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Switzerland, May 2021
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ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
J'attends un peu que Hendrix me fasse de la place....
Jveux bien attendre avec "Soledad Gimenez" pas préssé que ce morceau qui suit se termine
Oh une émission toute "Chats" et en plus ça philosophe grave là
www.franceculture.fr/emissions/les-chemins-de-la-philosop...
Commencée avec Hendrix et finir cette série "Covid" avec la toujours bien nommée Hendrix
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3IlV3l9xY
Voilà, un dernier lien vers un film qui cogne dans et à travers les murs, un bijoux
Jte jure toi, 1h je passe tous les soirs à lui dire "donne ta papatte"...Bah rien à faire elle pige rien ma ptiote Hendrix,
For Macro Mondays - Redux 2022
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This sheet of stamps commemorates rock-n-roll legend, Jimi Hendrix. I remember the first time I heard him play guitar and I was gobsmacked. Another great talent that died too young. Each stamp on this sheet 1.5 inches x 1.5 inches. Total photo crop is 2.75 x 2 inches. HMM, everyone ! !
Ma tiote Hendrix, elle est so cool ))))
Bref, donc pour ceux qui veulent, je n'ai rien à gagner, pas affilié à un groupe et je ne bosse pas pour flickr, un groupe "Your best shot 2019", tout le monde peut participer, 1 photo, résultats je ne sais pas quand mais j'aimerai bien être un abonné (d'un gagnant) de l'un d'entre vous (ou une ))))))
Comme "Le bonheur" n'existe que si il est partagé, je partage avec vous 56 minutes de pur Bonheur, Elisabeth Badinter sur France Inter.....
www.franceinter.fr/emissions/femmes-puissantes/femmes-pui...
Sans un mot, Hendrix fait au moins autant de boucan que cet Adagio, Mais quelle Merveille...(commence à la minute 15)
Today we saw our Mr Handsome again for the first time in quite a while. I must say I was a bit worried about him but today he appeared out of the woods and stayed for a while! We met another photographer who has also been following ‘our’ fox and he said that his name is Hendrix, so now we have a name to call him for future visits.
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I could not resist playing with the lyrics of Jimi Hendrix's song, "Red House" for this image. Found in an alley in downtown Seattle.
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Jimi Hendrix on Hollywood Blvd.
Check him out at www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hendrix-ss,0,5700544.htm....
“For last year's barks belong to last year's language and next year's barks await another voice of barks.”
___Hendrix
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The Hendrix statue was created by local artist Daryl Smith based on photos from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. He is still regarded by many the greatest guitarist of all-time.
Hier hat Jimi Hendrix sein letztes Konzert vor seinem Tod gegeben.
Jimi Hendrix did his last concert here before his death.
I did illustrations for Audio's record reviews from 1979 to 1995. If I remember the review was about a 1980s audience listening to Hendrix.
I have called this photo 'Hendrix'. For anyone not around in the 1960's you'll need to resort to Google to figure out why. Taken on Ben A'an in The Trossachs, Scotland.
52:52 Music
This also wasn't what I had intended for the this weeks theme but when I saw this busker, as I walked on my way home from work to the station I thought he looked very cool . . . almost like Jimmy Hendrix only with slightly longer hair!
On a much sadder note this was also the very location where just a week later in Melbourne, a crazed driver deliberately charged at pedestrians with his vehicle terrifying Christmas crowds and workers and seriously injuring 19 people, a couple who are still fighting for life. He has since been charged with 19 counts of attempted murder. So sad and terrifying at anytime but especially at Christmas.
I don't want to end this post on a sad note and so I want to wish all of my wonderful Flickr friends and their families a wonderful and safe and happy Christmas and I look forward to catching up with all of you in the new year as I have limited internet access at the moment.
Merry Christmas!
It was probably past bedtime, everyone was tired, but eating on the way home had been rather unscheduled due to traffic. Haidyn had been really good all day, but still hungry it seemed. After burning off some energy and happy to be home her daddy fixed her a PBJ that just seemed huge in this photo. Hard to believe she will be three next week!