Your Shot photographer Sanjay Ramani captured a poignant scene in an Indian brickyard: workers balancing stacks of bricks on their heads, and then reaching with dusty hands for still more. “In this particular place, only women are shifting the bricks from one place to the other,” he writes, “and the inner expression of that moment [was] captured while observing this place.”
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Peace is not being where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It is being in the midst of those and still being calm in your heart.
Protea Banks, a reef off the eastern coast of South Africa, is home to incredible biodiversity—including this massive cephea jellyfish, spotted by Your Shot photographer Pier Mane. He calls it the “biggest jellyfish I’ve ever seen. Her purple head and yellow fuselage were simply amazing.”
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Don’t be so anxious to GET OUT OF difficult circumstances that you don’t GET ANYTHING OUT OF them.
Two hundred, actually—that’s how many sheep Your Shot photographer Einar Örn says gathered in this portrait taken in Iceland. He reckons that the intense collective gaze meant that “they were waiting to get into a warm house after a stroll in the snow.”
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His kindness continues to pursue us, in spite of us. That is amazing grace.
The Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, drawing a brilliant arc of light across a clear, dark sky. Your Shot photographer Grant Collins snapped this photo on “a cold March morning.” SpaceX, designer and manufacturer of the Falcon 9, was the first commercial company ever to visit the International Space Station.
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”I take refuge in the fact that while I don’t know everything, I do know Someone who does!” AW Tozer #tozer
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. –Robert H. Schuller
A thick fog rolls over Sofia and appears to glow as it takes on the city’s light. Beneath the cloak of color, visitors to Bulgaria’s capital will find a lively collection of museums, galleries, restaurants, and recently excavated Roman ruins from about 2,000 years Ago.
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Espresso for the soul 