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Actually I think this was the diagnostic center. Very 1980s institutional, boring.
Sony a6000 + Sony E PZ 16-50mm 1:3.5-5.6 OSS
Looking through my collection and i thought i re process a shot from a earlier visit to Dungeness.
Total isolation there with luckily no one around to get in the way.
Isolation - Pigs Lane - 11 Jan 2009
Update Nov 5th 2010... Title says everything. Wish I had done a better R though.
My life feels so derailed and it's not getting better. I do lots of praying and lots of crying. Been burning so much sage the smell is in my hair.
I said to friends that I feel like I'm at a rodeo I'm not at all familiar with, after really I feel like I'm in a boxing match with the heavy weight champion of the world and I'm getting the shit beat out of me.
I feel like I've aged so much in a matter of days, shaved years off my life and I did everything right. I was adherent to care, never missed a dose of medication, unless I didn't have access to it and this time not having access to it could very well end my life or I'm going to have to deal with other medical things I've never dealt with before and have no history of in my family.
The only thing this has to do with Covid is that everything cannot be focused on it. Especially when millions are already battling other conditions.
Day 7 of Covid-19 isolation. Financial worries, family responsibilities, and being cut off from the outside world have begun to take their toll. Life needs to get back to normal.
believe it or not but I use to sleep when I was homeless. The LA river is home to many homeless individuals who do their best to stay out the way. Like Jenny and Joy, Two Black women in their late 70's.
One night I stumbled upon this bridge. it was getting late and It felt safe. After the sunset I sat down against the railing. Soon after I began vomiting. I'd just finished chemotherapy that morning. I was sick all day, but the very thing I wanted was the cops bothering me.
"Are you high or sick young man" I told here I had cancer and just wanted to be out the way. "I'm sorry if I bothered you. I'll move on"
"You'll do not such thing. You gonna put these boots on and come with me, so you are safe tonight." She wasn't taking no for an answer.
We walked down to the river the made our way through to the makeshift area they called home. It solar light, propane stove lights and heaters.
I stayed with them every night for over a month. they made sure I ate and once went with me to my chemo appointment. They were twin sisters who once worked for the Army Corps of Engineers.
I developed an infection and had to be in the hospital for about two months. when I returned they were gone. Not a trace of them left. I asked other homeless people and they told me "After the got you to the hospital Joy took sick and died. Jenny took care of her to the end. Then Jenny took sick and died bout two weeks ago."
They told me how disrespectfully the city came in and trashed their belongings. I sat on the waters edge and just cried. sat there for two days.
About a month later I met my close friend Carlos who lived in the area. He invited me over for dinner and then we all went for a walk across this bridge.
"Isolation"
Saguaro National Park, Arizona
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Desert scene in Saguaro National Park during late winter/early spring. Spring flowers were beginning to sprout and the desert was experiencing its annual green aura on its floor. I captured this shot an hour after sunrise.
This is a handheld, three-shot HDR image. Processed in Photomatix Pro and Lightroom. Press "L" to view on black.