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No more shots for a week or so. I'm needing a breather after being "in the zone" photography wise for the past two weeks, first at the Pingyao Photography Festival itself and then since returning, spending much of my free time either on Flickr or processing shots taken in Pingyao. There's a pile of dishes needing washed, my legs crave sport, my guitar needs re-strung, there's a pile of strange new words to learn and I'm sure I even have friends somewhere in this city that I should meet for a beer or two. I sign off this intensive session with a few abstracts.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. -Neil Gaiman.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture
Leica M10
Leica Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 III (E46)
ISO 6400
f/2.8
1/45
Una scheggia di luce illumina la punta di una nuvola, sopra al mar Mediterraneo, mentre il resto del cielo accoglie le tinte della sera.
Dal mio archivio
Buona giornata
#nuvole #clouds #sole #sun #dusk #crepuscolo #cielo #sky #blue #blu
I have stopped behind two bars looking for empty bottles and came up empty.
Obviously I am not picking the right bars.
I saw one old bottle by the side of the road today and put it in my pack.
Cleaned it up, cut a hole in the bottom and blew it up.
Needs more delay. Next time, maybe.
Cheers.
A thrift store glass meets a wooden ball moving fast.
About 250 fps.
Two flashes, one in a soft box from behind and another giving some highlighting.
It's silly hot today. Predicted to peak at 90F. I am going to have to stop checking accuweather because they are predicting a high of 75F and at 9AM it was already 80F. If you can't predict weather better than that in Southern California, get another job.
Found a problem with my flashes two days ago. I was seeing a little arc in the current limiting resistor. Turns out it was blown out and that my selection of the resistor value was totally wonky.
To be fair, it has worked just fine for two years and failed safe. But I need to use a much higher resistance.
Off to the Gem and Mineral Show in Newbury Park.
Cheers.
Now the exhibition is fully under way I feel it's time to put up the other four of the 'Splintered thoughts' collection :D
Not too sure how much the youth of the present and future have experience with wooden toys. But when my mind flies back to fragmented memories of my earliest days I remember many happy moments playing with solid simple shapes of wood with painted designs of cars, dogs or just primary colours.
And when I'm thinking those thoughts I like to believe this is in someway how I appear to everyone around me.
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An F-15C Eagle of the 65 AGRS, painted up with the Russian splinter camo pattern, just after launch, and heading out to play the role of aggressor during Red Flag 14-3.
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