Up all night, sleep all day…

“There is no question that the experience of beauty, primarily an experience of the senses of seeing and hearing, is personal and mediated by the cultural and historical context.  What is beautiful to one is not to another.”  This waterfall is beautiful because it’s peaceful, and just…eye catching.

The Brooklyn Bridge is a beautiful work of architecture, and this picture with it and the river is awesome.  The twilight colors and skyline shapes make it.

The Manhattan skyline…of course this is beautiful!  The sunset colors are extreme, mixed with the “city of blinding lights” and the building shapes (esp. the Empire State building up front)- it’s manmade beauty at its best.

This popular picture of a mother giraffe kissing its baby is not only cute, but I think it’s also beautiful, showing how the bond between a mother and baby isn’t just apparent with people…

“In its most profound sense, beauty is said to engender a salient experience of positive reflection with regard to the meaning of one’s own being within natural life.  An ‘object of beauty’ may be anything that reveals or resonates with a personal meaning.”  I personally think this Harley Davidson is beautiful, even though it’s not what some would consider “classic beauty”.  I happen to love motorcycles and the freedom they can symbolize- that and the color red, mixed with the shiny chrome is…appealing, haha.