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I was going to post this as my 365 photo today...it was taken at Sushi San in Baltimore after we were done eating our sushi/thai food...I laid my head on the table and saw the reflection and thought...hmmm, i'll try this one. So, in answer to one of the thread questions in the group....this was my "pretty" photo for the day and I didn't use it because it didn't fit the "mood" of what I'm feeling now when I'm doing the posting... This is the last shot I'll be posting til I figure out how to get a new camera or get mine fixed!
there is hope on the horizon....stay tuned!
There are SOOO many songs about brown eyes....
Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed
Then prayed and bled some more
And the only thing that I could see
Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me
But when we got back, labeled parts one to three
There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me
--The Pogues
OR
These brown eyes of mine
They've been doin' some powerful cryin'
Thinkin' 'bout all those years
That always bring back the tears
-America
OR
Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standing in the sunlight laughing,
Hiding behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and sliding
All along the water fall, with you
My brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl
-Van Morrison
OR
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on
-The Grateful Dead
And the list goes on.....
This was a special evening, i'll be chasing this sunset for the rest of my life. I'll never tire of looking at the pictures, the colors (not shown here, haha) were something you only see in dreams. Moments like this are the reason I am a photographer.
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!
Macromondays: Theme is Coloured Glass
This is part of a coloured glass paperweight. I liked how the paperweight reflected itself in each bubble... it also reflected my home made light tent tho :-(
Posting early this week, tired, need bed and can't be sure will get on tomorrow. Will add my comments on all your shots tomorrow night!
And I'm not talking about the kind in a bumper, but it fits the photo too!
It's never easy to stop dead in your tracks and take a look around and realize something has to change, that something has to become different, and that you are the only one who can make it different. It's also especially hard to make a move like that when it involves someone else. Especially when you're afraid you could lose a friend, even when that wasn't the intention.
Life is its own hardest lesson and unfortunately the only way to learn that lesson and become better is by living, day to day. I still have so very much to learn, I know and realize that in my core. And it's okay.
I try to live my life each day, to be a good person, to be happy, to be positive, to reflect that positivity on others if possible, to not be weighed down by negativity, to help others, and to be a good friend.
Life is what you make of it. It can be as good as you want or as bad as you want. Sometimes things happen beyond our control that throw us for loops but you have to ride the wave, learn from it (if possible), and keep on moving forward. That light at the end of the tunnel does exist. I know that for a fact. I lived way back in that dark tunnel for years and years. I was depressed, I saw no way out, I wanted someone to save me, someone to make it all better for me. I couldn't do it, I didn't have the strength...at least that's what I told myself. Then one day I realized the only person who could save me (and who would save me) was myself. The only way to move forward was to take the necessary steps in front of me. And I did. And I moved forward and I made things better. The reason no one could save me was because that decision, that looming, difficult, impossible seeming decision, was mine to make and no one else's. It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do.
Since then I've done a lot of reflecting, on myself, on my life, on where I want my life to go. It's a necessary thing to stop and assess life every now and then. Friends can help guide you, can listen to you, can be your shoulder to cry on and to make you laugh. But you have to make decisions and stand behind them knowing you are doing what is right, what is best for you and you alone.
An artpiece from MoMA's PS1. You guys should be able to spot where I am, put a note on it if you find me and my camera. More details to come
Day 53. 080627.
Model: Nikki Barrager
MUA: Laetitia Make up Mons
Strobist info: Nikon SB900 through very narrow vertictal barn door right from model at 30º, 1/16 power; Elinchrom BX250Ri on 1,5 through 60x60 softbox left facing at 45º angle towards the camera, Elinchrom BX250Ri on 1,5 through 60x60 softbox right facing at 45º angle towards the camera, a little bit higher than the model's face. 100 cm round reflector on the right of the model, bouncing back the light from the Elinchrom strobes
Shot through the glass front door of my house & reflecting back through the house to the view out the back windows.
10/07/08
For FGR, Self Reflection. (lovely choice, Maite!)
I had a good day.
I had coffee.
I got my promotion.
I was busy as hell.
I wanted to scream.
I found out how much my raise was.
It made it all worth it. ;-)
This pic came out sort of freaky looking....like some weird horror movie or something....
And I'm a bit sore I didn't desaturate the texture over the desaturated reflection, but eh, what can you do. :-))
Hm. Ah, and of course, mucho thanks to the fabulous Jessi for the texture. You're a genius, girl. :)
Most people, cameras in hand, capture endless photos the exact moment when the sun lowers on the horizon. Unfortunately, those people simply leave and end their moment on capturing that quintessential sunset. However, the moment after the sun sets is truly when the magic happens. An array of colors burst out of the ether as if the heavens above express the amount of love and positive vibrations they have for us earthlings. Enjoy each and every moment of a sunset and your life, not just the highlights. Photo captured from the Humboldt Lagoon State Park Visitor Center at Stone Lagoon. Humboldt Lagoons State Park. Humboldt County. Late August 2013.
O moim domu którego ściany z ciepłych niedomyślonych snów
(Eng. Of my house with walls warm as unfinished dreams)
self-portrait
(December 28, 2014)
location: my house, TX
inspired by the poetry by H. Poświatowska
translation by Marek Lugowski
twice22.org/HalinaFAQ/
—-
o moim domu
którego ściany
z ciepłych niedomyślonych snów
napiszę najpiękniejszy wiersz
o włosach dziecka
które nigdy nie wplączą się
w moje ręce kobiety
o ustach -- które posępnym pragnieniem
nie zawisną ponad niepokojem moich nocy
o miłości -- która rozkwita
w każdym wyszeptanym słowie
w barwie róż
w zapachu ściętej trawy
w pospiesznym spadaniu gwiazd
w gorzkim
unicestwianiu motylich skrzydeł
zgasłych w płomieniu świecy
o miłości --
doskonałej w swoim chmurnym niespełnieniu
—-
of my house
with walls
warm as unfinished dreams
I will write the most beautiful poem
of a child's hair
never to entangle itself
in my woman's hands
of a mouth -- that will not hang
with grim desire over my night's worry
of love -- blossoming
in each whispered word
in the hue of roses
in the smell of cut grass
in the quickened fall of stars
in the bitter
annihilation of butterfly wings
put out in candle flame
of love --
perfect in its cloudy unfulfillment
—-
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I'm back!! OK, I know it's only been 4 days, but my withdrawal pangs are severe. Call it self-centered, but I can hardly stand not being in a tiny bit of touch with my friends out there in Flickr World, no matter if I have recent photos to post or not. I need to drag myself out of these doldrums, even if means going way back to pics I've missed. It's not that I don't appreciate & enjoy all your wonderful images, but if I'm not participating, something is missing for me. I've never been much interested in spectator sports either. So below is a great big hug for all of you. I've missed you and hope all is well at your houses.
“My inability to verbalize my feelings has transformed itself into a visual dialogue between my lover and me: I crave for a wordless understanding simply because I am afraid. I don’t want to clear thing out too much when there will be a possibility that my lover might fail to decipher my unspoken message. I find my self caught up in this inescapable paradoxical: I try to hide the passion from her, (the word Cacher = to hide in French) but the act of documenting heavily our daily private lives and spaces, her body and mine, is an act of opening up myself to vulnerability. I suppressed my feelings but my photographs release it.” Cacher by Thy Tran (2/4)
I took a self portrait with this toaster camera for this discussion in the Strobist.com group.
I'll skip the strobist info as an exercise, for now. This is, after all, your everyday self-portrait in the toilet mirror with on-toaster flash. Please don't hesitate to ask, there are no tricks used.
EDIT: Okay, due to popular interest (yeah right) I'll spoil the rotten joke by giving the real strobist info. This was shot by my wife beside me with an D50, through the bathroom mirror at an angle. Illuminated by the SB-800 balancing on top of the toaster at 1/16 power. Flash was in SU-4 mode and triggered by an bounced SB-600 at minimum power on the real camera.