My favorite of all the spider web shots I've taken , if I could have a necklace made to look like this I would do it in a heartbeat and it would be an amazing gift.
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Here is one of the most popular single malt scotches in America, a great place to start if you have never tried scotch. Include the Macallen 10 Year in there and you have yourself a good base point.
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Hengki Koentjoro is a magnificent photographer that was introduced to me by the also amazing Trey Ratcliff. He focuses on black and white images with striking contrast and dramatic views, they are the type of thing I can just stare at and lose myself in. Take a look at his portfolio here on his website and if you have Google+ then you can see a lot more of his images in a larger size here.
Strait from Hengki Koentjoro's Google plus streamNow Playing: NPR - Fresh Air 25th anniversary episode
The journey is as good as the destination.
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A great smokey Highland single malt, give it a try if you get a chance as it is good to the last drop.
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Here is where you relax and watch the fairies.
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It's surprising this little guy could still fly with so much pollen on his legs. I was sitting there watching him and wondering when he would say "well... I guess that's enough for one trip."
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Do you think frogs miss being fish?
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These times are none, there is a rage inside that bursts with light.
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We all are variations of each other.
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If you look really closely, you might find you don't care.
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Your texture is all around.
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This little web is as if you hold your index finger and thumb up separate to space something out in front of you. This thought takes a good imagination to many places, my first stop being "What if a person died in a flash making that pose with their hands and time has reduced them to bones where a spider has decided to make it's home." What do you see?
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The sun will come to greet you in the morning as long as it's in the mood, if not then beware as that one set of mind can change whether or not you are allowed to grow.
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Why aren't spiders cute like they used to be? Anyone remember Charlotte from "Charlotte's Web" or Miss Muffit who had a spider sit down with her? Spiders are still cute, their webs are still beautiful, end of story.
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These birds reminded me of the vultures in the Disney film Jungle Book, constantly flying around from tree to tree like they couldn't decide where to go or what to do. There conversation had to go something like this.
"What we gonna do?"
"I dunno whatcha wanna do?"
"So what we gonna do?"
"I dunno whatcha wanna do?"
"How 'bout we fly to that tree over there?"
"Sounds good."
Repeat Ad infinitum
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This plant seems to hold so many analogies that I am endlessly fascinated with photographing it from different angles and depths, it seems each time I see a different story portrayed in the "arms" of the buds or the unnatural color of the plant itself. This one seems to reveal a childhood, an urge to grow and change and the little bud in the middle/bottom/left of the image seems to be using it's arms to crawl up the stalk of the other.
We are pulling at our neighbors legs, straining for the light we see them in only to realize that once we reach it the weather is there too.
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This image reminds me of a few lines from one of my favorite songs.
"It's time to take real flight
on a dark desert road
or a middle sized fake show you lead me to. (its so dark in there)
well right away great captain
I'll surely leave everything
damn it I love it
but god you mean more to me
than any three hole punched fake scripture could come from me
just know that I love you
but love's such a simile"
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If the fog were acid then this is the hand of Gaia reaching out into it to save her child, the sky.
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So many people are frightened of spiders but I still can't quite figure out why. It's like this built in fear from childhood that we can't quite explain or articulate but we also cannot rationalize it away. Their webs are so beautiful and tactics so effective that they really are amazing to observe, I guess I don't really have a point with all of this, it's more just observations but I'm curious to discuss it as well.
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