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My Alpine Paradise no. 2: "Plan de La Chaux" and the "Massif of Mont Blanc". Taken from the "Lac de Fenêtre". Canton of Valais, Switzerland, Italy, France. Izakigur : 22.08.16, 13:06:48.
Summer's hiking season is coming, I love coming back to the same place that I love and dream about.
For me this is the land of Genesis....
Thank you my friends for your comments and your inspiration.
Take care , and keep on doing !
Look how wonderful is this tube..with my admiration ü!
... it's not until you actually photograph yourself that you see how old you've got :-D, but thank you photoshop for the improvements!
Gloria thought it was time she made an appearance.
I've been trying to decide on a theme for the 100 x challenge this year...if indeed I do it. I wondered about self portraits including (or possibly mainly) Gloria but don't think I will manage 100. Another option is Lensbaby shots or maybe half portraits and half Lensbaby. Need to give it plenty of thought before committing to it. I very nearly signed up to the 365 in the hope it would encourage my mojo to return but common sense prevailed.
Gloria's album can be viewed here: www.flickr.com/photos/28992287@N03/albums/72157712501804723
Been workin' on those abs, babee! Still can't even BUDGE those damn love handles. - Welcome to Planet Earth, right?
Oh well.
Took this pic to flirt with a cute young man / flickr friend. We've been sexting each other. He's very sweet.
lol
*wink*
Used this texture and a displacement map, among other things. Any guesses what the texture shot is?
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Highest position in Explore: #7 on Thursday, May 1, 2008
decided to take advantage of what will likely be the last really warm day in december for me (for a while at least). yesterday's high was 76º F, only one degree below the record high for december 12. today won't be quite as warm, but tomorrow the cold starts to come back. just another thing i'll miss about atlanta.
p.s. i was this close to going full monty, but i just wasn't feeling like giving the work crew across the street that kind of show...
I have no right to write any words
And call them poetry or prose
I have no right to take a picture
And call it art
I have no right to dance
And assume to touch and move the soul
I am neither master nor muse
Only a dream of being one and the other
I am not an artist
Only a soul that longs to be one
- me ( View On Black )
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
~ Ernst Haas
Over the years, self portraits have turned into an important form of therapy for me: a unique tool for introspection, capturing moments of revelation, reflecting the many sides of my personality during the creative process.
This series of images sparked the feeling of urgency I have to continue to pursue my idea for a documentary using self portraits through photography as a tool for healing.
If you feel that your experiences with self portraiture have changed your life, please drop me a line.
and stay tuned - more interesting, unique images to come...
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Silhouette using natural light.
This image represents the importance and prevalence of travel in my life. The threshold of the fort’s window symbolizes the ever-changing frame of perspective through which I view the world. I am who I am today because of the exposure I’ve had to so much diversity. To explore the world is to better understand one’s self.
Taken at Golkonda Fort in Hyderabad, India in 110 degree heat.
Yeah, this was a total accident, a result of my camera and the remote flash being out of sync somehow. Troy thought it was cool and made some crack about it being "how gaydar must look." So i kept it.
;-)
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Highest position in Explore: 450 on Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Herrenkrug
Magdeburg / Germany
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Explore # 349 on Monday, March 22. 2021
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
This is a composite of two images in my photostream. The first was taken for a mask assignment during the height of the Covid 19 pandemic, the second was taken very recently.
This shows me at work with my camera immersed in Nature, where I thrive and this is where I found solace during the difficult times of the past 18 months. I hope you notice the butterflies on my mask too (which I am still wearing in certain situations)!
1st original image: www.flickr.com/photos/suelockhartimages/50129903162/in/da... (I reversed the image for this composite)
2nd original image: www.flickr.com/photos/suelockhartimages/51242944789/in/da...
Featured in an Explore Takeover Day for selfie portraits www.flickr.com/explore/2021/06/23
Nikon D750
Nikon 24 - 120 f/4
f/8 | 1/200 | 38mm | iso 160
Single B800 in medium soft box, camera left @ 1/4 power fired by Cybersync + CamRanger. White vflat camera right for bounce / fill.
Scene composed and shutter fired using CamRanger mini + iPad Pro
Been workin' on it for a year and a half. Feel really good about progress thus far.
Loving the process and really having a good time transforming myself - VERY slowly, yet surely.
Took a long time to SEE that there are results. Patience is required. Thankfully I have a wealth of patience. !!!
:)
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Saturday 1 May 2010
Manhattan, New York City
41 years old
It is not enough to say I want to live
if there is a part of me -- breathing, acting
that secretly wants me to die
-- G. Winston James, "Through It All", from The Damaged Good
I am in the company of legends.
They're all in town for the kickoff of this week's PHYRE events: Marvin K. White, Steven G. Fullwood, and G. Winston James. Writers, cultural critics, historians, and beautiful, beautiful brothas. So, my picture of the day, though taken on time, was late getting uploaded.
I could have done it on time, but then i wouldn't have been hanging out with them. Hmph. Not a chance.
"The words and images here -- by, for, and about Black gay men -- are for us as we begin to end the silence that has surrounded our lives, as we begin to create ourselves, as we begin to come to power. We are survivors and have come to tell our stories of men loving men."
-- Joseph Beam, from the Introduction to In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology
Joseph Beam saved my life.
In 1986, in Detroit, i had no sense of community, no idea that there was anything more in store for my future as a black gay man than the occasional hook-up or dangerous liaison in some public venue. Certainly i knew nothing of community, of culture. Certainly nothing of kinship with other men like me, or of shared history and experiences. The anthology Joseph Beam created let me know these things could be real.
When i somehow obtained my first copy of In the Life -- i have lended and lost three since then -- i was still living in my parents' house and going to a commuter campus of a large university nearby. I remember the terror of having this book hidden between the mattress and box springs, the terror of discovery, of being seen for who i really was.
But i kept it and read it over and over again.
Joseph Beam, Essex Hemphill, Assoto Saint and a host of other black gay men who contributed to this seminal anthology saved my life. I need to publicly acknowledge that, partly because they are all gone now and will never know what they did for me. It is because of them that i am no longer hiding in any closet. It is because they started a literary movement that i now have three pieces appearing in a just-published black gay anthology, Voices Rising.
These men saved my life, whether they knew it or not. I can only hope that my words at some point will have an impact on some other young, frightened, closeted, black gay man. I think i owe it to them at least to try.
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This week is all about books that have moved me in some way.
this was my last day in the hiv counseling and testing office at aid atlanta. as trying as the job can be, i'm going to miss it. more importantly, i'm going to miss all the great people i've had a chance to work with. my actual last day at work will be saturday, but this was my last time doing the hiv prevention counseling thing in the testing office. {sigh}
New homemade processing technique :)
quite happy with it. though the composition is so wonky, and unconventional it somehow appeals to me. I'm not sure if a bad comp appealing to me is a good thing, but in the long run it couldn't hurt.
Peace :)
relaxing for a moment after a day-long all-staff meeting at aid atlanta. it was a good way to say goodbye to the agency.
"the sun will rise up, and you'll be in freedom
so much freer than you were before
it's in the seed now
it's in the season
i'm so excited its knocking down your door."
~ nizlopi
Still home in Detroit, woke up this morning to double-check all the lights before i returned them and got to take this shot with my Mom.
For me, it's priceless...
i made craig take a picture with me at the last second. i'm gonna miss the ol' bald-headed fool... ;-)
Why is it my timing always SUCKS?!?!?
I'm not sure what possessed me to think the last week of the quarter was a good time to take on a theme like "two pictures in one every day." Struggled to get the shots off before midnight tonight, now combining them into something meaningful...
yeah, i got nothing.
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From a week of diptychs.
si tratara de hablar y no de tocarte
si cortaras tu voz en muchas partes
y repitieras mi amor solo soy yo ..
Valentine's Day has become a very big business for retailers in what is traditionally one of the slowest shopping months of the year.
-- Tracy Mullin, President and CEO | National Retail Federation
I can't remember the last time Valentine's Day meant anything to me. In fact, i don't know that it ever did. Imagine growing up seeing Valentine's Day as just a more pronounced example of how your kind of love is not celebrated, and you might get the idea. Add to that my firm belief that this "holiday" is primarily about marketing and rampant capitalism and you can begin to understand why i don't feel like celebrating.
So here i am, at school again instead of doing something special. Not that Troy's here, anyway. So that would suck too. But what am i doing in this picture?
Sending Troy a Valentine's Day e-card.... ;-)
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
-- Edward Gibbon
Since i got so extremely close up for my last self-portrait, i decided to pull back a bit today. This is one of the studios at my school. (In fact it's my favorite one, for some reason; maybe because i painted it with Lorrie.) This is where i do a lot of my work. More often than not, i find myself in here alone. It's the life i've chosen, to work with people sometimes, alone more often. The studio centers me, allows me to shut out the outside world for a time.
This is going to be an interesting week. I needed a little alone time to prepare.
Actually it was intended to be a book. I bought this faux-suede number from Goodwill for about $6.00 and planned to cut it up to use the material for the cover of my final graduation portfolio. Then i found a similar material that already had a backing on it at Gail K Fabrics. (They're fabulous, by the way.) I took this picture and a few others just before i went with jason to look for fabric. Thought i was going to be cutting it up soon, and i figured it would be fun to get some shots of me actually wearing it, then shots of the finished book i made from it. Ah well. Guess i'll just have to plan on incorporating it into my graduation outfit....
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
--Mark Twain
"Malik," you say. (Yes, i can hear you; don't worry about it.) "What's that you're holding in your hand? And why do you look so damn goofy?"
I'm glad you asked. (Well, except for that "goofy" crack. Some friends....) Good people, that intriguing object in you see in my hand is a book. Not just any old book, mind you. It's a very special book.
I made it.
Yep, that's right: i made that 156-page, bound journal with my own two hands. From scratch. This quarter in school i'm taking a bookmaking course. Each week we will make a different kind of book in class. I'm so excited!!!
Requests, anyone? I can get you a great deal on custom binding...
...into the weekend ;)
Have a nice one everybody, I will not be too much around cause I'm busy again.
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Credits: sheep, balloons, backround (forgot which one), Texture, moon and ladder are painted, model is me ;)