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this picture is just incredible and so is miss swift! i couldn't resist to make a wallpaper with it!
size: 1280 x 800 px
picture from: www.taylorswift.es
The bull of Wall Street is a tourist mad house. Really, I was a bit surprised when I saw the throng of people crowded around it to make a selfie. In a sense, maybe I should not have been surprised. After all, I sought it out. But it is still a bit of a weird thing, to elbow in among a crowd of people so you can claim your "I was here" selfie, as if that image somehow further validates the experience. I am not criticizing it, I just find it interesting.
What I did not know about the bull was that there is a second sculpture, that of Fearless Girl placed so that she is bravely standing in front of the about-to-charge bull. According to the plaque (always read the plaques) her presence there is at least in part a statement about the presence of women (or lack of) in the financial institutions of Wall Street. But when it comes to the tourists, Fearless Girl has no problems regarding discrimination as the crowd flocks around her for their same selfies.
I crowded in to the crowd and initially got a pinhole image of the bull and then stepped back a bit. One thing that always fascinates me about such places is watching the crowd and how they interact with the attraction and the behavior of people at such places. I wanted to make a long exposure of the Fearless Girl stoically and resolutely standing there in the face of both the bull and the tourists and I had this image in mind: her from behind with the blur of the ever shifting and never stationary crowd around her. But to do so I would have to insert myself into the photographs of dozens of people over the span of the four minute exposure it was going to take. Normally I shy away from this sort of thing. I prefer to be the unobtrusive observer. But on this day I basically decided, hell with it I am going for the image. After all, nobody here is really concerned about getting in each other's images anyway, so why should I be. It might not have been courage on par with Fearless Girl but it took a bit of courage at least on a small level. In fact, that was one of the changes I tried to work in my process during my visit to New York: to let go of some of my inhibitions, to not let my desire for unobtrusivity keep me from the image I envisioned, to not get a couple blocks down the road kicking myself for not making the photo.
Hasselblad 500C
Kodak Portra 400 (I have a color version of this too and cannot decide which I like better)
This guy spent the whole set in a pinstripe suit while hidden behind a Mexican Wrestling Mask. Very unusual to say the least. =)
The Bravery perform at the Key Arena in Seattle, Wa.
Shariyakandi, Jamuna River, Bogra, Bangladesh
14 September 2012
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They just RAN up these waterfall cascades!! I thought this is not real ... later we realized that the stones are actually not slippery at all. But then again, the falls were about 10 or 15 meters high, and super steep. All I say is that I didn't go up...
Strength in her gaze, power in her stance. A fierce female boxer, ready to conquer the ring and break boundaries. #FearlessWarrior
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A replica of the Fearless Girl Sculpture by Kristen Visbal that is in New York. This one was installed in Federation Square in February 2018 in the lead up to International Women's Day in March.
The Fearless Girl at her new home in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Interesting symbolism there.
In my previous post I mentioned there was a storm forecast. Not huge in terms of some we've had over the previous months. From the relative safety of the sea wall, it did provide some entertainment for those who dared to venture out.
This isn't something I normally chase, but knowing it was coming, it was difficult to resist. The usual lens clean needed between every busrt of shots.
The boss on a flying visit to Bulla with a replacement lead trailer after my fridge spat the chewy and didn’t want to chill.
My favorite bird in the Kgalagadi. Bateleur at a water hole expressing his disdain for another bird. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa
The theme for today was a lucky charm and I thought of this one immediately. I will share my story for this choice as well:
Seven years ago I got paralysed by a rare disease that attacked my spine. With hard training that I have done all my life, I recovered within a year to walk, dance and workout again. I will never be 100% but at least I can do several things and live a pretty normal life with a healthy vegan lifestyle, treatment and a positive attitude.
My good friend from high school has fought hard with cancer and send me this because for her we are both FEARLESS, What doesn't kill you makes you stronger right?
HSoS!
Fearless Girl is a bronze sculpture by Kristen Visbal.
The statue was installed on March 7, 2017, in anticipation of International Women's Day the following day. It depicts a girl four feet high, promoting female empowerment.
It is located across from the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City.
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance
In a storm in my best dress...
Fearless
~Taylor Swift
had a photoshoot with abby after a fun time shopping at the mall! :)
this made explore! :D it went up to #12 so far!
On the other side of that railing is a 500 foot drop into what can only be described as a maelstrom. Much braver than I
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