wonders of the universe

Choosing what we focus on will really create our own surroundings and our own world. So as Rachel Carson said, "The more we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." For how can we destroy something that is wonderful?

The photo I used here is an abstraction of an original photo. I created this new image in Photoshop by playing around with the distort mode.

standard of beauty

Absolutely! That's all I can say about this quote from John Kenneth Galbraith.

The photo is a set of colored pens that I distorted in Photoshop. Some may like what I did here and some will not like it at all. But as the quote says, "there is no absolute standard of beauty." So be it!