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This is a self-portrait from a few years back when I was photographing an old Cotton Gin. I found myself gazing across the landscape.
Why is it that we find self reflection easier when we are gazing across farm land? Does it reflect on our ancestral background? Or does it reflect upon a simpler life, allowing for easier self reflection?
You may notice the ghostly appeal of this photograph. Partial credit goes to my choice of using infrared photography and the other are choices in my exposure and timing.
Location: central Arkansas.
Photo # IMG_2032_2039mod1b.
(c) Kelly Shipp.
This building in Manchester is on the approach to Manchester Piccadilly railway station, and snakes along the road. It has shops at ground level and this uniform structure above. Notable among the shops is the Ian Allan bookshop.
The building is curved enough that it can be made to reflect on itself. That appeals to me.
When I was 8 years old, my cousin Eva in Majorca (Spain) who's one year older, sat down with me one summer afternoon and started telling me about this great comic series she was reading... there was a group of heroes who were going to space, and this woman who had a fantastic power that manifested as a bird of fire, and how she was turning evil and eventually sacrificed herself for the ones she loved..
It was, obviously, the adventures of the X-Men from Marvel Comics, during the times of the unforgettable "Dark Phoenix" saga. My fantasy-loving young mind was too curious, so I picked my first comic ever and started reading... getting forever hooked into this art... 25 years later... I'm still an avid reader, I live in New York (often portrayed in many of the stories I read), my boyfriend is an editor at DC Comics, one of our best friends (Phil Jimenez) is one of the most famous comic book artists in the world (among other great things, he drew the Obama-Spiderman mighty cover), etc...
All that's left? Is for me to fulfill the ultimate fantasy and become my own (super)hero one day. It doesn't have to mean getting special powers and do colorful stuff... it would be enough for me to be able to do good and meaningful deeds to others, and fight injustice wherever it may be...
I might have to apply myself extra hard, so I can one day use my arts (photography, journalism, cinema) to do it...
Meanwhile, month after month, I'll keep on dreaming, 22 pages at a time... :-D
Self-portraits (1 and 2) at home.
New York.
Taken both with a 3Gs iPhone, using Hipstamatic app (John S lens + Blanko film style)
Next door, Emily and Elizabeth had retired upstairs. Luckily for them, Bobby had made sure the women had a decent bed and large enough covers.
What Bobby couldn’t plan for, however, was the changing weather and that Elizabeth didn’t seem sleepy.
“Baby sister,” Emily spoke, her face barely visible above the covers as she tried to stay warm. “Could you please turn out the light?”
“I just realized that I’m reading, like, I’m really reading. I haven’t reread the same page four times to make sense of what it says. I didn’t know I could still do that!” Elizabeth marveled.
“I don’t know how you get anything outside of childcare accomplished at your house,” Emily observed.
“I don’t know how I do either,” Elizabeth reflected, astonished she had just said that. Did she really feel that way?
To be continued later this week... ;)
Going for a slightly cyber punk feel for this one.
Strobist Info:
A6000
Canon 50mm 1.4 @ 8
YN560II @1/128 + Octobox 80cm + grid camera left.
Reflector behind.
Trigger
RF603
I'm back from a week away from Paris, so i've got lots of catching up to do and lots of photos to upload (when I have the time!).
In the mean time, i've been inspired by the self portraits of Vivian Maier so thought i'd take some while out photographing other subjects. So here's the first, a double reflection taken at a hair dressers in London a couple of weeks ago.
This long exposure light painting is meant to show the warm and cold that we all have inside. The battles between them. The light and the dark.
Light source is the Dorcy 520 LUMEN LED RECHARGEABLE FLASHLIGHT with colored gels.
Shot with model darkmoonmare
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our limbs have been asleep, we need to get the blood back in 'em. we're finding every day, several ways that we can be friends.
i just needed to go out. i needed to feel the warmth of the evening sun. i needed to see it setting through my sisters fly-aways. i needed to not think about anything but the dandelions i was blowing. i needed to clear my head and think. and i know what i want. and it's you.
A jabiru (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) staring into her reflection on the floodplain.
Yellow-waters, Kakadu NP NT
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Viktor E. Frankl
I went swimming in the pool at my apartments and the water was sooo chlorinated it stripped almost all the blue and green from the front of my hair...
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“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” ~Barbara De Angelis
For Me Again Monday theme: self reflection and BAM 2:18
52 week 2014 Challenge: reflection
there was/is so so much more that I want to do with this theme. I will definitely revisit it when I can grab some more time. I do however like the simple concept here. Fun to play!
Photo of Mount Lassen captured at Lake Manzanita--Lassen Volcanic National Park via the HDR method of photography. Shasta County. Late October 2012.
Have a wonderful Thursday....dear friends!! :-)
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