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Nothing is essential red just a pun on colour, a pun on life, a pun on composition. Creation is red in my guts, glasses through which I try to see life.
They're pretty far from the most interesting animal to photograph, but they have to be the animal most associated with Yellowstone. Bison bull, Yellowstone National Park.
Hi friends,
I have been on a journey, but not a photographic one. About two weeks ago I had successful open heart surgery to replace a heart valve. I am now biomechanical.
The surgery date was planned. A decision arose – if you knew this image might be the last you share with the living world, what image would you chose?
Why would it even matter though, right? As I sat on my recovery bed in the hospital, reading the book “Essentialism”, I came to the same conclusion I did pre-surgery – photography is one of those few essentials to me, and interacting with my close photographic friends is an important part of that.
I am on the other side now. Under quiet conditions, I can hear my heartbeat through the clicking of my mechanical valve, a reminder of my finite existence. My desire to create is as strong as ever, and I thank you for our journey together.
KD
Photo taken for the November 15. 2021 Macro Mondays theme: EDC. I'm very much a person who carries stuff...but my folding umbrella is too big for a macro photo, and a handkerchief isn't very interesting to look at so...
Virtually always in my bag (barring security rules): the latest incarnation of my mini Swiss Army knife¹ (I use the scissors more than anything else) and a wooden² comb³.
¹This particular one is a souvenir from a trip to NYC; you might be able to guess when.
²本つげ = boxwood
³Static electricity likes me much more than I like it. :p
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- Joseph Addison
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Lots of food photos were taken this week. Food is not my favourite subject but dark chocolate is definitely one of my favourite food groups. I have some with a cup of coffee daily when we sit down for our evening telly. This is one of several bars of interesting chocolate given by my husband for a valentine. He knows my heart. Unfortunately there wasn't much art to find in it this time.
ODC Our Daily Challenge: Essentials
an apple a day (or two) is essential for me. If it is under the above circumstances - the better :-)
essential even more for me is to be in the nature, optional: in the mountains from where I'm gaining energy
Essential Bomber is availabe right now at Man Cave.
Comes with 20 Colors for 6 Faces, Fitted for Signature Gianni - Geralt and Belleza Jake.
Materials Enabled and Copy Perms.
Hope you like it ;D
Overnight travel bag:
A.P.C. Petit Standard jeans,
Generic Man, Wingman shoes,
Slim wool jacket from seoul,
Blue socks,
Vintage navy knit tie with narrow clip,
Vintage sunglasses,
Canon AE-1 (photo taken with my other ae-1)
american apparel Fingerless gloves,
Lova oxford shirt.
Canon AE-1
FD 50mm f1.8 S.C
Kodak Portra 400
(enhanced scan from northcoastphoto.com - Noritsu scan)
C-FWZV, a de Havilland Canada DHC-7-103, at Yellowknife Airport in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It was departing as TIN802 (Air Tindi Ltd.) to the tiny communities of Wekweeti and Gameti in the Northwest Territories.
Like many others, these two remote NWT communities are only accessible year-round by air. The movement of essentials such as fuel, food, pharmaceuticals and building materials is accomplished by flights like this. Each of those communities have a 3,000-foot-long gravel runway that can easily accommodate the nimble Dash 7.
Tli Cho Air Inc. is a joint venture between the Tlicho people's Tlicho Investment Corporation (52%) and Air Tindi Ltd. (48%). It provides scheduled passenger service and cargo flights from Yellowknife to Gameti, Wekweeti and Whati.
Serial number 81 began its career as P2-ANP with Air Niugini Limited at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on May 5, 1982.
Forty years later, it continues to accomplish important missions.
More information about the Dash 7 can be found here:
skiesmag.com/features/the-quiet-stol-multi-tasker-story-o...
Flower Patch Cottages
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways
And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise
Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine
Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves
Of how life should be. High above the gutter
A silver knife sinks into golden butter,
A glass of milk stands in a meadow, and
Well-balanced families, in fine
Midsummer weather, owe their smiles, their cars,
Even their youth, to that small cube each hand
Stretches towards. These, and the deep armchairs
Aligned to cups at bedtime, radiant bars
(Gas or electric), quarter-profile cats
By slippers on warm mats,
Reflect none of the rained-on streets and squares
They dominate outdoors. Rather, they rise
Serenely to proclaim pure crust, pure foam,
Pure coldness to our live imperfect eyes
That stare beyond this world, where nothing's made
As new or washed quite clean, seeking the home
All such inhabit. There, dark raftered pubs
Are filled with white-clothed ones from tennis-clubs,
And the boy puking his heart out in the Gents
Just missed them, as the pensioner paid
A halfpenny more for Granny Graveclothes' Tea
To taste old age, and dying smokers sense
Walking towards them through some dappled park
As if on water that unfocused she
No match lit up, nor drag ever brought near,
Who now stands newly clear,
Smiling, and recognising, and going dark.
Philip Larkin.
singular essentials
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A camera toss series. I hadn't done any of these in a long time and thought it good to revisit the bare essentials considering it was a camera I had not used for the technique yet. A single white LED provides the light source, exposures vary from .7sec to 2sec. What is produced is essentially an inverted physiogram (inverted in that it illustrates camera motion rather than subject motion) and can tell you alot about the movement possible with a given model of camera.
I also had been meaning to do this simplistic series for a while, because I feel achieving something aesthetically wonderful does not require an overly complicate light source, the beauty is ultimately due to the motion.
All images in this series are directly from my Kodak Easyshare 3.1mp camera, no photoshop, no cropping or manipulation other than image rotation.
See Also:
my site kineticphotography.net
my flickr group Camera Toss
the Camera Toss Blog
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.
~ Sharon Ralls Lemon ~
Een foto van enkele jaren geleden, Hanswijkprocessie in Mechelen in 2011
Madeira with ICM
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