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I took this at Deer River, which goes to show that even the most gorgeous places can be home to subtle as well. Read about Deer River here on on my blog.
Be kind to people, spread love, bring smiles. You never know what people are dealing with behind their masks. ♥
Photo Sponsored by a good friend of mine, with an important message
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Message from the designer:
"We fight our demons on the battlefield of our mind, as well as our heart. We endure pain and we grow tired. On days you feel like the war's been too long, and the pain is too much, I hope you stay."
The Crooked Tree
Standing out in solitude
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Dusky Blue
Evenings to remember...
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Forest View
Outwoods, Leicestershire
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Honey Pot
Travelling the waterways
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Caterpillars don’t become butterflies overnight. It takes time and a lot of hard work. This butterfly on our window was a great reminder to me that growth and change don’t usually come easily or quickly but with a lot of work, involvement and sometimes with the darkness and isolation of a cocoon. There may be some growing pains involved and in the end it is worth it.
Nikon F100
Sigma 35mm f/1.4
Fuji Superia X-tra 400
Developed and scanned by The Darkroom Lab
Titled "How long had I been gone? How long had I been back? Did it matter?", this series is made up of ten sets of image and text. Each set expresses the 'moment' in which I explore a place in a photograph and then two written descriptions: one by me, considering my mental health, thoughts and feelings, and one by (best friend and accompanying adventurer) Michael with his version of events. The series tracks how photography has changed my interactions with the world, from being isolated to being able to get out and explore.
You can see a few examples of how it was presented here:
Tim van Zundert - How long had I been gone?
But then, why stop at old, ruined castles? This abandoned and derelict building site rises above the coastline of the Isle of Portland. These adventures and night explorations were beginning to give me an inflated ego. Why shouldn't I go wherever I want, whenever I want? I am owed the experience. Spending hours avoiding a security guard perhaps dampened that negative thinking.
I believe that, sometimes, you can see ART "already" even if the piece is still not yet finished ;)
For the finished piece=> www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-REACHING-THE-END-OF-THE-DA...
It happens.
I wrote about 4 mindsets that lead to burnout and how to fix them: fourbrickstall.substack.com/p/four-reasons-youre-burning-out
Models: Rosie Roo and Zoe Parker
Unless one has actually been there, clinical depression and anxiety etc is very hard for a non sufferer to REALLY understand. Why doesn't the sufferer get a grip and just snap out of it?
My emotional avatar right there.
For many years I’ve been struggling with my former time at school. The coercion, peer pressure, loneliness, the tribal culture and seeming chaos of random acts of cruelty and humiliation perpetrated by my peers deeply affected me. Add to that the bullying that was directed upon anyone observed to be either too smart or too dumb. So I ran silent and deep, tried to become invisible, did the minimum effort to receive a pass in my assignments, in constant fear of being cast out, rejected and mocked. After finishing school I felt cheated; I’d lost my chance at a career or even becoming who I might’ve been. I felt like a shadow. I felt like a failure. The bullies had won. I felt bitter and angry; I would resort to road rage to vent my aggression. In my mind I would become obsessed with questions like “Why” and “If only-“, I was trapped in my own past.
Through much counselling, reading and introspection, I had an epiphany recently. I realised that I’d survived. It sounds a so simple and a little quaint but I suspect that I had to be in the right place in order to realise the power of that statement. I was traumatised by school but I survived. Unfortunately many kids don’t. But I did, here I am. Suddenly the questions in my mind turned to “Now what?” and “What happens today?” Saying to myself that I survived something in the past gave me not only strength but focused me back on the present, the here and now. This moment here becomes important rather than trying to fix or resolve or find meaning in the past. That's a hugely powerful feeling for me and I’m proud of myself for surviving something I found so traumatic.
I don't know why it took me so long to get here but that's in the past now too. I don't know if this helps anyone reading it but if there's even the remotest, slightest possibility that it might, then it's worth sharing. Sharing our vulnerabilities makes us stronger, I think.
'Mind your health'
Since 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed in May by reaching millions of people in the United States through the media, local events, and screenings.(copy and paste bit done)
This is now a Global campaign and awareness is indeed needed.
My thoughts after the last year or so we have had that helped no one through anxiety or other mental health issues was to give a moment to try and create an image that was my representation of the awareness campaign in lightpainting.
The translation of the shot will be different for everyone but the message is the same!
one of the people I interviewed at ThriveFest 2024, presented by the Brooklyn Arts Council and held at Bric Arts Media
I asked him about his t-shirt as well as the organization
Sound Mind Live
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These are Photos that I have included in my portfolio. Each image shows my growth as a photographer. It shows how varied my photography is from Mental health to graveyards .
Publication: [Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1950?]
Language(s): English
Format: Still image
Subject(s): Hydrotherapy,
Mentally Ill Persons,
Hospitals, Psychiatric,
Nurses, District of Columbia
Saint Elizabeths Hospital, (Washington, D.C.)
Genre(s): Pictorial Works
Abstract: A nurse at St. Elizabeths Hospital for the mentally ill in Washington, D.C., monitors patients in continuously flowing baths.
Exhibition: Exhibited: "Images from the History of the Public Health Service," organized by Ronald J. Kostraba, Parklawn Conference Center, 1989.
Extent: 1 photographic print : 21 x 26 cm.
Technique: black and white
NLM Unique ID: 101447508
NLM Image ID: A018674
Permanent Link: resource.nlm.nih.gov/101447508
I wanted to convey the feeling of hiding from your own self and disassociating. The feeling of not feeling you, and blending into your surrounding to try and hide from your thoghts.
A family member told me of mental health issues. Seek help, tell friends, and get plenty of sleep. I forgot, follow the recommendations of the doctors and take your medications.
Photo taken at 76 Minds Studio - January 2020
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