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Me and my shots of webs...but I do find them a bit cathartic somehow. They serve as a good indicator for how I think and feel right now..they have a sense of being tangled and wrapped up yet easy to break through and always have the ability to be seen through even when one is tangled up inside or viewing from behind them. Today I also enjoyed some beautiful morning light that allowed for me to capture many multi-faceted bokeh orbs of varying hues and degrees of light...
So I use this opportunity to express how I think and feel, have thought and felt and more importantly how I want to think and feel...It is a bit of a release I suppose. My need to give and receive love has so been tainted by my actual ability of it...Wanting to be loved and adored for more than just what I am perceived as or from the many titles I hold from a life of matrimony and motherhood. Those true signs and deep feelings of love have been so absent for so long that I don't know if I'd recognize it now if it slapped me in the face. But I feel it looming..from a far off distance but not so far away that it is unobtainable...My desire to give it feeds the desire to get it..and my ability to show it fuels its...I am still guarded by past hurts, lost love..and years of my love being neglected...only to be noticed when I have far surpassed the feelings of it...So my sense to seek it elsewhere is only second to the knowing that I will get it...so long as I let it...to open my heart completely...to speak the words freely..to allow it to come back to me..to absorb it in instead of reflecting it back out..to truly know what loving is...only achievable if you are willing and ready to accept it...
We learn from reflecting on experience
week # 1 - 52 in 2017 reflection
sometimes I try to learn new skills with Danbo. He is very patient
Photo captured alongside the El Sur Ranch on the Old Coast Road in Big Sur. Monterey County. Mid April 2013.
Photo of the Pacific Ocean at sunset captured from Table Bluff Park near the census-designated place of Loleta. Humboldt County. Mid September 2013.
Photo captured at the Freshwater Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Early May 2013.
Photo captured via Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D AF Nikkor lens, looking west towards the Pacific Ocean (which is on the other side of the thin strip of land and on the other side of the trees), captured on the Big Lagoon Bridge on U.S. Highway 101, the Redwood Highway, in the census-designated place of Big Lagoon. Humboldt County. Early September 2013.
Photo captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens from Samoa Beach in the census-designated place of Samoa. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
I’m having my day
My place in the sun
I’ll grow to resemble
The man I’ve become
There’ll be time for reflection
When I reach that plateau
When the war has been won
No farther to go
And I fear that it isn’t enough
I’m making a fortune
I swore to enjoy
These things I promised myself
When I was a boy
When I was a boy
And things moved too slow
And universes revolved around
Things I didn’t know
When I was a boy
And I made mistakes
I was humiliated
Til I knew my place
And I fear that it isn’t enough
Ignorance hurts
Injustice inflames
I remember the feelings
But forgotten their names
When I was a boy
I saw through their lies
I swore I wouldn’t become
The thing I despised
But events over take you
While you set your sights
On bigger game
On greater heights
God bless amnesia
And the things I’ve suppressed
I can reframe the image
I can discard the rest
A history of holes
Where the pieces that won’t fit
With the story you told yourself
And your place in it
And I fear that it isn’t enough
So put on a brave face
Straighten that tie
And speak like you mean it
Give truth to the lie
And I fear that it isn’t enough
David Sylvian
Photo captured near the unincorporated place of Pepperwood alongside Avenue of the Giants. Humboldt County. Mid July 2013.
Photo captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens from Samoa Beach in the census-designated place of Samoa. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
Photo of Luffenholtz Beach, looking toward Trinidad and Trinidad Head, captured via Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D AF Nikkor lens (~f/11) in the census-designated place of Westhaven-Moonstone via Scenic Drive, County Road 4M310. Humboldt County. Mid August 2013.
Slightly edited mobile phone cam shot of myself and my wicked cool, self-designed AmsterS@m shirt reflected on the side of a car in Amsterdam. Taken with my C905 mobile phone. No editing besides flipping the image horizontally (so that you can read the message :), and some messing around with contrast and saturation, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
It's been a while since I've started this whole Flickr thing, and I have to say it's been (and still is!) fun times! Thanks to Flickr and the lovely community around it I was able to realize the early stages of the 'AmsterS@m World Domination Plan', and now I am proud to announce another important stepping-stone towards total AmsterS@mmification of this planet:
From October 1 - October 30 you can see some of my wicked reflection photos at the 'MultiCulti' exhibition at the 'ABC Treehouse' in the Voetboogstraat 11, Fridays – Sundays, 1PM-6PM. ('MultiCulti' is part of GRID 2010, 4th International Photography Biënnale), yay :D
Photo of the South Fork Eel River captured alongside U.S. 101, the Redwood Highway, just north of the Richardson Redwood Grove at Richardson Grove State Park via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
В самой дальней точке, в ядре осознанных противоположностей находится незавершенное постоянство: оставленное небрежностью первых советов и нравоучений, беспорядочно запавших в такую глубину случайных слов посторонних, безнаджным соблюдением иллюзорности значимого для тех, кто читал семерых неупомянутых, признанных и переведённых. Уже целая жизнь! Встревоженная, но осмелившаяся отличать минимое от безучастной пустоты, когда серде скачет, а в висках пульсирует кровь на радость последователям Вундта. Найкан завершается, всё сказанное сливается в одно гулкое эхо.
For FGR and Show Me Your Balls!
I've been a fan of the f* bomb all week and I completely expect to get banned or bounced from a group for dropping it. I don't care, I'm trying to get in the spirit of things! I happen to have a huge trucker's mouth, and curb it most of the time: every now and then I like to remind myself that it's there and that there's more to just "being in the spirit" than simply playing along (this is something that extends past things like FGR, and is meant to be about struggling with all the hard things people hide around this time of year.)
All the tension is leaking out of the cracks in the spaces around us. I want others to know that it's ok to say fuck it, and be whatever.
The orchids are blooming and this makes my insides want to bloom as well.
(Single image version) The beginning of the year always marks a milestone. An opportunity to start fresh. It's a new year after all? For day 2 of the "reflections" theme, I decided to do a self-portrait showing that moment from me closing and opening my eyes to a new year, a new opportunity to continue lifting myself up and getting out of my own comfort zone. I'm not there yet - but I can see it there in 2019.
Reminds me of a René Magritte or Costa Pinheiro painting.
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Monument to the Battle of the Nations, Leipzig, Interrail 2018.
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If you liked my work, take a look at my Instagram gallery, where I share some of the things I've been doing (travels, music, lifestyle) and where I post other pictures that are not yet on Flickr as well as some edits. It would greatly help me in my photographic journey. Thanks a lot for your support.
Photo captured near the town of Point Arena and near the Point Arena Lighthouse Station. Mendocino County. Late March 2013.
Photo of the Cascade Range captured near the town of Burney alongside California Highway 299. Shasta County. Late March 2013.
Michael Alfano, 2022, near Seven Stars Bakery, Jewelry District, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, sculpture
Photo of the Little River captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens at Moonstone Beach in the census-designated place of Westhaven-Moonstone. Humboldt County. Early November 2013.
Photo captured at the Vista Point at Junctions California 92 and 35 in San Mateo County. Early 2013.
To see my blog about this photo check it out at www.fallingleavesphotography.ca and check us out on facebook. Falling Leaves Photography and Design.
Slightly edited mobile phone cam shot of myself reflected on the door handle of a car in Amsterdam. Taken with my C905 mobile phone. No editing besides some messing around with contrast and saturation, no magic tricks, no Photoshop :)
Cars can be such a source of inspiration when it comes to wicked reflections, and I've shot my share over the years, so I guess it's good if we keep them around for another couple of years, even if it means destroying life on this planet with them, it's worth it, anything for art, lol ;-P
I know it's still early, but put this in you calender already: From October 1 - October 30 you can see some of my wicked reflection photos at the 'MultiCulti' exhibition at the 'ABC Treehouse' in the Voetboogstraat 11, Fridays – Sundays, 1PM-6PM. ('MultiCulti' is part of GRID 2010, 4th International Photography Biennial), yay :D