Photo Challenge: LIQUID
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” Langston Hughes
Photo Challenge: LIQUID
Fela Kuti – Water No Get Enemy
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light. Paramahansa Yogananda
Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes. Wolfgang Ketterle
As Fela Kuti sings in one of my favorite songs – Water No Get Enemy… it flows through everything. This week’s theme on Liquid fits perfectly with my current weather conditions too. It rained all day yesterday. As I look out the window, right now, it’s still drizzling. Amazing. Water cleanses, washes, destroys and heals. It can solidify and liquefy all in a matter of minutes… and get this, it puts out FIRE! In my humble opinion, liquids rock; starting of course with H2O. Yes, drink more if you need to stay hydrated. Whatever rocks your body, just do it… love yourself.
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“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.” Quincy Jones
Photo Challenge: LIQUID
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. Janet Frame
When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse. William Henry Bragg
When I started this post, I had all sorts of ideas about liquids and how important they are to the function and survival of much on this planet of ours. We take our supplies for granted and we forget that those who live in desert areas or poor countries, have very little access to clean, flowing water. Water is the fluid that sustain our life force, it cools and nourishes our organs and helps us eliminate toxins. I am grateful that the challenge reminded me of this invaluable resource… Stay hydrated and remember to share.
This post was inspired by a prompt from WP Daily Post: – LIQUID – For this week’s challenge, share a photo of liquid in whatever state, shape, or color you happen to capture it in. You can go as big as the ocean or as small as a teardrop, as clear as vodka or as opaque as milk. Let’s raise a glass to your photos — I can’t wait to dive in.
Positive Motivation Tip: Our thirst can’t be quenched by liquids alone… dig deeper. There is more
PHOTO CREDITS/ATTRIBUTIONS: All Photos from my personal collection.
Until Next Time…
Ask. Believe. Receive. ©
Elizabeth Obih-Frank
Mirth and Motivation
Positive Kismet
Great liquid gallery and accompanying quotations!
Dear Ruth, I appreciate the feedback. Glad to see you here. 🙂
The water in the video look so clean and it is so relaxing just to look at it flowing and listening to the flow of the water. We don’t have water sources in Singapore and we needed to purchase water from our neighboring country. So water is very precious in where I stayed.
I love rain. And the way you way mentioned liquid and plated with the words I must say I am impressed. I am sooooo following you.
Hahaha! Thank you for cheering up my morning. Your comment made me laugh out loud. 🙂
It would have been played. Lol
This is so beautiful gallery!I love reading this post!I am impressed!
Ahhhh I love photos of water! It is so beautiful –– have you seen those videos of how soundwaves can bend water streams?! x
OMG I love this liqid photos especially the … such a beautiful selection.
Love the photographs and absolutely love how you have captured every state of the liquid. This kind of reminds me of how our lives are constantly changing states. and yes love dthe quotes as well.
Those are some interesting photos! Also love the quotes.
What can be said about water that hasn’t already been said? Be like water, as Bruce Lee so poignantly said.
Very nice liquids approach! very nice! I love rain and I love drinking water and also swimming so.. I guess it’s proper to say I love liquids.
Lovely post, liquids do indeed rock! h20!
Liquid is a state of ind in some ways! I love water so this is great
These photos are so fun to look at. One of my favorite yard features is our fountain…such a relaxing feeling to hear the water each day.
I have always love water in all its forms. From babbling brooks to vast oceans, there is so much to learn from it!
Liquids really are important to our lives. I love your photos, especially the one of water coming out of the tap!
It’s been raining all day for a few days and is supposed to rain all weekend. I find that it forces me to sit back and appreciate the beauty of a rain storm.
This is oddly intriguing! So neat to look at.
What intrigues you the most?
It’s been raining all week here in Alabama. I love how the rain washes away all of the pollen and makes all of the flowers bloom in my yard!
All of your photo’s bring me a smile, the dedication you put into each photo is brilliant.
Hi Jackie, so good to see you again. Hope all is well.
Thank you for stopping by my blog
My favorite days are rainy days. There just something so calming about it, hear it, look at it… I also love the sea, hearing the waves. Looking at your gallery of pictures made me relax for a couple of minutes while in a stressing day at work.
I enjoy water photography. It’s a challenge to take pictures of water. It really takes a great skill to master it. Btw, loved reading the quotes too!
I love that Quincy Jones quote. Rain is my favorite sound and gives me the best relaxing feeling. I love when they have water flowing in salons or hotels too! Great vibe.
It’s drizzling here, too. I hope this drizzle continues into rain. It’s been extremely hot here in the Philippines and the rain is a welcome treat for everyone, most especially the plants. 🙂
This is cool. I’ve never seen something like this before!
I love the rain, the rain always calms my anxiety when I’m inside love the post made me happy.
Wow this looks like a great challenge for people with all different photography abilities! I love your images. The real challenge is to make sure liquid looks full of life instead of flat in images like these
Great water. Water indeed has no enemy. It flows through everything. I love Fela Kuti’s songs.
liquid is the water and our thought and our soul too. This gallery is of great inspiration
Interesting idea and approach! Thanks for sharing your shots and experience.
I always feel calm whenever I am surrounded by water or in water. I believe some take it for granted because not everyone has access to it.
Your capacity to illustrate this week’s challenge is stunning! I love all the pictures you used and your quotes and images, as usual, make me reflect deeply. Thank you for this.
Love rain and yes all elements are made of atoms and all have vibrations. You arw right
Excellent viewpoint. I love where you are coming from with this. Thanks for the encouraging words!!
Love the photo’s as always! I love so many things about water. I only drink ice water no coffee, soda etc for me. Sometimes I fear I don’t drink enough and it does such great things for our insides and skin. Hydration is very important.
I could share stories of happy tears and that would be somehow related to the topic on hand. I have to agree, Liquid is a state of the other half. Nothing can’t be complete without the other (Solid).
These are some very interesting pictures. How did you do the faucet of running water so clearly? It’s amazing!
You’re absolutely right, water is extremely healing. What’s amazing is it flows all around us but sometimes a lot of us will take it for granted.
Amazing photo collection.
I must say the central picture in maroon and black had me awe stuck
That’s some really great pictures you took . I really appreciate the effort you put in each photo.
I think my comment didn’t go through! I was saying that I love how you illustrated this week challenge and that as usual, your images and words have made me reflect a lot.
have a lovely weekend Elizabeth!
I love that Quincy Jones quote! It really makes you think, doesn’t it?
Gorgeous imagary you’ve selected for this challenge. You are right, water is at the base to nearly everything, including our bodies and yes it gives life and also destroys, its always incredible how your posts get me thinking!
Your photo studies are so interesting. Who knew liquid could define so many things. Of course, my favorite drink is water, refreshing liquid!
I love your gallery and oh my, LIQUID is such a topic. Anyway, water nourishes, refreshes but can also destroy…too bad! I tend to love a breezy rainy day when I’m sipping a hot cup of coffee but we’ll, when it gets stormy it becomes disaster!
LIQUID is such a topic but does make sense. Anyway, I love your gallery and we’ll, I love breezy rainy nights where I can just sip a cup of hot coffee although when it gets stormy, now that’s disaster!
Liquid is something truly important and essential but unfortunately something most of us does not appreciate and value.
Water is indeed very essential to life. PS. I actually sang the Fela song in my mind.
One of the liquid looks like foam, which I guess is another form of liquid? Haha, something disgusting, I thought of saliva and flu (mucus) as “other” types of liquid…. perhaps it’s because I just recover from flu~
Music is liquid architecture…love that…music is architecture for our souls really…and your pics are wonderful!
The quote are perfect with the pictures. I love the action you captured in your pics.
Your gallery is so lovely! Anyway, I love the rains; a nice time to sip a hot cup of coffee until it gets stormy!
Great post and a good reminder to contemplate on every state of matter around us.
Water! The ultimate cleanser and purifier. One of my fav things to do is to watch the rain beat upon the window. Love the photos you have here!
The rain can be so soothing at times. Especially after a long hot day! I also love swimming, taking long showers and being by a body of water. Great pics and love the poem.
I love photos you took! They really have a calming effect if you look at them and concentrate. I love rain for it’s calming effect and I love joy and melancholy that goes with it!
You just took me back with that song. I am amazing by your taste and range in music. It is mindblowing. Keep them coming.
So true that water flows through everything. It is a part of living things for sure. And it’s lovely when it is moving.
Another great post and of course, very thought provoking. Amazing quotes and yes I agree, liquids are very important to our functions as human beings.
What a great post! And I totally agree that liquids are so important to our functions as human beings. Thanks for sharing wonderful quotes, pictures and insights.
This is a really interesting photo challenge. I love captured pictures of rain and rain drops, it’s very relxing in a way!
Water is so refreshing. Cool idea!
Your photography is so beautiful and full of depth. I can’t say I love the rain or the ocean, open water is one of my fears.
The attention to detail that you bring to ordinary things is amazing. It seriously makes me think! Although I sometimes dislike rain, it can be comforting. I like to find pictures of how it collects on things like plants.
I really love the Langston Hughes quotation. It’s a perfect nod to water and specifically rain. I admit I don’t drink enough water, but it’s amazing how important it is in so many ways.
Also, the lack of water can start a famine. We do take it all for granted. It is what keeps us all healthy and alive!
Well, it seems like I am not the only one (except for my husband, my son, and just everybody else) that gets the water like it is: calming and needed. This challenge somehow reminded me on how we all think we are special and different, and trying that so hard.
Wow! Great compilation of Liquid gallery. The looks of every photo is stunning and have the feeling of refreshing atmosphere.
As always, I love the photos you have taken and selected for this photo challenge. The waterfall & stream being my favorites. You have such a wonderful eye for photography, share your secrets! You raise a great point, water is something so extremely vital our bodies, yet not something I think about often. I loved hearing your thoughts on the topic. Have a great week!
Whenever I think about liquid and particularly water, it brings me to the core of why I started running – water is life, and so many don’t have access to clean water. Water really is the source of a thriving community.
Water is such a powerful force. It is so amazing that it can do so much.
What a fun photo challenge, the images you captured are stunning.
I LOVE that quote from Quincy Jones! Music really does seem like liquid architecture.
Awesome! I LOVE photo challenges, but I may be a little biased considering I am a photographer 😉
Beautiful photos. I grew up by the water and always love having water nearby.
Agree on the importance of water to the survival of this planet. A good read which reminds that I should drink more water to keep hydrated in this hot weather.
That creek looks like a really nice place to escape to. I would love a spot like it.
Makes me thirsty just looking at the pictures!
I love water so much. When it rains, it floods my area but the storms are so beautiful. I could fall asleep listening to the sound of rain drizzling down my windows and on my roof. Such pretty photos you’ve got to capture that beauty!
I love the words you shared from Langston Hughes they sound so melodic and musical–“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” Langston Hughes
Great gallery. My favourite pic shows all those little pockets of air caught in the water stream. Really interesting.
Liquid can be so interesting. The flow is so relaxing. Water can both be peaceful and relaxing, yet it is a powerful force that can cause a lot of destruction, too.
Fantastic photo challenge! It is hard to catch a picture with “Liquid” but those were totally amazing catch-ups:) Thanks for sharing:)))
I have such a dirty mind. That first photo of water flowing is giving me different ideas. LOL