectacular. Please enjoy...

#lookingup #autumn on Instagram. Taken by my trusted iPhone4 & edited with Instagram [@jayashkal]

Daniel Suelo on 'damned if I do and damned if I don't'

"A seed falls to the ground and dies, hiding in the soil. It grows up into a plant that flowers in fluorescent color, attracting bees and hummingbirds and humans. Condemn it for hiding. Then condemn it for blooming. Condemn it for wilting. Then it might produce fruit. What condemnation then? Are we resentful because the plant knows only to follow its own nature, both hiding and blooming in glory and bearing more seeds? I don't know how any of it works, it just does, and it's beautiful and I'll enjoy it, whether or not people like to crush plants under their feet."

Daniel Suelo

Flowers...

As an amateur photographer, flowers are the most easiest to photograph as well as the most rewarding. It doesn't take too much effort to capture the beauty of a flower... it is already there. Just a matter of timing... great light, nice angle. Nature has already set the scene for you... the colours, the scent... alll it takes is a pair of steady hands.

"When you lose someone, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw."

- Jodi Picoult, House Rules

Joy

Reading this today (on Boxing Day):

"We do not live to eat & make money.

We eat & make money to be able to enjoy life.

That is what life means & what life is for.

And joy, is after all, the end of life."

- George Mallory on the sheer joy of climbing Mt Everest.

Sitio Remedios @ Barangay Victoria, Currimao, Ilocos Norte

Just another entry to a place I want to stay and visit... one of those 'old' village resort.

I 'discovered' the place by reading Twits by CC, I Googled and in the process end up in a blog, called 'No Doors'.

Photography & 'Pulping the past'

"It gets on my nerves when people seem to be so intent on filming everything [ouch] on their mobile phones. I just wish people would experience it and be in that moment," the former Pulp  key player Jarvis Cocker says.

"It used tobe when you went on holiday you'd see families where the father couldn't interact with anyone, so he'd stand there with the video camera filming the whole holiday and you'd think: "What a sad character." Now young people are doing it - its bad. They're becoming middle-aged before their time." The idea of a performance being a one-off appeals to Cocker [Pulping the past by Kylie Northover, SMH 13-14 June 2009].

"Cocker says having something that lingers only as a memory is better, as it changes over time.

"It gets altered in your brain, by your perception, whereas if you've just got a crappy, hand-held phone footage version of it, it brings it all crashing down to earth, [I guess, without the benefit of rose-tinted memory - fading and in the moment of how you experience & remember the event.] you know what I mean?"