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Le consumérisme occidental a un impact tel sur la planète qu'il tend à détruire les ressources qui nous permettent d'avoir "ce que nous voulons". Par effet de boomerang, notre impact sur la planète constitue lui-même une menace sur nos vies quotidiennes confortables. Comme un serpent qui se mord la queue.
Babette Porcelijn
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!
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
As I mentioned in my previous post, my recent self prescribed venture is to break away from my usual modus operandi and learn a new sight through the vision of Gursky.
He has a talent for observing humanity in an artistic yet objective manner.
One of his works "99 cent" is particularly inspiring by it's abstractness and way of showcasing the world of consumerism.
Selfie 😳 also
What I’m trying to relay through my image is our inability to see the forest for the trees when we are in a store surrounded by products. Whether that be a grocery store, a clothing shop, an auto dealership we are inundated and thus overwhelmed to a point where we are servants to the environment.
We are no longer in charge of ourselves and are influenced by all that intentionally surrounds us.
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“In the ebb and flow of life, an opportunity missed is often an opportunity missed forever!”
-Unknown
Since seeing the above quote on a coffee cup while out thrifting several weeks ago I have not been able to release the ebb and flow part from my thoughts. I am always amazed at where that “thing” that sticks in your heart, that inspires the deepest of thought can come from. Being a simple man, a coffee cup saying can become the “ear worm” that sticks!
This photo, taken at Ft. Pickens Florida back in 2022 was the last thing I edited before waking my beloved dog Sophie and heading to bed to sleep with my bride. Oddly, it was on my heart as I awoke this morning, riding on the back of the term ebb and flow like a jockey in the derby!
It was maybe a half an hour after sunrise as I walked the beaches of Ft. Pickens, totally prepared for the gifts that I knew would be granted. As I walked east on the beach in total solitude, I noticed flight after flight of pelicans, cormorants, seagulls and terns overhead as if on a mission and landing and swimming several hundred yards up the beach…there were hundreds of birds congregating in a very small area. Experience had taught me that a feeding frenzy was about to occur, so I sprinted down the beach to capture the event.
The sprint, that quickly morphed into a jog and then again into a fast walk got me there to see the entire evolution of the event and how the different species worked in unison for the sake of survival. The dolphin herded the small baitfish from the depts as they gorged themselves on the millions of fish. Once the fish were near the surface the divebombing began with the pelicans and cormorants hitting the water like a severe, softball size hail storm. The gulls and terns did their best to get into the action by taking the dead and injured fish from the surface. There was so much action in an area the size of a couple of tennis courts that focusing on a subject became impossible. I started swinging my lens around as if in a convulsion, perfectly reflecting what was going on between my ears!
This shot was taken as the frenzy was starting to die down. The shoal of fish who certainly numbered in the millions at the start were now splintered into several smaller schools with their numbers decimated. In this shot, the cormorants pinned a school between them and the beach with the school turning the small wave brown. The dolphin and pelican soon departed, much heavier that when they arrived. It was now time for the smaller consumers to feast, the species that could only take a few, or in the case of this juvenile Royal tern, one at a time.
The natural ebb and flow of our planet, the shifting of her plates, her natural cycles of ice ages and thaws and changing weather patterns allows events like this to take place. Sometime in the near future this area will experience a hurricane and the population of pelicans, cormorants, gulls and terns of the area will take a hit. The baitfish will thrive as the seabirds’ numbers rebound thus creating balance in nature, in the circle of life.
Adventure before dementia.
The classic self unloader steamer Consumers Power steams up the St. Marys River at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan as viewed from Sugar Island. Her days with the American Steamship Company are numbered as she would later be sold to the Erie Sand and Steamship Company, seen here the morning of August 26, 1979.
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.
Supermarket car park. The lamps again.
People were shopping like crazy tonight, what with all the bank holidays coming up. I don't think many of them noticed this at all.
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.
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 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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