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sb800 camera right and slightly lower
slave flash unit above left
On camera 1/3 power
intentionally overdone, with shadows
Well reality hit with a vengeance today. After a two week holiday hiatus it was back to the pool for a 90 minute aquafit session with none of the advertised fancy coffees after. Straight home for a Keurig drip. I did have a couple hazelnut vanilla pods in though so that was treat enough.
While there's safety in soft lighting and diffused focus, it's quite another matter when things are bright and sharp! It took me some time to post these pix, for a couple of reasons: they're unforgivingly revealing, and the relative lack of makeup leaves me feeling somewhat vulnerable. I've also wondered if somebody from my everyday world might stumble upon me here and put two and two (the "he" and the "she") together! But I suppose there would be good reason for them to be here in the first place, and besides, I keep telling myself I'm getting too old to care!
amalia turning into a doll....
this was one of her fantastic ideas.....but it was not easy to get her to stay still long enough for a shot!
i was uploading pics on the computer and then suddenly i turned and she was standing there like this!!!! it freaked me out!
doll face curtesy of paperdolly!
Why so?
For here I am in one of two swimming pools in my complex and given the working day, I mostly always have it to myself.
It ain't someome else ....... It me!
No one-piece swim suit or bikini. Just me .... being me and at the current temperatures of 38C for the past month or so, where else would I be.
Sometimes I am the real me and I have no problem with posting it.
As for the rest that won't show reality, I put that up to the fact they may not get the same big 'comment count' they have become accustomed to receiving.
Sadly, the vast majority will never ever show their real selves.
easy question: what is the reality that you see here?
the marionettes on the right, or their image reflected in the mirror?
or both?
or, maybe, none of them ?? actually this is just a picture, there aren't marionettes in front of you at all, just a screen... : )
so... what is reality and what is appearance?
this picture made me think about that. In my opinion reality is what we want to see (or to hear, or to feel). this means, we could get a different perspective of reality and see it in very different ways.
like the marionettes here: the reality itself did not change at all, we just realized that there can be other sides/perspectives of what we see (or hear or feel).
have you have ever had a discussion with someone because of different points of view? tipically in these discussiones both are convinced to "hold the reality",
to be on the right side.
if just one of the 2 persons involved would have considered that there can be "another" reality the discussion would have stopped immediatly :)
have a good day!
: )
*If you're tagged, it's my way of saying goodbye because I won't be back until December. November 8th:)
I'm tired man, just so tired of the way someone could be really immature. I'm hanging in there though. I love school, it's just one person who I can't cope with. It gets to me, but I'm honestly trying not to say anything. I could say a lot, but I choose not to.
Joining Yearbook was the best decision I've ever made so far in High School, and my friends and I are joining TSA this year too, it looks EPIC. I'm pumped for a great rest of the year. All consisting of events, yearbook, friends, pictures, and A LOT more. The list could go on and on and on. I do have some not so good news. I'm isolating myself from Flickr until December. November 8th! I need to. I go on everyday, even if I don't upload, haha. And everyday I'm always thinking: "I NEED TO TAKE SOME GOOD PICTURES FOR MY STREAM!". And facebook, I deactivated my account about an hour ago. I'm taking a long break, because I need to concentrate on school, college applications, and yearbook. I don't know if anyone else has done yearbook, and how serious it is at your school....but it's pretty serious here. Okay, okay. Take care everyone, seriously. Have fun, take those inspiring photos that you all do and be safe. :D
P.s- My friend Jewelyn made a Flickr, I'd gladly appreciate if you would check out her very unique stream. Click this to see it! :]
*When I come back in December, I am having a print giveaway. :]
In one week we leave to go house hunting. It will be January. It will be Ohio. It will be painful. I will not be here.
Another shot I managed to take in the village as we walked to make our way down to the Chambal River for our River Safari with the 500mm,capturing what to me was a real eye opener of the reality of Indias have nots.This young child caring for her sibling while standing barefoot in the street and but a child herself.
The above images were photos I haven’t been able to face until now, but I feel like they need to be seen.
Everyday I log on and scroll through my contacts and I see eating disorders romanticized.
I’m so tired of seeing the same pictures being posted. Here’s the reality of those images.
Those photographs of crouched females with every vertebrae showing through the skin of her back, clavicles deep enough to hold water, the patterned row of sternum bones on black and white chests.
This is the truth of that.
This is the reality.
This was me five months ago when I nearly died.
Outside of flickr, in the real world, this is what you’re romanticizing, this is what you’re supporting when you post those images.
There is nothing, I repeat nothing, beautiful about it. There is nothing beautiful about being a waif, a tragedy.
I wish you could all see that, but I suppose in the end you can’t unless it’s been you.
Just realize that those girls in those photos, the ones you so desperately want to be, they’re dying, they’re in more pain than you can possibly imagine, physically, mentally, emotionally.
There is nothing beautiful in that pain and certainly nothing worth idolizing.
….I just cannot emphasize that enough.
Realize what you’re really seeing and instead of wishing it was you, be thankful it’s not.
I strongly believe there was a "real" Santa that went around and helped the needy at Christmas and now it's all those who help the needy now (Toys for Tot's & etc.). BUT, Jesus IS the REAL reason for the Season.
(p.s. I will remove any ignorant comments made)
Does our bodies shape our minds? Is the modern world scaled to the average size person? Do right-handed people see things differently than left-handed people? As a photographer all my cameras are designed for right-handed people and that sucks.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
--Ellen Parr
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this happens when a person is bored n nothin is infront of them except a computer, photoshop and a camera.
My neighbourhood, in BW. The cool cloud action in the background is courtesy of the Olympic Mountains. You can't see them, but the clouds have a way of hanging around them... ringing us. (For the record, our house is just outside the frame... to the right of that curve of beach about a third of the way up from the bottom).
shot from Tupai island ( the Heart Island ) with Bora Bora at the background. Iles Sous Le Vent. French Polynesia.
Slice of Reality is an art installation installed for the millennium celebration. It is located on the banks of the River Thames near the O2 stadium.