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This was just fun...that's about it, but i love the way the store looks in the background!
Alt. for FGR's Self-Reflection and for Maite too!
Photo of Highway 1, the Cabrillo Highway and the Santa Lucia Mountain Rage captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens Garrapata State Park in Big Sur. Monterey County. Late October 2013.
A tortuous night of self-reflection and discovery for Rae and her friends. The last time they were together, a muslim child was left disfigured by a fire. One of them started it; they all have motives, they all have excuses. Secrets are spilled and one thing becomes clear…for these young people, adults and a flawed society are the root of all evil.
Presented by Salford Arts Theatre's Young Performers Company.
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Ever since my daughter was born self reflection was no longer an option...it is an almost daily occurrence. I see so much of myself in her! Although I know she is an individual in her own right...I am forced to watch as she fumbles through many of the same troubles and triumphs I did as a young girl.
Reflection: I see how my experiences have molded me and now I watch and wonder what she'll make of hers?!
For FGR (and my good friend, Maite): SELF-REFLECTION
Photo captured along the beach at Ma-Le'L Dunes in the census-designated place of Manila. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
Photo captured via Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D AF Nikkor lens at Patricks Point State Park. Humboldt County. On the last day of September 2013.
Photo captured while driving towards U.S. Highway 101, past post-mile marker 95.50 on Highway 1, the Shoreline Highway, near Leggett. Mendocino County. Late March 2013.
Foggy this morning as I got up to pack, there is lots of water in the gulf in Florida, but it does not look like the ponds in the late fall in Indiana.
My photographic style is about to change, hopefully the quality won't take long to improve.
Another day,
Dull like a rounded pencil point.
Sequestered to a foggy existence.
Today.
What is wrong with me?
Maybe nothing. Maybe,
Something is just going on,
With no name…
Yet.
Maybe it just Is,
The bottom of a cycle
Winter instead of Spring.
So that we can remember
To appreciate,
The times when it is so easy,
We just reach out our hand
And catch whatever the Universe wants to express.
And then we do it,
On behalf of the Universe.
But today, hibernating.
Hanging out in a funk
But I show up still
Do my routine
Make peace with my state
Let it run its course.
And take comfort in knowing
It will End. It All Will End.
To see the original post: kneverkneverland.com/2013/03/27/peace-in-the-storm/
Photo captured at a cattle ranch near the Lost Coast via Mattole Road. Humboldt County. Late May 2013.
Photo captured at Dockweiler State Beach in the Playa Del Rey district of Los Angeles. Early March 2013.
Photo captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 75-200mm f/4.5 lens from Samoa Beach in the census-designated place of Samoa. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
Photo captured via unofficial vista point on Patricks Point Drive near Trinidad and Patricks Point State Park. Humboldt County. Early March 2013.
Photo captured along the King Range via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens at Mattole River Beach on the Lost Coast. Humboldt County. Late November 2013.
Photo captured via ND8 filter off the Oregon Coast Highway, U.S. 101, at Humbug Mountain State Park in Curry County. State of Oregon. "State of Jefferson." 2013.
I'm closing out the year with this, a quick photo from the new art installation on the river (Subtile
- designed by Federico Díaz). It's an odd one with all of these small reflective discs - but it grew on me as I sat there with the wind gently moving the circles. It had a ripple like effect - which was fitting for it being along the river.
The Great Blue Heron holds special meaning in Native medicine, where it represents self-reflection:
As it stands very still in the water, it sends reflections of itself to itself, providing insight into one’s unique purpose in life, mirroring ‘what is’, and inviting quests for understanding how its own path fits within the whole.
The heron symbolizes the journey of self-realization, beginning with the development of the skills to build inner strength and achieve certainty of purpose, the courage to delve deep, and the resulting joy of discovery - of awakening.
"The apocalypse is finished, today it is the precession of the neutral, of forms of the neutral and of indifference...all that remains, is the fascination for desertlike and indifferent forms, for the very operation of the system that annihilates us. Now, fascination (in contrast to seduction, which was attached to appearances, and to dialectical reason, which was attached to meaning) is a nihilistic passion par excellence, it is the passion proper to the mode of disappearance. We are fascinated by all forms of disappearance, of our disappearance. Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency." (Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation, On Nihilism trans. 1995)
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"praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength!"
(Friedrich Nietzsche, Complete Works Vol. 13)
so here i am, at the end of this chapter.. (view on black!!)
and with a sense of certainty, i'll bid my student life goodbye in two days and embrace the life of a poor-fessional. yes. you heard me right.
i doubt i will go back to the books again for now and the very foreseeable future! so yeah! no more exams, no more homework, no more revisions!
Strobist Info:
SB900 into 32" brolly box at 1/32 power, in front and above subject, triggered via cybersyncs.
SB800 bare at 1/32 power, directly behind and below subject, triggered optically.
Photo captured via HDR technique of photography at the site of where the Little Sur River drains into the Pacific Ocean on the El Sur Ranch property in Big Sur. Monterey County. Late January 2013.
Photo captured on northbound U.S. Highway 97 in the census-designated place of Macdoel. Siskiyou County. "State of Jefferson." Late February 2013.