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My wife and I were spending the weekend in Brighton to celebrate our wedding anniversary and I figured the early morning (while she slept) was the perfect opportunity to try out my new b&w 10 stop filter! After having hauled myself out of bed (the night before we saw William Fitzsimmons at a tiny venue - he's an american folk singer songwriter: if you like that sort of thing, try him out!), I headed to the beach. The sun was shining, the sea was warm as I rolled my trousers up to wade in and get a better angle and all was quiet - apart from about 50 zombies running down the pebbly shore. Yes, that's right. Zombies. The tranquility of this image betrays nothing of the chaos behind me - the making of a movie involving the undead in full garb and bloodied faces. It gave the morning a surreal edge.
Now, just as those zombies could be taken to represent humankind's fear of death, this image might for you represent more than what it shows. The old pier at Brighton beach could be used as a symbol for many things - hope, faded beauty, defiance, loneliness - the list is no doubt endless. When we look at an image what do we see? Ourselves perhaps. That's why I called this one 'metaphor' - let it stand for whatever you think it should.
Taken at about 8am, f16, 90 seconds (b&w 10 stop filter), tripod - finger firmly held on button as my remote doesn't seem to be working! I must find out why for next time!
I never understand it. I never understood how people could just walk out of my life and pretend they never met me. Like every words I said was unspoken and every touch was never felt, and then it begins to drive me crazy. I begin to think my mind is playing tricks on me. Did they really exsist? because there's no longer a sign of life. There's photographs,messeges and notesbut who's the person? berly recognizable yet enough to distingish. I'm not like them. . I care and I show it and even If they don't, I'll keep their memories alive. The imprint is too big to hide so...Why try?
© Suna Cho
Stairs, going up, light at the end of the tunnel, many metaphors, but I also like to enjoy this just for what it is, a great stairway with great light. Italy 2019.
A Halloween decoration floats eerily over a grave in the local cemetery. I discovered this tableau near the end of an afternoon spent exploring some of my favorite burial grounds. The weather was cold and harsh, windy with a steady rain. I love photographing (and experiencing) autumn colors under these conditions. Love how the bright colors become muted in the cloudiness; the color remains but the saturation seems dialed down. At one point I noticed movement that seemed unnatural. I turned to find this discount store ghost decoration fluttering in the wind, as if trying to gain my attention. As I approached, I watched as the ghost whirled about madly in response to wind gusts, then settled back in intervals of calmness. The effect was mesmerizing. Not the least of it was the thought of seeing such a direct representation of the afterlife in the context of a cemetery. It's yet another one of those incongruous things that Halloween makes acceptable that might otherwise be considered a taboo. I loved the Casper-like simplicity of this ghost. In an era where blood, gore and zombies prevail, the subtlety of this creation seemed refreshing and somehow appropriate for the moment. It harked back to a simpler time when donning a white bed sheet adorned with a Sharpie-drawn face was deemed an adequate and frightening costume. I spent several minutes just standing here watching the ghost and thinking. And at least as much time photographing it. The initial frames did not do it justice. The wind-driven motion is what attracted me in the first place, and that's the way it needed to be portrayed. I dragged the shutter way down and the effect was complete.
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Wombat Junior leads the pack in a 1,000-meter race. He usually couldn’t propel his 200 pounds over the finish line in first place, but this time he was out front the whole distance.
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Collins Barracks, Dublin, dates back to 1704 and has housed various army troops through the years. Today, it is home to the Headquarters of the National Museum of Ireland and showcases fascinating exhibits on military history, costume, furniture, silver, ceramics, coins and glassware.
During my first visit back to Amsterdam after immigating to Canada in 1953, I realized the sense of trauma when suddenly confronted with a whole different set of behaviors and expectations.
Travelling from Groningen or Venlo to meetings at Utrecht, quite centrally located in The Netherlands, I've never regarded as a great hardship. Trains are mostly comfortable and I look forward to walking a bit before official duties begin. My favorite haunts then are the Old Botanical Garden and the Cloister of the Dom-Church (also called St. Martin's).
Intent all morning on a set of papers about philosophy and science, the familiar sight of this canon writing a book quite suddenly dredged up from the deepest reaches of my mind:
"Each creature of the world / is as a book and picture to us / and a mirror."
[Omnis mundi creatura,
Quasi liber et pictura
Nobis est et speculum.]
Penned by Alan of Lille (c.1128-1202), these words are a shorthand for what is called "The Book of Nature", an idea still very much alive even in modern science. Think only of closely related metaphors such as "the DNA code".
This statue of a canon writing in a book dates from 1913. It was designed by Jan Hendrik Brom (1860-1915) and cast by his son Jan Eloy (1891-1954). They took as their inspiration the figure of the medieval legal scholar and canon of St Martin's, Hugo Wstinc (?-1349). Wstinc had been pointed out to them by Jan Hendrik's brother, Gisbert or Gijsbertus Brom (1864-1915). Gisbert was an astute scholar and a foremost archivist of the Middle Ages, who also wrote a fine guide to the archives of the Vatican. Moreover, he was active in contemporary socio-political debate in the Church between 'modernism' and 'integralism', coming down hard against the latter. For Gisbert the medieval legal scholar Wstinc stood as a contemporary metaphor for science and scholarship in general. It was in this spirit that the City of Utrecht presented the University with this token of their esteem.
In back in the Cloister walls are scenes from the life of St Martin.