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This is my Taylor 522e. I've been putting off changing the strings for months. It has a slotted headstock, which makes fitting the strings a fiddly job. But now, there's no excuse.
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The task is to explore the house, inside and out, finding new ways of looking at the familiar things that surround me every day, and literally shedding new light on them - hopefully producing a worthwhile photograph.
Might not be one every day, but we'll see.
This schoolhouse (?), maybe townhall (?) sits alone next to a beautiful spawling tree with so many stories to tell travelers who never stop to listen. Stories of the old west and how things used to be are only awaiting those who take a moment out of their busy days to dream of those days and times.
But life as it touches perfection
Appears just like anything else
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOdNRGuX9g8
"Caddi in uno dei miei patetici periodi di chiusura.
Spesso, con gli esseri umani, buoni o cattivi, i miei sensi semplicemente staccano, si stancano:
lascio perdere.
[...]
Non importa.
Il mio cervello si chiude.
Ascolto.
Rispondo.
E sono troppo ottusi per rendersi conto che io non ci sono."
Hollywood, Hollywood! H. C. Bukowski
that's not so isolated.
went on a tour of Trenton Correctional Institution in middleofnowhere South Carolina yesterday with Iraqi prison officials.
Isolation in ultra remote Black River Valley in Mongolia's Altai Mountains.
I was in an expedition in which we were the first ever foreigners to enter this valley close to the Chinese border with Mongolia. Nomadic elders told us we were the first outsiders they had ever seen in the area due to its remoteness and difficulty in accessing.
No, I've no idea what an isolation trolley is either.
The bleakness (the thought and prospect of which fills me with sheer dread) of living in an 'assisted living residence'.
A beautiful building and window though.
This next set of photos comes from Bathsheba for a recent assignment in that area. Bathsheba is one of my favourite places in Barbados. The landscape of that entire area is amazing, but I decided to focus on the smaller bits that make up the whole.
There's nothing highly special about this simple shot. I wasn't going to post it at first but it's a part of the Bathsheba set. And it is "tropical".....kinda! :) While I was sitting on the shoreline, I noticed this coconut drifting by on the waves. So I grabbed it and decided to use it to practice some composition and framing. I couldn't get a shallow enough depth of field using aperture alone with this lens so I used the telephoto setting of about 200mm.
Maybe if I had to think of something philosophical to say, I would probably say that sometimes we are all adrift in life and simply waiting to find the right shore to start the process of regeneration again. Like this simple coconut....
Anyway, enjoy the weekend, everyone! Here's to finding your "perfect shore".
Things have been hard for me. I'm working through a lot of issues and problems that I'm only just now discovering that I have. The way that I view the world is through a damaged lens, and the reality of it is that it isn't healthy in the slightest. I have been hurt multiple times, and instead of taking the time to heal from that pain, I've continued to move. I've drowned myself in other people until I've lost all sense of self.
More recently, I've been focusing on myself, and trying to be happy, and things are finally going well for me. For a long while there, I was just as bad as the people who hurt me in the first place.
Originally, I took these pictures for myself and I wasn't going to post them on here in the first place, but I've decided to do so because I like them a lot, and want to share them. I want to formally apologize to everyone that I have done wrong in the past. I now forgive myself for my mistakes, and I will take the time to learn from them. I'm sorry to everyone I've ever wronged. Moving forward, my past will remind me, but it will not define me.
Besides being alone and human contact is very minimal, there's the fact that I'm sick with further isolates me. In turn all of this has taken a huge toll on my overall health and wellness, most importantly my mental health.
We've made everything, absolutely everything, about Covid and have not truly considered the consequence of folks already dealing with pre-existing conditions.
As I walk by I see a young lady that is alone, isolated deep within her thoughts. People walk by and dont stop to see if she is ok. They are too self obsessed I their own live to give a thought to one that may have too much worry and can't cope.......
Shot on g11 @ iso 800 in martin pl sydney
View Large for best viewing -- these were small branches of small trees, and I was fascinated with the teeny tiny droplets of water formed all along the teeny tiny spider webs, like strands of pearls. The larger single drop contains an upside down reversed picture of the background, the foggy woods and sun shining through.
Isolation
11"x14", oil on board, vintage frame
sold
Print available through Rotofugi
Dreams Burn Down, New Work from Ken Keirns
04/30/10, 7pm until 10pm.
Chicago, IL