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"Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot

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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"
— Dolly Parton

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

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For, what with my whole world-wide wandering,
What with my search drawn out through years, my hope
Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope
With that obstreperous joy success would bring,
I hardly tried now to rebuke the spring
My heart made, finding failure in its scope.
- Robert Browning

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

"It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe."
— Albert Camus (The Stranger)

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble

"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well."
— Maya Angelou (Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now)

* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot

Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble