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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!
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.
BITH'S JUKEBOX # 011
GARBAGE "PUSH IT"
Drop a coin in the slot :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-CHEnJ7gnc
Alternative video as the lawyers got to the first one :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jqOeGm1j-w
"I was angry when I met you
I think I'm angry still
We can try to talk it over
If you say you'll help me out
Don't worry baby
No need to fight
Don't worry baby
We'll be alright
This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explodes and my body aches
Push it (make the beats go harder)
Push it (make the beats go harder)
I'm sorry that I hurt you
Please don't ask me why
I want to see you happy
I want to see you shine
Don't worry baby
Don't be uptight
Don't worry baby
We'll stay up all night
This is the noise…………
Come on push it you can do it
Come on prove it nothing to it
Come on use it let's get through it
Come on push it you can do it
This is the noise that keeps me awake
My head explodes and my body aches
Push it (make the beats go harder)
Push it (make the beats go harder)"
Garbage rolled a succession of hot singles through the mid-90's. The photograph is part of the original "Push it" cd single sleeve.
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Astropilot · Distant Worlds (Long-form Drone Version)
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Single frames with this lens are actually quite good but pushing the boundaries of what cheap lenses can do....there is significant 'moustache' distortion in a panorama this wide....it took me forever to repair all the issues. Ah well even with that it is still one of my favourite lenses to use as it has basically all my most used focal lengths in a single lens that is smaller than you'd expect❤
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Nikon F-801s
Soligor C/D Zoom+Macro 28mm-55mm ƒ3.3 @30mm
Kodak Vision 3 50D_5203
Flic Film ECN-2 kit
8-panel stitch
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BNSF 5264 pushes a monster stack train over the rise between Toluca and La Rose, Illinois. Photographed with a Nikon F on Ilford Delta 100.
67012 just about catches the evening light as it propels its train over St Julians bridge on the outskirts of Newport. 1W65 18:55 Cardiff Central to Manchester Piccadilly.
Union Pacific 6277 pushes hard on the rear end of a loaded Herzog ballast train heading for a track project in Gremann, Arizona, the train was loaded at Murdock, Utah with grey rock and comes in at just under 10,000 tonnes. Once the train reaches Cajon summit it will cross over to the Mojave Sub where it will inch down to Canyon where it will have a crew change and head for the Sunset Route at Rancho where the train will take on another uphill gradient in California, Beaumont Hill.
"My mind is corrosive
I trip on corrosive
I freak
See through me
My eyes are explosive
I feed on it
Black out
Crucify me
Yeah, you push it"
xJAx - Harness Shirt - Black
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