This is something I’ve seen a fair bit of recently.
I won’t say where, but I will say that I like how this photo turned out.
I hope you enjoy.
I was heading somewhere. I think I was looking to visit my step-mum. I parked at this kind of large shed at a farm area and then I was elsewhere talking to my step-mum about something.
At some point I think I asked about staying an extra night and my step-mum wasn’t sure so I said something and then had to go move my car. I went to my car and asked someone about having it there for another night. I can’t remember what was said but I’m pretty sure I ended up getting into it and driving away to look for somewhere else to park.
Then from somewhat above and at a distance and angled view I could see an incredibly large mass of horses stampeding across the land, running through and around everything kicking up loose soil into thick clouds. They seemed to have been pouring out of one of those helicopters with the back that opens as a ramp.
I was then in a long, seemingly endless grey tunnel. It had pillars on the ceiling and floor that ran horizontal from wall to wall and they ran the length of the tunnel. I had to ride a horse through this tunnel to get away from the horses that were charging down through and the horse I was on had to jump over the pillars on the ground without jumping too high so as to not hit the pillars on the ceiling.
The horse I was on kept having difficulty so I had to get off a few times to guide it over the pillars on the ground but there were other people with horses who were handling getting past the pillars.
Then I woke up.
Same common starling as seen in this photo.
When I took this photo I was waiting for the person in the van to pop their head out. I saw them do it before and I missed the shot. They didn’t end up poking out their head again whilst I was there but I’m happy with this result.
This is my submission into the two hundred-and-fifty-ninth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Unbound Summer“.
Being in Australia and this being taken a few days ago it is technically a winter photo. However, as it feels like summer, I feel it fits the theme. Beyond that, it’s not often I get this opportunity which I had due to wandering around during a few hours of downtime.
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
Dan Fenner of Departing in 5 Minutes is guest-curating this one. As with the rest of July, the next one is also guest-curated and the themes have been announced in advance:
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 take again as, whilst I think this looks alright, I think I can do a much better job. Still, I like the dullness, and how this feels like a small space despite being large, and I like how the water almost looks like it is frozen.
I hope you enjoy.
I had to wait a few minutes to get this photo. I was trying to get a few of the gull preening but it stopped whilst I was pointing the camera in its direction. Eventually it resumed but it seemed to keep an eye on what I was doing. Maybe it wasn’t watching me and it just seemed that way.
I hope you enjoy.
One listen.
I thought I’d have more to write about this but it appears I was incorrect. Still, I think what I wrote works well. It could be better, but overall it gives a pretty good impression of the song.
Drakh’s “The Industrial Estate” is from Bethlehem.
I hope you enjoy.
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Low, quiet, drawn out. Expansive and cold, and slow to shift, but also perhaps fast. It flows in a linear way, and yet it seems to be all-encompassing, expansive, consuming. It is everywhere and it moves linearly and non-linearly.
Ideas of other sounds rise and fall as low moans. They are not soporific, but they seem to release as though in preparation to enter that state of being. They come through implying as much as they are stating, and they carry fragmented ideas of what they are, and they drift and fade back into the sound, and it grows quiet and soft and it gradually disappears as the song ends.
Also known as Sturnus vulgaris, European starling and starling.
I cannot recall a time before two days ago that involved seeing this bird. It could be the first time I’ve seen one and, seeing as it’s an introduced species, I am concerned about its appearance. It could be nothing to worry about; I don’t know.
Anyway, I took a few photos of the bird including the one below. Whilst it was on the bollard I made sure to take advantage and capture what I could.
I hope you enjoy.
One listen and I think I fudged it a bit.
This gives an idea of the song but what I wrote is really limited. There was plenty of room to drift off into imagery and I didn’t go for it which is a shame as it would’ve made for much better writing.
BLKSMIITH’s “Satellite From Days Of Old, Lead Me To Your Access Code” is from 「DIGITAL TWIN」.
I hope you enjoy.
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Saxophone flutters and slides over a morphing beat and soft synth. There is a calm that remains once the beat takes over in full.
The beat is rapid and flickers, and it is there and aggressive, but it also is calm. It seems to keep changing and shifting without losing its sense of self or control. For a moment it drops out and leaves the synth and sax and its a moment of greater calm, perhaps, but then it comes in and it pulses away with the synth.
The beat pulls back to something just as steady but less consuming whilst the sax changes itself to something familiar further along, as does the synth. It does not last too long, however, and the main patterns are soon returned to and all that aggressive calm also comes back.
Once more the beat changes for a moment, becoming more staccato in form, but once more for only a brief moment before it continues on, but only for a brief moment once more as it stops, leaving the sax and synth to close at the song’s end.
Another photo in The Blue Mountains, but of a more urban scene.
Maybe this is moody and intense; maybe it isn’t. I don’t know. I know it’s not stark, and I know that I like how my pushing the shadow removed a lot of detail, leading to something that is perhaps atmospheric when taking into consideration how massive the clouds appear.
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.
Stupidity Hole 