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“Give me my robe, put on my crown”
~Cleopatra

Bamboo. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus

This set is from 2017, one of my destination shoots in A Frame lodge on Norman Lake, Troutman, North Carolina. All Natural light set ft. Willa Prescott.

“Music freezes time,” Thompson reflects. “But you could have never convinced me that in my lifetime, a million plus people would love what we’re doing.”

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. Hans Hofmann

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw

“There is a thing, formless yet complete.
Before heaven and earth it existed.
Without sound, without substance,
it stands alone and unchanging.
It is all-pervading and unfailing.
One may think of it as the mother of all beneath Heaven.
We do not know its name, but we call it Tao.
Deep and still, it seems to have existed forever.”

To be trusted is a greater compliment
than being loved.
George MacDonald

🤶 ❄️⛄🎄 Somehow some variation of this outfit manages to come about around the Holidays, this Year features Rebecca Lawrence ( IG @BEXLAW)

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Recent Shoot with Model Saturn Verde

Athletes of all sports—from baseball to football to hockey—base their physical training on improving the strength of their core using compound movements. That’s great for pro athletes, but what about guys who just want to get a ripped six-pack?

First off, let’s acknowledge a hard truth: Not all abs are created equal. Some guys need to work their belly to exhaustion before they can carve out abs, while other dudes seem to get theirs to pop without a single situp.

If all the world were clear, art would not exist. (Albert Camus)

Velvet antler is the whole cartilaginous antler in a precalcified growth stage of the Cervidae family including the species of deer, elk, moose and caribou. Velvet antler is covered in a hairy, velvet-like “skin” known as velvet and its tines are rounded, because the antler has not calcified or finished developing.

First up, we’re hopping on the scooter trend thanks to the stylish and functional Stator scooterOpens a New Window.. Plus, there’s even a Bluetooth speakerOpens a New Window. that comes complete with analog knobs from Urbanears, a wood-burning campOpens a New Window. stove, and plenty more exciting new items and gadgets. (We even found a fall scent you’ll actually want to wear.) Here’s what’s new for the month of October.

French-Algerian thinker Albert Camus

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

Nereyda Bird by Cory Vanderploeg

Conor McGregor is back. The biggest name in MMA by far, McGregor has managed to do what no other MMA star has managed and become bigger than the UFC organisation. After nearly two years outside of a cage — and one boxing mega-mismatch — he’s back to fight unbeaten lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov on October 6.