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70-20 F2.8 L IS MKII, 5DMKIII, standard light setup for headhsots. Converted in lightroom and some editing in photoshop.
I cry, too often
A flood of tears until I find myself drowning
I absorb too much of her sea
The tears spill and recycle like a hot spring
Till the steam rolls in and I gather them all up
Death’s dew drops on my shoes again.
Come, come closer, and I’ll tell you a story:
Inside them (all) swam a green-haired girl
Who had never ever been touched by a boy
To whom she was so devoted
She would have lived with him forever
In a shack by the sea
Or a ruined sand castle
Even if he (never) made love to her.
A potion. A charm.
There, far out at sea
I saw so many strange things
Outside us (all) swam a green-haired girl
She sparkled brightly in the sun
Yet her father hadn’t seen her
I thought it odd, indeed
Because she was directly in front of him
She was sparkling brightly in the sun
As she had been the whole time.
Inside them (all), swam a green-haired girl
Floating in the lonely sea
She constantly yearned for her mother’s magic
But it slipped through her fingers, elusive as the wind
She was like an empty vessel,
As light as a cloud, a dream
She thought that her mother’s magic could save her
It would keep her spirit safe and warm
A spirit was something akin to a soul
This magical essence was the only thing
The girl had ever wanted
A magical tangible fabric inside her
To heal those psychic wounds
Hiding deep within her ocean’s space
A compass for her center
A North Star of her own
Without this she was invisible
And she might be dying too
For the soul could not live without magic
And she could not live without soul
She had to keep her spirit content within her body
To protect her from the storms
On those coldest darkest nights
When her light would fade and flicker
This scared her more than anything
What if she could never receive her mother’s magic
She feared her past made her insides ill-suited
She had heard stories of her shameful deeds
How she broke her own mothers womb while being born
How selfish could she be??
My tears were for me, but they were also for her.
Sweet, sweet girl, When did you sour?
How did they hijack your soul?
She maintained her physiological characteristics
Growing healthy, straight and tall
A walking and talking green-haired girl
Semi-conscious. Half-alive.
She came and went with the tide
Continuously and eternally washing away
There was a darkness nearby
That weighed her down from long ago.
The wound still Inside her, still gaping and raw.
My tears poured out of me, streaming down my face
I surmised this because my face was wet
And my eyes burned hot like fire pit coals.
My face was wet!
I drank them [salty tears] down my throat
I drank them [salty tears] in gulps deep into me
Swallowing sorrow, choking on pain
Drown, drown, drown [them] so far down
I knew I could not save the green-haired girl
And this did break my heart.
I so badly wanted to save her from her demons
Those wretched demons writhing inside her
To asphyxiate those terrible beasts.
There was nothing I could do but watch
Until I would find myself drowning in tears
In too much of her sea.
This is a re-edit of an old shot from late December 2011. It is a shot of the probably the most photographed spot in Dublin, but from a different perspective.
In the original version the underside of the bridge was totally blocked up - I love the improvements in Photoshop's recovery in highlights and shadows over the years.
A re-edited version of Ruth, one of my strangers from my first 100 strangers project.
I always liked the image, but found it a little dark- I was looking through my portraits, when I decided that I would lighten it up and make a few little tweaks.
It's funny how your tastes change with time, and the style of your photographs and how you process them evolves. I didn't want to replace the last photo, as I didn't feel that would be in the spirit of the project, so uploaded it as a separate entity.
Hope you like!
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My friend Tin encouraged me to Picnik my photos, so there :)) I really do not know a thing at photo editing =)) I might delete this after some time :))
This is a photo of Marisa Miller I downloaded from Google and I edited the lighting. This is for sampling purposes only.
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