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Ray Bilcliff is a retired scuba diving instructor after 35 years of teaching people to enjoy the underwater world. He is also a retired karate instructor having reached the highest grade of 8th degree black belt. Ray has taught over 300 students to the black belt level and several to the master level. Ray has also excelled in his passion for digital photography, in his own words. "The only way I could get everyone to see the world as I do was to take up photography". We live in a beautiful world. The more you appreciate and enjoy that beauty, the more beautiful it becomes. Beauty is impossible to define and at the same time impossible to ignore. You know what it is without having to learn. Beauty is much more than mere physical appearance. In fact, magnificent beauty can often be found in what appears to be plain and ordinary, when you explore it deeply enough. Beauty can awe, inspire and astonish. Beauty can energize your spirit in ways that nothing else can. One of the nicest things you can do is to give yourself the time and space to simply take in the beauty that is around you. Beauty asks nothing more than to be treasured, and when you let yourself experience it, beauty has much to give. There is beauty stretching out in all directions. Dive deeply into it, and it will make you more than you are.