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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge

  • Ese’s Weekly Sloot & Quote Challenge – Pleasure

    That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe   This post was written about a month late in response to the Ese’s Weekly Sloot & Quote Challenge – Pleasure Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Fragile

    But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light. William Collins quotes   written in Read more

  • Ese’ s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Buzz

    Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need. Amy Whitehouse Although for me is actually only 2 times a week. On the other days I go for walks, not the gym…   Written in response to Ese’ Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Touch

    Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia This post was written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Touch Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Continuous

    I  have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous  variations of light and shadow. Laurie Lee   This post was written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Continuous Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Silence

    See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…we need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa of Calcutta This post was written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Silence Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Direction

    I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean This post was written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Direction Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intangible

    Our technologized society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible. Honor Harger   And these are only a few of the ones that came with us on our family vacation… This post was written in response to Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Intricate

    I admit being guilty… The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Allure

    The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) written in response to Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Read more

  • Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge – Obsession

    I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything. Vikram Seth   written in response to the Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge – Obsession Read more