Obsessive Compulsive Art Tendencies (OCAT)
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I don't do this for the riches
I'm infected, my condition is I'm always in my head
These words are my religion
I'm obsessive by decision
I'ma do this 'til I'm dead-ead
Set me on fire
Set me on, set me on fire
Whoa-oh, whoa
I'm still alive
I'm still a, I'm still alive
Whoa-oh
Bet you didn't think that I'd come back to life
Fire, faster, everlasting (bet you didn't think I'd come back to life)
Higher, faster, never crashing
Bet you didn't think that I'd come back to life
Stronger (stronger, stronger, stronger, stronger)
Bet you didn't think that I'd come back to life
Obsessively hits the point with this picture. I am obsessed with the idea and the result.
Every design, no matter how small, leads to perfection and I am so grateful to my sponsors that they bring my ideas to life through their work!
Every time I went on any vacation, I would enjoy most of my vacation from behind my camera lens. The number of photographs I take on any given day of a vacation are from 5,000-10,000. Just uploading them to a portable external hard drive each day is a real feat and you should see the size of my memory cards!
And, why, you might wonder, would I have to take so many photographs? Well, I'll tell you, I have an innate fear that if I don't capture everything I see, it will vanish and cease to exist. My trips are like a glimpse into other lives and timelines.
Over time, I have learned the great skill of laughing at myself. I started to see the absurdity of taking so many photos...now, when am I ever going to find the time to look through all these? Well, I'm finding the time. I'm finding the time right now. And, let me tell you, after looking through the photostreams of those who are taking photos of Paris every day, like Jacques Delaire, for example, I can't wait to get back there and take 100,000 more photos.
But, I also have an appreciation for the fact that these photos may not ever happen again, not just because there is something about street photography that captures a specific spontaneous moment of time but also because we're at a point now where I'm wondering if we'll ever truly get out of this pandemic and how much we've all changed since it started. There have always been economic and political anxieties world wide...but this pandemic has changed our brains in the way we consider reality and also mortality.
In another timeline, I am dancing in the streets of Paris with a wine glass in one hand and a beautiful cat in my arms. In that timeline, I'm with two friends I really care about and we're singing about stupid yet important things and it doesn't matter if we fall all over ourselves or on our faces. Because, we're together in Paris.
Check out Jacques Delaire's photostream here:
www.flickr.com/photos/155081845@N07/
**All photos are copyrighted in all timelines**
So many orchards and beautiful bits of woodland in Shropshire. So many scenes I only know now how to shoot in panorama. But I just can't stop myself.
Tuesday now; that means it's Tree-mendous Tuesday, and one more day to work after today before I have another short break and a few days away from the routine of the last 30+ years
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A bit obsessive, this Osprey. It didn't stay long on the perch but rather headed back down to the water for a fourth cleaning run on Armand Bayou.
I have been obsessively checking the weather in hopes of making the most of the cold morning we were expecting. It was 19°F, and with the wind chill it was supposed to feel like 9°F, cold enough to freeze bubbles. After spending about 30 minutes attempting to freeze them, they blew away before I had any success. I fell back to an old favorite, herbal tea, which to be honest was the highlight of the bitter-cold morning. How did you spend your morning?
What makes someone extraordinary?
Well that depends on how you look at things. it usually means very unusual or remarkable. but in human terms it can often seem intense or obsessive - as most people are normally only "very unusual or remarkable" in one area of their life.
There are very few people that are extraordinary at everything.
Mabe he should have gone to Specsavers?
Candid street shot, Honiton, Devon, UK.
one of my obsessive-compulsive sewing pieces - part of a larger piece that i am working on - very slowly... it actually looks nicer in person.
Getting a bit obsessive with the Nigella which is starting to pod up now. Its seed pods are huge with a promise of the beauty to come next year. I'll need to get them started much earlier than I did this year. To be honest what with the rotten weather and sowing the seeds late I haven't played fair with them. I may just deliver a final insult and finish them off in a salad later. Not nice really.
I use both the flowers & leaves as they're nice and peppery in a salad and will go wonderfully with Queen Olives. Oh yes, indeed they do.
I view anything orderly in this disorderly world as mesmerizing.
This is a freshly prepared irrigation field on a rare cloudy day in rural Arizona. It is the only method of farming in this harsh desert climate and it was originally developed by the ancient Hohokam Indians, nearly 3,000 years ago
# aka "save me from myself again"
# it's been quite a while, but I process things differently, obsessively, et al., or so a few brilliant minds have informed me (& much more, of course), and I recognized and had already self-analyzed, reaching the same conclusions. Lyrics from Losing My Religion come to mind, the opening: "Oh, life is bigger, It's bigger than you, and you are not me, the lengths that I will go to." Emotional processing is obviously unique to each individual, an anguished sea of endless variations. I've sensed and directly experienced criticism of me and my emotions.... although I still have no idea what the point was. To offer hostility to the grief-stricken is callous, vapid, and utterly incompressible personally. Ok. I've encountered the feelings of people passing away, but this was/is unique. Despite the fact that I sought out objective assistance, I'll have a mere moment of memory, a small seemingly innocuous find, et al., and the day is utterly transformed. I don't know how, when, or if this changes... I thought to try Flickr for catharsis of a sort. So, thank you. Prost.
Obsessive - and labour intensive - natural fencing.
This thing went on for tens of yards - my god it must have taken some time. Someone really had some kind of issue, as it only ran round what appeared to be just an overgrown area of woodland. At least they possessed the adrenaline to go with it!
Norfolk, England - sadly can't remember exact location
My obsessive and compulsive DC-7 photography continues with a tight shot of the starboard side eighteen-cylinder Wright R-3350 Turbo-Compound engines.
Hasselblad 500C/M + Zeiss Planar f/3.5 100mm CF + Ilford PanF 50 + HC-110 (dil H) + Scanned Epson v850
tema della settimana #37: obsession
Certe idee frullano in testa, rimangono tra i pensieri, ritornano dopo tempo... certe idee, non ti lasciano mai solo, mai tranquillo.
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Yesterday, I discovered a new place for my dragonfly obsession... a pond, about 3 km from my house, when I used to have to drive about 45 minutes in the past !
Great news !! :o))
By the way... if someone could help me identify this one, I'd be very grateful :o)
Thanks, folks, for supporting my obsessive hobby. All Photos are taken in Southeastern Ct. with a Canon 5D M IV and Canon 100 to 400II.
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Sorry if I'm getting boring with these Moon Shots- I'm getting bored with them myself đ This is last night's near Full Moon looking South over the Swansea Valley.
I drive to work past these trees and have for a long time wanted to explore their photographic potential. The kids and I came here at sunset a month ago, but the impromptu visit meant that we arrived too late to scout out a suitable location to use, but secondly this particular field was full of bullocks, which rather put me off entering.
This is one of those locations only a few miles from home that I should have explored before. Itâs got obvious compositional potential and is ideally situated for sunset work, but sadly Iâm not thrilled about it. I think my apathy for this location is due to its close proximity to the urban sprawl of Leeds, which for me contaminates the wild natural feel. Strange how that such a minor detail, (the houses in the distance and knowledge that only just over this hill there is suburbia) disrupts my desire to explore this location. compounding the issue further, there is also other locations which are much nicer, only a stoneâs throw in the opposite direction, but due to the Chevin (a big hill near Otley) bock out the sunset light much too early before it gets interesting.
It was a unique collection of different winter conditions that finally brought me up here. First it was rather foggy and I was hoping it would offer me a thick undulating blanket in the distant valley, revelling these trees peering out above the fog. This also would have conveniently hidden the urban suburbia that I didnât even want to think about. My vision hasnât been realised in this image, but you can see the thin veil of fog building as the sun and temperature dropped. There had also been an early morning frost, and on north facing slopes it had managed to hold on till sunset, so I knew that the foreground would be more interesting than usual. I also knew that the colour would be interesting due to the fogs filtering effects on the sunset light, further compounding the natural atmospheric saturation. I also wanted to see what the more vibrant evening light would do to the frost. Iâve long loved the way frost subdues and desaturates the grass colour, but I particularly wanted to see what would happen when the evening light reflected and refracted through it. Iâve long loved this natural distortion of light through different natural surfaces. (I can remember as a student, making animations in a forest with my sixteen millimetre Bolex and loving the way light distorted its way through my slowly melting sculptures frozen in sheet ice). Anyway my vision was not realised in the way I imagined this shot, but putting on the ten stop filter and letting the slow moving clouds naturally blend the colours into what you see here, has been worth the effort.
Only five minutes after this shot, when I was packing up and heading back to the car, I was presented with the most amazing display. Not due to its drama, (although it was pretty special) but due to the fog and ice in the atmosphere the sky turned a shade of purple that Id not seen before in a sunset. (And trust me Iâve seen my fair share).
So to conclude, my pre-visualization on this shot has fallen shot in a number of ways, but the unique set of conditions I was presented with, offered rich pickings assisting the production of an image that Iâm personally happy with. I suspect that if I could in some way make the conditions âperfectâ to my pre-visualization list of criteria, (obsessive megalomaniacs need not apply), then Iâd be risking heading into a dark tunnel of stylistic clichĂ©. There may also be a danger that some of the magic could be eroded from the flexing of the creative muscles working around the unpredictable conditions.
Navel gazing. Self-indulgent or excessive contemplation of oneself or a single issue, at the expense of a wider view.
Am I obsessive about Megaliths and Prehistoric History? Yes. History of the Prehistoric is still being written. We may yet be back there again, for now we still use the roads that they gave to us. They built in a landscape with more options. They knew how to travel by land, river and sea. They found the best ways along fertile valleys. When we advanced in metal working and fortifications and in town and city and industrial life where we did not erase their markers we still built our roads to them. Their mounds and orthostats stood tall and we used them as navigation elements on our journeys. In Brittany just before the new roads came along with the modernising of the industrial lifestyle and over land communication potential, just before the roads were struck into the ground there are great records of the huge stones structures. Artist sent to quaint Brittany for the sea air and the superb rural lifestyle made great records of the large roadside ancient monuments. Then the road builders came along and used these piles of stones for the roads. The once proud hills of picked river stones were cast under the foot of man, the hoof of horse and the wheel of cart all within the new road. The central huge stones were left as Dolmens and yet some of the largest are still there. Atop the Carnac Tumulus stands the Chapel of Mont Saint-Michel and a cart track runs up to the building and the noted cross set on top. Wikipedia states of the Saint-Michel tumulus âa mound of earth and stones 125 metres (410 ft) long, 50 metres (160 ft) wide and 10 metres (33 ft) high.[1] [Hyperlink here and below also. The site linked has a different measurement listed as of today 1. 11. 2023.]
1 of 4 is made of two of the four pictures. One picture is just itself and two are themselves and also parts of the panorama. The ways we make and maintain past the stones if difficult to fathom at times. The stones either side of the road are not alone there are other site where modern roads go between the stones and sometimes where the road goes over the centre of the ancient monument. Some are too big to drive a road through so roundabouts, rotaries, gyratories and also circuits with houses built just on the far side of the stone circle such contemporary roads are constructed around Prehistoric sites.
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Clava Cairns Near Inverness, IV2 5EU
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/clava-c...
A Visitorsâ Guide to Balnuaran of Clava a prehistoric cemetery
www.archhighland.org.uk/userfiles/file/Sites/Historic%20S...
Balnuaran Of Clava, South-west
canmore.org.uk/site/14279/balnuaran-of-clava-south-west
Highland Historic Environment Record
ClĂ r Ărainneachd Eachdraidheil na GĂ idhealtachd
her.highland.gov.uk/monument/MHG3002
Saint-Michel tumulus -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Michel_tumulus
[1] Saint-Michel tumulus â hyperlink above
www.megalithes-morbihan.com/the-sites/saint-michel-tumulu...
I've been a fan of camera rotation photography for a few years now where the camera is rotated around the lens axis all in one photographic exposure. I've applied camera rotation in various ways including kinetic movement with lens and tripod swapping shenanigans. The one thing that really "tweaks" my OCD is alignment and last night I got it right for a change....
This is the cellar under an abandoned colliery; it's horrible, dark, dank, damp and dirty but great for texture and rotations.
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All creators who make BOM such as Skin, Make Up, Tattoo, Cloths, etc
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