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I've been putting out food and water for Tidda in a hidden area near the beach, hoping she'd find it. It might sustain her strength and maintain a connection between us. The food and water have been disappearing every night but I couldn't tell if it was Tidda.
Yesterday I got a wildlife trail camera and set it up to answer this very question, and I discovered that EVERYBODY is eating the food - except Tidda. Cat, opossum, raccoons and skunk.
I will move the camera and food around to different locations hoping to catch a glimpse of her and get some clue about which area she might be frequenting.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of a previously published black and white shot captured in July 2014. Enjoy!
For Tim Noonan, Happy Birthday !!!
A shop window in a high-end department store. Packed full of consumer goods to feed the ever-widening yaw of demand. Our culture exists by creating a sense of lack, of incompleteness and the need to FULL-FILL ourselves with those objects. Most of these things we don't need at all, but we WANT them.
It never ends as retail demands greater and greater profits, while lifting the prices higher each year and dazzling us with all the "latest" new things. Established "Brands" become trophies and status symbols to strut about in, impressing no one really and setting the living mannequins up as targets for those who don't have. While the don't haves feel enraged that they lack these totems of status in a culture that fosters and perpetuates their illusion of need.
Windows tantalize and entice and the shelves fill up with more than can be acquired by those that can afford it, while the don't haves conceive of revolutions that will bring them what they lack, when nobody really needs any of it.
Too much of too much ... for Nothing.
© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2016. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
Text Blog: visionheartblog.wordpress.com
Influenced by Andreas Gursky's works showing humanity's addiction to mass consumption.
Celebrating consumerism in creamy analog color.
What works towards the success of this photo is that all the individuals in the middle ground are coincidentally wearing slate colored shirts... and that delicious orange color way way in the back
Minolta X-700 - 28mm
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Listen, enjoy and think: Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy, Me.
“What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.” By
Jeff Bezos 😅
I always wanted to visit that place. I remember several years in the past, this commercial center was full of life, today this is empty and beautiful. Some people lived here, left and let their marks. Strangely the words I red were full of love, as if the knew that nobody would read them, a silent and peaceful love.
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Quick perspective shot with the phone camera, as I was coming in one of the side entrances to the new Saint James Centre
I'd like to speak to the complaint department.
what seems to be the problem?
I am not satisfied with the service I'm getting here.
what's wrong with it?
what's wrong is that there is no service. none.
none you say? what service are you looking for?
I need a rail ticket to L.A. I want the express.
do you now? unfortunately, that train doesn't stop here anymore.
what?
nor any other train, for that matter.
since when?
since, oh, about 30 years ago.
I had no idea.
yeah. it's hard to tell by looking around, isn't it?
damn. you coulda fooled me.
no kidding.
A scene we tripped across late one night in Lisbon, Portugal.
May 2024
Nikon D7500 w a 50mm lens (75mm equivalent)
ISO 640, f1.8, 1/125s.
a light meal is as it's always been.....illuminating right to it's elementary core......it just took me a while to work it out.
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