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It's a thin layer that separates most of us from light. Not just literal light... metaphorical light... burning or soothing light... spiritual light. I feel like I'm in the dark more often than I have any right to be. Whether I'm confused or confounded, perturbed or irrational, there's almost always some type of veil interfering with my reception. Like those codgers and imbeciles that adorn themselves with tin foil hats to deter being located by "grays". But I've been working to tear that layer from between myself and the outside. Bettering my intent, enlightening myself, opening myself to others in both confidence and empathy. Trying to educate myself and to get around to doing things that other people only ever talk about... to better my relationships with family, with my spouse, myself... with God. I simply don't want the barrier anymore. I see the light... it's piercing cascade of elucidation and warmth. I'd like to let it get to me without interference... real or imagined. It's warm and has purpose.
"I feel that life will never end where the heart lays in the dark ground
Where love leans like a crack in the heart... in the heart
I've seen all things rise to fall into dust
Into the flare that turns us pale..."
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Bill the Bee doesn't have the sharpest stinger in the hive. Every morning he gets up and sees the pollen-laden flowers on the other side of the fence. If he could just figure out how to get to them, he'd be so happy!
Stansberry Lake, Washington 2017
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Berrier and sign warning about the shooting range further on.
Back on my way from the Woolwich Arsenal Museum, while on the DLR train I couldn't get my eyes out of those silver (ok, actually I suppose it's steel...) structures in the middle of the river. Years ago a friend of mine, an engineer, told me he wanted to visit the Thames barrier. Since then he transmitted the same curiosity to me. The fact is I was sure they were well far from the city. So it was a big surprise when I realized they were just a couple of (well: probably 4) miles away from Greenwich.
Anyway, I simply got out of the train when it looked like stopping not too far from the barrier and I walked towards it in that cold, intermittently rainy spring day.
That day I only had my prime lens, meaning no zoom was available. I went back there the day after, from the other side of the river, and that time I had both lenses with me.
Funny thing is I tried to crop the picture but then I would lose the nice texture the water draws on the lower side of the picture. That's why I resolved not to magnify the supposed main sin subject and instead leave a good chunk of water and sand, so that probably the correct title should be 'River Shore'. But then I should mention the 'amazing sky', too, and in the end I just hope I got the balance of the elements in the picture right, whatever the title is :)
I’m following Presidential Example to build myself a Covid wall. My version uses common damp, punky firewood, the kind that’s been stacked under a big maple for decades.
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