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Ode to Nature


Ode to Nature
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Copyright: Danos kounenis (danos) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3099 W: 83 N: 4508] (16823)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-05-04
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon EOS 5 D, Canon 24-105 mm L IS USM, B+W 82mm Circular Polarizing
Exposure: f/8, 1/350 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-05-11 10:04
Viewed: 595
Points: 140
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Ode to Nature's God

An Ode to Nature's God

by Raymond Fontaine, Ph.D. - July 2007

Admiring the beauty of a tree

The poet Joyce Kilmer concluded

That "only God can make a tree".

Likewise while contemplating

The laws and designs in Nature,

The scientist Albert Einstein reasoned

That they required Supreme Intelligence.

The world would have liked

More lines from Kilmer and Einstein

About nature's tree and "Nature's God".

But as John Keats said in his poem

Ode on a Grecian Urn: "Beauty is truth,

Truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth;

And all ye need to know."

Ditto for our knowledge about Nature's God.

That's all we know on earth

And all we need to know.


Ode#2 to Nature's God

by Raymond Fontaine, Ph.D. July 15, 2007

Since nothing comes from nothing,

Nature's designs must come from some Being.

These designs are observed by human intelligence

But they were originated by Supreme Intelligence,

So says Albert Einstein, the great scientist.

Nature's Designer is rightly called Nature's God.

Nature's designs reveal solely His existence

But naught about His superhuman nature.

What He looks like and where He is

Are beyond the grasp of human intellect.

But they become fodder for human imagination.

For centuries, various groups of humans, such as

The Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims,

Imagined and claimed diverse revelations from God.

Each group had its own dogmas, Holy Books and rituals.

These differences led to endless enmities - even wars.

One still rages in the Mid-east endangering the world.

Observing Nature's laws and designs, Albert Einstein said:

"I stand in awe before Supreme Intelligence.

That is my simple and total religiosity".

If all humans would share Einstein's wisdom,

Religious differences, including their wars, would cease.

Peace would reign worldwide under Nature's God.

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  • parbo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1557 W: 15 N: 1713] (6314)
  • [2008-05-11 10:29]

Hi Danos,

Your frame full with meaningful details when read ode's completely. Excellent composition and framing. Thanks for sharing one of your selected photos from your personal collection. Congratulations, have a nice week.

Friendly Regards,

Ertugrul

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  • ifanik Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1461 W: 52 N: 2312] (12966)
  • [2008-05-11 10:30]

Kai apo to makrino Laos ston ellhniko galano oyrano kai thn ellhnikh fysh
Omorfh foto me entiposiakh gwnia lipsis
Xairetw
Nikos

Hi Danos
wellcome to back Greece)
wonderful spring shot with beautiful colours and lighting
compliments

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  • atus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2278 W: 200 N: 4321] (14508)
  • [2008-05-11 11:14]

Hi Danos,
a simple but very pleasant shot. Thanks to the low pov the plants are very well framed, with the excellent bg. of the blue sky. Well done, my friend!
Best wishes.
Attila

Hi Danos,
Beautiful shot with attractive composition and the details are very fine. The colours and lights are excellent, Great! Have a nice evening
George

Geia sou Dano
Apli kai empneysmeni i anoiksiatiki fwto sou. Yperoxos galazios ouranos pisw apo tin anagennimeni fysi.
Eyxaristoyme gia tin paroysiasi
Xristos

Hej Danos,
Its a fine sector/colour composition. Good freaming and a fine blue sky added with thoughtful words.
Hälsningar
/Stefan

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  • Jakab Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 306 W: 108 N: 530] (1525)
  • [2008-05-11 15:05]

Hello Danos,
hm, quite unusual comment to a nice and well detailled picture of reeds - but not far from my thoughts being a chemical scientist from education.
Best whishes
Laszlo

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  • dip Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1698 W: 0 N: 803] (8013)
  • [2008-05-11 15:11]

Geia sou Dano,
mia fotografia pou tha mporouse na einai kai pinakas zografikis,
yperoxa xromata kai katapliktiko kadrarisma,
xaireto,
Dimitris.

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  • bigtim Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 525 W: 68 N: 232] (3052)
  • [2008-05-11 15:35]

Un cadrage original et de toute beauté, je trouve que cette photo a beaucoup de force!
tiM

Hi Danos. Beautiful photo. I love the colours and the way they contrast, warm on cool. Well composed with good balance to the colours and patterns. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.

Hello Danos,
This is a nice close-up with wonderful details!
I like how the straws are exposed against the blue sky, and the diagonal composition works well...
A fine colour palette!
Greetings,
Pablo -

:-) OK-

Hey Danos,

Ahh, back to Greece. The home-country.

A beautiful detail photo, with lots of details, nice colors and a fine perspective. Had to get on your knees, didn`t you. That`s always rewarding. :)

Regards

Hi Danos,

it's attractive and well composed. I also like the technical quality which means excellent colors, lights and exposure. Thank you for sharing this work. Well done!
Regards,
Carlos

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  • Vames Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 517 W: 0 N: 331] (2705)
  • [2008-05-12 5:27]

γεια σου Δάνο,καλή θέση λήψης ,ωραίες καλαμιές ενδιαφέρον θα έλεγα στη κορυφή τους ειδικά και πολύ λεπτές!

Danos,
So natural and so beautiful, You captured and make such simple subject interesting and artistic. Great detail with perfect sharpness. Good composition. Light and colors are perfectly saturated and contrast. Thanks, my friend.
Way

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  • clio Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1237 W: 140 N: 1878] (8617)
  • [2008-05-12 9:36]

Geia sou Dano
Magnificent image. What of more beautiful on earth than these extraordinary moments which the nature offers us if we know how to look at them.
Excellent POV, with this low angle shot. The frame is completed.
Bravo
Diane

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  • carper Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 9292 W: 445 N: 14616] (51323)
  • [2008-05-12 10:10]

very orginal shot Danos,
good pov, interesting composition wirh good details and a fine contrast, very good photojob here, have a nice evening.
gr. jaap

Hi Danos.
I like this picture a lot.
I like the sharpness and the vivid colors.
A beautiful vernal shot.
Well done.
Best regards.
Bobo.

Hi Danos,
Very nice ode to nature, simple but well composed, well done.
Regards

Simple compositions are often the best. Your extreme low POV works perfectly to place the grass heads against the sky. Well done
Kath

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  • lousat Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 687 W: 12 N: 541] (4094)
  • [2008-05-12 16:54]

Hi Danos,i haven't words to comment a bautifull work like that, a perfect marriage between the pic and the note,just my best compliments and thanks for share,Luciano

Hello Danos,
Excellent composition and a impressive notes that goes side by side!
beautiful colour contrast and well balanced image of every thing in it
very well done and many thanks for the sharing
friend Tony

i have a similar shot in my gallery, an old one with deniz (rigoletto) in it... looks very nice dano, with the simple composition and the vivid colours... the note rules also...

ta leme

korkut

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  • flory Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 847 W: 23 N: 984] (4537)
  • [2008-05-12 22:19]

dear Danos,
soft,good light,symbiosis with nature..;)
and how much the technology will include us,how much we will forgot this communication.
like it very much this change of style,if can say so..:)
best wishes,
Flori:)

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  • siolaw Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3778 W: 393 N: 6182] (21176)
  • [2008-05-13 0:09]

Geia sou Danos,
Nice framing and fine colors with just enough sky.
Sharp and clean piture
Ta leme
Laurent

Hi dear Danos
Fantastic the contrast between the three main colours in this beautiful composition. Simple but very nice. I like how you framed it
Have a nice day
Aires

Kalimera Danos,
Superb İmage with wonderful colours and lighting the diagonal composition works well.
Excellent!
TFS/Regards

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  • ChrisJ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 8645 W: 911 N: 11402] (55258)
  • [2008-05-13 1:11]

Hi Danos

A marvellous juxtapositioning, between the blue sky & yellow flowers. Good repetition of the blooms, & superb sharpness & lighting. Tfs!

Yasu Danos,
The low pov with the good sharpness and the well defined colors, the green and the beautiful blue make this photo a pleasure to look at.
Se xereto. Salvator.

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  • stego Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3422 W: 580 N: 4435] (13554)
  • [2008-05-13 3:06]

Γειά σου Danos,
Simple and beautiful photo. It's just a detail and the image would still be great without it, but I like very much those little pink flowers in the middle of all that tall grass.
Χαιρετισμούς, José

Kalimera Danos,
nice combination of art with the two Odes and the capture of nature. Strong and colourful impression of nothing else mas nature with a good low POV.
Lieben Gruss, Ulf

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  • paura Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 3784 W: 8 N: 2498] (20008)
  • [2008-05-13 5:17]

Danos,
The composition is really great to show all this beauties. Colos are also a very nice point.

regards

Paulo

hi Danos

Low angle shot to show the stalks to a backdrop of blue sky, and bright sunlight giving this a good cheerful mood. I like the Note.

tfs, bill

Hello Danos,

Simple, et très bau !
Magnifique image.
Bonne journée
Marie

Γεια σου δΆΝΟ

Καταπληκτικό κάδρο με υπέροχα ανοιξιάτικα χρώματα!!

Μαρίνα

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  • Fis2 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2341 W: 137 N: 1352] (30848)
  • [2008-05-13 13:09]

Hej Danos!
Your photo is nicely. Good frame, colors and light. Well done.
Regards
Krzysztof

Γεια σου Δανο,
Υπεροχη συνθεση με υπεροχο μηνυμα.
Σε χαιρετω,
Γιωργος

Hi Danos.

Nice POV showing us the beauty of the nature. The note, with that odes is excellent too!

Rgs, Oscar

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  • Stepan Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4852 W: 93 N: 3787] (24722)
  • [2008-05-13 23:10]

All is in the title... And I do respect and appreciate that...
Nothing else to say, just enjoy the sensations...
Lovely...
Stéphane

Beautiful nature scene, well framed and full of light and colors. I like the low POV.\

TFS,
Andreea

Hi Danos
Nice capture, lovely colours. Interesting note :).
Have a nice day.

A simple but effective shot, sharp, colourful, well taken.
Best wishes
Mark

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  • dbar Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 50 W: 4 N: 60] (476)
  • [2008-05-14 9:58]
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Γεια σου Δάνο,

Αν και σαν θέμα πρόκειται για κάτι απλό, εντούτοις δημιουργεί συναισθήματα θετικά όπως εξάλλου και η ίδια η άνοιξη. Όμορφα χρώματα...

Δημήτρης

Danos,
A nice POV from under the colorful plants.
I like a lot colors and contrasts here, nice post,
Regards,
JB.

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  • zmey Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1098 W: 72 N: 1063] (4145)
  • [2008-05-14 11:06]

kalispera danos

simple, but very nice. never dying value of the nature's beauty, so to say... i find that this is one of the rare situations where i like the effect of the digital frame.

warm regards,
kristaps

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  • Cricri Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4185 W: 226 N: 5635] (27404)
  • [2008-05-14 11:41]

Hi Danos,
Belle image printaniére aux couleurs qui sont toujours bien agréable de regarder, deux sourires aussi pour la note
Have a nice evening for you
cricri

Hi Danos,

Really a picture that inspires for some reflection about life.
I’m always puzzled by the supreme intelligence that created the supreme intelligence that created us, but I must admit that I awe before the endless movement of matter and antimatter that seeks for perpetual balance and made the life possible, we are living and observing.

Groet Rob

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  • Truja Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 676 W: 94 N: 1455] (4926)
  • [2008-05-14 23:50]

Hi Danos,
a creative and artistic photography, is wonderful. You present a full image of life and emotion to us that transmits good vibrations and great chromatic force.
The Ode to nature are words beautiful and sensible, I congratulate Danos to you.
The presentation of the photo is impeccable and elegant!

With best regards,

Jordi

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  • jorgi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 724 W: 122 N: 490] (2229)
  • [2008-05-15 0:55]

Hi Danos,

the highest beauty usually hides in simplest things. And this is the greatest quality of your capture. Three layers of colours, green, yellow and blue speak of one thing only: nature waking up in all spring glory. So optimistic, so vivid and full of life, all coming from this shot. Accompanied with wonderful words from your note rounds up this capture in perfect gift for all of us who appreaciate the beauty of life.

Kind regards,
Jeri

Very attractive shot. Absolute fabulous view to the nature. Wonderful composition, beautiful colours and POV.
Best wishes,
Achim

Dear Danos
Everybody said everything I see. I can say just a great masterpiece and fantastic. Just great work. Mu aresi poli ihsan

Hi Danos,
Excellent job with beautiful photo, wonderful colors and composition,well done,
Georg

Γειάσου Δάνο,
ταιριαστός ο τίτλος στην φωτογραφία που η γωνία λήψης την κάνει υπέροχη με τον γαλάζιο φόντο στις κίτρινες κορυφές.
Βαγγέλης

Hi Danos,
Impressive odes in your note to accompany this beautiful spring scene, flood of life and of color for these green plants and the flowers of nice golden tones, which are outlined elegantly on a blue splendid sky.
Simple and very aesthetic, it is a great photo.
Friendly regards,
Josep

Hi Danos,
Well taken with an interesting angle to have grass on the blue sky, good idea with your title ... but a very big white frame, euh !

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  • crckt Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1324 W: 68 N: 1244] (6329)
  • [2008-05-15 15:57]

Hi Danos,
I like the three distinct layers of color here. The low POV works very well here.
Well done,
Shaeri

Hi Danos,
I never thought weeds look beautiful ... you've converted something very common to something of beauty. I like your POV here ... the banding of colors and repeating patterns is visually very appealing. Good image and color quality. Well captured and composed. Excellent work! tfs
Cheers,
Renier

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  • clnaef Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 874 W: 77 N: 384] (5623)
  • [2008-05-15 22:39]

Bonjour,
Intéressant angle de vue.
Bonne journée.
clnaef

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  • Graal Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4605 W: 119 N: 429] (40469)
  • [2008-05-16 0:13]

Hi Danos,
simple theme and beautiful finally effect. Nice reportage from nature. Good colours and POV. I like it.
Gr., Aleksander

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  • delkoo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3667 W: 226 N: 4708] (23219)
  • [2008-05-16 0:32]

hi danos
Well composed in wonderful light. Your POV is well chosen and there is beautiful colors.
ta leme
didier

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  • Charo Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2147 W: 14 N: 3965] (15668)
  • [2008-05-16 2:39]

Hello Danos,
Beautiful capture from a low point of view that does that these simple grasses stand out against the sky.
Excellent colors and details.
Cordial
Charo

Hello Danos. Reed, blue sky. An interesting motive. Actually only little is to be seen. That gives area for our fantasy. The ideal condition for a poem. Very beautifully. Best regards, Wolfgang.

Excellent composition on blue sky.
This is a great shot with creative PoV.
Well done.

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  • gunbud Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 4064 W: 3 N: 3445] (16085)
  • [2008-05-19 20:22]

Hi Danos,
Very nice simple image with magnificent clear colors and excellent details and sharpness. The vivid blue sky makes the perfect backdrop for this lovely image.
Regards, Tom

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  • Angshu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4763 W: 166 N: 7278] (23668)
  • [2008-05-22 0:29]

Hello Danos
A simple shot, but very beautiful & effective thanks to your low POV. The contrasts of the grass heads against the blue sky makes this a beauty. Well done! A fine note as well.
Regards
Angshu

Merhaba Danos,
Beautiful shot! Superb colors, light and good details. Well done!
Have a nice evening.
Ahmet

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  • jmcl Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2565 W: 146 N: 3314] (11572)
  • [2008-05-22 17:52]

Hi Danos,

I love the tone of this sky .. beautiful colors .. beautiful textures .. thoughtful simplicity. very nice. take care, John

Syndiasmos kartpostal kai afisas edw. Mou aresei. h syn8esh xrwmatika klebei th parastash se ena aplo 8ema. 3 stoixeia, hsoun ekei, to eides, telos. Euxaristoume gia th parousiash file mou :)

Xairetw
Stelios

Hi Danos, attractive nature photo with perfect composition,POV and colors.
TFS and regards,

Phil

This absolutely shown the beauty of nature with perfect combination colours and your composition really make it more special. Well done Danos, i like this shot....

daniel

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