The Shape of Light: SIGNS AND WONDERS

Thursday, April 12, 2018

SIGNS AND WONDERS

Red-shouldered Hawk

Some things happen only once, twice in a lifetime.

The world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go,

and if you are lucky you might be alive to see them. I thought

the world was ending, but my hawk saved me, and the terror was gone.

Helen Macdonald

H is for Hawk

2 comments:

BarbApril 13, 2018 at 10:45 AM
From sharp beak to razor talons, an incredible photo, George. I think I could count the feathers!
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GeorgeApril 13, 2018 at 1:36 PM
Thanks, Barb. Glad you like this image. Red-shouldered hawks can be seen from our veranda almost any day. This is one of them.
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VOICES OF INSPIRATION

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world. ~ Henry Miller

You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~ Ansel Adams

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. ~ Dorothea Lange

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~ Confucius

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. ~ Pierre Bonnard

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. ~ Henry Miller

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~ William Blake