Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1287: Wondering What to Write

I’m sitting here, staring into space, wondering as to what it is that I should write.
The last few weeks have been pretty intense but it has been a good intense. Maybe not the best, but it has been good and good is better than bad, but now I’m here and despite my strong desire tow rite I can’t think of anything that I could put to digital paper.

Of course I’m writing this but this is just a stretch. This is just something to help buy some time, or at least spend some time being productive and I’m not doing too well at that, but I have to keep going. I have to keep on trying.

Currently I’m wondering if I’ve lost the club event photography job I managed to land. Sent through the latest batch, was asked to send them through again but unedited and that’s always a concern. I guess I’ll just have to see what happens from here. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe not.

So that sums everything up. Other than that it has just been a lot of doing things and trying to get out of my job and… yeah. Now I’m here and I’m trying to think of some words to provide some sort of clarity and expression that makes everything gain some sort of poignancy but I’ve got nothing. I’m just floating here, hoping for the best but nothing comes to mind and so I’m just floating along, but really I’m sitting and I’ve got nothing.

Perhaps trying to fill this desire to write was the wrong move. Perhaps I should’ve remained sitting in silence, stewing on what I could’ve done better and all that stuff. Perhaps that would’ve been the smarter approach. However, I’m here now and I’m doing this and it’s too late to turn back, though maybe it isn’t, though maybe it is. Who is to say?

I’m struggling at this point and perhaps it is the way that I’m sitting here which I’ve realised is not conducive to getting some writing done. It was awkward but now I’ve fixed myself up and so I can gallop to the end of this, but there still remains and so on and so forth and you get the idea.

I need to write but I need to do better in writing and maybe I’ve just hit a wall again in everything. I don’t know and I hope I haven’t but I cannot rule out the possibility that I have, as that is a very real possibility. I am tired and I want to go lie in bed at rest, but I’ve started this and so it is time to finish this and I am getting there, but I will be thinking about stuff and I will be hoping to improve and… yeah. What else is there to say?

I guess I could talk about how I’m in a bit of pain but that’s as dull as everything else, so I won’t.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 07:12:93

It was a struggle to write this. Had I done so about three hours earlier it would’ve been much less so, but it also would’ve been quite different.

Written at home.

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Gradually Gathering Sand

I’ve been meaning to do a bit more writing over the past few weeks but it has been a surprisingly busy few weeks.

Anyway, here’s more sand dune stuff.
Sort of nature in motion, but all nature is.

I hope you enjoy.

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Partially Highlighted

This was taken during one of the recent club events I photographed.
It’s just people having fun, or at least I hope they’re having fun.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-sixty-third Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Faces in a Crowd“.

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

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Donna

Week 9 – Guest host

John is curating this one. The next is curated by Sofia

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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Oyster Gathering

Just some oysters on a rock.
Feels communal.

I hope you enjoy.

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Smooth and Rough

I’d much rather be doing a lot of writing than sharing a picture here and there, but it has been a busy as week.

Here’s a photo I took around Sydney’s coast a few weeks ago. I was trying to capture the contrast here and I think I did well, though I do wish the pole “popped” a bit more.

I hope you enjoy.

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Dip in the Wave

Could be two waves.

I’ve been hesitant to share this photo and I think it’s due to going a bit heavy on the processing. Not entirely sure, to be honest. I like how it turned out and I like that the the front wave bit gets some focus. I also like how there’s a contrast between the whitewater and everything else.

I hope you enjoy.

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Pair on the Dune

Just two people who were on the same dune as my partner and I a few weeks ago.
One of those photos with room for theorising. At what are these two looking? More dune? The ocean? Perhaps into nothingness, searching for themselves, or even nothing in particular.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week. 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.

A lot of what people are submitting will likely end up here.

I hope you enjoy.

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Layers of Clarity

For a moment there I was trying to remember where in The Blue Mountains I took this photo. Then I remembered where.

Anyway, I was trying to get a sense of view with this one, I think. Or maybe layering. I’m not sure, but I think the shadow highlights the contrast in clarity over distance.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1286: Airing of the Rambling

One of those days where I start something, stop and then restart. Much like many days really, but today is one of those days where it happens.

What is now happening? Other than my typing this message in the form of writing, and my typing much slower than I desire? Not much, other than the typing of this message in the form of writing through the power of typing slower than I desire, and much rather than little.

So now that I have that out of the way it is time to ramble off a list of grievances and we’ll see where that gets us.

I’m sick and tired of orange juice being considered not as a condiment.
There are far too many tables in the room filled with an infinite amount of tables.
There are not enough tables in the room filled with an infinite amount of tables.

So anyway, I’m not sure as to how I will get to the bottom of this but I’m sure I will hit the bottom, and quite possibly rock. There will be a way out but that is not for here right now. Right now what is for here is the gathering of the things and the collecting of the thoughts and the airing of the grievances, but those ones are all I can think of at the present time. Perhaps at another time I’d have more, but right now I don’t and that truly is the shame of the century.

I really should have thought harder about this before I started as I’ve got nothing to go on now. Floating free now that all my hostility is out of my system. Where to from here? Do I just run around in circles? I could, but that is tiring. I don’t want to be tired; I want to be free and do all the fancy pants stuff and then be successful at everything forever and forevermore. I don’t want to be stuck here, trying to work out what I’m doing, only to be dragged away from everything in a manner that implies that I allowed this to happen, but also prevents me from openly admitting it, therefore dooming me to a fate of turmoil contained within the self as the need for something clashes against the need for something else and slowly, yet surely all of it circles the drain and then I go down the drain and… yeah.

So now I guess what I’ll do is just do something and hope for the best. Randomly strike out and make sure that my random strikes don’t hit things that I don’t want to hit at random. Be careful and all that other stuff. You get the idea. Before all of that, however, I will get to the point of this bit of writing, of which there is little point at all. Therefore I need to think of something but I don’t think I’ve anything to think of that will help right now.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:06:73

I was hoping to list more grievances but it’s probably better I didn’t.

Written at home.

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Silk Over Sand

The same bit of fabric as seen in these two photos.
This one feels more like a Storm Thorgeson (maybe more Hipgnosis overall; I’m not sure) than the first photo and I think it has to do with how the silk appears to be there without being held.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-sixty-second Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Framing Your Photos“.

I was going to go for another photo involving door frames but instead I’ve gone for this one as the framing is a strong part of why this photo works, I think. A different angle to the subject and this wouldn’t feel the way it does.

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

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Donna

Week 9 – Guest host

Amy is curating this one. John curates the next one.

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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