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On the blog today, Meri talks about her greatest critic, how it feels to be constantly bitched at and undermined and how she is going to get rid of this person. readmeri.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/being-bullied/
in an antique store for all eternity, but they can't take away my sense of self. That is my freedom.
Beauty is often treated as a gift.
What we speak of less often is its cost.
The world admires beauty from a distance, but admiration can quietly become expectation. The beautiful are asked to remain beautiful. To remain youthful. To remain desirable. To remain worthy of attention long after the attention itself has become exhausting.
We all perform versions of ourselves.
The competent one.
The strong one.
The successful one.
The beautiful one.
Over time, even the masks that bring us praise can become heavy.
Perhaps that is why this moment feels so human.
Not because it speaks about beauty, but because it speaks about the longing to be valued for something deeper than beauty. To be known beyond appearances. To rest from the expectations attached to them.
In the end, every person eventually discovers the same truth:
What makes us worthy was never the thing that fades.
Third in an ongoing series of collaborations with Zone Patcher ( Virtual Friend ).
www.flickr.com/photos/148557622@N07/
Zone, like all of us, has gone through many different phases in his extraordinary work. For about the past year he's been focusing on portraits of people in his life and subjecting those photographs to his unique fractal distortions. So when we discussed collaboration in earnest, he suggested that I send some selfies along to him to work with. He sent me back several versions.
Zone works in "single frames". One, unbroken image across the picture plane. My work since 2017 has been with multiple frames or "Veils & Screens", w/ several images collaged over top of each other. So my part is to take Zone's fractal variations and build multi-layered digital collages and add various photo manipulations in order to reach a unified mix of our unique ways of working.
The previous collaboration "Irridescent Ignition ..." was predominantly Zone's work with me acting as "arranger", putting his work into a multi-framed, multi-levelled "collage". This piece flips that relationship over where my composition and photo-manipulation is the more prominent aspect of the piece. It's a Yin/Yang, evolutionary, organic, unpredictable process which makes it exciting. "Ya just never know what yer gonna get"
One of my little techniques of late is to include the non-manipulated, original SOOC shots in a lot of my images. I want to let the fact be seen that I layer separate images over others. I start with straight photographs and do various things to alter them and then add them in for perspective. By NOT trying to create a more Surrealist blending of elements, my process is visible and no illusion is attempted. The nature of how I work is plainly visible.
No Pano-Sabotage was used in the making of this image.
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) & Zone Patcher - 2019. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
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The world behind her dissolves
into something soft and distant.
Only the frame remains.
Only the version she chooses to hold.
But there’s something else, too—
just beneath it.
A stillness in her expression,
a quiet awareness
that no image fully keeps
what it tries to preserve.
So she holds it there
for a second longer—
not to perfect it,
but to recognize
the space between
who she is
and what can be seen.
She holds the phone steady, eyes wide and exact, finger lifted as if correcting something small but important. The harbor fades behind her, lights softening, while the screen decides what stays.
Some moments aren’t lived once.
They’re adjusted—until they feel true enough to keep.
Fifty plus years come and gone
Two thirds of life a memory holds
How quickly time eludes the grasp
How soon the journeys in the past
Yet with time a wisdom grows
Insightful to the last
A will that struggles to stay the course
Holding on to innocence
Pushing back against a hardened heart
Preferring happiness to sorrow
The past banished to the past
Finding the future in tomorrow’s dawn
Always Living in the now
Never harming along the way
No boundary holds the heart
Embracing love at every turn
Moving on beyond despair
Letting go of entangled ways
Hoping in some my memory stays
So much more to learn
But oh so fewer are the days
EagleKnight
My wife has just received an illuminated makeup mirror with 5x magnification. Of course I immediately stole it from her to fire up my creative juices.
Actually in general I'm getting a lot better about this sort of thing but today just happened to be one of those days.
I might delete this later.
Pregnant body image concept shots
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A metaphor:
You have a choice... you can be a victim if you chose to be a victim, or anything else you want to be. But just remember that it is your choice.
(A.I. image rendered in Microsoft Designer)
it's not often that one sees a full length shot of me in my photo stream... mainly because I rarely use my big heavy tripod to take self portraits. (I have to get a small one sometime). I had a friend take this of me at the end of July of this year.
Part of me wanted to take this picture to prove to myself that I'm not as fat as I think I am. In the bathroom mirror with no clothes I'm not very happy with what I see. I think I carry that image with me and assume everyone else sees it too. Then I look at a picture like this and feel all 'normal' and am forced to rethink my issues.
1x Quantum Qflash in DMSL 36inch beauty dish with strip mask, metered f5.6
1x qflash kicked rear metered f2.8
Concept image for my depression charity project. May well be reshot later.
Shot back in April.
For my project
www.warwickshirephotographer.com/category/blog-2/snap-out...
Sometimes conforming to how "beauty" is seen now stinks. No, I'm not unhappy with the way I look.....just sayin'. ( I just realized, I have the mask on freakin' UPSIDE DOWN!!!! What a dork! This is probably gonna be re-done...... :O) )
Another teaser.
Best viewed this way:'erics orange' On Black
Taken a few nights ago, I turned the camera on myself as a theraputic tool to guide me through some really rough moments of mania. Well, this is the result. it's not a very pretty picture of me, but then again, it does the job, says what it supposed to say...
More to come...
A double exposure made in camera. Both pictures separated by a three year interval to show the passing of time.
So this picture was taken in the hotel lounge in Cancun. I think everyone thought I was strange for having a tripod set up and taking pictures of myself...LOL
I had this picture in mind, so I quickly took the opportunity when the waiter was standing there waiting for the bartender to make his drinks. He was looking at me with this confused look on his face because I was looking straight at him with my back to the camera. I think he was wondering why I wasn't facing the camera...LOL
I've been tagged a couple of times now, so I guess I should do this. Don't want any bad juju.
1. I'm a dad.
2. I love my wife.
3. I'm an archaeologist.
4. I never throw a book away.
5. I was born and raised in Georgia.
6. My parents are my heroes.
7. I scare my wife with my driving because I'm always
looking for a new place to photograph.
8.I love being in the woods.
9.I'm a homebody.
10.I have an expensive hobby and I can't afford it!
11.I have so much to learn.
12.I could not survive without music.
13.I could eat pizza everyday of my life.
14.I enoy a cold beer. (I really should combine this with the one above)
15.I have turned 30 and have my first few grays and my belly is starting to expand.
16.Life is good.
A self portrait taken as a storm approached! Good thing I had his spare grenade in my bag to take this awesome photo!
önkép @ Művészetek Palotája // self image @ Palace of Arts
Budapest HU EU, 2026.01.11.SU.14.34 x6416
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Every morning, first thing, I read my "Daily Word" . . .
I loved today's message and wanted to share . . .
"My power of imagination allows me to transcend my day-to-day reality and conjure new identities for myself. Just as I can don a mask and try on a new persona, I can remake my self-image as my soul evolves. I use this spiritual gift to expand my world as I put my gifts and talents to use.
My imagination frees me and carries me high above all worldly limitations. I use it to shape my life according to the imaginings of my inner vision. My foundation of faith steadies me as I pursue my goals.
My limitations fall away as I conceive of great adventures and accomplishments. I believe in my ability to dream big and know I can achieve anything I imagine."
Stay safe everyone! Please use your masks in many ways,
but especially for protection.
I got up and felt really pro-active today. I've been to town and tried to get my film roll developed, the shop was shut- very annoying. But at least I got distracted by the winter sales and spent a tonne on clothing....
After coming home I realised that this was one of the rarest weekends ever. I didn't have work on both days. I was actually free to do something today, so I went out and shot this, and a few more bits that I'll upload in the week.
plz press dah L key! It looks so much better on black.
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I decided to make my first shrine. I figured it should be on a subject I know a lot about. There is nothing I know more about than ME!
Each room is dedicated to a personality trait or an internal struggle.
See my photostream for closeups of each room.
This is racy for me. I never would have been able to post a picture like this a year ago. I'm sure that my family will be a little uncomfortable, but you know what? This, to me, is such a symbol of how far I've come both in terms of confidence in my composition skills as a photographer and also in my self confidence and comfort in my own skin. It helps that I've lost about thirty pounds since I started this 365 too. Anyway, this is day five of my series for Seven Deadly Sins Week in totw. Today I give you lust.
Lust or lechery is usually thought of as excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. Aristotle's criterion was excessive love of others, which therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary. In Dante's Purgatorio, the penitent walks within flames to purge himself of lustful/sexual thoughts and feelings. In Dante's "Inferno", unforgiven souls of the sin of lust are blown about in restless hurricane like winds symbolic of their own lack of self control to their lustful passions in earthly life.
One outtake in the comments that is super similar because I really couldn't decide which I liked better. And you should know my m.o. by now...if I can't choose, I just throw the second choice up in the comments. ;)
365 Days (self portraits): Day 359
TOTW: Seven Deadly Sins - Lust
52 Weeks of Feeling Fit: Week 12
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Source image provided by abstractartangel77: www.flickr.com/photos/abstractartangel77/15093538792/
thriving on the edge of indecision
The choice kept from an eye - selection and freedom denied, poised at the threshold; straddling a thread, neither in nor out - the residual of indifference fails to satisfy but erodes each conclusion; what matter that of justifing that all proves arbitrary.
They say many things about critics. That everyone is one, that you're your own worst one. But they say other things too. For example, Fall down seven times, get up eight. You're never going to be everyone's cup of tea, so please toss another cube of sugar in your cup and be a little sweeter to yourself. You have love to give and are loved. It's an awfully scary thing to do, but try to pry open the fist holding your heart and let light in, little bits at a time. Take whatever time you need. You will lose lots of things. Your keys, one mitten, weight, grandparents, love, trust, your way, and sometimes faith. Don't worry, these things come back to you in a different form, in a way that suits you much better.
I've spent the better part of my life battling with the reflection I see in the mirror. I wonder if I'll ever grow out of that. Seems that should have happened by now, right? I mean, I'm thirty two years old. I have this sinking feeling that the fact that I'm still fighting what I see means that I'll always be fighting what I see. I know what's inside of me. I love what's inside of me. But my relationship with my outer shell has always been a rocky one.