MEMENTO MORI

while the bitter winds are blowing

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When you realised half the amazing landscape of New Zealand's Te Wai Pounamu (South Island) is above all the long white clouds you see cutting the peaks out of view. Subhanallah, it was an epic landscape of its own, the mounds above the clouds. #OhsemAotearoa2017 #aotearoa #NewZealand #southisland #queenstown #tewaipounamu #jetstar #travelala (at Queenstown NZ)

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We met Aoraki, The Cloud Piercer. He wasn't piercing any clouds that day, and was a stunner with the glacial lake of on the foreground. #Aoraki #MtCook #OhsemAotearoa2017 #NewZealand #aotearoa #travelala #documentlife #ramadan

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Always a sight fore sore souls. Nature invigorates and resets you into equilibrium, cos what else reminds you of the might of God other than His majestic creations. What else reminds you of how minute you are in the scale of being when you witness the grand summits that get touched by the sun rays before anything else? Key Summit from Lookout point on the way to Milford Sound from Te Anau Downs. Fiordland National Park. #NewZealand #OhsemAotearoa2017 #documentlife #aotearoa #fiordlandnationalpark (at Key Summit)

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Misty landscapes of #MilfordSound. #aotearoa #goorange #documentlife #OhsemAotearoa2017 #NewZealand

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When we cruised Milford Sound's misty fjord. 📸: @luqramli #documentlife #MilfordHaven #MilfordSound #GoOrange #OhsemAotearoa2017 #NewZealand #aotearoa

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Bella Luna of Ramadan. Captured outside of High Country Salmon Farm, near Twizel on the South Island of New Zealand. This was the beautiful moon after our first day of fasting. #sooc #nofilter #bellaluna #newmoon #crescent #OhsemAotearoa2017 (at High Country Salmon)

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Nepal vs Ireland #travelala #nepalala #xprochrome #nikonFE #believeinfilm #believeinmarkingusedfilms #doubleexposure #documentlife #happyaccident #spamtagging

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Nepal x Scotland. As we arrive in Ghorepani vs the stunning view heading towards Isle of Skye. #accidentalmultipleexposure #doubleexposure #nikonFE #xprochrome #believeinfilm #believeinmarkingusedfilms #nepalala #scotland #isleofskye #travelala

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When you totally screwed up again. A roll from my 2014 trip to Nepal double exposed with some Ireland/Scotland shots this year. Hiking Poon Hill vs going down the steep trail to see the Giant's Causeway. #ireland #nepalala #doubleexposure #believeinfilm #believeinmarkingusedfilms #xprochrome #nikonFE

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One of the fishermen praying atop their vessel, 3 hours away from the shore we boarded from - Pengkalan Petah, Kelantan whilst on the annual squid fishing event in Malaysia. #documentlife #mementomori #candatsotong #Kelantan #Malaysia #thesealife

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Rain

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“Things that have form will all disappear. But certain feelings stay with us forever.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertip along thr edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. - Haruki Murakami (Poor Aunt's Story), Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die. Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood From the Doubled Exposed Mess Collection.

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"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me." — Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

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I'm seeing stars. The few I like from my double exposed mess. Whimsical stars from the inner dome ceiling of a hammam in a dervish house near Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina+the guide decked in ao dai at Reunification Palace, the site of the end of Vietnam War during the Fall of Saigon in 1975, landmark in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.

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Finally the sun is up. Today's office. Hey ho let's go!