"She Is Beautiful" by Bodhi Smith

May 20, 2022

"she Is beautiful" is my brand new impression and blog...
 
"this tree gives me the impression of a girl throwing her hair back into the wind while she is raising her head and arms up to the sun in exultation. and it simply reminds me of her, so beautiful, she is so beautiful" ― bodhin, she is beautiful
 
"anything and everything based on love is beautiful" ― bodhin, beautiful
 
"the beauty is inside us, wherever we go, we take it with us" ― bo syrotiak
 
"let the beauty of what you love be what you do" ― jalaluddin rumi, the essential rumi
 
"outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes" ― paulo coelho, manuscript found in accra
 
"please lift me above the shadows of my negative self-perception. please show me the beauty you have placed in me, and give me faith that it is there" ― marianne williamson, illuminata
 
"there is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning" ― vincent van gogh
 
"you think that you know my heart, and you probably do. that's why i'm always with you, i could stay with you for hours in an empty room and never get bored, never have nothing to do. you're my other half. you're what makes me me, what makes me smile...you're a beautiful thing. we're a beautiful thing together" ― grace vanderwaal, beautiful thing  
  
"this kind of beauty has got no reason to ever be shy. because honey, this kind of beauty is the kind that comes from inside...could you be, could you be, the most beautiful girl in the world? it's plain to see, you're the reason that god made a girl" ― prince, the most beautiful girl in the world 
 
"take a look into the sky, because the world is not so pretty. free myself from worries, so i can see it's just a beautiful day, it's just a beautiful day...you could be sad, but i rather you not be. don't dwell on the negative, just the positivity and it's a beautiful day, it's just a beautiful day" ― ziggy marley, beautiful day 
 
"i have called her beautiful, because it was her moral beauty that at once attracted me. true beauty after all lies in purity of the heart" ― mohandas mahatma gandhi
 
"i experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. i am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream" ― vincent van gogh, dear theo
 
"i hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. i want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty" ― pablo neruda
 
"from the beginning of my life
i have been looking for your face
but today i have seen it

today i have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that i was looking for

today i have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as i did

i am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes

my heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that i now behold

i am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of god
to call it divine

your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
you have breathed new life into me
i have become your sunshine
and also your shadow

my soul is screaming in ecstasy
every fiber of my being
is in love with you

your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant
for me
the earth and sky

my arrow of love
has arrived at the target
i am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer" 
 
"beautiful...so, so beautiful...i can close my eyes, sense her beauty penetrating right into my soul. warming me in eloquence, like a song becoming visual, touching the invisible. i'm wrapped in her spirit, feeling the love, knowing the poem her heart is pulsating into my heart...such a beautiful thing, because she is this beautiful...so, so beautiful" ― bodhin, so beautiful
 
this song, from a six years ago in 2016, it's sung by a young lady who was only 13th at the time then when she won the tv talent show "america's got talent" in 2016...and it's a beautiful song about love, and how that love is a beautiful thing...this song is so romantic, reflecting a new joyful happiness in my world recently discovered....and with its lyrics, it is the perfect accompaniment to connect music with the meaning of my impression and blog today: "beautiful thing" by grace vanderwaal  ... (just click on any of the words in the powder blue links to listen to the tune and watch the video) ...
 
"you think that you know my heart, and you probably do. that's why i'm always with you, i could stay with you for hours in an empty room and never get bored, never have nothing to do. you're my other half. you're what makes me me, what makes me smile. when i fall down and can't get back, get back, get back up on my feet. without you here, i am boring, something inside you is triggering, it makes me myself, makes me funny. you're a beautiful thing. we're a beautiful thing together. even when the weather is low, you're a beautiful thing. we're a beautiful thing together even when the weather is low...we find the rainbow up in the sky. you'd say, "don't you cry, it's all gonna be alright." if we ever go through a fight or war that would be bad, because you know all of my secrets, but i know all of yours. we make hours turn into seconds together. the weight of the world feel like a feather, because we're holding it right in our hands...you're my other half, you're what makes me me - what makes me smile, when i fall down and can't get back up, get back, get back up on my feet...without you here, i am boring, something inside you is triggering, it makes me myself, makes me funny. you're a beautiful thing. we're a beautiful thing together. even when the weather is low, you're a beautiful thing. we're a beautiful thing together, even when the weather is low, you and me together, we'll forget what we have been told. we'll live in our own dream world, you and me, forever. we'll forget what we have been told. we will take on the whole world. without you here, i am boring. something inside you is triggering, it makes me myself, makes me funny. you're a beautiful thing. we're a beautiful thing together, even when the weather is low, and that's a beautiful thing" ― grace vanderwaal, beautiful thing
 
"beautiful...so,
so beautiful...
i can close 
my eyes, sense her 
beauty penetrate right into 
my soul, warming 
me in eloquence, like 
a song becoming 
visual, touching 
the invisible. i'm 
wrapped in 
her spirit, feeling 
the love, knowing 
the poem her heart is 
pulsating into 
my heart...such 
a beautiful thing, because 
she is this 
beautiful...so,
so beautiful" 
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MEANING
"love is the one true law, love is the only constant in this universe. love is god in action, love is the most beautiful thing, and love's beauty is in everything, making life full of love, making life beautiful" ― bodhin, life is beautiful
 
this impression today is very special in meaning for me because my beautiful lady, my love, my girlfriend, the most beautiful girl in the world was right there beside me that morning (so fun) taking pictures with me of this majestically beautiful tree over the hill from her house (so incredible)…this image could never have happened without her, so this image is for her, dedicated to my beloved lady...
 
"beautiful" is defined by merriam-webster as:
1. exciting aesthetic pleasure2. delighting the senses and exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
2. pleasure to the eyes while warming the soul (bodhi definition)
 
this tree gives me the impression of a girl throwing her hair back into the wind while she is raising her head and arms up to the sun in exultation. and it simply reminds me of her, so beautiful, she is so beautiful…
 
possessing both outer and inner beauty is a rare and amazing quality in a person...and she's beautiful both inside and out. she's beautiful on the outside because her beauty emanates and illuminates from the inside...
 
"the beauty is inside us, wherever we go, we take it with us" ― bo syrotiak
 
beautiful...so, so beautiful...i can close my eyes, sense her beauty penetrating right into my soul. warming me in eloquence, like a song becoming visual, touching the invisible. i'm wrapped in her spirit, feeling the love, knowing the poem her heart is pulsating into my heart...such a beautiful thing, because she is this beautiful...so, so beautiful...
 
my beautiful vision of her fits into all the words that are synonyms of beautiful (i could think of 77)...admirable, adorable, aesthetic, alluring, angelic, appealing, arresting, attractive, bella, bewitching, bodacious, bonita, breathtaking, captivating, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delicious, delightful, divine, drop-dead, elegant, enthralling, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fascinating, fine, foxy, glamorous, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, heart-stopping, heavenly, hermosa, hot, ideal, inviting, illuminating, lovely, linda, knockout, magnetic, magnificent, marvelous, mesmeric, nice, pleasing, pretty, precious, preciosa, pulchritudinous, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, rica, sensual, sexy, shapely, slightly, smashing, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, tall cool drink of water, tasty, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, well-formed, wonderful, wow...she is beautiful!
 
"i see my beauty in you, my love, and you help me to fly, because as the sufi poet rumi once said, "only from the heart can you touch the sky" ― bodhi, listening to rumi
 
this is the perfect song, a beyond beautiful song, its from 27 years ago in 1995 (man do these years fly by!), with beautiful and loving lyrics dedicated to the most beautiful girl in the world...read these lyrics slowly, and you will be able to connect this tune to my current feelings and the deeper meaning of this blog and impression today..."the most beautiful girl in the world" by prince ... (just click on any of words in the powder blue links to listen to the song)...
 
"could you be the most beautiful girl in the world? it's plain to see you're the reason that god made a girl. when the day turns into the last day of all time, i can say i hope you are in these arms of mine. and when the night falls before that day, i will cry, i will cry tears of joy because after you, all one can do is die...oh, could you be the most beautiful girl in the world? could you be? it's plain to see you're the reason that god made a girl. oh, yes you are! how can i get through days when i can't get through hours? i can try, but when i do, i see you and i'm devoured, oh yes. who'd allow, who'd allow a face to be soft as a flower? ooh i could bow down and feel proud in the light of this power. oh yes, oh, could you be, could you be, the most beautiful girl in the world? could you be? it's plain to see you're the reason that god made a girl. oh, yes you are. and if the stars ever fell one by one from the sky, i know mars could not be too far behind. because baby, this kind of beauty has got no reason to ever be shy. because honey, this kind of beauty is the kind that comes from inside...could you be, could you be, the most beautiful girl in the world? so beautiful, beautiful. it's plain to see (plain 2 see), you're the reason that god made a girl, oh yeah! oh, yes you are. girl (could you be?), you must be...oh yeah! (could you be?) you're the reason, oh yeah" ― prince, the most beautiful girl in the world 
 
"you are my living path
you are the path of morning dew sparkling on the tips of the green grass...
shining like nature's diamonds...
path of love between two yet one soul
path to the most beautiful things in life
path of creativity that van gogh, dali, and monet understood and tried to find...
path of appreciation of every moment that truly counts...
path to heaven under the glowing stars as we fly through space at 23,000 miles per hour
path of magic...like two birds carry on their wings so gracefully during their flight...
path of passion, sweetest melody of beethoven's and mozart's symphony on high notes and this soulful union...
path of me running towards something real, something spectacular, something i adore...
path to my pot of gold over the my rainbow, my rainbow of love
you are my favorite color
you are my favorite smile
you are my beautiful path
my pure walk through a seventh wonder forest...
i found my eighth world wonder...
i found your eyes in my heart
i found the most beautiful life
i found you in me...
your beauty was always 
living inside me" ― bodhi, beautiful path
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STORY OF THE CALIFORNIA COAST LIVE OAK
"the tree loves me, 
and i love the tree. 
she loves loves the tree, 
and the tree loves her. 
she loves me, 
and i love her
we all love each other, 
we're beautiful harmony" 

pictured here is a california coast live oak tree, possibly 400 years old...she is beautiful and majestic, the true and definite patriarch of this area in mission viejo, california

the california coast live oak tree is a beautiful evergreen oak that grows predominantly west of the central valleys, as far north as mendocino county, and as far south as northern baja california in mexico. this tree typically has a much-branched trunk and reaches a mature height of 35-80 feet. some specimens may attain an age exceeding 400 years old, with trunk diameters up to 10-13 feet. it's form is highly variable, and younger trees are often shrubby. the trunk, particularly for older individuals, may be highly contorted, massive and gnarled with long branches spiraling out parallel to the ground. the crown is broadly rounded and dense, especially when aged 20 to 70 years; in later life the trunk and branches are more well defined and the leaf density lower. the leaves are dark green, oval, often convex in shape, 6-20in long and 3-12in broad; the leaf margin is spiny-toothed, with sharp thistly fibers that extend from the lateral leaf veins. the outer layers of leaves are designed for maximum solar absorption, containing two to three layers of photosynthetic cells...flowers are produced in early-to-mid spring; the male flowers are pendulous catkins 13-30in long, the female flowers inconspicuous, less than 1.5in long, with 1-3 clustered together. the fruit is a slender reddish brown acorn 6-10in long and matures about 7-8 months after pollination (most red oak acorns take 18 months to mature). the california coast live oak amends the soil over time with a build-up of their own fallen leaves, which in turn builds the natural mycorrhizal fungus in the soil they need to thrive. gradually, they become islands of natural fertility that improve the health of the nearby plants. they will attract a variety of birds and butterflies...

the coast live oak is one of the only california native oak tree that actually thrives in the coastal environment, although it is rare on the immediate shore; it enjoys the mild winter and summer climate afforded by ocean proximity, and it is somewhat tolerant of aerosol-borne sea salt. the coastal fog supplies relief from the rainless california summer heat. it is the dominant overstory plant of the coast woodland habitat, often joined by various manzanitas, and western poison-oak. normally the tree is found on well drained soils of coastal hills and plains, usually near year round or perennial streams. it's also often found in rocky hillsides that capture and hold more moisture. while normally found within 60 miles of the pacific ocean at elevations less than 2000ft, in southern California it occasionally occurs at up to 5000 feet in altitude.

"i love you” rolled off
your silky like rose petals lips
your smile
forever etched in my memory
today is your heavenly 88 birthday
and you came to me in my dream
vibrant and happy
what a beautiful birthday gift
to know that you are." ― bo syrotiak
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MORE QUOTES FOR EXTRA MEANING
and here is: "beautiful" by bazzi with camila cabello ... (just click on any of words in the powder blue links to listen to the musical selection) ...
 
"hey beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful angel. love your imperfections, every angle. tomorrow comes and goes before you know, so i just had to let you know. the way that gucci look on you amazing, but nothing can compare to when you're naked. now a backwood and some henny got you faded, saying you're the one for me, i need to face it. started when we were younger. swear to god that i loved her. sorry that your mom found out, guess that we just really had the thunder. ain't nobody else that i'd be under...beautiful, beautiful life right now. beautiful, beautiful night right now. hey, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful angel. love your imperfections, every angle. tomorrow comes and goes before you know, so i just had to let you know, the way that dress fall off you is amazing. love is a miracle, a beautiful creation. baby come a little closer let me taste it. you came a little closer now you're shaking. never ever gonna mislead you. don't believe the lies they feed you. stop and stare like a sculpture. painted in your colors...beautiful, beautiful life right now. beautiful, beautiful night right now. beautiful, beautiful by my side right now, yeah. beautiful, beautiful, beautiful beautiful angel (angel), love your imperfections every angle. tomorrow comes and goes before you know, so i just had to let you know, the way that gucci look on you amazing. but nothing can compare to when you're naked. tomorrow comes and go before you know, so i just had to let you know, i just had to let you know, swear to god you're beautiful" ― bazzi (with camila cabella), beautiful  
 
"help the world to become better. don't leave the world just the same as you have found it...make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful" ― gautama siddhartha buddha, sayings of buddha
 
"if there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. if there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. if there is harmony in the home, there will be order with your neighbors. when there is order with your neighbors, there will peace in the world" ― confucius
 
"when people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. but once you realize everything is beautiful, only beauty exists" ― lao tzu, tao te ching
 
"if you want others to be happy, practice compassion. if you want to be happy, practice compassion...if you want to see beauty, practice compassion. if you want to feel beautiful, practice compassion" ― dalai lama xiv, the art of happiness 
 
"i offer you peace. i offer you love. i offer you friendship. i see your beauty. i hear your need. i feel your feelings...my wisdom flows from the highest source. i salute that source in you" ― mohandas mahatma gandhi
 
"if i adore you out of desire for paradise, lock me out of paradise. but if i adore you for yourself alone, do not deny to me your eternal beauty." ― rabia al basri, ishq-e haqieeqi
 
"it is beautiful that everything alters me, but nothing changes me" ― salvador dali
 
"everyday i discover more and more beautiful things. it’s enough to drive one mad. i have such a desire to paint everything beautiful, my head is bursting with it" ― claude monet
 
"if you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere" ― vincent van gogh, vincent's letters
 
"there is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning" ― vincent van gogh
 
"he's a tree, grounded to the earth, yet reaching for the sky. but he loses hope at times. his faith has been shaken to his roots. he tries to believe in something more and sometimes it’s hard. but he's sifting through the fallen leaves, working through the lessons and crafting new beliefs with his own fingers. he has been struck by lightning and burned to his core. he has been split in two by love and suffered the aftershocks....he's a dancer. and even without a partner, he'll continue to dance and thrive, but it can take time. he needs someone who can meet him equally in the bedroom. he’s not looking to dampen down his desires and swallow his fantasies. he wants someone to dance with him in the fires of ecstasy. he’s looking for a passionate, soul deep sacred union, not just a disconnected quick-fix one-and-done dance...he’s deep, dark and layered. within him beats a kind heart of gold, glowing with love and hope. but with feelings just as deep, he can spend a lot of time dancing with his shadows and moving through the darkness. there are lessons for him here, between the light and the abyss...he does want to be deeply loved, cherished, and adored, but it means that the bar is raised higher on who he'll let dance with his sacred soul and be embraced by the powerful beauty of his love. for his heart is worth it. his love is a once-in-a-lifetime, out of this world, rare and mystical dance to behold and be enfolded by. his heart and his love is one of the most courageous, beautiful, passionate and powerful things you will ever encounter on this planet. true, his dance is not for the faint of heart, but this dance is worth it. he will make every single step and movement count, every moment beautiful, every breath trithful, every heartbeat real, always, this i promise you" ― c. ara campbell (with modifications by bodhi)
 
"i am lost without you. what a hauntingly beautiful thing to say to a person...that whether you are off on another wild adventure or in the familiar quiet comfort of your very own home, you are all the same, enormously lost, whenever you are without them" ― beau taplin, remedy
 
"beautiful. crushingly so. you look like the rest of my life" ― beau taplin, buried light
 
"it was beautiful to live when you lived!" ― pablo neruda, 100 love sonnets
 
"to be creative means to be in love with life. you can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it" ― osho, the secret of secrets
 
"it is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. and they are complementary, not contradictory" ― osho, book of wisdom
 
"go inwards. find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance" ― osho, the responsibility of being oneself
 
"love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. it comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers" ― osho, awareness: the key to living in balance
 
"love is never a relationship; love is relating. it is always a river, beautiful and flowing, unending. love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. it is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. it is an ongoing story, a never-ending phenomenon. lovers end, love continues—it is a continuum. it is a verb, not a noun" ― osho, love, freedom, aloneness
 
"and meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. celebrating yourself; that’s what meditation is all about" ― osho, the hidden splendor   
 
"millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. you go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. the door is the heart" ― osho, the secret of secrets
 
"warriors of light are not perfect. their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn" ― paulo coelho, warrior of the light
 
"magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated...always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible" ― paulo coelho, the alchemist
 
"i love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and i like you better
than everything in the sky" ― e. e. cummings, 100 selected poems
 
"every girl is beautiful. sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it...when i see you, my darling, in the morning before anything else, i know that you are the most beautiful girl in the world" ― nicholas sparks, the notebook
 
"you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place" ― marianne williamson, a return to love

"thank you for this new day, its beauty and its light. thank you for my chance to begin again. free me from the limitations of yesterday. today may i be reborn. may i become more fully a reflection of your radiance. give me strength and compassion and courage and wisdom. show me the light in myself and others. may recognize the beautiful that is everywhere...please lift me above the shadows of my negative self-perception. please deliver me of the chains that keep me bound to a smaller life. please show me the beauty you have placed in me, and give me faith that it is there" ― marianne williamson, illuminata
 
"so every day
i was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of god,
one of which was you" ― mary oliver
 
"our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. but not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. the differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses" ― c. joybell c.   
 
"what lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to the beauty that lies inside of you" ― ralph waldo emerson
 
"take a look into the sky, because the world is not so pretty. free myself from worries, so i can see it's just a beautiful day, it's just a beautiful day...you could be sad, but i rather you not be. don't dwell on the negative, just the positivity and it's a beautiful day, it's just a beautiful day...we're always trying to satisfy these wants and needs. take you some time for that inner peace, when your eyes are open, you'll see things differently. there's so much gloom hiding the reality, it's just a beautiful day. yeah, it's just a beautiful day...take a look into the sky, wake up. take a look into the sky, keep your head up high. take a look into the sky. i take a look into the sky because the world is not so pretty. free myself from worries, so i can see it's just a beautiful day...i could be sad, but you rather me not be. don't dwell on the negative just the positivity, and it's a beautiful day, and it's a beautiful day...we're always trying to satisfy these wants and needs, take you some time for that inner peace. when our eyes are open, we'll see things differently. there's so much gloom hiding the reality, it's just a beautiful day, a beautiful day...take a look into the sky, wake up. take a look into the sky, look in the sky, keep your head up high, it's just a beautiful day. i know it's a beautiful day. it's just a beautiful day. i know it's a beautiful day, no one can take that away. it's just a beautiful day, i know it's a beautiful day. don't you feel no way, it's just a beautiful day" ― ziggy marley, beautiful day 
 
"only from the heart can you touch the sky" ― jalaluddin rumi, a year with rumi  
 
"the beauty you see in me is a reflection of you" ― jalaluddin rumi, the soul of rumi
 
"let the beauty we love be what we do. there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground" ― jalaluddin rumi, the essential rumi
 
"lovers find secret places inside this crazy world where they make loving transactions
 
"true beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a seed and gives colour and scent to a flower" ― jalaluddin rumi, the music and silence of the heart
 
"that which god said to the tree, caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty...that which he said to my heart, made it a hundred times more beautiful" ― jalaluddin rumi, hush don't say anything to god 
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ABOUT THE IMPRESSION
"possessing both outer and inner beauty is a rare and amazing quality in a person...and she's beautiful both inside and out. she's beautiful on the outside because her beauty emanates and illuminates from the inside" ― bodhi, she is beautiful 
 
this impression was captured in a single exposure taken during a calm and windless morning about 45mins after the sunrise in mission viejo, california at 6:51am pst on april 27th, 2022 (f/11@19mm for 111 sec, iso-64)
 
in my photography, i always use filters to create longer exposure effects, saturate colors naturally, and balance the light in my composition in-camera...i often use as many as four filters at time, and i always use at least one filter in my completed impressions...
 
to get the effects and balance i was looking for in this composition (f/11@19mm for 111 secs, iso-64), i used two progreyusa titan filters along with the progrey g-150z holder to secure these filters to my nikon d850 with a nikon nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens ... 
 
first, a 3.0 nd progrey titan filter to bring the light in the image down 10 stops and permit for the 111 second exposure in an overcast scene (with the sun breaking through occasionally) which naturally saturates all the red, green, and blue (rgb) colors in the image...
 
combined with the second filter, a 0.9 gnd progrey titan filter to help balance in-camera overall the image the way i envisioned it...in this case, to stop down an extra 3 stops the much brighter sunlight peeking through into the upper left portions of the image, and help permit fine details in the sand and shadows on the shore in the background (right side) to come out better in the exposure... 
 
i wish to openly thank my sponsors who have always supported me through both the good and bad times...for truly this long exposure impression would not be possible without the use of my induro phq3 series 5-way panhead with the induro (now benro) stealth carbon fiber tripod in combination with the progreyusa filters which i use with every photo i take...
 
"you were blessed with 84,600 seconds today, have you used one of them to say thank you?" ― bodhi, blessed
"if nothing else...if i open my eyes, if i hope, if i cry, if i think, if i sigh, if i giggle, if i dance, if i love, if i breathe, then i have lived a full days worth of life...nothing is wasted, nothing" ― bodhi, if nothing else
"i do not want you to just be into my photography, instead, i'd much rather you take a journey into my pictures, and feel the impression i have created, feel it with all your senses" ― bodhi, into my photography
"my photography is my way of keeping a diary" ― bodhi, my diary  
"contemplate without thinking. be certain only in your uncertainty, content to be completely incomplete. stop the rush. slow down time. breathe and notice. slow down everything. let it all be. shut off the noise. hush. relax. seize this higher moment. reconnect. feel and sense what surrounds you. listen to all the colours of light whisper as they envelope you. see the melody and harmony that float about unnoticed. taste the solitude of all this wonderment. smell the beautiful silence. now discover your peaceful serenity. then, reach out and touch your faith with all your senses. this is my world. awaken!" ― bodhi, my world
 
i leave you today wishing that bright joy 
and spiritual peace fill your life...
imploring you to make every moment count, 
no matter what, always and forever, 
for that is the only thing that truly matters...   
 
and above all else,
i hope this message and impression find you well.
 
namaste,
bodhi
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