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With that perfect sunset light.
Shot without trigger and too soon for 5+ seconds exposure, I pressed the shutter remote when I saw a light.
Hello everyone! I've gotten a several flickrmails from people asking about what the best kind of film for landscapes might be so I figured I should just go ahead and write a blog post about it here: www.alexburkephoto.com/blog/2013/02/25/color-film-choices...
Also, just so everyone knows, I launched a facebook page a few months ago. You can follow me there to keep updated on blog posts like this one.
I was feeling a bit out of shape this morning (yes, 'round' is a shape, but I'm not talking about that). But my shirt cheered me up no end with its cheerful label =]
Intimate & Vulnerable
I know this is a probably not that great. Here is a poem I did in 2016: Title: Deluxe Controlled Confusion of art
Gaze and delight at elements from puzzling symbols and actions gorgeously intertwined. Visions and dreams of fictional meanings and thought come alive. In to what world do I see? Is this the art or is this the nightmare of thought. Should I keep sleeping or should I awake. Great mighty voices start knocking my emotions from the left then to the right. Ultimate strange sensations flying past and around me. Reflections in the sky’s open to mysterious transformations. There is thunder that blasts in to light. Every thing here seems so ironic so unreal. I question will everything just be slipping away. Saying in the great infinity can anyone still see me. But art continues living in the minds of the dreamers that hold to truths undenied. Even elusive of thy self don't be confused of real truths. Not one moment to dull to explore something unseen. With a wish there is great joy nothing to fear. Effortlessly in motion for your the traveler of dreams. Arise to all possibilities every thing is yours to open. A clear call to you to fly with open mind. You are the artist who share your dream or visions as a gift. Please always be free in your dreams. But however be selective in the truth you present to the world. That your art truly represents what you hope to accomplish. Your personal wisdom in your art can open up conversations only you can start. That is the freedom you can explore. We are all vulnerable but few are willing to explore and grow from it what a good night.
Don’t be afraid to Hold or Grasp someone’s hand and let them know they are special to you. Precious and Fragile is our human life our flesh is temporary - Our soul is eternal. Life is simply an ever changing thing and it is never perfect. So amplify your experience by letting people know you really care. Endless possibilities are every place so we can all feel more alive. What ever happens this year you will make. So make great every thing you do. The future will begin with your next step.
(50/365) I set myself a few goals for 2017; lose some weight, get fitter, drink less wine & upload my first selfie to Flickr. This is me just now, safely back in the car after completing the 5km "Tintern Run" around Tintern Abbey grounds. I'm having a "dry February" with no booze at all. That was harder than I expected but I've lost 6lb in less than 3 weeks & don't miss the wine now so it's all good HSS!
The what is it group was very curious to see unprocessed and a normal photograph of the subject for this series. I processed them the way I did because it was the texture the light source I was interested in.
At PTC test train hauls ass on its way east back to the MMC. Trains like this are becoming less and less rare as the railroad struggles to meet the December, 2018 PTC deadline.
NJT PTC Test Extra @ Bridgewater, NJ
NJTR Comet V 6029
NJTR GP40PH-2B 4212
46056 stands at Dewsbury with the 16.05 Liverpool Lime Street - Newcastle. I'd been on it from St Helens Junction and alighted here. Never one of my higher mileage 46s at 365 miles, this was my last run off it. Much of the day was spent on the Pennines with 45001, 46046 and 46029 which were very high mileage peaks for me so not sure why I didn't plump for 46056 in preference. Got a feeling I passed it earlier in the day but didn't have a positive I-D on it until much later.
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Taken on January 21, 2015
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I am genuinely surprised the picture I posted yesterday showing my attempt to try and pass myself off as a woman in casual attire has received such a positive response. Thank you to all of you who looked at the photo and to those of you kind enough to post a comment. Your words and the attention are nice to receive.
I must admit I do adore imagining I a female and feel very much at home in make-up and female clothing and having worked on my physicality such as shaving my legs and chest,shaping my eyebrows and making use of elements such as false breasts and false hips along with techniques such as genital tucking. It is always a real thrill to swap gender and attempt to portray myself as a woman.
Those of you who are familiar with my narratives I add to my photos may be aware I feel one should inhabit the character and play the role as if it is real. This inevitably brings me to the behaviour and responses I attempt when I am cross-dressed. I do my best to act female and so I respond as a woman would towards men. I keep saying this, I am not interested in men or intimacy but as my female alter-ego she has to act as if she is attracted to men as I think this makes her portrayal more convincing and believable. It is a performance.
To that end I treat the camera as my boyfriend and I like to be girlie for ‘him’. I rather enjoy this acting as it is in collision with my actual sexuality so I find it challenging yet exciting as being able to try and be convincingly female. If I could achieve my female illusion to the point a man finds me attractive as a woman then that would be a success an vindicate my efforts to pass as a convincing woman.
I often must about would I actually dare myself to one day go out as a girlfriend alongside a man and play the part one hundred percent in the eyes of those who see me alongside him? That really would be my ultimate performance in female illusion.
The point I’m making it is it is the illusion that appeals and attracts mew not sex with a man. The man would, harsh as it sounds, be a supporting role to he illusion I am attempting. My dream is to be able to lie as a woman now and again and feel she is real. I do have a transsexual element to me so this is setting her free though I have no real desire to be a woman full time. The occasional woman is something i enjoy becoming plus I do love the dressing up and acting so impersonation of a female holds great appeal and reward for me.
The picture accompanying this narrative captures me very much enjoying being in my female role, I loved how I felt and loved the acting I was doing, yes I loved my ‘imaginary’ boyfriend and thought he was very handsome which is why I was smiling for him…for me I admit my transvestism has a large degree of fantasy that excites me but I do not desire to be real, I like pretending I’m a woman who loves men but that’s it, men for real is not something I want. I just harbour big aspirations to be a convincing female when I cross-dress as one and seeing if I can really carry it off.
Think Positive! The pluses look random but they're not. A new quilt pattern - more info on the blog.
One positive story from the 2018-19 shipping season - CSL Tadoussac's return to service - view from astern on the St. Clair River headed for Sarnia and layup (January 6, 2019)
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Lumen positive from 1950 military speed graphic 4x5. Shot on old Ilford MG IV paper. Initially 8 hour pinhole and then replaced with a Leitmeyr Doppel Anistigmat Syter 135mm f 6.3 for 2 hours with the paper dampened. There is some double exposure effect but it is difficult to make out without knowing what it is. Original negative, then an edited positive image, and an edited version that is somewhere between a positive and negative solarization.
Manifestación del 12 febrero por la Sanidad Pública en Madrid
Rollei Prego AF - Foma 400 - Pyrocat HD
One of the best things of flickr is how we cheer each other on to improve our photographic skills. It is really rewarding when you get all that positive feedback.
Why don’t we do the same with other aspects of our life? Why don’t we make this the positive feedback week!
Why am I going on about positive feedback you say? Well last week a new client came in to our office because he received a tax notice and wanted to get all his taxes up to date. He came in last Friday and sent me this email over the weekend:
“Thanks for taking care of my "emergency" return so fast. You did in 4 hours what my ex CPA couldn't do in 4 years. Your easy, calm insight, and a commanding knowledge of the system, combined with no drama or theatrics, made my experience there so pleasant. I appreciate that so much. All I was looking for was competence, yet I found expertise. A very pleasant surprise in this uncertain world. How often do you receive more than you were expecting these days? it's rare. You are "the man". Looking forward to all that lies ahead.”
I loved his email so much that I asked permission to share it. Pay it forward with positive feedback!
A common railfan argument is that the railroads should paint and maintain heritage units as a gesture of goodwill to the general public. While I have heard many positive statements regarding these locomotives from the public, I believe that Veterans/First Responder painted units have even more of an impact on communities. In this photo, passengers march past the large, veterans decal after disembarking train 370 in Grand Rapids, MI. Surely every single passenger will be reminded that America's Railroad salutes our veterans. What better way to show appreciation for those who sacrificed than a rolling reminder of our gratitude.
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;-) Texto en castellano mas abajo ;-)
Excuse me the many mistakes that sure I have committed in the translation, I hope that it is understood regardless!
Development of the trilogy blog – pride – persons.
The second part of this trilogy that I dedicate to explain, and to explain myself, because I use the captions (feet) of my photos as if they were my personal blog. This time I will comment because I feel proud, basing on my concept of person that I exposed in the first photo of the trilogy.
I am a heterosexual crossdresser girl. It is a fact … but, what does it means? If I you tell the truth, I don´t know it with certainty. It seems as if every crossdresser girl had her own definition … probably because there are many branches inside the crossdress … but this it is another theme. I suppose that to the others happen like to me, I am ashamed instinctively of this facet of my life, it is something cultural, the image of the "transvestite" is at least ridiculous, laughable, even I fall down in it without thinking it. It is like if it was so unnatural, so out of place, so incomprehensibly … why a sane man, that considers himself as man, would try to pass off as a woman?... And this it is the nice image, also there is the vicious image, in which you are a disgusting pervert which who know how many more barbarities will do. It is not to feel very proud … not. But the reason wins to the instinct, I am a person, and as such I have reasoning and feelings, and they say to me that this it is not the reality, it is not my reality. Maybe it is a parafilia, as some people say, or maybe it is the aptitude to overcome the assigned role and experiencing positive sensations that are denied to us without reason. I do not have answers, disease or quality, I don´t know, but I know that I do not have motives for which to be ashamed. I am a person, with multiple characteristics, but none of them defines me lonely and to be a crossdresser girl is not the exception, only it is a small part of me. Globally I am not discontented with me, do not understand me badly, I should improve very much as person, but if tomorrow I would die and I would have to give account for my life and for what I am, I believe that I would go out in peace, and it is a motive of pride. The global pride like person, to feel yourself well with total honesty is what really matters. And the pride for the different characteristics that I have? It is a different pride, with different purposes, bad some as arrogance, and other more positive as the reaffirmation. The pride that I feel for be a crossdress girl is of this type. If the things were as they should be, surely I would not feel proud for it, would be another characteristic more as to have small foot or the dark eyes. But unfortunately the things are not like that, and some groups have had to use pride as method of defense, as reaffirmation against discriminations and injustices.The example most clear is the homosexuality. I am hetero and it allows me to see the situation from out, impartially, and I believe that they do very well in feeling proud, because understandable better or worse, what harm do it?, why to make to feel badly to a person for a quality that goes implicit in that person?... My crossdress does not harm anybody either and though I can give up practising it, it is not anything that could make disappear of me, as I cannot change my liking or my way of being, it is a part of my intimate self. So, if I see it good for the others, why not for me?
I look around and see so many motives for what the people should be ashamed, so many attitudes, so many actions that cause so much harm … And later I look at me, being ashamed instinctively for wearing a dress or for feeling feminine … Not … I refuse to accept it, it is possible that in the moment I could not avoid the instinct, but I refuse to accept consciously a shame that does not correspond to me, because of it I am proud! This one is not an allegation in order that we all go out to the light and feel us superproud (though it would be very well also I understand that it is very difficult and dangerous), it is for feeling us well with ourselves and we do not torture psychologically ourselves without motive. The crossdress makes me feel good, and when I dress and look at the mirror, there goes out for me a smile of satisfaction and pride. I am proud!!
Desarrollo de la trilogía blog-orgullo-personas.
Segunda parte de esta trilogía que dedico a explicar, y a explicarme a mi misma de paso, el porque utilizo los pies de fotos como si fueran mi blog personal. Esta vez os comentaré porqué me siento orgullosa, basándome en mi concepto de persona que expuse en la primera foto de la trilogía.
Soy una chica crossdresser heterosexual. Es un hecho… pero, ¿que significa eso? Si os digo la verdad, ni yo misma lo se con seguridad. Parece como si cada chica cd tuviera su propia definición… quizás porque hay muchísimas ramas dentro del crossdress… pero ese es otro tema. Supongo que a las demás os pasará como a mí, me avergüenzo instintivamente de esta faceta de mi vida, es algo cultural, la imagen del “travesti” es como mínimo ridícula, risible, yo misma caigo en eso sin pensarlo. Es como si fuera tan antinatural, tan fuera de lugar, tan incomprensible… ¿por que un hombre cuerdo, que se considera hombre, intentaría pasar por mujer?... Y esa es la imagen amable, también está la imagen viciosa, en la que eres un pervertido asqueroso que ha saber que barbaridades mas hará. No es para sentirse muy orgullosa… no. Pero la razón vence al instinto, soy una persona, y como tal tengo razonamiento y sentimientos, y ellos me dicen que esa no es la realidad, no es mi realidad. Quizás se trate de una parafilia como dicen algunos, o quizás sea la capacidad de superar el rol asignado y experimentar sensaciones positivas que nos son negadas sin razón. No tengo respuestas, enfermedad o cualidad, no lo se, lo que si se es que no tengo motivos por los que avergonzarme. Soy una persona, con múltiples características, pero ninguna de ellas me define por si sola y ser una chica cross no es la excepción, solo es una pequeña parte de mi. Globalmente no estoy descontenta de mi misma, no me entendáis mal, debería de mejorar muchísimo como persona, pero si mañana muriera y tuviera que rendir cuentas sobre mi vida y lo que soy, creo que saldría en paz, y eso es motivo de orgullo. El orgullo global como persona, el sentirse bien con una misma de forma totalmente sincera es lo que realmente importa. ¿Y el orgullo por las diferentes características que tengo? Ese es un orgullo distinto, con distintas finalidades, algunas malas como la soberbia, y otras mas positivas como la reafirmación. El orgullo que siento por ser una chica crossdress es de este tipo. Si las cosas fueran como deberían de ser, seguramente no me sentiría orgullosa por ello, sería otra característica mas como el tener los pies pequeños o los ojos negros. Pero desgraciadamente las cosas no son así, y algunos colectivos han tenido que tirar de orgullo como método de defensa, como reafirmación ante discriminaciones e injusticias. El ejemplo mas claro de esto es la homosexualidad. Yo soy hetero y eso me permite ver la situación desde fuera, imparcialmente, y creo que hacen muy bien en sentirse orgullosos, porque se entienda mejor o peor, ¿que mal hacen a nadie?, ¿por que hacer sentir mal a una persona por una cualidad que va implícita en ella?... Mi crossdress tampoco hace mal a nadie y aunque puedo renunciar a practicarlo, no es algo que pueda hacer desaparecer de mí, al igual que no puedo cambiar mis gustos o mi forma de ser, es parte de mi yo íntimo. Así que si lo veo bien para los demás, ¿por que no para mí?
Miro alrededor y veo tantos motivos por lo que la gente debería avergonzarse, tantas actitudes, tantas acciones que hacen tanto mal… Y después me miro a mí, avergonzándome instintivamente por ponerme un vestido o por sentirme femenina… No… no lo acepto, puede que en el momento no pueda evitar el instinto, pero me niego a aceptar conscientemente una vergüenza que no me corresponde, ¡por eso estoy orgullosa! Este no es un alegato para que salgamos todas a la luz y nos sintamos superorgullosas (aunque eso estaría muy bien también entiendo que es muy difícil y peligroso), sino para que nos sintamos bien con nosotras mismas y no nos martiricemos psicológicamente sin motivo. El crossdress me hace sentir bien, y cuando me visto y me miro al espejo, me sale una sonrisa de satisfacción y orgullo. ¡¡Estoy orgullosa!!
PS: Si quieres ver un video con este look (If you want see a video with this look):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GHQJ03rBJg
Si quieres ver una versión reducida en Flickrs (If you want see a small version in Flickrs):
www.flickr.com/photos/61410455@N08/6319457850/in/photostream
I feel grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat today! Just like Tony the Tiger!
For the first time in a good solid month, I can finally say that and truly mean it. I really kind of want to jump up and click my heels together like a Leprechaun. Except St Patrick’s Day is over. Plus I can’t jump, and I’d never do that anyway even if I could.
But seriously, I do feel great. How could I not after finally completely eradicating negativity that was surrounding me accompanied by a fresh start on here?
I have begun to discover that some people can begin to hate on you if your opinion differs from theirs. In this case, it would be disagreeing with some of the ideas expressed under my photos.
Contrary to what some people may choose to think, I am perfectly fine with someone disagreeing OR agreeing with me. And I have plenty people in my life who do both regularly. Both in person, privately, and publicly in the form of comments under my “blog”. I’m fine with it all. I welcome it all actually.
But then you have this different form of person who disagrees with you, but starts to hate on you beyond the subject at hand. I guess my own principle or idea is so different from theirs that I strike a nerve or hit home somewhere in their psyche. Then these people I’ve noticed grow this bitter hate that goes WAY beyond the topic of the blog. It can fester all the way to the point where it starts to deeply affect our relationship.
And I’m not just talking about randoms on the Internet, I mean real life friends that read this stuff. Real people that were once important to me and became haters. People I have had to drop out of my life entirely that I actually once cared about.
It seems the haters always have the same complaints and come to the same conclusions. They say I’m cocky, I’m a fake or a phony, I’m insecure but pretending I’m not, I can’t take someone disagreeing with me, and things along those lines.
They always go on about this “popularity” thing that seems to fuel their anger. This has something to do indirectly with the events that led to me dropping for a little while and starting fresh with a new account. I’ve been wanting to do that anyway, so that actually turned out to be a positive.
I like to play games, be creative, and joke around on here. I think I am different in my own way. I like to mix it up. I admit I do like attention too. But I don’t act maliciously at anyone I know to garner it. Yes I may post a crazy controversial photo or maybe write about conflict-ridden topics that in turn earn more views.
So what if I do?
I have realized this also fuels the haters animosity even more. Why do you care about my opinion on something that has NOTHING to do with our relationship?? I don’t get it.
By the way, for the people that wanted to knock a “reality check” in me, you can reality check this: I’m smiling today. Like a big fat smile. And I really do feel the black cloud that has been following me has vanished. It’s great to be free of bullshit.
You know, it’s okay if someone doesn’t agree with what I say or think. It’s even okay if someone doesn’t like me. But as long as someone exhibits a certain degree of respect I deserve not only as a father, but also as a human being, that person is welcome in my life or photostream.
So if you feel the need to hate on me and try to mindfuck me (or anyone for that matter), go take it out on pimpexposure. The poor guy has his comments enabled again and won’t even fight back. He’s open game.
Lastly, I want to thank the people that were there for me over the past month or so. Three in particular that really helped me out tremendously. They were there almost everyday whether by text, email, or telephone and I would have been lost without them. You all helped more than you probably realize, so from me to you, thank you!
The photo at hand? I saw this guy sitting at the bus stop with a bus zooming by. I ran over, sat down, and snapped a picture. The way it turned out with me in the reflection like that was by accident. This accident I think turned out to be one of the most interesting pictures I've ever come up with. It's so abstract that the more you look at it, the more things you find.
Location: downtown Oakland, California
Taken: November 6th, 2009
Posted: March 23rd, 2010
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