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Paul Eluard: "There is another world, but it is inside this one."
Without quite having the words for it, and without ever nailing it, this is what I've always tried to do with photography.
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to render an account to a god who had never come and never come
"... the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless we give back to life as much as we take from it, this faculty will fail us sooner or later. My difficulty, I saw then, had always lain in finding a way to give ( Read more... ) -
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I should preface this by saying that the US at virtually all levels really mishandled the pandemic, especially under Trump, and that the needless politicization and polarization of public health measures here is BOTTOMLESSLY stupid and has cost many lives. And that the CDC has been slow to give clear guidance at every critical juncture, both ( Read more... ) -
Quite the scenario.
Last night, Sana and I went to the opera (Verdi's Otello, which the props attendant, showing off tattered Turkish standards before the opera began, pitched as "quite the scenario," which describes just about every opera, ever, by definition) and then I waited 20 minutes in pouring rain for the 80 bus from the Kennedy Center, alone. I should have ( Read more... ) -
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I wasn't sure how I would feel about 12 days of alone time an ocean away from home -- would I be lonely? Truthfully, I had this great feeling of solitude -- and I wanted to protect that. I was happy to talk to strangers when the opportunity arose, and there were moments of connection that were surprising and precious to me, like going for a walk ( Read more... ) -
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I'm working on pulling together a photography website and am trying to build a list of the kinds of images that I try to find and create... here's what I've got so far, with some Instagram illustrations, not the highest quality (and some questionable filter choices) but the easiest to pull into an LJ post:
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Favorite photographs of 2013
I pulled together a Flickr gallery of my favorite photographs I took in 2013. Hope you'll check it out :-)
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