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Sun Flares"He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking." -Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Reflections"Reflect upon your present blessings - of which all men have many - not on your past misfortunes - of which all men have some." -Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Bokeh Part Two"Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas . . . perhaps . . . means a little bit more." -Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Bokeh"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires." -William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Thankfullness"Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude." -A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
Word Portrait Project"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced." -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Shutter Speed Practice"Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change." -Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Compression Project"On the fifth day, which was Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty." -Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
ISO Practice"Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It's the fear that one simple fact might be true: you're just not good enough." -Marie Forleo, Everything is Figureoutable
Aperture Project"Maitre Hauchecome, of Breaute, had just arrived at Goderville and was making his way toward the square when he perceived on the ground a little piece of string. Maitre Hauchecome, economical as are all true Normans, reflected that everything was worth picking up which could be of any use" -Guy de Maupassant, A Piece of String
Aperture Practice"Practice makes the master." -Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Self-Portrait Project"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even when we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there." -Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
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