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Been so busy all day at a Wedding and tomorrow I will be at a 50th Birthday party!!!
So I haven't forgotten about you, I will be catching up with your pictures soon :-)
In a Google cafe wasting time while waiting for a ride. Should have grabbed an ice cream instead of doing goofy things like this.
Are you sure that you know your true identity? Will you be able to look at yourself without all the distortions created by your subjective world? In general, we are more close to the animal self than to the human self.
The animal self seeks the satisfaction of its own passions at all costs although it may often have to disguise them and present them under the appearance of great saintliness. In this way, this man, that thinks that he 'does what he likes,' is in reality the slave of his own slaves.
J.A. Livraga
Stock used:
Raven here by ~FallowpenStock
Texture here by ~SolStock
Blood brushes here by ~Scully7491
Background is my own stock. It was done last week in west Ireland, in the same place than the photo beside.
Thank you for looking
“The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world” ― Henry David Thoreau
I love these kinds of shots. The ones you take of yourself in the mirror of your car, or maybe in the window of an airplane or bus! You might be documenting a road trip, or a journey, or just going to visit some friends like I was here. It's not as easy as it looks. This must have been one of thirty or forty tries, maybe even more, to get just the right feeling for this week's BAM.
You see, driving on the highway at 70 mph, with your head half hanging out the window, aiming and focusing your lens, then posing yourself without letting go of the shutter button so you don't focus on the "Objects in Mirror" text or moving the angle where you only get the upper corner of the mirror...well. It's not as simple as it seems. And when you do manage to get the framing right...you probably forgot to look directly into the lens of the camera in the mirror's reflection, so you're looking off into spaceville. And what about expressions? were you smiling? do you have psycho eyes? Is it natural? It's a lot to think about.
But maybe it doesn't have to be this tough. Maybe, if you're on a good vibe, magic happens, and it all just clicks into place. No internal drama, no demands of perfection. But just me, myself, and my canon. Happy to be here. Happy to have the wind in my hair, a smile on my face, my husband at the wheel, heading out on a journey. And now, 30 or 40 clicks and a lot of laughs later, I also have an image to remind me of how care-free and simple life can really be. No perfection needed!
Photo captured near the unincorporated place of Pepperwood alongside Avenue of the Giants. Humboldt County. Mid July 2013.
"Never stand between two mirrors. Mirrors contain infinity. Infinity contains more things than you think. Everything, for a start. Including hunger. Because there's a million billion images, but only one soul to go around."
~Terry Pratchett
From The Wintersmith (I think)
Sometime around Gabriel's birth we gifted Andrew with our old S100 PowerShot point and shoot. Today I got a hold of it and looking through it was like watching a 365 of Andrew. He loves to take pics of himself. He has figured out how to turn on the self timer and set up the camera and set it on a surface so he can look into it. About every 5th shot is all red because he's stuck the front of it into his mouth. I guess it's his journey of self-discovery. If he was on flickr he'd totally be in a 365 self portrait group hehe.
In the garden of my soul
my spirits duel
a half is not a whole
my thoughts do rule
In the place that is my mind
desires dwell
what is lost that I can't find
I shall not tell
In the depths within my heart
my needs expressed
not as an end but as a start
new journeys blessed
Vertical pan upward facing grandkids in a car, me and surroundings reflected from window. Processed in the Vinci app, and put together in GIMP.
The Christmas version of seeing the world though rose-colored glasses: seeing the world in a gold-plastic ornament.
1/5 images that were submitted in portfolio, but weren't posted before
This one has been re-edited slightly since Guy saw it on Saturday.