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Do not be tethered by your expectations, they may often dissappoint. Expectations without attachment allows you to be flexible in all situations. Expect nothing, receive everything.
Ever since shooting a train with Boeings here in 2017 (flic.kr/p/CzV3jf) I had thought it would be a cool shot to do over with an MRL Ace, or if I was lucky an SD40. Never did I imagine I would get a chance to shoot an SD45 here! It's tough, because Columbus offers a number of other neat shots that generally get all the attention. However, with the more scenic location slayed the day prior, I decided to see how this looked. While not earth shattering, I can now cross a pretty damn neat shot off my list. Train is seen here roaring out of Columbus, which has a Minnesota connection. Originally called Sheep Dip, and then Stillwater, due to the Northern Pacific already having a Stillwater, MN, the mail was getting delivered to all the wrong locations. It was then renamed Columbus, which it remains today.
Europe, France, Corse, Haute Corse, Corsica, Corsica Suprana, Bastia, Harbour, Mega Andrea, Passengers (slightly cut from T&B)
The Mega Andrea cruise ferry, coming in from Toulon, is owned and operated by Corsica Ferries and Sardinia Ferries. She has had a long service life.
Built in 1986 by Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Finland, for Effoa as MS Wellamo for use on the Silja Line, the vessel was rebuilt in 1992 at Lloyds Werft, Bremerhaven, Germany, as Silja Festival. After being replaced by MS Isabelle on the Stockholm-Riga route in May 2013, she was chartered as an accommodation ship to Kitimat, British Columbia and was then sold in early 2015 to Corsica Ferries Sardinia Ferries.
The people shown here are probably envisioning the way that they’re going to enjoy Corsica and are foot passengers. The car and lorry drivers are already in their vehicles.
This is number 5 of the Corsica album here and 54 of Ferries.
People have different expectations in their everyday lives just like photographers have different expectation regarding the look of an image. I’m not sure how the surrealist photographers feel about all the AI abilities, given much of what they created through hard work can now be done by a computer.
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Model: Kirstie Mchugh
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Taken on the balcony, things are starting to happen after many months of waiting.
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There it comes!! Little children ability
To see and enjoy the little things.
This enchanted expectation to the next moment
That….
Now I am older, and lost this ability of
recognizing those little things that compose my way.
I only have this expectation for the one big thing
And then disappointment.
These days I am re-learning how to see and wait
For all these little joys that really are
The greatest
Sometimes reality can be better than our expectations. But we are so busy dumbly waiting for something else & turn our backs to what we can fully be & enjoy.
Por muchas vueltas que le des a una posible situación con hipotéticos finales, nunca sale como te lo esperas.
Imagínate dentro de cinco años - o de uno, para qué ir más lejos. Te puedo asegurar que no será tal y como has decidido.
Recuerdo tantos planes de invierno para días de verano...
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Having been under one deadline or another since age 15 I have found solitude in clicking off thousands of shots in my private 3:2 domain. The moment my face is buried in the viewfinder it becomes my world. No one is demanding "this or that" by a certain deadline, it's just me and the subject. Photography for me has always been about the physical process not the result, thats why I have so many hard drives full of material. If there are requirements or expectations from my photography it no longer is a hobby, it becomes work. This is why I will always be an amateur.
Covid has dramatically decelerated my life over the last several months. Like a thief in a holding pattern, friends taken from me with restrictions placed around me, some real some imagined.
But this pandemic has enabled the ability to review photos not examined since sequestered to a hard drive. Released from work responsibilities and let to my own thoughts Covid has caused me to be retrospective. Sharing moments with my family, friends, and even posting more on flickr.
This soon will revert back, Covid failed to put my financial obligations on hold, work starts up next week and with it all the stress and responsibilities.
The shot was taken in Alaska along side a road on the way to Kenai Peninsula.
Fourth Front Page on Explore in a row? are you kidding me?
Thanks again for the sweet comments and faves. I appreciate it so much <3
I wish a was pterodactyl.
Just less than a year ago a good friend who is a wonder at growing Cactus dropped off about a three foot "cutting" for me. Basically stuck it in the ground in the Garden of Benign Neglect and surprise, it didn't drop dead.
Now, within the last couple of days it has set froth a bud.(?) Which is now looking like it is going to...gasp! Flower!
I'm so excited.
My local lake, where every year there are swans nesting at this particular site. I have seen and photographed several broods previously and look forward to seeing new arrivals in a few weeks time…Watch this space!
There have been water restrictions for about 2 months due to very little rain. Most flora are not flowering and those that did have shriveled because of the drought conditions.
Sometimes I get TOO caught up in making "perfection". On this particular trip I was so disappointed that we left later than I had wanted to on our four drive to the mountains (9 am instead of 4:30 am with all 6 kids! can anyone say unrealistic expectations?!) We reached the places we had drove all this way for me to see - in the dead of the afternoon. The sun was glaringly bright. I stood at this spot looking at this incredible view and instead of feeling absolutely inspired and grateful to be here - I was too busy lamenting to myself that the shadows would be harsh, that the sun had ruined the moment. Yes, I 'm ashamed. I realized that in the photographer aspect I had let myself get "selfish" and discontent. It had become all about getting the "perfect" shot. If it was perfect it wasn't worth anything. But what about those moments of sheer awe, of just being in the absolute stillness and seeing these rolling peaks, that winding road that I had just drove up just minutes before?! This whole chain of thoughts made me realize how much I needed an attitude adjustment. On the heels of that came so many encouraging comments on my last post about posting pictures of my kids. You all really gave me so much to think about it... I've been thinking and re-examining, why I shoot? Why take the pictures? Why go to the perfect places? What is my reason for picking up my camera? I had to be brutally honest with myself. I wrote my reasons down and when I felt like I wasn't being honest with myself I scribbled them out! When I finally got an HONEST list that I knew from the bottom of my heart was true, I was shocked...and sad. Shooting had become too much about other people and so much less about myself. Perhaps this has evolved as I started a business. In aspects there isn't really choice on whether your shooting for a client or for yourself. When you take on clients, you shoot differently. You shoot with a different eye - because it's for someone else. This isn't bad. I'm not trying to make it sound like shooting professionally is bad... it's just I hadn't realized that it had consumed other aspects of my life - like shooting for me. What about me? What do I shoot for as an individual outside of my business? I sat down to this picture about a week later with new eyes to reavulate and re-edit. So new attitude adjustment- I am posting this because I love the mountains and I love this spot! ;) It makes me feel good (proud even) to go places, take my kids on adventures and spend time outdoors. Recording those moments is special to me. Somewhere in my landscapes there is a longing that I feel and see when going back over them. It's a freedom, a wanderlust, a reminder to GO. Don't make excuses, don't wait til later and don't ever make excuses not to take a picture because the weather or the timing isn't right for picture!!
Thank you for all the wisdom you all impart to me in your amazing comments. They keep me going, keep me thinking and ALWAYS keep my inspired and grateful to know and have such. wonderful community around me.
Happy Wednesday friends xxoo
much love,
Rachel