Elina Astra

meaning and morality...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:04:25 +0300

Meaning and morality of One’s life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Photographer- Sarah Kjellere

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:04:00 +0300

Photographer- Sarah Kjellere

Photographer - David Terrazas

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:03:00 +0300

Photographer - David Terrazas

Photographer - h2o

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:02:00 +0300

Photographer - h2o

In the wave-strike...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:58:36 +0300

In the wave-strike over unquiet stones
the brightness bursts and bears the rose
and the ring of water contracts to a cluster
to one drop of azure brine that falls.
O magnolia radiance breaking in spume,
magnetic voyager whose death flowers
and returns, eternal, to being and nothingness:
shattered brine, dazzling leap of the ocean.
Merged, you and I, my love, seal the silence
while the sea destroys its continual forms,
collapses its turrets of wildness and whiteness,
because in the weft of those unseen garments
of headlong water, and perpetual sand,
we bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

Pablo Neruda

Shirley Bassey - Where Do I Begin (Love Story)

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:57:26 +0300

Shirley Bassey - Where Do I Begin (Love Story)

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:55:00 +0300

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff, 1964

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:54:00 +0300

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff, 1964

smoke

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:53:22 +0300

Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and messenger of dawn
Circling above the hamlets as they nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

Henry David Thoreau

Photographer - Eliara

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:52:00 +0300

Photographer - Eliara

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff, 1959

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:49:00 +0300

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff, 1959

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:48:00 +0300

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff

"I am not jealous of what came before me."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:47:16 +0300

“I am not jealous
of what came before me.”

- Pablo Neruda

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff, 1969

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:46:00 +0300

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff, 1969

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:45:00 +0300

Photographer - Jeanloup Sieff

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have,..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:18:50 +0300

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”

- William Shakespeare

Photographers - Mert & Marcus

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:16:00 +0300

Photographers - Mert & Marcus

Photographer - Betina La Plante

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:15:00 +0300

Photographer - Betina La Plante

the strong shore is..

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:14:45 +0300

The strong shore is my beloved
And I am his sweetheart.
We are at last united by love, and
Then the moon draws me from him.
I go to him in haste and depart
Reluctantly, with many
Little farewells.

I steal swiftly from behind the
Blue horizon to cast the silver of
My foam upon the gold of his sand, and
We blend in melted brilliance.

I quench his thirst and submerge his
Heart; he softens my voice and subdues
My temper.
At dawn I recite the rules of love upon
His ears, and he embraces me longingly.

_ _ _

Khalil Gibran

Excerpt from ‘Song of the Wave’

Photographer - Sasha Larina

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:13:00 +0300

Photographer - Sasha Larina