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Funny how you see things in an environment that you have passed by many times and not even considered to be there. Its happened to me recently, where I've managed to squeeze a new perspective out of a familiar place. Its almost like the more you look the more you see, but paradoxically the more you see, makes it harder to see anything. And or make the choices harder. (Am I making any sense?)
It’s a greater challenge to attempt a new perspective on a similar place, than to go to a new (photogenic location), because it forces you to push your creativity into new areas, ironically taking you out of your comfort zone. We learn most from our challenges!
It’s a little bit like life, when your 21 you really believe that you have the world sorted. And as you get older you realise that what you thought when you were 21 is in fact naive and that life is ‘a lot’ more complex than that. So extrapolating this what I'm writing now, what I'm producing photographically now, is indeed off its time and I shall develop (hopefully in the positive direction). So those locations visited many times will keep being productive ‘if’ i keep developing.
Anyway getting to the synthesis here, I feel that only a few months ago I wouldn’t have seen this shot, something has inspired me, challenged me to explore this composition. I will give credit to many of you out there in flickr land because some of you guys have both inspired and challenged my thoughts. Cheers guys!
Composing a shot, forces you to select only a small part of an environment, which you choose to present. And this shot to me particularly demonstrates that. When I saw the whole scene I liked it but it was only when I began to frame elements of it, did this part begin to work, (for me at least). I feel the opposing curves here are cut into by the framing, which creates a kind of tension and forces your eye back along to the other side. My eye moves back and forth horizontally, flowing around the curves in a figure of eight. I did consider taking the tree out to the right, (and when I shot this I planned as much), but after some reflection it has grown on me, as a kind of contrast against the smooth, something to break the flow. Something prickly to add tension.
mixed media on 10"x11" stretched canvas
The painting was a little too big for my scanner and could not lie flat so it is cut off and a bit blurry.
Hungry I stared through a closed cafeteria and imagined what good food would taste like in such a colorful atmosphere.
Epcot Center- Orlando, Florida
The operator of a weedkiller spraying MPV takes a moment to enjoy the view as his train approaches Green Road station in glorious sunshine.
This was Monday's 3Z19 06.48 Carlisle N.Y. - Carlisle N.Y. via Carnforth and the Cumbrian Coast line.
As a result of social distancing regulations brought about by the onset of coronavirus the cab of the MPV could not be shared by the operator with a driver, necessitating the top & tailing of the unit by a brace of locomotives due to the amount of reversals necessary.
Three workings were slated for the beginning of the week; this one on the Monday, a Tuesday morning train running the same route but in the opposite direction and a Wednesday afternoon / evening trip covering the Carlisle branches followed by a Whitehaven return.
These workings should have run a couple of months back but the tunnel collapse at Parton put the kybosh on that big-style.
Only one DB driver signs the full coastal route so it was a no-brainer that friend and fellow flickrite "Marra Man" was at the controls of 66094 & 66118, the (helpfully red) loco's allocated for these jaunts.
Nothing is pure
Anymore
But solitude
I smoothed some edges, but the rest is untouched.
Pose: 5ifth Order
Sim: Damnation, right outside my house.
CN 438 dashed through the snow at Stoney Point after seeing a CSX YN2 leading at Tilbury. Safe to say that the snow couldn't have came at a better time and will definitively be one of my highlights for the winter!
This is how we do dinner (by which I mean lunch, hah) in Iowa. Bacon Gouda mashed potatoes... yum.
And, can you believe that light?
Image made with my Nikon F100.
Street seller selling Taho.
Taho is a Philippine snack food made of fresh soft/silken tofu, arnibal, and sago pearl. This staple comfort food is a signature sweet and taho peddlers can be found all over the country.
Finally, she sleeps because after so many months of sporadic unrest there is little to do but to lie and wait for the unavoidable comfort of a dull and temporary hibernation. shhhh = )
Dull, damp, mild afternoon here. I have loads of things I should be doing but somehow once the stove is lit I know I probably wont do anything.
I may open a bottle of wine before dinner. But that will definitely be admitting complete defeat as far as getting anything done goes.
-Quote by Tinkerbell... =)
A special thank you for Usman, who wrote such nice words for me, you have been a long friend of mine here, and I appreciate every visit you make on my stream...
Have a wonderful Tuesday my friends!
Edited with Comfort, from the Soulful-Inspire actions set!
This manufacture, turns your favourite car into a piece of furniture. lautomobilier.com/
I took this photo from their car show stand. If the image is a digital creation, the real sofa was under construction when we spoke with the owners.
Something to see !
My mother, who passed away last Sunday at the age of 90, and my father, who died in 2006, at a carnival ball in 1962
My father lost both feet in the Second World War when he was 17. After the war, he finished school and started studying law. He managed all this by getting around in a lever-operated wheelchair. One day, as he was struggling up the steep Schweizerberg in his home town of Memmingen, a young girl approached him and asked if she could help him. That's how my father met my mother.
But this young girl also found out that it was likewise possible for double transtibial amputees to walk with the help of prostheses. However, the way there was somewhat lengthy and arduous, since, for example, post amputations on both sides were also necessary. So my mother had to do a lot of convincing and also overcome resistance from her future in-laws, who saw only torment in such measures.
But torment or not - the result of these measures proved them both right, my mother for her persuasion and my father for letting himself be persuaded. There is a photo from that time in which my father can be seen proudly riding a bicycle, and another in which he is standing proudly on a ladder. But the most important thing is - and now we come to the photo I am showing you here: when the owner of the Memmingen dance school heard about these achievements, he said that someone who could walk could also learn to dance, and he offered to give the young man dancing lessons free of charge. That's how my father learned to dance.
Years later, in the early 1970s, when I was listening to the song "Don't Bogart That Joint" from the film Easy Rider on the stereo in our living room, my father heard a standard dance rhythm he was familiar with, grabbed my mother and started pushing her around the floor to this reefer song. The memory of this scene is so funny and beautiful that it makes me shed warm, comforting tears.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
"I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.
It is said that this is the oldest maple tree in North America. Taken with Yashica D on Ilford 100 film.
Pelham. Niagara. Ontario
Photo of the Aurora Borealis, AKA the Northern Lights, captured via Minolta AF-Maxxum 16mm Fisheye F/2.8 lens. Nine Mile Falls-area. Spokane County, Washington. Early October 2024.
Exposure Time: 8 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-2000 * Aperture: F/4 * Bracketing: None
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