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A month or so before they demolished it for road realignment.
Minolta SRT 101. Fujichrome Sensia II ASA200. Expired 9/2000. Film picked up at Salvation Army for one dollar.
Quante volte ho guardato al cielo
ma il mio destino è cieco e non lo sa
e non c'è pietà per chi non prega e si convincerà
che non è solo una macchia scura
il cielo.
Renato Zero
Hit with a migraine this morning and needed caffeine. My coke bottle reminded me that, overall, life isn't so bad!
Going through some old images and found this one I made last summer at a shop somewhere in Florida. I played with a little texture on it, too. It is a display Life is Good shirts - you know me if I see any old Coke items I get my camera out - hope you enjoy it. Have a blessed Monday :) ! ~
Karachi's sea front may not be the most environment friendly items on a traveller's list. But it surely is one of the finest place to enjoy life, to render thoughts in the oxygen; people come here to either remember their good times or forget their bad ones. Some do it by writing poetry, talking to themselves, crying, maybe smiling, others jump around and over such drains. Sea view, as it is called locally, is perhaps one of the last places in the city where rich and poor, Punjabi and Sindhi (and everyone else), policeman and lawyer come together to see the world through their own eyes. Senses here are fizzled out, if only for a moment; a breeze here is an ever-lasting joy.
Today we did a lot of cleaning (Two new toilets, to the laundromat to wash car towels and heavy rugs, Home Depot, regular stuff...) - nothing really fun but just that regular around the house stuff and it's just nice to be together living life.
I went in our outside guest room and there is this lamp in there that I love and never see. So, I brought it in the house and put it in our room with the big windows and it changes the whole look of our living room and I love it. It made me so happy. Just seeing it and the way it changed the room. And it just got me thinking about how nice today was. Even though we didn't do anything major - it was just all of the little things peppered in between our other stuff.
The sweet stuff that just makes life good.
#lifeisgood
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Yesterday, I became a real landscape photographer. At least, that's how it felt to me! Please excuse the uber-long description, but I'm stoked to share with you guys, because no one else would really understand. <3 ...
It had been raining and overcast all day, but in the late afternoon the rain very suddenly stopped and just as suddenly the clouds parted, blue skies peaked through, and down streamed the most glorious light I can remember seeing in a long, long time. I knew it wouldn't last long.
Almost in a panic I grabbed my camera, threw the lens and filters I wanted onto it, changed into clothes I didn't mind trashing, and ran out the door. As I drove towards the nearest open space I could see the low clouds hanging, the magical light flooding the landscape, and I swear my heart pounded and I became giddy with excitement! I was practically running red lights to get there.
I arrive in record time, park the car, turn on my camera to make sure I have the settings the way I want them and ... omg ... no card! Noooooooo! Ok, back in the car, speed back to my house, grab the freakin' memory card (and an extra battery as well as the monopod I had forgotten because now I've got my head on straight), and speed back to the open space in a literal panic about missing the light.
When I get there I actually start running (like, actual running) about frantically, trying to decide which direction is best - left, right, up, or down? I run up a hill, pan around, lie in the mud, try this vantage point and that, down the hill, looking for foreground, no maybe if I lie in the tall wet grass and shoot *this* way ... oh, dammit!!
Finally I find a great spot with amazing light on top of a small hill with a fantastic rock as foreground and I have at it! I'm feeling really excited because I know this is going to be good and also because I feel like I understand my camera and how to work with it so much better than I did just a little while ago - I take a shot, look at my viewfinder, adjust aperture or exposure, maybe rotate the circular polarizer, retake the shot ... I know how to make the adjustments to get what I want and it makes me feel good, you know? And, I really am lying belly to the mud - that's no joke. I'm absolutely filthy, and something about this makes me proud too. Like, "I'm a REAL landscape photographer and we get dirty for our craft!"
When I've had enough of the rock and the amazing light had moved on from that spot, I hiked on - thrilled that the light not only isn't disappearing but is becoming more magical - until I spotted a huge puddle that had been caused by the day of hard rain. This was a BIG puddle, in the middle of grassland, and the clouds were turning pink, and they were reflected in the puddle! I thought about all the amazing reflection shots I've seen on Flickr and realized this was a chance for me to get one too! I think a little tear formed in the corner of my eye.
I trudged over to the "pond" (more like a marsh) and tried to take it from this angle and from that ... but do you know where the best angle was to be found? You guess it - from within the pond itself. So, picture me right behind this vista, crouching in my converse and jeans in about a foot of water, soaked to the bone, elated about what I was seeing through the viewfinder, and feeling very much like a real landscape photographer. :)
Unedited shot of the Damrak, reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam, taken with my Panasonic DMC-FZ8. No editing, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
I shot a wicked video in the same puddle :)
Yesterday I went to the city to take some puddle pictures and wicked videos, it was an almost perfect day with lots of sunshine, pretty girls, good coffee and to top it off, a big demonstration on the Dam square of supporters of the right for abortion against a bunch of 'Jesus loves you'-signs holding religious nut cases, divided by a strong police force, proving that Democracy is not dead, it just smells a bit funny :)
Have a relaxed Sunday :))