Lights Behind the Window Wall

A photo taken this morning in a (somewhat) heavy fog.
I’d aimed to take a photo of these windows for the below-mentioned challenge, but I was aiming to capture reflection. I wasn’t expecting this.

There’s probably an argument for the suggestion of vagueness caused by the lights, but I just like how they sit relative to the non-illuminated panels.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week. This theme for this one comes from Dawn of The Day After, and it is “Windows“.

Participating is pretty straightforward and something I recommend. If you do, then include the tag “monochrome-madness” in your post. If not participating, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography as well as what other people submit.

I hope you enjoy.

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Golden Barl

This was taken a couple of months ago whilst walking around with a friend.
We both took photos of this building. I decided to create a few versions of my photo, including the one below.

I’m not sure why I did this. I think I liked the contrast, as well as the idea of part of the photo being missing, or not existing. Not sure.

I hope you enjoy.

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Disused Railway Building

Taken during a recent long drive, or a short drive, depending on how long a long drive is to you.

I’d been meaning to come back to this bit of railway since I initially drove past it a few years ago. Took a while, but I got back. Didn’t realise this building was here, walked around, took a few photos. Usual stuff.

There’s something quiet about the photo, and maybe lonely too. It’s clear that people come here, but perhaps this building sits here, mostly outside of memory.

I hope you enjoy.

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Cloudy Plume

Here’s a focused photo of part of the cloud seen in this photo.

I found this part of the cloud pretty interesting. I’m not sure why, but I did, and I think it looks a bit odd with how I processed it. Not sure.

I hope you enjoy.

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Field of Fading Fog

There’s a story related to the taking of this image which I’ll save for when I share another one I took around this time.

I think the fog helps to keep focus in the foreground. It almost feels like it’s creating a separation between what is visible and what is external to the scene.

I think the colour and lighting turned out well, and whilst this isn’t the most interesting image, I think it’s decent enough.

I hope you enjoy.

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Stars and Trees

Taken during a recent trip to The Blue Mountains, and somewhere around four or five hours after the previous photo I shared, though in a different area.

I hadn’t done astrophotography in a long time and it’s something I’ve been meaning to try again so I got around to doing so on this particular trip. However, most of the photos didn’t turn out, but this one did.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-ninety-ninth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Hopeful“.

Seeing the natural, or at least ideas of the natural do make me feel hopeful. I have friends that also leave me hopeful, but the more I see and the more I see not enough being done to preserve and restore habitats and the environment, the harder it is to remain hopeful.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Tina

Patti

Ann-Christine aka Leya

John Steiner

Sofia Alves

Anne Sandler

Donna

Egídio

Ritva

Patti is curating this one. Next week Leya is curating.

I recommend participating in the challenges as they provide a fun way to interpret theme. If not participating, then at least you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1361: Perpetual Energy Machine

Doing that being tired thing again and I should get on with the getting on, but I’m not, but maybe I will now, but I don’t know if I will and so many other things that are needing worrying about are cropping up, but they’re not, but they will, but perhaps there is a way out, but who knows, really?

So I’m pushing through the being tired and I’m pushing myself along and now I’m moving – grooving optional – and I’m getting on with the getting on and all that, and I need to keep on going as there is a lot of stuff I need to have ready to go on Monday, but I don’t know if I will, but I’m gonna try. There is a strong need to try as I’ve made promises, or at least insinuated dates, and maybe I’ll get there, but maybe I won’t. Who knows.

I’m talking about getting stuff uploaded on Culture Eater.

So I need to get through the being tired and get to writing so I can have things finished, and then from there I can move on and I can relax a bit, but maybe I cannot. I don’t know yet. There still is quite a lot of time to find out if I can or cannot relax, and I do want to relax, but I don’t know if I can or cannot and now all I’m doing is writing in circles and I need to stop that… or do I?

What I need to stop doing is procrastinating and just get on with it all. I need to write and do the things and make sure that everything is good to go so I can relax, but there is no relaxing. There is no sleep; it’s just an eternal state of being awake and forgetting what fatigue is as you push so far beyond and so far through it and stay too hyped up on caffeine and sugar that you then transcend the need to sleep and become sort of self-generating perpetual energy machine of some nondescript type, and it all works out somehow, or it doesn’t and then you eventually sleep, but you wake up tired as it was not enough, even if it should have been enough and you don’t know where to go from there so you go for the coffee and suddenly you’re still tired.

So I guess what I’m trying to say is that after this I’m gonna do a bit more writing and then I’m going to sleep. I think I’ve earned my sleep, but perhaps I haven’t. Perhaps I don’t know what it is that I’ve earned. Maybe it’s too early to tell right now. Maybe it’s not early enough. Need to strike that balance, but before I do I should get this done and then try and sleep and then keep on procrastinating, as there is a lot of procrastination to do before I start panicking over not doing much of anything,

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:42:81

I like how this gets worse the longer it goes.

Written at home.

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Bright Sunset

This is a photo I overexposed, or at least I’m fairly certain I overexposed. Can’t quite remember how much of this was during processing. What I do remember is thinking that I could’ve done better with what I took and then playing around with it a little bit.

I hope you enjoy.

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Lively Drumming

This is Shonen Knife’s drummer doing the drumming thing, which I believe is known as “drumming”. I thought I’d shared this photo here but it appears I did not so I’m sharing it now as I really like it. It could be better I think, but I captured the energy and enthusiasm well.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-ninety-eighth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “To Be Young Again“.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Tina

Patti

Ann-Christine aka Leya

John Steiner

Sofia Alves

Anne Sandler

Donna

Egídio

Ritva

Tina is curating this one. Next week Patti is curating.

I recommend participating in the challenges as they provide a fun way to interpret theme. If not participating, then at least you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1360: Something Nice

So I’m sitting here on my lunch and it is raining outside, or it was raining, at least. It seems to have stopped, but I know it was raining as I walked through the rain, or in the rain, or immersed within the rain, or something. I’m not now, but I was before. Now I’m inside.

Inside is the place to be but outside is where it was at, but it no longer is, but it will be a bit later on this afternoon, but only for a short time. After that passes I will be traveling in a locomotive vehicle toward my destination of desire, and that destination is a place known as “home”, but it’s not always. Sometimes it is something else entirely, but today it is “home”. In a few days it will be “The Blue Mountains”.

There’s a quiet in here and a bit of noise outside, and that noise seems to be comprised of a multitude of objects and actions, and it all melds together into one indistinct thing that still retains distinction. Here and there is the sound of a motor seemingly bulging out of the noise for a moment. It then moves back in, and all is as was.

The sound of vehicles going by, almost evocative of the sound of a breeze moving through fields or around mountains – a sound I’m concerned we are close to forgetting – repeats itself throughout this pocket of time. It repeats itself throughout the day, and it repeats itself now, and the amount of repetitions in any given moment seem to expand and compress, but right now it seems quite consistent. It seems that way as I’m not paying too much attention. Maybe it is; maybe it is not. I don’t know. I don’t think I care to know either.

I sit here and I wonder if I am going to partake in self-sabotage, but I probably won’t. I’m just wondering, and wondering is okay; well, maybe not about this. I’m sure I’ll be fine, but I wonder. I wonder about a lot of things. I wonder about memories trying to find their way back into the present, and I wonder about my place in the world at large. I wonder about what should and should not be brought forth from the past, and I wonder if I’ll be able to help people when I’m in a better financial position.

I’m sitting here and I can see that it was raining outside, and I’m wondering about what I want to stay in the past, and I wonder if I can keep some people in the past. I wonder about how soon I can help others, and I wonder a lot of things, but the noise in my ears is playing and it’s playing something I like, and it’s different to the blended ambience from outside.

I’m sitting here and I’m relaxing, and I have concerns, but right now everything is alright, and quite frankly that’s something nice.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 08:48:83

Slow. Not great. But alright. Maybe an easier read than usual. Who knows.

Written at work.

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