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We've shot right past the peak daylight of late June here in northern Ohio. Came and went as it always does, unnoticed; simply lost in the blur as days slip into weeks. I'm having to reverse course now on my evening activities...doing the same things, but doing them earlier before darkness sets in. I've been riding my bicycle lately out to the township line. Great stress reliever, great exercise, and more often than not, great life moments. I just love the solitude of the rural roads and expanses of farmland. For me there's always been a high level of spiritual energy surrounding crop fields. It's similar to that Zen feeling I feel in my own tiny vegetable garden. But it's at the steroid level adjacent to multi-hundred acre cornfields. So I'm already predisposed to a metaphysical thought process just being here. But some evenings the sky erupts into insane color and texture as the sun sets. Happened several days in a row last week. No two alike, and extremely dynamic in nature. The color expands and collapses within minutes or even seconds. It ripples across the clouds, and presents hues so vivid and saturated that it seems surreal. I've come to realize the feelings I associate with these moments have less to do with the actual colors, but the sense of awe that overwhelms me as I experience them. I'm not merely witnessing the color, I'm being enveloped in it as the last light is squeezed out of the day.
Any Avengers fans in the house? One of my fav lines is from End Game, where the superheroes have come together for the final showdown. In the film version it is Captain America who says: "Avengers...assemble." But die-hard (no pun intended) fans know that it was actually Thor who rallied his comrades in the 1964 comic Avengers #10 by Stan Lee and Don Heck.
What does this have to do with a baking a cake? Well now, I'm glad you asked. I'm a novice baker, prefer to cook because it's more freeform and forgiving; baking is precise and not tolerant of mistakes...not if you're hoping for a palatable win.
"Ingredients, assemble!"
52 Weeks - The 2025 Edition
Week 36: flat lay photography
Figure of speech that implies comparison between two unlike entities, as distinguished from simile, an explicit comparison signaled by the words “like” or “as.”
The distinction is not simple. The metaphor makes a qualitative leap from a reasonable, perhaps prosaic comparison, to an identification or fusion of two objects, to make one new entity partaking of the characteristics of both. Many critics regard the making of metaphors as a system of thought antedating or bypassing logic.
Heedless, Clueless, Faceless, Speechless.
So many disasters in progress. Will there be consequences for the perpetrators?
Old married couple trying to get to level ground (NOT a metaphor for the rocky spots in every marriage ... we really really did want to get to level ground).
This clock is an original Irish grandfather clock, maybe 170 years old. It had marked off every moment, good, bad and indifferent of the lives of everyone I know, their fathers and grandfathers and has never flinched.
This is a photo of reflections on the surface of the river. The image has been mirrored and copied twice to be symmetrical. The detail is best seen full screen.
The current understanding of astrophysics is that at the beginning of the universe, the creation of matter was symmetrically balanced by the creation of anti-matter. Contact between them results in their mutual annihilation, accompanied by a massive release of energy, analogous to a nuclear explosion. The symmetry in this image could be seen as a visual metaphor for this.
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permettre au sujet de se dévoiler en nous tenant ni trop près, ni trop loin ...mais à la juste distance...
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light." Laurens van der Post
Nearly did a spit-take when I came across this image while perusing photos from a session back in October. I shot this Halloween decoration right where I found it: the middle of a cemetery. The juxtaposition of a skeleton hanging in a place normally reserved for solemn reverence was exquisite. I posted a low angle shot of this same figure a while back that seemed to convey a sense of passive anguish. I was so bent on that one camera angle that I overlooked the other shots taken that morning. It's often that way for me. I get preoccupied with a preconceived notion of how to present a photo, and tend to run with it. But in any given session there are dozens of shots from diverging angles that later prove interesting. If there's one thing I've learned doing this kind of work it's to not be limited during the shoot. My process now is to shoot with utter abandon and worry about sorting it out once I return home. Processing photos on a computer seems to dial into a different part of my brain than the one that sees life through the viewfinder. It's essential to allow them both to coexist. Anyway back to this image, it struck me as a much more aggressive stance, the skeleton leaning forward as if on the march, an angel of death in search of souls. And me crouched down hoping that grinning skull head does not turn in my direction. I'm sure watching the film Jason and the Argonauts recently and witnessing the epic sword fight with the angry skeletons fueled my imagination here.
Everything is Everything
A metaphorical self-portrait while making urbex images in Western NY.
Tech Specs: Image made with my Olympus OM-D e-M1.2 with the m.Zuiko 9=8mm f1.8 Fisheye Pro lens mounted on a Mefoto Globetrotter Classic tripod and triggered using the Olympus Oi.Share app (ISO200 | 1/25 | f4.5).
Post Processing: This one was solely processed in On1 Photo RAW 2020.5.
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I know I’ve changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn’t know anything.
© Suna Cho
Yesterday on a walkabout with my camera on Happisburgh Beach in Norfolk after a few hours shooting I had already packed up my gear. On my way back to the car, I spotted this rusty piece of metal sticking out of the sea and knew I had to shoot it.
So all the gear came back out again and I waited for the sun to appear from behind the clouds to light up the rust.
It's also occurred to me that this image is like a rusty metaphor. Stuck up to my neck in it with everything pouring over me and looking a little worse for wear ;-)