Saturday, April 23, 2005

An April Night In Aadbel…

I was staying outdoors… surrounded by the soft breezes and hearing the sound of silence in the darkness of the night… everything is falling asleep… all the human lights are off… only the moon that was complete, were reflecting his white light on the clouds, that was moving fast, showing from time to time the candles of the sky…
I was silent and just admiring, or if I can say it “ absorbing “ … and unlike the usual sweet moments that go fast, the time was slowly moving, as if he want to keep this night eternal…
All the roses, the jasmine, the orange trees were blooming… the odor is really unbelievable… with every smell I feel flying… with every moment passing I feel the happiness growing up inside my heart…
It seems that the odors are transferred more in the night… or maybe because we have more time to stay to smell in the night…
Whatever I describe, it is almost always less than what is here…
As I worked many times to show up the beauties that are surrounding my life, always I was disappointed that I didn’t exchange everything… many of you have seen my flowers and roses, but no one could smell them… I’m really wondering if one day a camera can register a photo and a smell… because a photo without a smell is like someone have eyes to see, but he don’t have fingers to touch this beauty…
What I mean from all this is an invite to you, to come and live the peace… to open your eyes and your heart to see and feel all what is near you… because you can see god in every small thing of them…
For me, I know that heaven is too much more beautiful and peaceful than that… and as I felt all this on this non eternal earth by my sick non eternal body, I will love everything so that my soul will live this and more in the eternal heaven of god…

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

My history with photography…

In the past, my mom used to take a photo for me whatever I was doing … so now, I have a real big collection of different parts & stages of my life… in some of them I was alone… in others I was with the ones I share my beautiful memories… some of them are still alive & others are now unreachable…
The fingers & the eyes that took these photos belongs mainly to my mom, and she always said: son, all this I did, so one day you will see how u was… to show you how u grow up… but, for me, I already followed you stage by stage, and the most important is that I know my dear, that you are still the same guy… the same look, the same eyes…
These photos was in reality so important to me, and they are one of the principal causes that pushed me forward to love photography… And, as I was happy with my photos, I took photos for many persons, also in different stages of their life, on the faith that one day they will remember how they was and that this will maybe reflect on their life…

But if my beautiful memories was a principal push, but they were not the only ones… I cannot hide since my childhood a big love to nature… for everything in nature… flowers, trees, mountains, plants, animals… also my love to the beauty all over… my love to paints…
In my uncle house, there was a big poster of a tulip garden… millions of colors… this room was my reading room… as my mum and aunt library was in… and in this room I passed the biggest time of my childhood, just reading and looking and wondering… many questions was always in my mind that time… but the most important one was: can I one day take a photo like this one?…

I walked in the forests, plains, prairies & mountains… and the usual places that I like mainly are the high places… but the main place was in my village… on the top of the biggest hill of it… why?… because this was a place where you can see the sea, the plain of Akkar & the mountains in the same time… and since my childhood, the usual moment to stay there was at sunset time… so no one can lose me in an afternoon… and no one sunset moment I lost since this time… each day I said goodbye to the sun that hide slowly in the heart of the Mediterranean sea…

And now, the camera is just taking all what I saw & I’m seeing daily of beauties and transferring it to each one of you… my goal is to show how much everything made by god is so beautiful… to show how our country is so beautiful… to prove that Lebanon is definitely the best place to live in… to prove that we have everything, and all what we have to do is to open our eyes and look around…

Sassine El Nabbout MD.
www.sasmen.blogspot.com

Monday, April 18, 2005

Sunday, April 17, 2005

El Kamoua National Park, Akkar

A new webpage created to talk about the beauties of this wonderful park!
Wish u will enjoy it!

Sassine El Nabbout MD.

Kadmous

I'm happy to touch ur love as ur group to our beautiful country Lebanon!
I know very well that working alone would not take me to many things i already dreamed! but working in group will do it!
I'm really proud to share your great work in collecting all these websites!
Sassine El Nabbout MD.

Sunday, April 10, 2005

A Spring Day In Aadbel…

On the top of the large hill, I felt I’m in the world center… just a look and you see the sea in your hand… another one and the snowy mountains will be in your back…
A place where you can stay all the day, following to sun… from the rise to the set…
All what you can hear is the song of the breeze and the almond trees…
I Walked carefully to not bother the dancing flowers, that are always celebrating…
Then I stayed … looking & dreaming in the same time…
I didn’t saw like this paint… but I’m really seeing it…
Just millions of colors mixed on the ground!…
I collected flowers since my childhood… & I guessed I knew them all… But I didn’t in reality… because each moment I was finding a new flower…
I stayed near each one of them…
I followed the growth phases… the different ages…
Touched each one… felt each movement…
I stayed silent with all my concentration, trying to catch each second, each beauty…
While staying there, I really knew the importance of time…
But what I knew mainly is the importance & the meaning of beauty & her relationship to the inner happiness…
And I prayed because I was so happy…
I repeated the words: I see you god, I see you in each creature you made…
But my inner feeling was saying more than words can even describe…
I felt I’m not anymore there…
And something went out from my heart saying:
Ohh god ! All what you created is perfect…
Totally perfect…
Thanks so much for giving me the life to see all what you have done…
Thanks for your eternal love to me…
Thanks for everything…
I love you…

Sassine El Nabbout MD.