Cover

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Me. Photographer: @stephenhui

Stephen! This image is THE cover of your new book!
Though I recommend a change in title. How about..”Hiking BC’s Backcountry with the Physically Illiterate and Socially Inept”?
Bahahaha!!! Dude, you need to photoshop Niagara Falls underneath me. This is ridiculous.
You know what I love about this shot? Visible are my chewy chocolate chip granola bars stashed in the side pocket. And you can just get a glimpse of my fanny pack! Ha!
Good times. Always good times!

Aesthetics

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My great great grandfather. Photo taken in Sicily.

There’s the ideal beauty of youth and health, which never really changes, and is always true. There’s the ideal beauty of movie stars and advertising models, the beauty-game ideal, which changes its rules all the time and from place to place, and is never entirely true. And there’s an ideal beauty that is harder to define or understand, because it occurs not just in the body but where the body and the spirit meet and define each other….

That must be what the great artists see and paint. That must be why the tired, aged faces in Rembrandt’s portraits give us such delight: they show us beauty not skin-deep but life-deep.

~ Ursula Le Guin via Brainpickings