Ymir: "This old curtain looks rather faded."

(ADAD 2015 March - 8: Faded)

Photoshoot at Faces de Carolga modeling academy,

EX-600 with soft box to the right of camera.

EX-600 to the left of camera.

Patriotism is such an empty word for me, and I wish it wasn't. I wish I understood what drives people to proclaim their love for a Country, and hold it more important than their love for people.

I've been struggling to come to terms with this word, because it's thrown about a great deal in recent times, and it's been used to justify all kinds of questionable actions.

In my home Country, Italy, patriotism is somewhat linked with Fascism, which really was responsible for pushing a nationalistic ideal and identity on an otherwise regionalistic populace. In America it is not so: the American flag is an ubiquitous symbol, with positive associations in most people. But if the Italian flag were to be used in the same context, most people would feel it smacked of Fascist nostalgia... at least, I would.

So what does "being patriotic" mean? Thinking your Country is great? Defending it with your life? Or with the life of other people? Buying Chevys? Upholding ideals of freedom and equality?

uhmmmm.... that last one sounded good, I think I'll go with that!

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Fading rose, but still beautiful.

experimenting with trying for that vintage faded look

Thanks to Kim Klassen for the linen texture.

A fading plywood sign advertising an antiques shop in the East Texas town of Gladewater.

rail yard off Ivan Rand Drive in Moncton.

Ashton Court, Bristol 2016

All things fade with time.

1DMKII

Faded roses, bitten but loved, double exposure

Press F for fading autumn

Taken @ Cocoa Bay in SecondLife - a Family RP Community consisting of 17 Regions with active managers and members, an adoption agency from Next Gen Inc., an active school - Pleasant Shore Elementary, the best organized, best connected school on SL with an active student council consisting of 9 students and over 20 teachers prividing all different kinds of regular weekly classes between 9AM and 9PM for over 400 registered students.

Outfit:

MeshMerized - Classic Coat

RO - Umbrella - Panda

Modulus - Nial Hair Right

Punkster's Destiny - ripped Skinny jeans

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Polaroid SX70 modified for 600 film, Polaroid Originals 600 Colour Film

'Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.'

Beverley Nichols

texture thanks to PaintedWorks.

Taken at Nick's Gardening Center, they have such beautiful flowers!

A very beaten former Santa Fe warbonnet leads the 101 local east through Joliet, IL.

Alan Walker - Faded

You were the shadow to my light

Did you feel us

Another start

You fade away

Afraid our aim is out of sight

Wanna see us

Alive

Where are you now

Was it all in my fantasy

Where are you now

Were you only imaginary

Where are you now

Atlantis

Under the sea

Under the sea

Where are you now

Another dream

The monsters running wild inside of me

I'm faded

I'm faded

So lost

I'm faded

I'm faded

So lost . . . . .

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Fading painted sign on an old building in Washington, DC

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“Home is behind, the world ahead,

And there are many paths to tread

Through shadows to the edge of night,

Until the stars are all alight.

Then world behind and home ahead,

We'll wander back and home to bed.

Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,

Away shall fade! Away shall fade!”

― J.R.R. Tolkien,

Gone are these hydrangeas, now faded and dried, reminding me that summer is over and fall is here.

Almost totally decayed really, haha! Just trying something different, I don't usually even try to capture flowers of any kind. I made it black and white because it showed off the contrast of gray and white clouds better.

Every field and flower fades, but love is infinite

A fading gladiolus in my wife's flower garden.

Quite a time before sunset, but the light was already fading and there were heavy showers out towards Eigg.

Taken from Camusdarrach showing a lone fisherman and Eigg and Rum on the horizon.

Roses on their last legs.

I thought the title about the flares dying to black was obvious but then I realized there was other symbolism. Perhaps the recent string of executions by cop, the conservative's NRA gun-fired violence or Blair and Boy George dreams of Iraq. I am starting to roll out this year's Fourth of July celebration using action on the medium telephoto-zoom. I was in the good spot I used last year. I ran into the same problems with procedures shooting fireworks at night as I did last year. Maybe I'll get it right before long. This year was a chore: I had to buy my fifth for the fourth on the third! What else could go wrong? There were actual parking spaces at Golden Ponds before my long walk to the fourth venue.

The most prominent problem is tracking the action when triggering the exposure: the display and eyepiece go blank and alternate tracking strategy is needed. I am coming up with an apparatus that could overcome the problem, I had trouble with accurately tracking the action while using the monopod so I ditched the monopod this year. Why would I need steady? I have conferred with several psychiatrists about the many people with explosive personality defects even though psychiatrists have little to do with the study of science. There is a marked difference between psychiatrist's study of explosive personalities and the study of psychotics like the Koch Brothers and the righties. It's a cause and effect study.

I am adding these "action" shots to my stash, all of the fiery kind. Although I still have a pile to clean up, I dumped even more into storage this year. This one was taken at an opportune time that revealed there were multiple eruptions during the 2 1/2 second exposure. The EXIF reports only the start of zooms. Apparently there was good motion and the usual shakes as the fireworks erupted. I remained impressed with how these can appear stable at all at these slow exposures. The colors: I thought of how to react to the mass of colors.

I spent hours giving this stuff titles, but I also better do some weeding.

memory, this is all that we can take with us

Focus stack of 9 images

As the light fades we see 70809 on the approach to Redhouse Castle, just after passing Longniddry, with an empty cement train. This is 6B32, 1652 Aberdeen Craiginches - Oxwellmains working on the 7th May 2018 at 2027 hauled by the only Class 70 based in Scotland at the moment.