View allAll Photos Tagged TheEnd
Massaciuccoli Swamp (Tuscany - near Giacomo Puccini's house)
A tribute to
Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse Now
The Doors
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
#past prime #blackandwhite #amarilis #flower #nature #theend #artofnature #artenatural #iphoneography #iphoneonly
that girl right there
will make it on her own
so this is it, the end of a project that has lasted for a whole year.
during the past fifty two weeks, I believe I have come closer to the person I am supposed to be. when I started this project, I was afraid of what would come next and at the same time I wanted to remember every single moment of it.
my last year of school began and I have never been as stressed before. I have never slept as little before and I have never wanted to give up as many times before. when I look back now, I see all I have been feeling in the pictures I took for every week of that year. I see despair and loneliness, but at the same time joy and feeling safe.
during the first thirty weeks school took over my life and I hardly had time for anything else. but at some point, I had survived my a-levels and the stress was over for at least a bit. I could finally spend time with friends again and relax, only to get drawn back by new exams and tests a few weeks later. a last stressful phase began and in week forty one, everything was over. everything I feared when I started this project was suddenly over and I was the happiest I have ever been. I could finally concentrate on other things, I made new friends, and although there have been bad and unproductive days too, this summer was the best one I ever had.
and now I am almost where I have been last year: I am afraid. afraid of what the future will bring. afraid of letting go everything that was, afraid of things changing and friends leaving. but there is this little difference. I have learned a lot during the past year and I believe that this project has helped me appreciate everything I have and that is what makes accepting changes easier for me now.
in some respects I know exactly what I want, and then again I have no idea whatsoever. and that is okay as it is.
the past year also made me realize where I want to go with my photos. I have started to take film photos and I took a picture a day for one hundred days of my summer. all that, and most of all the photos I took for this project, made me realize that I want them to be memories. when I look at all the pictures I’ve taken during the past fifty two weeks, I see that I have done something right. because they make me feel and they mean the world to me. and that is all I wanted to achieve when I started this project.
I hope at least some of them also mean something to all of you guys out there who are viewing and commenting and favouriting my photos. and I just want to say thank you for always being here and looking at what I wanted to express. thank you so very much.
right now I don’t know what will come next, but I know that I have a whole new life ahead of me.
and I know that I want to develop. I want to change. I want to make it on my own.
[september 6 – 12, 2010]
september 8, 2010
I made this summer a good one.
I have lived during these past 100 days. after all the pressure that school had put on me was gone, I have finally had time to enjoy life.
I took pictures I would never have taken if it wasn’t for this project. I love some of them and I hate others. but the point of it wasn’t to take pictures I liked or to improve, it was to document my summer. and that’s what I did. every single one of those 100 photos makes me feel something when I look at them. because they remind me. and that is all I wanted.
the best part about it is that my summer isn’t over yet. but this project is and I’m happy about it. from now on I will only take pictures when I feel like taking them, but it will probably still be quite often. I will only upload pictures I want to upload and I will put more thought and energy into them. I enjoyed this project while it lasted and it definitely changed my summer for the better, but I knew that it wouldn't have such a big impact on me as my fifty two weeks project has before I started it. that one ends this week too and the missing pictures are almost ready to be uploaded, I just wanted to finish this project first.
today was quiet. Nina, Gregor, Seb and me slept over at my sister's house and later went to Gregor's to have breakfast. I came home at 4, ignored the mess in my room and tried out the 50mm f/1.4 lens Gregor has lent me. :) and now I'm off to meet up with them again.
it rained a lot and the sun didn't come out all day.
I felt like completing this project with a picture that goes with the one I took on the first day.
thank you to Rosa for doing this project with me.
thank you to all people that have looked at my photos and commented.
and a huge thank you to my friends for just being there and spending time with me. and for letting me take photos of them from time to time. and for not being irritated when I told them I wasn’t on the computer because I had to do a handstand in a puddle.
I made this summer a good one. but my friends made it a perfect one.
So, this is it, the last of the series and a job finally done! Actually today proved to be one of the most challenging shots of the year due to the gale force winds that were playing havoc with my camera and paper finish line.
When I started 365 days ago I was hoping to improve my camera skills and keep the daily postings (mildly) interesting. Except for a few "off days" I have achieved the results that I wanted. The camera is not this big scary gadget with loads of buttons on it anymore, and I surprised myself that I am more creative that I ever thought I could be. Although having said that, some of my favourite shots have been taken with the 'point-and-shoot' which proves to me you don't necessarily have to have a fancy camera to take great photos.
I don't have great lighting tools so I had to use the bright light of Southern Spain to my advantage adding pressure to take pictures in day light. Maybe 1 or 2 shots were taken before noon, showing what I already knew,I'm not a morning person!
In all fairness I couldn't have done this on my own, I had so much support and help and I would like to thank in no particular order: Our sweetest dog Els who helped me on days where I just couldn't pull it off and always added that extra 'cute' factor; she seems to have gotten a fan club all of her own this year! My amazing partner Adrian who apart from giving me the camera and pushing me to do this project, has given me so much inspiration, acquired new found editing skills along the way and most of all exercised patience in the face of adversity. And finally the person who inspired me to do this 365-project and got me interested in photography in the first place is my dear friend Joe . Thank you B! Hope to see you soon, we miss you guys so much it's been way too long.
Last but by no means least, I would like to thank all my contacts and people who have given feedback on my daily pictures; I loved them all and you have really motivated me to keep going.
I don't think I will do another 365days again but I am hooked on Flickr so I am here to stay.
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Quote - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ice-abstract.
home alone 48...make of it what you will ;-)
This weeks message is "Go With the Flow"
A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall. Onlookers feared for his life. Miraculously, he came out alive and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls. People asked him how he managed to survive. "I accommodated myself to the water, not the water to me. Without thinking, I allowed myself to be shaped by it. Plunging into the swirl, I came out with the swirl. This is how I survived."
I had a different plan for this weeks photo, and it did not work out. I had this idea last night, and it also did not come out as planned. I became so frustrated with the details of the photo, and my inability to achieve the results I wanted, that i don't even remember what point i was trying to make. So, I begrudgingly accepted what I had and posted it. After sleeping on it the message became clear.
We cannot always control the events of our lives. even the little details tend to go awry. A zipper breaks, the road is closed, they are out of your flavor of ice cream, or you photo is not what you wanted. It is by accepting what comes our way, and going with it, that we will reach our destination.
So, I am not thrilled with the photo, but I get the message, and that is good.
Lesson 2
When all else fails, laugh at yourself!
The end stop for the tram.
Which means home, for me.
One can, of course, get out here by car, bus, subway AND bus, bicycle or whatever, but getting here by tram is so special.
Old fashioned, stylish, a bit cranky, silent, old school, slow, fun and interesting.
....maybe
bokeh project 221/365
Copyright © 2009 Akira_sp. All Rights Reserved.
Reprodução Proibida - ® Todos os direitos reservados
Oh yeah, all right
Are you going to be in my dreams
Tonight?
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make.
I thought this was fitting for the last picture in the series. Do you guys know the significance of the green apples?
I have enjoyed making this series. It has really pushed my creativity. Now I need to find a gallery that will show it. Anyone out there? :)
So slightly over 2 years ago I had this crazy idea to invade BW with Frogs. But not just Frog, they had to have some awesome little SPACESHIP! and the FrogPod was born....
Since then I have built, exactly:
495 FrogPods.
How do I know ? - Cause I bought 500 Yellow Frogs.
And I'm actually sad ... these are the last 8 frogs, and will be the last 8 FrogPods.
I'm out of Frogs...
END OF LINE.
(Big Frog Courtesy of the Mayos)
Might be a couple images left to post, but for now, that's all folks.
This concludes the under the microscope look at our southern neighbor.
*Este es un trabajo fotografico de selectormarx [Trecelagrimas] para el nuevo elepé de Kultama: "The End".
_Ayudante de fotografía y realización: Mr.Chapis
_Estilismo: Cherry Lovett
Para escuchar The End: www.myspace.com/kultama
Para ver más fotos:http://www.myspace.com/trecelagrimasproducciones
Halloween is just round the corner.
Figured I should make some effort to bust out the freaky.
This is what happens when concepts go wrong.
Reverse mime?
It's just not a thing, looks creepy as fuck, which in a way kinda does work.
So I guess it didn't go too wrong.
Who knows....
It's quite a state of uncertainty.
Meh.