Tuesday, August 31, 2010

till the sun grows cold

“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, August 30, 2010

the genius that is beauty

“Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.” --- Oscar Wilde

happy 20 years


happy 20 years
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to your loved one.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

freedom


freedom
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” --- Stephen R. Covey

Friday, August 27, 2010

dreams and reality


dreams and reality
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.” ---Tim Rice

Thursday, August 26, 2010

sapphire sky


sapphire sky
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ---
Rabindranath Tagore

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

supreme happiness


supreme happiness
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

- Alexandre Dumas

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

living life fully


living life fully
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.” --- Anthony Robbins

Sunday, August 22, 2010

of dreams and reality

“Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.” --- Leo F. Buscaglia

have you done good?


have you done good?
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
at the end of the day, what matters most is if you have done good. what have you done good today?

happy weekend everyone!

immortal beauty


immortal beauty
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can have existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.”

morning ritual


morning ritual
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. --- Benjamin Franklin

the cooling hour


the cooling hour
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded red sun sinks down behind the azure hill, which then seems as if the whole earth is bounded, circling all nature, hush'd, and dim, and still, with the far mountain-crescent half surrounded on one side, and the deep sea calm and chill upon the other, and the rosy sky with one star sparkling through it like an eye.

Lord Byron

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

look and listen


look and listen
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“First you need only to look - notice and honor the radiance of everything about you...play in this universe. Tend all these shining things around you - the smallest plant, the creatures and objects in your care. Be gentle and nurture. Listen...” Anne Hillman

Sunday, August 15, 2010

the wonder of a sunset

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator” --- Mahatma Gandhi

Saturday, August 14, 2010

life's choices


life's choices
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

Friday, August 13, 2010

seek beyond the sunset

It's not too late to seek a newer world, to sail beyond the sunset, until I die. --- from Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Thursday, August 12, 2010

taming the rose


taming the rose
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

unquenchable heat


unquenchable heat
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” Bruce Lee

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

be yourself


be yourself
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” --- Dr. Seuss

Monday, August 9, 2010

walk to the edge


walk to the edge
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” Mary Anne Radmacher

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Peace...


Peace...
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
is seeing a sunset and knowing who to thank...this was the last sunset of 2009! enjoy the rest of 2010....


...have a restful weekend eveyone! and a great week ahead!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

in time...


in time...
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. ---Elbert Hubbard

Friday, August 6, 2010

on beauty


on beauty
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“Beauty is not just found in the face but from the light in the heart." Kahlil Gibran

on the nose


on the nose
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
“It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground.”

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

nature's view


nature's view
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau

perceiving life


perceiving life
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. --- Crowfoot

blazing hope


blazing hope
Originally uploaded by Doc Tony Photography
"Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.” - Corazon Aquino

Sunday, August 1, 2010

in memory of cory aquino

it has been a while since i have shot the sunset, and when i got home today with this view, i did not hesitate to take this shot.

it's the first death anniversary of the late president cory aquino and i dedicate this shot to her.