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My style of Photography: "No Filters, No Computers, Simply God's Lights." - Michael Fatali

"I prefer only natural light, without using
color filters and computers to create
my photographs.
To express these visions of natural
phenomena
requires great persistence and patience
for the glory coming to fruition."
- Michael Fatali
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere.
The pessimist sees only the red light.
But the truly wise person is colour blind. - Albert Schweitzer.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take
But
the Places and Moments that take our breath away.

- Anonymous.

"What we do during our working hours determines what we have;
What we do in our leisure hours determines what we are."

- George Eastman

Dance, while you can,
It's an unique spiritual rhythmical journey . - Jef

Life is fragile
Life is short
Life is precious
Travel while you still can walk... - Jef

"We do not inherit the earth from our
ancestors: we borrow it from our children"
from the Haida Indian (Canada)

The world is a wonderful place if you don't watch CNN.
Louis Armstrong was right-what a wonderful world.
You've to do it at the right time,
before you're too old,
before your health goes.
There are lots of other trips out there
that I am going to be doing; life is good.

- Jef

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Simple Things.

Bring me a rose in Winter, or a bird that sweetly sings,
Think not the simplest thing too small,
Love thrives on little things.
Show me a sunset,
Standing close by my side and tell Whether your day went well or ill...

- Anonymous

Borneo - Land Below the Wind( Negri Di-Bawa Angin).

My childhood
And the Land of My Birth
Two lost in the distant shore
Where my soul is longing for.

- Jef

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. "

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The brain may take advice,
but not the heart, and love,
having no geography,
having no boundaries.

- Truman Capote.

Young, restless was she
Like a willow she caressed the wind
And as crystal autumn mornings
Fade into dusty afternoons
She passed my way
And was gone again.
Gone are the days when you and I would lay together
Oh, how the times would roll!
But soon, much too soon summertime had come
And bound separate ways...
You know that I can make you no promises
But when I sing of rivers and the highways in the rain
My thoughts will drift always back to you...

- Anonymous

These days will be remembered...
Though they pass and run too soon
But deep down inside where the special feelings ride,
We'll call them our gentle afternoon.

- J. St. J.
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"Three Came Home"
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Agnes Newton Keith, Japanese prisoner
of World War II on the Island of Borneo.

. We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war
is always the story of hate; it makes no difference
with whom one fights. The hate destroys you
spiritually as the fighting destroys you bodily.
If there are tears shed here, they are for the death
of good feeling.
If there is horror, it is for those who speak
indiferently of "the next war".
If there is hate, it is hateful qualities, not nations.
If there is love, it is because this alone kept me
alive and sane.
. It is better to give more and to have less - and to
keep the peace - than to fight.
. Hate is worth neither living or dying for.
. We in prison were now mistreated ones yet it would be
only a matter of time, and the turn of the tide,
before we would be abusers, and our captors the abused,
because we had in ourselves the same
instincts for brutality. War evoked and exalted this
instincts. It was war that we must hate, and not each
other.

Here Today
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Malam ini merendang jagong, To-night the maize for roasting set;

Malam esok merendang serai. Tomorrow it is lemon grass.

Malam ini kita berkampong Tonight we are together met;

Malam esok kita bercherai. Tomorrow on our ways we pass.

Meetings In Store
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Dari mana hendak ka-mana? Whence are you and where away?

Tinggi rumput dari padi. Grass is taller than the grain.

Tahun mana bulan yang mana, When will be the year and day

Hendak kita berjumpa lagi? That we shall meet again.

Lifelong Gratitude
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Pisang emas bawa belayar, With golden plantain sail away,

Masak sa-biji di-atas peti. Whilst on a chest lies one that's ripe.

Hutang emas dapat di-bayar, The debts of gold we can repay;

Hutang budi di-bawa mati. But debts of kindness last through life.

****** Bette Midler's version is better.

There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more

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National Geographic fantastic picture.