#my photographic world

[allurlsaregone-blog]

Low tide approaches as the afternoon wanes.

[irishgop]

Later, I noticed how nice the day turned out.

[herigo]

[shisasan]

Their onyx feathers glistened in the eerie light, woven in ebony nests, entwined and eternal.

Kunigami [国頭村], Okinawa, Japan

[These two beautiful feathered souls shared a moment of pure adoration. I was blessed to capture this adorable encounter. 🖤] Ph. Aleksandra Alba IG: tanzdreamer

[n-a-n-ii]

Завораживающая красота природы ✨

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[franz-bauch-foto]

In the forest

[axololtls]

[elephantaday]

Day 987 of posting pictures of elephants.

Source: World Animal Protection US

[seabeck]

Juniper under the northern lights

[trueblueboygenius]

MUNA at All Things Go NYC via allthingsgo on instagram!

[allurlsaregone-blog]

Evening

[irishgop]

“If you miss the train I’m on…”

PPM

[mikimeiko]

I'm doing a tiny photographic project, taking one photo a month of a tree near a leat in a field, and for some reason I was saving them with the idea of posting them all together once I was finished but... maybe it will be nicer if I update the post once a month? (And maybe, MAYBE, this way I will actually do it for the entire year XD)

Anyway, here's the first three

[yeoldenews]

I don't know how much you think about it, but you wrote a post back in Mar 2020:

"A sincere request from someone who has spent her entire adult life wishing people had kept better records…In the coming weeks and months… RECORD WHAT IS HAPPENING."

That post got me to start properly journaling properly, after trying and failing when I was younger. A majority of it is 'just' day-to-day progress updates on my fiction writing, but there's a bit of stuff about my life, and some briefer stuff about the world beyond. Not a lot, but some. Four (and change) years, and my journal is just short of 186K words.

I remembered your post, seeing today's SCOTUS decisions. I remembered your post, and I remembered a line you'd written: "Are you scared to death? Write it down."

I just...I don't know. I just wanted you to know your post made an impact, and I don't know what the fuck is coming over the next week and month and year and decade, but...I'm writing shit down. I'm writing shit down, and it's all because of your post.

You have no idea how much this means to me, and how badly I needed to hear it this week - so thank you. Truly. I am genuinely moved, and so proud of you for your 186k words.

History is made up of the stories people decided to save - and the first step to making sure a story gets saved is writing it down.

I really, really hate writing. Like more than just about anything. I'm a chronic perfectionist, and it can take me a whole afternoon to finish a single paragraph I'm satisfied with. (I spent three days writing this response, and you don't even want to know how long I spend on some of the things I post.) So keeping a journal is not a task I'd ever felt the need to afflict myself with before the pandemic. When I made the post you referenced, my journaling habit was all of ten days old but, against all the odds, here I am over four years later having never (to my recollection) missed a single day.

My daily records of what my cats are doing, and your day-to-day writing progress may not be extensively poured over by future scholars, but for only a few minutes of effort a day we now have recorded hundreds of stories.

And who knows what the people of the future might find fascinating. I'm sure the teenage girl in Philadelphia who smudged the letter she was writing in 1897 because a bee scared her would be absolutely baffled that thousands of people were still laughing about the incident 125 years later.

So much of history, and life in general, doesn't become clear until long after the fact. Historical records are full of people overreacting about events that ended up having very little significance in hindsight, and under-reacting about events they no had no idea were about to change the world. But being able to go back and see what people wrote in the moment, preserving their honest thoughts and hopes and fears, is about as close as you can get to time travel.

Maybe what we fear will come true and we're recording history, maybe we'll look back on what we wrote today and go "phew! that was a close one!", or maybe nothing will come of it at all - I pray it will be the last one, but, whatever the outcome, it's worth writing down.

(Also voting. Please, please vote.)

[n-a-t-u-r-e-love]

Schmetterlinge können ihre Flügel nicht sehen, aber der Rest der welt kann es.

DU.

Du bist wunderschön - vielleicht kannst du es nicht immer Sehen, aber wir können es.

[flowerishness]

Crocus

As the World Turns

A free ticket to Lotusland? Forget it! It's early spring so welcome to Crocus-land. The spring crocus is very beautiful but it's strictly time-limited. In two weeks it will be gone but worry not! As the world turns, Crocus-land will magically reappear - same time, same place. You can depend on it.