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It is a crazy notion to think that the moon, roughly 240,000 miles away from the Earth, can exhibit its subtle influence on a body as massive as the ocean, changing.... nay causing tides. And to think, as I sit there watching all that slowly happen that that same moon all those thousands of miles away has its pull on me too. In that respect the ocean and I have something in common.
Hypo Transformation: A digital alteration from my photograph to create a unique image that retains some of the original photograph's properties.
Front Page, The Ruby Awards, December 16, 2012: www.flickr.com/groups/rubyawards/
Captured in mid-afternoon under a cloudy sky along a village side street in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
My Umbra liquid soap dispenser seen from above. You push on the top and the soap comes out the pipe! Created for Macro Monday challenge "Push Pull"
An outbound Camden Line MARC train for Washington was pushing through Carroll Interlocking on a beautiful summer morning in 2008.
MARC GP40WH-2 66 had been through here many times as it was built for the Baltimore and Ohio as GP40 4062 in 1971. It was rebuilt by MK with parts of a former Burlington Northern F45 to create the unholy abomination of steel that you see before you.
After MARC was finished with the 66, it headed nawth to Bahston, where it worked for the MBTA for a wicked bit and current whereabouts are unknown per a quick google search.
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Danbo decided yesterday he was wearing a few extra pounds. All the advertisements on the TV for fitness clubs has spurred him on to get fit in 2020!
Kettlebell next mate!
This is a different shot from the previous one,which was a second or two before. I have chosen to upload this one in monochrome. I think street photography suits this genre. What do you think?
Again a market porter pushes his bin past the famous Market Porter pub which featured in the Harry Potter film, The Prisoner of Azkaban"
158840 and 158823 cross the Birmingham Canal (Wolverhampton Level) near Smethwick heading 1D12 09:08 Birmingham International to Holyhead neatly framed in the skeletal remains of the L.M.S. Railway Turnover Bridge; ripples in the canal surface caused by the drone hovering around a metre above the water level.
8148 with 8146 on the rear departs Troy Jn with 5825 Werris Creek to Gilgandra grain train.
2022-05-02 Pacific National 8146 North of Troy Jn 5825 - 8148 on rear
I don't know how large this fellow is but shot almost makes it look like he's riding a mini bike compared to his fellow competitors. I don't know how he fared in the standings but it wasn't afraid to push his bike and his abilities. (DSC_0162.jpg)
Again pushing the old 1000s and and the fuji100 film to their limits I managed this image of 1970 smoking towards Belmont in the afterglow of a Little Karoo sunset. A perfect end to a great days pricing.
Mamiya 645. FujiRDP.
An old pram inside a re-furbished workers cottage in Stack square, Blaenavon, part of the world heritage site run by CADW.
People are just so complicated! Life is just so complicated, at the moment every direction I turn to just seems so very complicated!!! Don’t get me wrong, there are areas that are less overwhelming than others, but don’t let this apparently coherent façade fool you into believing that my life is smooth at the moment! (I haven’t got time to highlight the issues, and if I’m honest if I get started, it won’t be fair to my mother in law).
Yes, yes, I know I should practice what I preach, (to students anyway) and time manage myself effectively, (which I am doing with work related topics I add, just in case my boss ever reads this), but people and those relationships, are such a different ball game! And family...Man don’t get me started, pushing water uphill is easer!
My mind tends to work best when it can focus on the task at hand, but in our fast changing lives, there are just so many things to occupy our waking hours! (can you believe it, I’ve come to the library to give myself some distraction free time for writing this and the Liberian has just asked me to fill in a customer satisfaction survey...man o live!)
Anyway, I have a million and one things I would really like to get around to doing, (Work, family, me), but sadly the list of tasks that are directed towards myself, the ones that will develop my creativity seem to always be pushed further and further into the distance. Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s my own fault for packing in too much, for choosing to say yes to so many things, for having a truly optimistic attitude to new and exciting things. Again don’t misunderstand me, there are some really exciting things happening to my photographic development, that I will be announcing soon, but I’m suffering now, I have overload! Sadly some things have to be pushed further into the distance! But I find it so very hard to do!
Creativity has suffered lately. It is very important to me, it offers me some space to develop, to ponder, to reflect, to slow down and actually, “create”. I personally would argue that it is a deep need to maintain our healthy physiological balance. But, postponing many creative activity’s for me anyway has a negative effect on the way I operate. It dampening my enthusiasm, wears down my optimism, puts a dampener on me, affecting all those other ‘necessary’ areas of my life. It would see selfish to ‘waste’ time on creating, if you have no food, no shelter, no security (Maslow hierarchy of needs), but to be honest the lucky ones of us that live in the western world, this is taken for granted for the vast majority of us.
Photography (be it, planning, thinking, writing, editing, or in the field) satisfies that creative urge. With my busy live it acts as a paradoxical escapist development. It offers me the opportunity to inhabit a creative space; it offers me somewhere to slow down, somewhere to ponder the subtler things, somewhere to be me. I just now have to find a way of being me with the rest of my life!