Uploads from Nagatobimaru, tagged nikon

This day is for us [explore]

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sun, 12 May 2013 02:07:56 -0700

"Kono atari
me ni miyuru mono wa
mina suzushi."

- Matsuo Bashou

to the one who knows: cheer up! ^^
to you this picture is dedicated.

Search Your Light

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 05:36:10 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"How small of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
Our own felicity we make or find.
With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy."

- Samuel Johnson

(Quanto piccola, fra tutto ciò che i cuori degl'uomini sopportano,
è la parte che leggi e sovrani possono infliggere o curare!
Eppure sta a noi, nel posto che c'è assegnato,
poter la nostra felicità trovare o fare.
Nel suo segreto percorso, che nessuna tempesta può turbare,
Scorre placidamente la corrente dell'intima gioia.)

Il Presagio della Notte - (Night's omen) [explore]

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:02:30 -0800

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed è subito sera."

- S. Quasimodo, Acque e Terre, 1930

(Everyone stands alone at the heart of the earth
pierced by a ray of sunlight:
and suddenly it is evening.")

A Small Sky

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:43:45 -0800

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

playing with reflections like this for me is true desperation: nature's still dead, and I have nothing to shoot at. I'm awaiting for crocuses to bloom...^^
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poiché non trovo nulla da fotografare, mi riduco a giocare coi riflessi nelle gocce di rugiada... patetico, eh?
sigh... ma quando arrivano i crochi! uffa!

Boundary

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:38:58 -0800

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

An unespected meeting

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:49:33 -0800

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

Lonesome, and cold

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:05:11 -0800

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"Alone! that worn-out word, so idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known of hopes laid waste, knells in that word--Alone.

- Edward Robert Bulwer lord Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Silence [explore]

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 06:23:19 -0800

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"There are some qualities- some incorporate things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
There is a two-fold Silence- sea and shore-
Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places,
Newly with grass o'ergrown; some solemn graces,
Some human memories and tearful lore,
Render him terrorless: his name's «No More»."

- Edgar A. Poe, Silence

Gloomy Day [explore]

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:36:10 -0800

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

from my window

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:27:46 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

October 21, 8.20 am
...with a cup of tea and this I started the day...

the Greatest Power

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:25:17 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"Those who fear the Darkness have never seen what the Light can do."
(Coloro che temono la Tenebra, non hanno visto ciò di cui é capace la Luce.)

Sad Mood [explore]

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:09:23 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind."
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("ho calcolato tutto, valutato ogni cosa,
e gl'anni a venire m'apparvero spreco di fiato,
e spreco di fiato gl'anni del passato.")

- William B. Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

Not like all others are [explore]

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:18:50 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate."

- W. Shakespeare, Sonnets, XXIX

Alone, while the world lives

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:17:41 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

if you want to listen, this is five minutes long, and they're five minutes well spent, I think.
S. Bacarisse - Guitar Concerto, 2nd movement; romanza (andante)

Salutation of Dawn [explore]

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:48:24 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"Listen to the exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
In its brief course lie all the varieties
and realities of your existence;
the Bliss of Growth,
the Glory of Action,
the Splendor of Beauty;
for Yesterday is but a dream,
and Tomorrow is only a vision;
but Today well lived
makes every yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
and every tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of Dawn."

- unknown

A Thorny Character

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:06:40 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"With more capacity for love than earth
Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,
His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth,
And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.

- George Gordon lord Byron, Lara, canto I, st. 18

Patience is my weapon

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:05:23 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

Truth to be said, I greatly dislike spiders: they all are hideous in my eyes. However, I believe that even from them I can learn: their patience is endless.
Note: I am aware that that leaf out of focus in front of the viewer spoils the entire photo - but in no way I could force myself to get closer to the spider: I took the photo as it was, and the hell with the leaf! ^^
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Davvero, i ragni non mi piacciono. orrendi, orrendi. Ma perfino da loro mi sembra ch'io possa imparare: la loro pazienza è infinita.
Una nota: é un fatto che la foglia sfocata in primo piano sciupi molto la foto. Ma d'avvicinarmi al ragnaccio per spostarla non m'è venuto neppure in mente. mi fan già schifo da lontano! ho pensato: al diavolo la foglia! ^^

Tranquility [explore]

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:53:42 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

Still Drops

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:49:37 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

the Golden Hour

nobody@flickr.com (Nagatobimaru) — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:25:07 -0700

Nagatobimaru posted a photo:

"I saw myself the lambent easy light
gild the brown horror, and dispel the night."

- John Dryden, Hind and Panther, pt. II, l. 1,230