Photography: "California Sunsets"

"California Sunsets"

by Karin Lisa Atkinson 

Location: Venice Beach / Los Angeles / Santa Barbara California

Camera: Sony DSC-RX 100 (pocket camera)

 Conditions: Night ambient light, Autumn, no flash, no tripod

Take only what you need.

Take only what is given to you.

+PRIDE IN PEACE, PRIDE IN BEING PEACE FULL

Photographs: "The Road to Santiago de Compostela and Fisterra the Ends of the Earth"

"The Way", "The Road to Santiago and the Ends of the Earth"

"Camino De Santiago de Compostela and El Camino a Fisterra y Muxia"

by Karin Lisa Atkinson

Location: Spain's Santiago de Compostela, Fisterra, Muxia, Sanxenxo and Vigo

Camera: Canon Powershot (pocket camera)

Conditions: Summer, various weather and dawn/day/dusk

Poem: "The Sum Of Our Whole" 

by Karin Lisa Atkinson

"For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, 

on any path that may have heart, 

and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--

and there I travel looking, 

looking breathlessly." 

~ Carlos Castaneda

"We must never stop dreaming. 

Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, 

just as a meal does for the body. 

Many times in our lives 

we see our dreams shattered 

and our desires frustrated, 

but we have to continue dreaming. 

If we don't, our soul dies, 

and agape cannot reach it." 

~ Paulo Coelho,

Photographs: California #afterburn - Burning Man Street Party @ The Venice Art Crawl

" #afterburn "

by Karin Lisa Atkinson 

Location: Venice Beach / Los Angeles California

Camera: Sony DSC-RX 100 (pocket camera)

 Conditions: Night ambient light, no flash, no tripod

 The Venice Art Crawl

"I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence: 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - 

I took the one less traveled by, 

And that has made all the difference. "

~ Robert Frost

"Out of the night that covers me, 

Black as the pit from pole to pole, 

I thank whatever gods may be 

For my unconquerable soul. 

In the fell clutch of circumstance 

I have not winced nor cried aloud. 

Under the bludgeonings of chance 

My head is bloody, but unbowed. 

Beyond this place of wrath and tears 

Looms but the Horror of the shade, 

And yet the menace of the years 

Finds and shall find me unafraid. 

It matters not how strait the gate, 

How charged with punishments the scroll, 

I am the master of my fate, 

I am the captain of my soul."

~ by William Ernest Henley

VISUALISATION + IMAGINATION

+ PEACE