Carpe Diem is a Latin proverb meaning "seize the day". It's meant to remind us that "now" is the only thing we really own in this life that is growing shorter with every passing second. Don't waste it. Everybody dies, not everybody truly lives.
Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years,
Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers.
Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past,
Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last;
This, that makes the Tyrrhene billows spend their strength against the shore.
Strain your wine and prove your wisdom; life is short; should hope be more?
In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away.
Seize the present; trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may.
Horace, Odes 1.11
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| Category | monochromephotography |
| Location | Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic |
| Settings | ISO 100 16 mm f/9 1/160 |
| Camera | Sony Alpha 5000 |
| Lens | Sony 3.5-5.6/16-50 |
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