Everyone should be able to visit and experience ideas of nature.
However, we should think about the change we force to get that experience.
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A Cut in the Bush
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Tagged Australia, bush, clouds, cut, landscape, nautre, road, weather
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Face Beside the Light
More experimenting and making a mess of things. There are bodies in this, but they’re obscured, as is the way sometimes.
I hope you enjoy.
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Tagged blur, face, light, lines, musicians, People, performance
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Flared Head
A gig photo that turned out well but wasn’t as usable as I’d hoped.
Still, I think it’s an interesting photo. Almost feels as though it’s showing some sort of magnificence.
This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week. Next week’s is hosted by Dawn and she has chosen the theme “Roads, Lanes, and Pathways”.
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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Tagged flare, head, light, microphone, monochrome, monochrome-madness, musician, performance, person
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Naked by the Pond
There was something aesthetically pleasing about this scene when I took this photo. Everything seemed as though it was in the right place. Looking at this version of the photo, and it feels like the place is quiet and isolated, and perhaps desolate in a sense. It’s not, but it feels that way to me.
I hope you enjoy.
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Tagged Australia, bare, landscape, monochrome, naked, pond, quiet, reflection, still, tree, vegetation, water
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Down the Road in Morning’s Light
There’s not anything particularly interesting about this photo, and if I were afforded the chance I’d probably take it again, but with the tripod. Still, there’s something easy about it. Maybe it’s like comfort food.
I hope you enjoy.
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Tagged Australia, landscape, lanes, light, morning, road, vegetation
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A Cluster of Trees
Recently a friend and I went driving with the aim to find places we thought looked interesting, including the area in which the below photo was taken.
When we got out of the car and took a few photos, my friend pointed out this cluster of trees and told me I should take a photo. At first I wasn’t going to, or at least I pretended I wasn’t going to, but then I did.
A lot of how this looks came through in processing. There was something in the scene that I saw that is one of a few things I’m trying to reach in terms of photography, and this is kind of close to that, though it’s a bit off too.
This is my submission into the three hundred-and-fourth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Behind“.
I think this fits the theme quite well as it’s the clouds that help set the scene and mood. I think if the sky had been clear, then this would feel quite different.
The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:
Ritva is curating this one. Next week Egídio 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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Tagged Australia, bush, clouds, cluster, flora, landscape, lens-artists, nature, plants, silhouette, trees
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Standing by a fence
Here’s another recent photo taken during a recent short journey that happened recently.
My friend was standing there, checking something so I thought I’d get a photo, and the below is the result.
This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week. This theme for this one comes from Sarah of Travel with me, and it is “People“.
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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Tagged fence, moncohrome, monochrome-madness, person, silhouette, stand, standing, vegetation, wire
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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1371: Stride Ramble
Rain comes today. Rain comes on some days. It does not come on all days. However, today it is coming. It will be here and it will invite itself into everything and there’s nothing I can do about it, so I’m just gonna have to deal. Not fun; not ideal, but I’m sure I’ll survive. Unless I don’t. We’ll just have to see about that, or something.
Or nothing.
I’m trying to find a thread that will lead to whatever it is that it’s trying to lead to, but I cannot find it. I’m trying to write more, but also less. I’m trying to find the intersection of crap and quality, and it keeps evading my pissy grasp. Such is life, I suppose. Such is the way of banging one’s head against the walls of whatever.
Perhaps I need to just stop writing altogether, and stop things here and now. However, that goes against things, and in going against things I would be one of those people who are against rather than for, and I don’t know if that’s what I want to be known for, unless that is what I want to be known for, in which case… yeah.
So get this: It’s a cold day but it’s still nice outside, and I’m gonna go for a wander soon, but I want to get this done before I wander, and I want to wander in a way that allows me to show some sort of professional gait; something of which I have not embodied in a long time. Hard to shake, these things, but it can weaken over time.
You know what I’m talking about. It’s the office stride that you get beaten into you without realising that that’s what’s happening. You get it and you do it for so long that it becomes so second nature, and maybe you’ll sand off the rigidness of it, but it’s still there. You don’t necessarily do it to carry yourself in a certain way; you just do it.
Maybe I’d rather my walk be more casual and relaxed so people see me as approachable, but not so much that they actually approach. I’d rather they see me and go “Hey, that person looks approachable” rather than actually do. It’s not an invitation. I don’t want to engage in conversation. I still need to look like I’ve got somewhere to be and I’ve a focus that I’m honing in on, but I don’t want to look like I’m business and nothing but business.
Actually, I don’t want to look that business at all.
So anyway, I don’t know where I’m going with this, but I will soon be going out the door. I need to get on with the getting on and I want to stretch my legs before I start work, or rather I want to stretch them a bit more than I already have.
This writing is mostly about walking, I guess, or walking styles, and there’s not much else.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:58:83
Decent speed. Took a while to stumble upon a topic, though there didn’t need to be one. I don’t know; I felt compelled to be topic-oriented.
Written at work.
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Tagged approachable, business, door, gait, grasp, invitation, Office, stride, thread, wander
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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1370: Seems Nice Today
No car today, and that’s fine. That’s enough time to remember why I’m not a fan of being on public transport, or normally it would be, but the density was low today so I wasn’t overly fussed.
Should correct myself: Why I’m paranoid about catching public transport. Anyway.
The weather seems nice today, and I look around and I see shapes forming objects and objects forming layouts, and all of this seems to have some sort of meaning that I cannot perceive due to my laziness, or rather something else entirely, This is a space in which I am in, and I am inhabiting the space but I only do so for a set period of time. I then move on and as I move on I move elsewhere, and all that stuff happens, and then… you get the idea. Or I get the idea. One of the two.
A shadow is cast upon a wall, and the light seems inviting in a way, and I think that’s due to it being rather low and minimal. I don’t know; I’m not an expert on light, but it seems nice. Next to it is an exit sign, and underneath the sign is a door. Do I dare step through? Only if I have my pass that allows me back into the building. Otherwise, I have no way back in until someone else arrives and that’s not fun to me.
I’m still enjoying my new role, and I’m still happy about how much healthier and responsible an environment this is. I’m enjoying being here, and it’s nice. Not hard work; not easy work, but the right balance of work for me, and I hope I’m getting better.
I also hope the car gets fixed soon. A whole bunch of stuff at once and it will hurt, but it’ll mean more getting around a bit and more driving into an open emptiness that’s full of stuff. More long quiet drives with few people around within a certain distance. More of all that stuff.
Should be more responsible, really.
So I’m waiting. I’m biding my time and I’m hoping for everything to happen and nothing at all, and I’m hoping to get past my probationary period, and I’m confident I will, but I won’t want to relax. I want to watch the light change as the minutes pass, and I want to keep on relaxing and slowly move into a better position in life. I want things to keep on getting better, and I hope they do. I hope things keep on improving, and there’s stuff I can do, but there’s only so much I can do, but I like it here and so… yeah.
I think that, with all that said, I want to remain restless but I need to keep a base to return to, and I hope that is what happens. I hope for a lot of things, really, but there’s only so much that I can do, and that’s okay.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 07:14:21
Decent speed. Not the best writing. I think I tried to force myself a bit too much on this one when I should’ve just let the words happen.
Written at work.
Stupidity Hole 