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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
So the other night I photographed a gig and I did my best, or at least I did the best I could, and I felt nothing from it.
I did everything I try to do when I photograph a gig and the processing… process… was fine, but nothing. No awesome time feeling, no feeling of doing something I like doing. Just routine and business.
I have to wonder if I’m that done with photography. Maybe my deciding to sell was produced from losing a desire to photograph. I don’t know, but I know what I didn’t feel a few nights ago, and maybe, even if I changed my mind, it’s time to change my mind again and sell the camera.
I love photography, or at least I love aspects of photography, but I’m burnt out on empty words and, even though I keep getting ideas, I don’t know if I want to try and act on them anymore. I think I’d rather let them drift away and fade into nothingness at this point.
Being behind the camera is great. Even having to be on my feet for ten hours is fine behind the camera. I enjoy the process and I enjoy challenging myself to improve and do better with each photo. I like working at it, and I like processing photos too, even when it’s not enjoyable.
I like working in photography.
I don’t like the emptiness of words, and the networking clout, and I don’t like the praise followed by avoiding discussion of further work. I don’t like being strung along only to see work go elsewhere, and I don’t like being in a position where I’m financially unstable and moving toward being unable to pay rent because of being told things that will happen don’t happen.
Sure, I shouldn’t let that get in the way of enjoying photography, but it just burns me out and, even though I willingly chose this photo job and knew it wasn’t paid (a lot of gig stuff isn’t paid and that’s fine. Money would be nice but it’s not why I do it), and I went there and did it and I went through the motions and left and I may as well have not been there.
I mean, in a sense I was glad to have done it, but it’s just flatness.
I’ve another gig lined up and I’ll have to see how it goes, but I don’t know. I don’t know at this point. Unless it changes and I feel more present and in the moment, and not like I’m going through the motions, I think it’ll be time to call it a day, and that’s fine, because I’ve had a good run.
I’ve taken a lot of crap photos and some alright ones, and a small amount of great ones, and I’ve a lot of memories and fun times with it. If this is where photography ends for me, I don’t mind. It’ll be the right time to stop.
The time it took to write five-hundred words: 08:56:64
Bit slow and maybe that’s okay here.
I feel I struggled more at the start than at the end. All the thoughts were there, but I was having difficulty articulating at first.
Written at home.
I took this photo at some point last year and didn’t really know what to do with it.
I feel like I could’ve done a better job and it didn’t feel as strong as I wanted it to be, and maybe that’s okay. It’s just showing some eroded rock (sandstone I believe) and it does a decent enough job of that.
This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week. This one is hosted by Dawn of The Day After, and the theme is “Rocks“.
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.
Stupidity Hole 