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Neighbouring hilltops

Monday in a vineyard is a good time to catch some lovely, summer-y photos of neighbouring hilltops.

Taken with ancient Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D digital camera, and Minolta AF Zoom 100‍–‍300mm F4.5‍–‍5.6 telephoto lens.

An ancient 6-megapixel camera means I have no space for cropping, but luckily, the long telephoto lens helped!

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Pool of The Chase Hotel, Palm Springs (California, USA) by Steffen Kamprath

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Smoking street, Manhattan (New York City, USA) by Steffen Kamprath

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Shrouded by R J Poole Via Flickr: Anima Series 6 Lismore NSW Australia 2021 Models: Hannah West & Mayumi Okamura

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Born Again by R J Poole Via Flickr: Anima Series 6 Lismore NSW Australia 2020 Model: Lily Regnault

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My Second Skin by R J Poole Via Flickr: Anima Series 6 Lismore NSW Australia 2020 Model: Lily Regnault

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Within Reach by R J Poole Via Flickr: Anima Series 6 Lismore NSW Australia 2019 Model: Naomi Grant Innocence is about so much more than naivety. It’s a quality that, to some extent, is impervious to the wider world and it’s assault upon our senses. This quality imparts a ‘relatively’ untainted view of the world that may on occasions present as a lack of experience or wisdom, yet this is not always the case. Someone who appears innocent can have experienced all manner of troubles or been exposed to traumatic events, however regardless of the circumstances their innocent nature has somehow remained intact. In spiritual terms, innocence is viewed not as an absence of worldly wisdom but as the realisation of the divine. It is spiritual actuality, our sense of wonder manifested. Spiritual innocence is the world filtered through the same eyes we used at birth, when we first viewed our surroundings with awe and amazement. It is the hand that wipes away the accumulated grime we encounter through living.