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Low shutter speed (1 , 3 or 8 sec)
Captures Movement & Artistic
Higher shutter Speed (1/800)
Used to capture a moment, sports photography or a rain drop
Aperture (F STOP)
Lower the F STOP - Blurrier Background
(1.4 is beautiful)
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Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: “You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
From Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
“The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world,” says an old Buddhist teaching.
From Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, “There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who’s in charge?” Everything else is somehow manageable.
From Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Remember that an expectation is a resentment waiting to happen. Good communication is the key to absolutely everything
Advice
There’s a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint, begging, “Dear saint—please, please, please…give me the grace to win the lottery.” This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue comes to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust, “My son—please, please, please…buy a ticket.”
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Sri Ramana Maharshi, a beloved Indian Guru, used to give long talks on the transcendental experience to his pupils and then always wrap it up with this instruction: “Now go find out.
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm. More contemporarily, the Dalai Lama has repeated the same idea, assuring his Western students repeatedly that they needn’t become Tibetan Buddhists in order to be his pupils. He welcomes them to take whatever ideas they like out of Tibetan Buddhism and integrate these ideas into their own religious practices. Even in the most unlikely and conservative of places, you can find sometimes this glimmering idea that God might be bigger than our limited religious doctrines have taught us.
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only one.
Facts