Monthly Archives: April 2022

Balmain Boat Sheds

Here’s a photo I took a few weeks ago. I feel I may have gone too hard on either contrast or saturation; I’m not sure. Still, I like the way the buildings in the lower right contrast against the dreariness … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1095: Needing Rest

This probably is a rather silly thing to do right now, but I’m going to do it. Then I’m going to rest. Right now I’m rather ill and despairing, woe is me and so on and so forth. However, I’m … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1094: This one Should’ve Been About Lethargy

Sometimes the day drifts away and you’re left there, dreaming in the day whilst moving through the… day… I don;t know as to where I was going with that, so I will relent, but only for now, for later there … Continue reading

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Yoshitaka Hirota: Deep Meditation ~ Title

For a while I wanted to write about “Advertise I” and so it was sitting in my queue. I thought this song was the following one until a few days ago when I listened to the Shadow Hearts II soundtrack again … Continue reading

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Yoshitaka Hirota: ~ICARO AGAIN ~ Advertise II

Once more I wrote quickly. Not sure what I was trying to capture with this one, but I feel I did alright in terms of describing what happens during the song. It sort of feels like the second part of … Continue reading

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Yoshitaka Hirota: Prelude~ ~ Advertise I

This was written over one listen. I wrote quickly and tried to capture a sense of the otherwordliness that the song sort of gets across, but I don’t think I did a good job. Yoshitaka Hirota’s (弘田佳孝) “Prelude~ ~ Advertise … Continue reading

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Black Swan in the Rain

This was one of the swans I saw on my birthday. It was keeping an eye on me, which I imagine was due to making sure I didn’t get too close to its child. I like how still it appears … Continue reading

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Yasunori Mitsuda: Secret of the Forest

One listen for this one. I thought I was going to get a fair bit more out and interweave more imagery related to forests, but I did not and instead the result feels really brief. Yasunori Mitsuda’s (光田 康典) “Secret … Continue reading

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2814: Inside The Sphere

One listen for this one. I feel like I was a bit harsh here as the song is good enough. However, I feel it spends a little too much time announcing and assuring that it’s getting across something rather than … Continue reading

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Stone

Recently I returned to the location of this artwork. I wanted to take photos of the area partly to see if I could take better photos this time around. Anyway, I like the framing in this shot. I think there’s … Continue reading

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