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Daily Coffee Talk~68/365

Monk with umbrella~ Myanmar

Today I spent a larger part of the day driving around with my daughter from home to school to extra activities, home and school again. We have come to call Monday the ‘fun day’ partly sarcastically because of all the driving, and partly because we never know how it will unfold.

On the last one of today’s drives we both realized that we forgot to eat. This started a conversation that took me to my memories of meeting the Buddhist monks in Myanmar, in Cambodia and in Shangrila amongst others. One of the special things I discovered was that they only ate one meal a day.

Of course they do have their reasons and the discipline they adhere to, but this made me realize how much time we spend obsessing about food , our choices, the preparation, diets and the rest of it.

A dose of simplicity sounds right from time to time, doesn’t it?

Tags 365, buddhist, children, driving, fasting, food, mandalay, meals, mimo khair, monk, myanmar, parenting, photography, religion, umbrella

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Daily Coffee Talk~ 58/365

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date January 27, 2022
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Hi from a great rainy evening in Germany,

Despite the grey that covers the sky in a monotonous blanket with no texture, I feel a wave of inspiration.

We are created to be able to create, and I am constantly being moved to create.

I will keep it short and wish you an inspired rest of the week.

Tags 365, color, create, creation, creativity, forest, germany, life, mimo khair, photography, rain, street, umbrella

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A Grey Day in Istanbul ~

A Grey Day in Istanbul~

It rained most of the day today In Istanbul. Rain has this way of forcing it’s mood on you, doesn’t it? There is a sense of containment and going inwards, where if you had the choice, you would curl indoors with a book or bake cookies.

I love rain photography, when reflection, rain drops and moody skies abound. Istanbul delivers all that and more.

You can even find the smiles between all the grumpiness of bad weather if you search for them hard enough.

Tags black and white, blur, city, fall, istanbul, mimo khair, mood, photography, rain, rain drops, reflection, street, turkey, umbrella, weather

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Being Alone Together~

*The Future Here Now ~ created in photoshop, illustrator and shot with Canon 5D, mark 4*

It has been almost one year since we found ourselves globally in a new reality that no one could imagine. We are all affected by the pandemic, the change, the lockdowns, and the varying levels of isolation.

We are all dealing with it in our own unique way and change is happening at a very core level from the child to the elderly and from the introvert to the extrovert.

Since this all began onsetting, I have found myself needing to take pauses to meet the new me as I evolve, and that is mirrored in my explorations into art, photography and more recently Motion Graphics.

This series is ‘Being Alone Together’ explores how the isolation is causing a deeper connection to other humans, to myself, to the planet, to the universe and to human purpose and my part in it.

Tags adobe illustrator, adobe photoshop, art, being alone together, black and white, canon, creation, Fine art, future, image, Mimo Khair creative, photography, umbrella

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This Too Shall Pass~

This year we have all lived to some extent the opening words of ‘Tale of two cities’, haven’t we?

Upheaval, breakdown of old systems, pandemic, loss, economic collapse, social and physical isolation, poverty, fear, uncertainty, extreme weather, unstable leadership and so much more…

Yet, somehow, something extremely bright filters through our planet at this time, this planet of duality. At the darkest of times the brightest of times have a chance to manifest. Hope is always here for a better world and an incandescent tomorrow. All we have to do is believe and look at history to prepare for our future in our present.

Wishing you all a peaceful holiday season. May we see peace, hope and sanity in the near future for this resilient human race.

Tags 2020, after effects, animation, birds, black and white, clouds, germany, holidays, hope, mimo khair, photography, rain, street, street photography, umbrella, video, woman

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The magic of a rainy day~ Germany

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date January 14, 2019
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There is a charm that can only be captured on a rainy day and a mood particular to that atmosphere of chilly raindrops, umbrellas and leaves blowing in the wind that I always long to photograph. It’s visual poetry that turns gloom into romance and magnifies the bit of light the day has against the dark background. I wouldn’t hide my camera from the rain, no, I would always choose to join it.

And don’t get me started on reflections…

Tags atmosphere, charm, day, drama, germany, mimo khair, mood, photography, rain, rainy, street photography, umbrella

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Winters of the world~

Winter whispers~ When Magic wears a white dress…

day 73 of 365~

Image taken on a winters day in a German forest.

Tags blur, cold, deutschland, germany, mimo khair, photography, seasons, snow, travel, umbrella, winter

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Romancing the Rain~ Shanghai

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date May 24, 2017
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Do you hide when it rains? Do you take cover? Or do you sing and dance?

I see so much romance in a rainy day. The enchanting city streets reflecting reality to create a better, softer world.

Shanghai sparkles…

Tags asia, china, city, photography, rain, romance, street, travel, umbrella, urban

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Anhui Diaries~

From a recent journey to the old villages around Huangshan (yellow mountains) of China’s Anhui province, I was utterly inspired with the landscape, the feeling of calm that blankets the area and the mystical sense of being so far away from it all.

It made me think a lot about the nature of water, and reflections that are abundant in this place; the magic of seeing the world repeated, maybe for us to think twice.

A place I will happily return to.

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Impressions From a Journey Between the Folds of Time

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date January 14, 2015
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holding up the sky

back to basics

heartbroken

memories laced with teardrops

the spirit of winter

those hands of fate

things can only look up from down here

preparing for a clean slate

juggling life and its twists and turns

the unrelenting ghost of yesterday

destiny waits for no one

to rise above the level of lost

Sometimes life invites us into a brief interlude between the folds of time. There we see beyond the obvious, we feel more deeply and we re-evaluate our lives and where our importances lie. The past month has been just such a life changing happening and as I emerge trying to find the end of a thread I let go of, I find that a whole new selection of threads present themselves to me. I pray that I may choose wisely where to get back on the train we call destiny.

Photographs taken during the past month in Germany, Lebanon and China

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