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Kane Hangin out
Jim and I, shirtless with our friends.
Afloat in a world of large shining cars, houses with white wrap around porches surrounded by ancient trees. This was an intimate self contained time right after WWII, a time of celebration of that fact that life goes on and there is the possibility of a new beginning.
When I first watched Ken Burns series on WWII in the Pacific [The War] I was spellbound. This was the background of my childhood that no one ever talked about but everyone felt deeply. I suppose that there is always the subterranean feeling of anxiety that underlies the serene topsoil. In my idyllic childhood I woke up at night biting my fingernails. I had anxiety attacks. How could I help but act out the inner life of my parents?
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"It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it."
[George Saunders from his short story collection “10th of December”]
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"we have now been accounted for
and it is written on our empty graves
that After everything still I stayed.
And I mean it. I stayed. I stayed. I stayed."
Buddy Wakefield, “Self-Portrait”
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A Short Testament
Whatever harm I may have done
In all my life in all your wide creation
If I cannot repair it
I beg you to repair it,
And then there are all the wounded
The poor the deaf the lonely and the old
Whom I have roughly dismissed
As if I were not one of them.
Where I have wronged them by it
And cannot make amends
I ask you
To comfort them to overflowing,
And where there are lives I may have withered around me,
Or lives of strangers far or near
That I’ve destroyed in blind complicity,
And if I cannot find them
Or have no way to serve them,
Remember them. I beg you to remember them
When winter is over
And all your unimaginable promises
Burst into song on death’s bare branches.
Anne Porter
[via rabbit-light]
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Steampunk impressions @ boat lift
Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg, 1899
125th Anniversary Party
Manuela Klein, German TV (WDR), interviews a snail:
www1.wdr.de/lokalzeit/fernsehen/lokalzeit-am-samstag/repo...
Sepia-toned group portrait of schoolgirls and their teacher taken outside a brick building in Budapest, 1925.
Photograph [7.8 x 11.1 cm] mounted on card [15.9 x 20 cm].
Bought from an eBay seller in Winsen, Germany.
Explored on 27 November, 2015 (#497)
From the family archives. Unfortunately I cannot identify people on this this photo, its time or place. But many of us were born because these people saved our grandfathers at that time...
I cropped out some portraits
Carte de visite. Plain back.
Bought from an eBay seller in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Explored on 22 June, 2016 (#483)
Project in progress (2015 - now).
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Mermaids:
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A.P's
Thanks to Aristomenis for the assistance!
My learning curve continues on natural light (available light) portrait...
This photo was taken just before the sunset with my buddy Sony a77.
Model: My wife Shawon and family friend Nafisa.
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Macro Mondays, Inheritance - my love of photography and travel is inherited from my (maternal) grandmother, who recorded her travel, and life, experiences with her camera whenever she could. I was in a bit of a rush when we were packing our (small) consignment of belongings in preparation for moving to our current location, so unfortunately the albums of her images are in storage (hopefully they'll be in good condition when I next look at them).
Like me, she loved to observe her environment, to travel and to record the lives of the people she met. Like me, as an adult she ended up living in countries that were not the one she grew up in, and she was never fully of a place, but always enjoyed exploring it. Like me she had to learn a number of different languages as a result, and, like me, she had just one child, a daughter (and my daughter was born almost exactly 100 years after her late, great grandmother).
This image is of the group of lovely people who attended my most recent street photography workshops: all but one of us is from somewhere else. In fact, if you include the two men looking bemusedly at us, to the left of the image, there are at least 7 nationalities in this image, including 1 Kuwaiti.
I got talking to the guy on the left and he said his name is Dan. (Dan the lifeboat man!) He told me he was from the Weston brand of the RNLI and they had just finished a 3-hour joint training exercise with the Weston and Clevedon Coastguard. I then managed to get a shot of him with some of his colleagues. Behind them in this image, one of the RNLI vehicles is towing something down the boat slip.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institute is a charity and most members of the crew are unpaid volunteers. Paid or not, hats off to them for their service and their bravery.
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THIS IS STRANGER NUMBER #11 in my 100 strangers project collection. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
Taken at the Anime & Gaming Con held at the Ramada Plaza Cincinnati Sharonville Inn in the Sharonville suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. It's always nice to have a group of like minded friends to hang with.
A candid photo of young ladies. Three of them pose for a group portrait, the fourth one in red coat takes a photo. Funny and positive street scene. May the happiness be with all of them.
Eva: Dave, when will this sleep over end?
Dave: Pardon?
Eva: You brought home Fred a few weeks ago. And he doesn't seem to be leaving.
Dave: That's because we adopted him and we love him. He's part of the family now.
Eva: You're using the term "we" pretty liberally.
Agnes: I totally agree with Eva.
Eva: He may be cute but he doesn't respect my personal space. Plus I'm pretty sure he thinks I'm deaf.
Dave: Not respectting personal space is why we love goldens. But I'm not sure about the thinking you're deaf part.
Eve: There is that liberal use of "we" again. The deaf thing is because when he barks at me and I purposely ignore him, he moves closer and barks louder. It's a lot.
Dave: Eva, you were a bit of a terror to Kael when we adopted you. So maybe you can be more accepting of the little guy.
Eva: So what I'm taking from this is that Kael was right to call me a freckled fiend. Puppies are a lot.
Dave: Yes. But we're all a big pack now so let's enjoy each other's company.
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A pack portrait on the chaise lounge by the living room windows. I do love the light here. And the smallish surface actually kept the pack together for a group portrait. In some ways I wide Eva was more alert in the photo, but this was the 8th reset of Freddie's position so I think she was done with the whole scenario.
This photo is copyrighted and may not be used in any way without permission. Photo taken on 05/04/07 in Asbury Park, NJ. outside of the Stone Pony on the boardwalk, it was at a Myspace Secret Show.
The Starting Line is a pop punk band from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area that formed in 1999.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the most influential band in Western popular music.
A member of the group, Paul McCartney, had developed an early interest in photography. His photos of the group, taken at the height of Beatlemania (1963-64) constitute a visual record of a pivotal moment in popular culture.
This photo from McCartney's collection was seen and photographed at an exhibition entitled 'Paul McCartney, Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of The Storm' at the deYoung Fine Arts Museum (FAMSF) in San Francisco, California.