Urban Cool

Sit straight, and before you buy your shoes measure your feet. - Zen saying.

Big step

You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others. - Dudjam Rinpoche

Cameras everywhere

To learn the way it is important to be sharp and inconspicious. When you are sharp you are not confused by people. When you are inconspicious, you do not contend with people. Not being confused by people, you are empty and spiritual. Not contending with people, you are serene and subtle. - Liao-An

Fish out of water

People in the West are always getting ready to live. - Chinese proverb

Purple

For others to approve me is easy; for me to approve myself is hard. - Yuan-Cheng

Last of the ice skaters

We cannot let the fear of what might be stop us from moving towards our goals in life.

Gloves

Snow rope

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. - Elbert Hubbard

Ice Skaters

The greater the risk, the greater the reward.

Distortion

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course, it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore all around it; one discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought. - Alexander Graham Bell

Sunday League

When one person stands on the top of Everest, everybody in the team climbs the mountain.

If you start something, you just might succeed. But you'll never know until you start.

Work productively within a team, trust others and value their contribution, but always be personally accountable for the consequences of your own actions.

Rarely do we achieve complete success in today's world without the help and support of others. The essence of teamwork is to identify and use the strengths of others to offset our own limitations, so that the strength of the team becomes greater than the sum of the individual parts.
Eliminate the word "failure" from your vocabulary and learn the lessons from your "setbacks". You'll always come out of an experience stronger than you went in.

View from a boat show bridge

I plow ahead, no matter how the winds might lash me. - Christopher Columbus

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. To reach the port of heaven you must sometimes sail with the wind, and sometimes against it. But you must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Champions

Local Heroes.

wasabi

The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety. - Samuel de Champlain


Nobody can fight their way to the top, and stay at the top, without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination and resolution. Everybody who gets anywhere does so because they are firstly resolved to progress in this world and they have enough "stick-to-itiveness" to transform their resolution into reality. Without resolution, nobody can win any worthwhile place among their fellow men. - B.C. Forbes

Smoke on, smoke off

The secret of knowing the most fertile experiences and greatest joys in life is to live dangerously. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Cut down in their prime...

On the day you were born, you begin to die. Do not waste a single moment more. - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. - La Fontaine

Watersports on my doorstep

If you're not pushing your limits, you're not discovering anything new.

Success seems to be mainly a question of hanging on when others have let go.

Winter's tears

Winter's tears.

Looking up.

more Up close and colourful.

Up close

Up close and colourful.

Up close and personal.

The kindness of strangers

Last time I saw Basilica this closely was at Cowes Week 2006, so my thoughts just drifted wanting to be somewhere else today.

People, going somewhere else.

I unfortunately allowed distraction get the better of me today so I didn't really capture my day to my satisfaction.

However on my quest for a great photo I met a great neighbour. I was about to climb up onto the docks bridge when a neighbour called Gerry stopped to chat. He's a real photographer (as oppose to an aspiring one like me). We exchanged details and I googled him to find his work. As an homage to his kindness, and the inspiring quality of his work I have included his photo of the bridge we met on. I'll take his advice on histograms and try harder tomorrow!