The world did not end today as scheduled by doomsday interpreters of the Mayan calendar. And so, WordPress says:
“Surprise. There was talk of some sort of apocalypse today, but so far, so good. Big surprise! In honor of the world continuing, show me some surprises! xxx.”
The major religions speak of an end of days, or hold that there is an end to everything [the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas (Vedic scriptures)], except that the Buddhist texts put it this way: there is no beginning or end but infinite repeated births, changing from one form to another.
Here is my entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge: End of the World, este, er, Surprise.
A sunny day of apple-picking. J, L, Z, and Ztwo in an apple orchard, with more than a hundred trees heavily laden with luscious fruits all for the picking.
Surprise. They pick only a bagful, only what will sustain them for a week.
The world will continue.
But if we consume and burn the planet the way we do, Z’s granddaughter — and your great grandchildren — might face long-drawn floods, then long-drawn droughts.
They will reap what we sow, and it might not be apples.
Hopefully, we keep learning everyday, and finding better ways to live without destroying what gives us life. Surprise.
And that’s my post for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise.
(Photo by Myra Lambino, apple-picking on a Saturday just a couple of months ago, Oak Glen, Yucaipa, San Bernardino Country about 80 miles from Los Angeles.)
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Photo by Myra Lambino on Tondol Beach, Anda, Pangasinan (north of Manila), Philippines
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This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is: Reflection, that is, literally, reflection — a reflected image on a mirror, water, or any shimmering surface. Here’s the WordPress write-up of the theme and their sample photo (hope the blog did it justice with the photo above, shot by Myra Lambino in Tondol Beach.)
From WordPress: “This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by Jared Bramblett. xxx
“Reflections. This challenge is about using reflections in the composition of a shot. Reflections are all around us, whether they’re in a window, a puddle, a mirror, or another surface. They can dramatically affect the feeling and mood of a shot by creating a surreal sense of duality. Think of a city reflecting in a river, a crowd of people reflecting in the glass pane of a building, or — as in the shot I’ve chosen above — a landscape altered by the placement of a simple glass mirror.
“The image I’ve selected for this challenge was shot on a dock at a local park. I utilized a simple 12″x12″ mirror to enhance the depth created by the dock’s railings. The limiting size and placement of the mirror creates incomplete symmetry and forces my mind to try and complete and see more of the symmetry than is actually there.
“I challenge you to head out and create an image that uses reflections to force the viewer to question and interpret the reality of the shot.”
