I recently found myself in Vaucluse so I decided to take a few photos such as the one below.
Not much to say. Just a nice photo, I think.
I hope you enjoy.
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Sunset in Vaucluse
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Tagged bay, clouds, sunset, Sydney, urban, vaucluse, water, weather
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Open Palm
More hand. More playing around with form.
I think I was trying to stretch my fingers as far apart from each other as I could with this one. Might’ve just been the pinky.
I like how the creases in my hand appear here. Something about how they appear with the light that appeals to me.
I hope you enjoy.
Ens: Tropic of Cancer
A few days ago I thought I’d give this song a go and I’m feeling okay with the result. It could be better and it gets a bit messy toward the end, but I think overall there’s a decent sense of flow throughout.
Ens’ “Tropic of Cancer” is from Warp + Weft.
I hope you enjoy.
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Light keys shimmer into a space, and shimmer once more whilst something else seems to hover and wobble around. Percussion pitters and patters until it comes in and strikes firmly, contrasting the establishing gentleness.
The wobbling disappears and in place bass comes in. Another sound that seems like a buzz that was there before returns and fades away. The bass finds precise moments to cut through the silence its space holds, and more percussion comes in, more gentle and soft.
The sounds move together and apart and soon the percussion fills out more. Something sounding like strings creeps from under and brass draws long and silent. The sounds keep moving forward, seemingly gentle, seemingly odd and seemingly detached. They are close but they almost look elsewhere; perhaps it is a romance in a distance that keeps their focus.
The brass rises for a moment, seemingly harsh before it goes back to gentleness and the percussion keeps filling out whilst remaining uncluttered, and something seemingly warm finds its way coming to prominence. It is not a heat, but perhaps it is a familiarity in the sound as it continues on through its gentleness and its steady motion, and soon it starts winding down.
The sounds start growing quiet and soft. They start leaving and the wobble returns. The keys shimmer more slowly, and the wobble disappears, and all grows still as the song ends.
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Tagged ens, motion, shimmer, silent, space, tropic of cancer, warm, wobble
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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1273: A Day of Days
Today I’, going to attempt to do something I’ve been thinking of doing for quite a while. Most of that thinking of has been here and there, but over the past few weeks it has become more prominent and so the only way that I can get about to doing it is by doing it, really. I don’t know if I’ll achieve what I want to do, but if I do it will become more apparent throughout the day that it is being done.
Maybe I won’t get it done but I’ll get a lot of other things done in the process. That is a possibility but who knows what will happen at this stage. I can only try and do what I want to do and I can only hope that in that trying I do get to the end of this and then… yeah.
Now that I think about it, I can’t go throughout the whole day anyway as at some point I must head out to be an adventurer of sorts and that takes some time and effort and a series of other things that I don’t know about, so we’ll see.
I’m getting distracted. I want to get at least this thing done so then I can go for a walk. That’s more of an urban adventure and not really an adventure as well, but I’m trying to keep the legs pumping and working and I’m trying to get some exercise in. It’s a small amount of exercise but it’s something and something is often better than nothing, as they say, though sometimes nothing is perfectly acceptable. Depends on how you feel and all that other stuff.
But yeah; today will be a day of days and there will be things and this isn’t very interesting to write so I can only imagine it’s not very interesting to read, but it’s going somewhere. That somewhere is toward its conclusion, but maybe it will go beyond that and then I won’t know what to do with myself as I’ve managed to do something that I didn’t know I could do and in doing that… yeah.
So you see, I’ve now run out of things to say at this particular juncture of the morning and now I need to work out how it is that I progress. Maybe the way to progress is to regress and so I will become something more primordially primitive and then I won’t know what to do with myself. Maybe I’ll go eat stuff and yell at still objects and sleep and then do more yelling and eating until I get bored of that and then decide to move toward the next thing, whatever that could or could not be, assuming it could be anything.
Perhaps it will be more nothingness and that’s okay. That’s fine. You need a bit of nothingness mixed into the something of life, but you need to find a balance. Then again, maybe you don’t. I don’t know.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:48:96
I didn’t struggle through this but I know that what I was writing wasn’t worth stretching out. Still, I did, sort of, but… yeah.
Written at home.
Posted in Life
Tagged achieve, conclusion, days, distracted, effort, progress, regress, walk, whole
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Bent Back
Another hand photo.
This one hurt a little to do. Was it worth the pain? Probably not.
Just one where I like the shape, but that has a fair bit to do with how the light contrast works with my arm and hand.
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.
Posted in Photography
Tagged arm, bent, contrast, fingers, hand, limb, monochrome, monochrome-madness, shape, wrist
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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1272: Cold, Long Days
Days draw long and it is cold. There is something I wanted to do today but I did not get around to doing it and so it will be something that I do tomorrow. However, had the day drawn longer, then perhaps I would’ve gotten around to doing it and I don’t even know what I’m saying here so I’m just going to stop.
What I’m not going to stop, however, is going on about how I need to get on with things that don’t need getting on with, but beyond that I’m just going to sit here and enjoy the afternoon shade, or at least I will until I need to switch the light on which is pretty soon as the light is disappearing and I would rather not strain my eyes as eyes are important and all that other stuff.
There is a coolness in the air and it seems to float by my nose, keeping it feeling colder than it is, though perhaps it it feels colder than it is it is actually as cold as it feels and I’m just underthinking things, but there is no telling in this day and age.
As time creeps on by and flows all around me I wonder as to what it is I really am wondering, or if there is anything I’m wondering at all. Maybe there are no thoughts and really I’m tricking myself into believing that I’m thinking. It is possible and so I might not actually be thinking which isn’t much of an issue as it means that instead of all this tormenting of myself I’ve done over the years, there wasn’t anything at all and I’m free of the misery that comes with the territory of being the sheer genius that I am.
Yes, I want to write about other things and that may happen tonight. It is yet to be determined as it depends on a few things, but I do want to write about other things. There is a pile there and I’ll probably get it all completed over the week, but I need to see first. Need to get through a few more things that involve making a place look more like somewhere I can live rather than a big mess strewn across multiple rooms.
So anyway, I’m enjoying the disappearing light and soon I’ll be heading out which is a good thing. What is a bad thing is procrastinating as I’ve lost a lot of time in getting to this point, but we’ll see what happens from here on. Maybe something exciting will happen. Probably won’t, but maybe something will, and if it does, then I’m set and it’s all good and then I just go from there. I go outward and explore whatever that exciting thing is and then I get on with my life as I don’t have much of a choice.
Well, I do, but I’m going to pretend I don’t as that’s more fun, but only sometimes.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:55:87
Technically there’s less daytime so the days are growing shorter, but you know.
Written at home.
Pushing Against the Cliff Face
A strand of clouds moving against and up a cliff face.
This is my submission into the two hundred-and-fifty-fourth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Spiritual Sites“.
I feel this image counts as some people may see this as a spiritual thing for varying reasons.
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
Tina is curating this one. For the next one Patti is curating.
The challenges are fun to engage with. The themes are specific enough to keep some focus whilst loose enough to allow room for interpretation. I recommend participating as it’s a fun community to be engaged with and it’s a good way to focus on subject. If you don’t participate, you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.
I hope you enjoy.
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Tagged Australia, blue mountains, cliff, clouds, landscape, lens-artists, nature, pushing, weather
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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1271: Boxes Getting Away
Long day, all that stuff. Working and unpacking and working and unpacking and moving boxes and unpacking, then losing boxes as unpacking only to find that they absconded with other boxes and then you’re chasing down boxes to stop them from getting away as you need their delicious, delicious contents in order to continue on with your life, but they keep escaping your ironclad grasp and so you know not what to do about the whole situation.
Of course yo-u could just laugh and accept the loss, but you’re not going to know what was in those boxes until you unpack all the other boxes. Something that is very important could be in one of those boxes that got away and you won’t know until you’ve unpacked all the others and by that point it will be too late, and then what? You can’t just start and hope that you get a hold of whatever it was that was important as there’s no chance at that point.
Well, there is a chance, but it is quite insignificant than had you just gone and chased after the boxes when they escaped their confines.
So you gotta go chase after them the moment they escape their confines. You need to go on a hunt and you need to go prepared. you need to make sure that you go into this hunt all stealthy and set up traps and deceptions so as to be able to corral the boxes and then go from there.
Of course there could be a bit of a fight on your hands, what with the tenacious nature that any receptacle can hold and all, but it is a fight you must engage with so as to be able to succeed. There is no relent until the boxes relent and so you need to make sure you are at the top of your game. You need to be at your peak and you need to make sure you fight to make sure you’re right and the boxes are wrong so they realise this and in their shame allow themselves to be led to where they must go, and then you go from there.
Victory shall be yours and in that victory you shall drink the losses as your gains and you shall know no failure, though what was gained came at the price of loss and it is in that loss where we realise our true value as people, and what it really means to sacrifice to attain something as lives will remain changed and there will be no going back to the old ways. There is no former life to return to, and there is only restlessness.
Anyway the boxes are back and now you can resume unpacking and all that other exiting stuff and it’s all good and life is a little easier, and so you get to those boxes and you unpack those particular ones and all they contain is some stuff you are throwing out.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 07:24:27
Fun to write. Turned out silly but I don’t mind.
Written at home.
A Poem About Moving
Not much of anything to say about this scrawling.
I think I could’ve done a better job with this.
It kind of flows in the first verse. In the second it becomes quite uneven.
I hope you enjoy.
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Into spaces it all goes
Ordered and a senseless mix
Organised by time pressing down
So it can travel motionless
In those spaces it remains
Across more time than it took to place
Eventually it comes out
Ordered, senseless and returned to new space
Unused Reference
Here’s one of the reference photos I didn’t use for this.
I like this mostly due to the form. It feels like I’m moving my fingers whilst the photo was taken, but it feels like an odd way to move fingers.
I hope you enjoy.
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Tagged arm, digits, fingernails, fingers, form, hand, limbs, reference, thumb
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Stupidity Hole 