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Look so smooth
Better tell me the truth
Would you trade me
Out for someone cool?
I know you better than you do
So put out your cigarette
Kiss me on
The lips tonight
-Neon Trees.
Wil Crowe and his bad habit that I've gotten used to. Fun to photograph though.
More from this shoot here on my blog:
Our Camera Club enjoyed an outing to Helston Steam Railway. It's a very old line. Cut by Beeching in the 60s! Looking back to the engine.
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Reading "Zen Camera" by David Ulrich. End of Section One suggests shooting with a phone and looking up.
Photos taken during the HUMA project on the island of Gotland. For more info, read the set description.
This is the view looking into the building seen in the previous three photos. I shot this from the doorway--I definitely did not feel like stepping inside, as in real life this looked a lot darker. Unquestionably the creepiest location I've ever photographed. View large on black.
Yashica-Mat LM with Yashinon lens, f/16, 1 sec. Kodak Portra 400NC, developed with Arista C-41 kit.
[Title taken from here.]
Public art is successful if it makes people stop, look and think and on that basis this work by Rowan Gillespie is a huge success.
Today when I visited there was a large number of young American tourists there and their guide was telling them about the "Irish Potato Famine". Americans refer to it as the "Irish Potato Famine" while we in Ireland to it as the "Famine" or the "Great famine"
Rowan Fergus Meredith Gillespie (born 1953) is an Irish bronze casting sculptor of international renown. Born in Dublin to Irish parents, Gillespie spent his formative years in Cyprus.
The Irish Famine and subsequent catastrophic migration has motivated two major works by Gillespie, and so it must be said that the portrayal of Famine, is a major theme of the artist's work. In several of his site specific pieces, such as Famine (1997) on the Custom House Quay in Dublin, his life-sized human figures are emaciated and haunting.
In June 2007, a series of statues by Gillespie was unveiled by President Mary McAleese on the quayside in Toronto's Ireland Park.
In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852.
During the Famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the country's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. The cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as potato blight. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland — where one-third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food—was exacerbated by a host of political, social and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate.
The famine was a watershed in the history of Ireland. Its effects permanently changed the island's demographic, political and cultural landscape. For both the native Irish and those in the resulting diaspora, the famine entered folk memoryand became a rallying point for various nationalist movements. Modern historians regard it as a dividing line in the Irish historical narrative, referring to the preceding period of Irish history as "pre-Famine".
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
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Two things:
*Sorry all people who said I looked like Kate Winslet, the machine gives you the point.
*I love to look-like Sean Connery, ha ha! So freak...
This was taken last year with my first digital camera, the Canon S2 IS.
Had found this gorgeous magnolia tree in full bloom in the neighborhood. It was by the road side, and didn't fall under any homeowner's property, so I didn't feel uncomfortable taking pictures here.. Anyhow, just finished up taking close-up and "macro" shots, when I just happened to look up because I felt rain drops on my hand... little did I know that the view looking up was just as beautiful as the macros I was interested in..
The white background is nothing but cloudy sky... this was taken when I didn't know anything about exposure control or Aperture settings or anything.. I simply put the camera in "P" mode and clicked whatever I liked!!!!!
I went to the same tree yesterday, but due to the frost and colder days we've had last week, the buds had signs of "burning" before even blooming, and thus didn't look as pretty! I was a bit bummed out, but can't really control nature, so just shot some wild flowers growing on the ground and called it a day.
As always, your constructive comments are more than appreciated and welcome. Thanks for your views and comments.
Have a great week ahead.
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look upwards and see the moon which is much further away than we are from each other so if two people lose something yesterday, they could find it again tomorrow but if just one of them were missing today, everything will be lost forever that's why I have never wanted to be alone and I have never wanted you to be alone either, because of that I have never wanted to be more than an outstretched hand or a heartbeat away from you and I still don't and I never shall, but we are a universe apart and my heartache increases more by the second we remain so distant I love you xxxx