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A nondescript sky, little interest in the water...but there's something I like about this image when I convert it to black and white. Shot in a deserted area of Bombay Beach along the Salton Sea, I think it has to do with the isolation I feel when I look at this image. The lone post standing amongst some debris, all that is left on this area of the beach. A testament to what once was, but will never be again.
When viewed large you can see some gulls flying over the lake.
Converted to black and white using power retouche pro.
Bombay Beach, California
February 2007
Don't ask me where I took this because I can't tell you.
All I can say is that it was one of the most random days I've had in a long time.
Horseshoe Quarry, Eyam.
No climbers at all this visit. Taken on an exercise walk from home last week sometime.
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout.
Down Valley a smoke haze
Three days heat, after five days rain
Pitch glows on the fir-cones
Across rocks and meadows
Swarms of new flies.
I can not remember things I once read
A few friends, but they are in cities.
Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup.
Looking down for miles
Through high still air.
- Gary Snyder.
Week 33: Isolation
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“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.” Tennessee Williams
The consequence of flying cheaply can be trying on my patience, and moreso, my comfort. At a height of 6'4", I'm more than tall enough to feel trapped on a long flight. There were four back west in all, with day one from Porto to Amsterdam, then on to New York overnight. Day two took us from New York to Detroit, then finally, Chicago. My back is unhappy with constant constriction, and my knees don't like it either. But I haven't got the budget for anything better, and the light is worth the pain, after all. We passed almost exactly over Saint Pierre and Miquelon, barely visible in silhouette through the haze below. It's a place I certainly intend to visit. All the islands of the northern Atlantic have a pull I can't explain, something about their isolation always calling out to me. There's a sure and steady edging in of ghostly voices – all the places I've planned to see, slowly calling me to come on down.
September 13, 2022
Atlantic Ocean
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When we cast the shadow of denial on another's right to his beliefs do we not cast that same shadow upon ourselves?
This was inspired by a friend who feels the need to conceal her religious beliefs because they don't fit the norms of the religious majority, and she fears persecution and isolation from family and community.
Following a public confrontation I had with a Christian friend on Facebook I received the following private message from her. Although I share this with her permission I have made some very minor changes in wording to better protect her identity.
"Dave, I admire you for having the guts to post what you have about religion. I'm learning that it's a dangerous, hateful and spiteful world out there if you don't agree with the mainstream, of which i do not.
Almost all of my Facebook friends are Christian, some pretty extreme. Only a couple know that I'm not. I lost a good friend because while she and I were talking one day, her kids were telling my kids that their mother coached them to tell my kids that we were all going to hell, for not believing what they do. Agenda, behind my back. Ruthless, I'll say.
At any rate, I wanted to share with you my angst over not being able to be free about my beliefs and also not being able to break the ties with the people who are hardcore that I've come to love and need. I hide my beliefs from these people, some are neighbors, for fear of losing them and a decent acquaintance/ relationship over religion, which I have always felt is an individual matter. So I keep my mouth shut while they spout their beliefs.
How would they feel if I posted " You're all going die and come back again and again until you get it right if you don't post this on your wall now!" I'm a closet Universalist/New Age/Reincarnation Spiritualist. I've lost friends for it. Why can't this whole sheep gathering thing end?"
My optimism about the natural goodness of people makes me believe few people have the desire to hurt others by expressing their religious beliefs, but as can be understood through my friend's words promoting one's religion can be hurtful to people who believe differently. I'm not against anyone having a belief in any particular faith, but I would suggest before one evangelizes they consider the feelings of others. Whether intentional or not, making someone think you believe they are a bad person or will go to hell if they don't accept your faith can be a very negative thing. It can readily cause resentment and anger. Those feelings are unlikely to lead a person to accept your beliefs.
Isolation_v08_Web
02/24/2011
Who would have thought the campus of the University of Chicago would be so quiet on thanksgiving morning? I had to come in to work early so i figured I would make the most of it and take a few photos. It was a gloomy day, cloud-filled and cold. Walking through this quad area felt like a ghost town and i tried to process it to convey that.
Alien Isolation
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Cheat Engine table for FoV, DoF & Freecam
XML Tweaks for shadow and particle resolution & surface reflectiveness.
Turned off in-game grain
1440p (cropped)
Alien Isolation
Reshade
Cheat Engine table for FoV, DoF & Freecam
XML Tweaks for shadow and particle resolution & surface reflectiveness.
Turned off in-game grain
1440p (cropped)
An Isolation Hospital in Muswell Hill North London built in 1888 by the Hornsey Local Board of Health.The motto is that of Hornsey-Stronger is he who is prepared.
The hospital is noted for it's work on Infectious diseases and although most of the unit is closed,having moved to the Royal Free Hospital there is still a facility for High security Isolation Nursing for diseases such as Lassa fever and Ebola
People say we got it made
Don't they know we're so afraid?
Isolation
We're afraid to be alone
Everybody got to have a home
Isolation
Just a boy and a little girl
Trying to change the whole wide world
Isolation
The world is just a little town
Everybody trying to put us down
Isolation
I don't expect you to understand
After you've caused so much pain
But then again, you're not to blame
You're just a human, a victim of the insane
We're afraid of everyone
Afraid of the sun
Isolation
The sun will never disappear
But the world may not have many years
Isolation
An old dilapidated house? in the country... isolated from everything. The people here were very nice, waving their hands as a greeting as I pass by :-) Even the dogs around were very friendly :)
This was taken after my work. I left work (Liberty,NY) at 4pm and headed to PA (approx. 45min.) to scout the area where I will shoot for tomorrow. My subject "Barns and Farms of NY & PA".
MORE TO COME :)
Downstaters meet the Upstaters & the Canucks.
The Urbex Junkies, urbandecay. & chriscreek in partnership with Deeva, *HSF* & ohfosho. The Urbex Rounds Spring Tour 2010. 4 days, 8 sites (well, successful sites I mean). Throwin' tea, forge/casting joints, pastrami sandwiches and great laughs with good friends. What could be better on a beautiful spring day.