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Stunning autumn colors from Sweden and the Nordics.
Photo Credit: Lars Ling
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I hosted a photo walk for Flickr Worldwide Photo-walk Day, in Vancouver Canada. Close to 50 participants from the meet group Vancouver Photo walks combed the streets of two of Vancouver's oldest neighbourhoods looking for great texture. The shops were closing in Chinatown as we went through and were .....let's say "NOT CLEAN" This little bit of yellow jumped at me. HMM!
The young woman from Greenland accompanied us to our local hosts.
Very interesting what she explained to us.
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Die junge Frau aus Grönland begleitete uns zu unseren örtlichen Gastgebern.
Sehr interessant, was sie uns erklärte.
It's my birthday today. I have a whole host of disparate thoughts on the matter, and today is as good a day to share them as any. Time is a subject that fascinates me. It is a common theme, in some fashion, in much of my photography. As such, birthdays in particular are a day that remind us of time. Many of us handle this reminder in various ways. Some dive in and celebrate the anniversary of their birth. Others want to avoid the attention and any thoughts regarding how this days marks the passing of our lives. Some don't much care at all whether it is today or tomorrow. We all handle time differently but we all play by the same rules. That is what fascinates me: this notion of time we have. I have read about how time is a human invention. I also recently read Slaughterhouse Five for the first time and enjoyed the Trafalmadorians' concept of time. In the book it is described that a Trafalmadorian sees all time at once, they say as we can look at a whole mountain range. A Trafalmadorian sees a dead person and thinks that they are doing quite poorly in that moment, but in other moments that person is quite healthy and happy. Birthdays are a very linear way of looking at time, and I think that is what bothers some of us. Instead of seeing the start of that linear path, we are seeing the end of it, but we are still looking in a linear fashion, regardless of which direction we are focusing on.
Personally, I don't put a lot of significance on my birthday. It's occurrence neither dismay nor terribly excites me. I appreciate the excitement of others over it (to a degree) but don't find it a necessary ingredient to the day either. I think part of this for me is that I try to make every other day as important as my birthday is. I try not to put myself in a position to need an annual reminder about the value of my birth, and rather try to use every day in that regard. Somewhere I got old enough to realize that the future is not infinite for me, thus every day is a gift in that regard. This does add a certain poignancy to each passing day and I sometimes wonder at the bliss of ignorance. My son is still young enough to enjoy that and I try to do what I can to preserve it for him. Not that I rue my perspective on it at all, I just appreciate the benefits of the other perspectives.
Not your typical birthday post, eh? That's ok, I generally have little patience for simple repetition. I don't claim that the ideas I have to share are any better than any others, but I do love engaging with how I think about things and exploring alternative ways to look at the world. I also don't need this to make any sense to anyone else, partially because it only partly makes sense to me, but such is the challenge of translating multi-faceted thoughts via a photo caption.
I really just wanted to share a photo because it is something I haven't done as much of on here as I used to.
In regard to this image, it was made on the edge of Detroit Lake. The lake itself is influenced by human intervention. A dam at the end of the lake has caused it to be much larger than it would have originally been. As is common for such man-made reservoirs, you will find a strip of land on the lake shore that is clearcut forest. These are like graveyards of trees and I find myself both fascinated and repelled by them. On a trip down to Proxy Falls we made a stop here to explore a while and I really wanted to try to find a way capture some aspect of this place. There is the horror of the carnage that is left of what was once a thriving forest, but then again there is also the fascinating presence of time as witnessed by the deposits left by previous high water marks and the semi-decayed, semi-preserved tree stumps. It is surreal in its way. Thankfully I had the Flexbody with me and its ability to tilt worked well with that sense of surreality.
And I think that is all the thoughts I have to share for today.
Hasselblad Flexbody
Fuji Acros
Puente Poncebos, en la carretera de Arenas de Cabrales hacia Sotres. Reflejos sobre las aguas del río Cares.
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