Lightly Flowing Hair

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Over the weekend I hung out with my two best friends at their place in Bathurst. It was a much-needed break away from all the stress and pressure I’m dealing with at the moment.

On the drive home today, when I stopped to rest I took this photo. It turned out better than I anticipated so I worked on it a bit. Mostly pushed shadows and contrast, and below is the result.

I’ve been meaning to get a photo of my hair being blown around in the wind before I shave my head for a while now. The wind in this location was not as strong as I wanted, but it was strong enough. There’s a sense of motion, but my hair still feels still, I think. Almost looks like some of it is grown as though branches.

I’ll probably take something similar on another day, but next time I’m definitely using the tripod. I balanced the camera on a rock and, whilst the photo works, I think using the tripod would’ve helped get something better. Oh well.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-eighty-ninth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Tools of Photo Composition“.

You could argue composition / framing here, but my main focus was ensuring I was in focus. This is more about light and shape / form, I think.

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

John 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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Wavering Columns

Posted on March 2, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

A photo I’ve been meaning to share for a while, but haven’t.
Not much to say; just like the sense of continuation of the bridge columns.

I hope you enjoy.

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Three Form One Sound

Posted on March 1, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Here’s a photo of Shonen Knife doing their thing.
Doesn’t quite highlight it well, but I think it’s a photo that shows them having fun, at the least.

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.

I hope you enjoy.

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Window Clothing

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Pretty sure it was all clothing.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-eighty-eighth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Window Shopping“.

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

Ritva is curating this one. Next week John 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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Wet Traffic

Posted on February 28, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Today has been a long day spent trying to work out stuff for hours on end.
Don’t have much energy left, so here’s a photo of traffic. In the rain.

The traffic is wet. Due to the rain.

Not too much of an interesting photo, but I do like how it seems like the traffic could be getting inundated by water.

I hope you enjoy.

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Sunset Outside

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

I’m going to retake this photo at some point and I’m going to use the tripod.
Anyway, I was trying to capture a certain mood with this one and it didn’t quite work. I think I got close, but not quite there.

Well, more aesthetic related to mood, but you know.

I hope you enjoy.

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Trailing From the Hill

Posted on February 26, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

I wasn’t going to share this photo, but then I noticed how the light almost appears to be trailing off from the hill, and I feel that that’s interesting. Maybe not a great photo, but that part is interesting to me.

I hope you enjoy

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Canned Shadow

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Another Heinz photo, and one where I was trying to capture a long shadow. I think.
To be honest, I can’t quite remember, but I’m pretty sure my thinking was based around aesthetic considerations.

I hope you enjoy.

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A Poem About a Stone and a Blade

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

This was inspired by my recently cutting myself by accident whilst trying to remove an avocado seed from an avocado. I can see where there’s room for improvement; it’s a pretty lacking bit of writing, but I think it gets the idea across well enough.

I hope you enjoy.

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A blade felt a stone
Into the stone it struck
To remove it from its hold
The stone was unmoved

The blade left the stone
It struck once more
The stone was bisected
The blade kept going

Through flesh the blade moved
And through skin it left
And into skin it entered
And life poured out

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1348: The Timer Starts

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

The timer starts and I’m tired and I’m racing against it so I can get something out and then get on with the rest of my life. Seems like a cynical way to start these things, but… it kind of is, so let us pretend that this isn’t going to be cynical.

I hope it’s not going to be cynical, at least.

Fatigue rears its head but I try to laugh. I laugh in a low rumble that’s more of a grumble and I get back on with my day. Still got quite a few hours to be awake and I’m not too excited about that, but that’s the way things go and so this is just what I have to deal with in this particular instance. Something tells me I’ll be fine. I’d be a bit surprised if I wasn’t.

It will make covering tonight’s gig a bit more difficult than I’d like, but that’s what I need to work with and work with it is what I will do. I will also keep on going and keep on writing as I want to keep writing this, but the time it will take to do this will be not enough to fill the time between now and the time that I’ll be leaving.

There are some motors that are audible right now, or at least they were. They roared with a buzz as they drove off, and that’s all there is to say about that so I’m just going to get on with the getting on and all that other stuff that I say.

Will I get under five minutes? I don’t know, but what I do know is that once more I’ll be trying my best tonight. I will do what I can to get the best photos that I can and I’ll go from there. I’ll head on home and once I get home I’ll rest so I can wake up in the morning and then when I wake up in the morning I’ll take care of other things and all that fancy pants stuff that makes me sound awesome, or something.

So now I need to keep on writing this and I’m hoping that I’m ahead of the clock. I don’t actually know if I am but I don’t want to stop to check. I just need to keep on going. My hand is holding up and so if I can do this, I can then do that and I can do some other things too, and that’s something to look forward to. Or it isn’t. Who is to say?

So anyway, I think I’m nearly there and perhaps my hand and my wrist is improving. Perhaps it has taken far too long, but now it’s happening and finally, FINALLY I will be able to return to some sort of fuller mobility with far less pain.

That’s the dream, but before that I need to finish this and then do some other things before tonight’s gig.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 04:50:18

I wrote this as I wanted to see if I could get this done before the song I was listening to ended, and I was successful, so… yeah.

Written at home.

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