I’ve seen the series of power lines this one is a part of a few times and I don’t believe they connect to anything other than themselves. Could be quite wrong as I’ve not paid significant attention to them, but I believe it is the case.
This scene reminds me of a certain type of drawn idyllic Japanese scenery. Maybe this is kind of the Australian equivalent.
I hope you enjoy.
Gotta write something and it doesn’t matter what. Been slacking, but haven’t; just had a lot on, but let that get in the way of getting things done. Funny how that happens.
So I sit here and I write away and this place still doesn’t feel like home and it probably won’t for a while but that’s the way it goes sometimes. Sometimes that’s what you have to deal with as you get used to something new. Do I want to get used to this? Perhaps, but also not really. I don’t know when I will move again, but I know that at least for the time being I am here and in being here I get to have a sense of security, despite how faint that may be.
So I sit here and I write away and I’m not writing anything that’s particularly interesting and that’s okay, but I do need to write something and so that something is this and it comes from the hands as they fly away over the keyboard. They peck at the keys and they do their thing and I wonder as to how much longer I can keep this up. I haven’t written much and already I am struggling, but sometimes you need to struggle.
You shouldn’t have to suffer and you shouldn’t have to struggle, but sometimes you do and you get through it and you get on with things. Maybe you need help but you get there and you keep on going because no matter how hard it gets, it can always get worse but it can also get better and so you do what you can. If you get help then you pass it on when you can and you keep going and hopefully in the end people are better supported. It takes a while and it can be a massive slog, but you get there and then everyone gets there.
Comparatively struggling to write a few words about very little is not a struggle. It’s very easy, but at the moment I am struggling to write. I am struggling to get to the end of things but I persist. I am in a position to do so and despite the meaninglessness of it all there are goals I am looking to achieve and there is an ending I am looking to reach. Cutting things right here and right now is not what I want to do, though it does call out in a manner that makes me want to, but I won’t. It’s not the time I am looking for and it’s not the right time either. Besides which, I’d be gone for a week at most and then be back to hammering away at the keyboard crapping on about things people either don’t care about or things that people don’t care about, and that’s… yeah.
So I think I’m just forcing myself through this and I’m getting there, but it’s taking time, but that’s okay; it’s not bad.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:09:40
Bit of a struggle and a bit crap, but in some ways necessary. Far more unnecessary than necessary, but you know.
Written at home.
Somewhat recently a car park was built near Lincoln’s Rock, which is a good and a bad thing. When it comes to trying to attract tourism to a spot like this you run the risk of cutting into the peace and stillness of a space already seeing some human activity, albeit nowhere near to the same extent. At the same time of the people visiting, a few more now would get a better appreciation of the landscape and the idea of nature.
That said, it is likely that when people had to put in (admittedly very little) work to get to this spot they were more likely to appreciate the space more as it lacked the convenience the car park offers.
I hope you enjoy.
This is a photo I took a couple of weeks ago of a friend of mine as they were turning around. Decided to do process it, created a moody and perhaps intense result.
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.
I imagine if in that valley it would be more fog than clouds.
Perspective and all that.
I hope you enjoy.
One listen for this one.
I tried to write more about imagery than anything else and I kind of pulled it off, kind of didn’t. Sort of in the middle.
Moderat’s “3 Minutes Of” is from Moderat.
I hope you enjoy.
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An ambient wave fades into a bright view, slowly rolling with a smoothness that little else can replicate. It rolls and shimmers through an endless nothingness, and in that perhaps is a dreamy loneliness. The loneliness itself is less like a wave and more constant and eternal, and on slowed sounds it presses in and expands, and it is there.
Something more distorted starts coming in and suddenly snaps everything away. A beat creates structure and keeps things feeling more hard and perhaps glitchy, and the melody remains and stretches out, but is no longer as prominent a focus. Still, it does seem to come forward in some manner and that distortion starts creeping back in, or maybe it isn’t and it’s just hovering at the edges.
The melody pulls back, leaving the beat alone in this transformed world and then it suddenly stops and the song ends.
It’s this lighthouse, but at sunset and from a different position of viewing.
When I recently headed out to Cape Banks I wanted to get a photo similar to this one.
I’m pretty sure that the reason I got the lighthouse at this angle and distance was due to getting to it a bit later than I had anticipated. I think it may have been quite windy as well; I’m not entirely sure.
With the area and subject mostly being silhouette and the low variance of colour I feel this is a minimal photo, or at least a simple one.
This is my submission into the two hundred-and-fifty-seventh Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Simplicity“.
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
Philo of Philosophy Through Photography is guest-curating this one. The rest of July is also guest-curated and the themes have been announced in advance:
July 15: Dawn Miller of The Day After with “Fences”.
July 22: Dan Fenner of Departing in 5 Minutes with “Unbound Summer”.
July 29: Janet Webb of This That and The Other Thing with “Overlooked”.
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.
This is a photo I want to retake. Whilst I like how this turned out, it feels more like a reference photo to me than it does the final result.
I think there’s a sense of isolation here, or maybe it’s abandonment. Maybe emptiness. In part it has to do with the space, but I also think it has to do with the vegetation. It’s not overgrown, but a lot of it seems like its returning to the area rather than established in a semi-controlled way.
I hope you enjoy.
So I have ideas that I need to scribble down.
Right now that’s not going to happen, but I did pull this out quite quickly.
Not good. Probably needs better prose, or just to be thrown out altogether.
Just kind of a “getting back into the swing of things” thing.
I hope you enjoy.
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Cold and warm in equal measure
Neither sure how nor why
All suggests warm all over
Yet one limb denies this possibility
Changes are made
To disrupt the balance
Despite my attempts
The limb remains cold
Stupidity Hole 