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certi posti hanno l'alito pesante.
le cose presenti si impregnano delle cose passate.
il letto, sempre lo stesso di quando avevo un anno o ne avevo dieci.
il copriletto familiare.
le croci che non servono a niente. i santi che non serve pregare.
quando ero abbastanza piccola da passarti sotto le gambe.
come fossero un castello le ossa e la carne.
quando la luce è fioca e bassa, quando piove.
a questa camera manchi tu, papà . e qui niente si muove.
Self Portrait
10" x 14" - hand thrown pottery, crockery, smalti, stained glass, & unglazed porcelain on a hand built substrate
For 2019: one photo each day (8/365) and 119 pictures in 2019, #112 "Vision". For this theme I took things very literally. Vision is precious, take good care of yours. This is the morning after cataract surgery in my right eye, and I'm wearing an eye protector ( for the first day or so). This is not much fun, so take care of your eyes. Cataracts are age related, but generally in association with environmental factors like excessive exposure to UV over time.
1.85:1 ratio
Sigma Art 40mm f1.4
White mist filter
LED RGB panel
I want to explore more with cinematic ratio and vibrant colors, we'll see !
I've been tagged by one of my oldest and most creative contacts... Venustus Vita.
www.flickr.com/photos/venustusvita/
This is my second tag with a different group. This time I'll take the painful step of posting an impromptu self-portrait. Viewer discretion is advised!
Behind me is a portrait of my friend Tivoli whose family I've known and whose face I've photographed now for over 8 years. Behind me is one of the African masks I collect while on the shelves are some of the reproduction of Greek and Roman statues which are another collecting field.
Random facts:
1. To complete my undergraduate honors degree in English Lit at Kansas University, I wrote a 100 page essay entitled "Shakespearean references in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'" It took a year to write and I've never read it since.
2. I collect wood carvings of all sorts: African Masks, Indonesian deer, and small Buddish and Hindu sculptures.
3. I have two children who I love dearly.
4. Upon leaving a job overseeing the computer area at KU's Art and Design department, I took with me 3 filled boxes of thank you and graduation cards from students I worked with over a 24 year period.
5. I live in the apartment complex where the founder of Google grew up. Google maps traditionally have set Meadowbook Apartments as the "zero point" because of this.
6. My favorite video games are any of Sid Meier's "Civilization" series or the first amazing game entitled "Deus Ex."
7 I am a cancer survivor after 4 surgeries.
8 I once fell into a nine ft concrete tunnel at an abandoned concrete factory
9 I was born in a desolate area of the SW corner of my state - the land of Dodge City and cowboys.
10 I'm not a cowboy
11 My favorite documentary is Ken Burns' The Civil War
12 My favorite TV programs are Northern Exposure and Mystery Science Theatre 3000
13 The biggest quandry in my life is deciding between Canon and Nikon photo equipment
14 I won a watermellon seed spitting contest when young at the county fair.
15 I've only seen the ocean once and that was on the ferry around NYC.
16 I love too many movies to name, but perhaps my favorite is "The Maltese Falcon."
Happy Valentine Day to all my dear friends on Flickr. You know I love you!
You have got to love self-timer. Capturing my silhoutte on moonstone beach.
July 2, 2009 Explore: 107
Selfie: Reflection on Metro -
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Many people don't realize that I am deaf without my hearing aids. (Deafness runs in my family going back at least 4 generations.) But...like most people who are deaf/hard-of hearing, I read lips, something I cannot do in a world of masks.
This photo represents how the 'world-behind-masks' sounds to me.
Flickr Explore, 2021-07-21.
Here's a self-portrait from inside the Waenhuiskrans cave near Arniston.
Most of us who studied science at school will have learned that the smallest possible measure of light is known as a "photon". Although our camera sensors capture these photons fairly accurately, they're not always able to capture things exactly as our eyes can see them.
Let's imagine that each pixel in our sensor is represented by a bucket outside in the rain. If no drops manage to reach a particular bucket, then that pixel will be pure black. But if the bucket receives so many drops that it overflows, then that pixel would be pure white. As photographers, we're aiming to catch at least a few drops in every bucket, but not so much that they'll overflow.
Most of us who are passionate about photography will know that a "stop" is the measure of how much light is in a photograph. A one-stop increase means that the amount of light doubles, and similarly, a one-stop decrease means the amount of light is halved. The difference in "stops" between the brightest objects and the darkest objects in our photos is known as "dynamic range".
There are a huge number of stops between the darkest and brightest objects in the real world, many more than what our eyes can see (and our camera sensors are able to capture). Distant stars emit only a few photons per second, while the sun blasts out about 10^17 photons per second. That's about 57 stops!. Human eyes can only see between 10 and 14 stops of dynamic range at any moment, and approximately 24 stops when we have the time to adjust our eyes. Most DSLR sensors however, are still way below that, so sometimes we do need to capture multiple differently exposed images and blend them together afterwards.
This is one of those photos. :)
Finally got a bit of space so was mucking about with some lighting ideas. Shock horror, no front light!
Elinchrom BXRi 500s, one with the deep octa behind me camera left, one with a gridded beauty dish high camera right, also behind. Large white reflector front camera right to fill the shadows a little bit. All fired with Skyports. Setup shot here: www.flickr.com/photos/bud/9119645416/
Photoshop for a bit of curves and high-pass for contrast.
Middle-distance gazing driven by the fact I'm watching an episode of the X-Files on my laptop, which is camera left. Gives me something to do while I'm waiting for the 10 second self timer to count down.
I took this self-portrait a few years ago when things in my life seemingly matched the image. Now a few years later, things are so much better than they ever were and new opportunities are presenting themselves.
How fitting that on my last day of one chapter of my life Donna and I literally stumbled upon a Goo Goo Dolls concert, and watched them play this song live. It reminded me of this image / song pairing I did a few years ago that never saw the light of day.
It's important to remember these days and how far we've come.
And even though the moment's passed me by
I still cant turn away
I saw the dreams you never thought you'd lose
Tossed along the way
Letters that you never meant to send
Lost and thrown away
And now we are grown up orphans that never knew their names
We don't belong to no one that's a shame
You could hide beside me
Maybe for a while
And I won't tell no one your name..
And I won't tell your name
Scars are souvenirs you'll never lose
Past is never far
Did you lose yourself somewhere out there?
Did you get to be a star?
Don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are?
We grew up way too fast
Now there's nothing to believe
And reruns all become our history
A tired song keeps playin' on a tired radio
And I won't tell no one your name...
And I won't tell your name
I won't tell your name...I won't tell your name
I think about you all the time
I don't need the same...
It's lonely where you are, come back down
And I won't tell your name