Now don’t ask me how, because I can’t remember. Certainly I wasn’t balancing on my elbow... However, this is me, with the Leica R4 and the Summicron-R 50mm f:2 that already featured on this project.
Here follows the story, completely unplanned and therefore suffering a bit in terms of consistency, especially in the first part.
Thank you for your patience...
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Food for the soul
The polished stone shines smooth. A laurel wreath: leaves and berries two thousand years old. Good old times when you didn’t have a sell-by date...
«Fancy a turtle soup?». The kid looks like he was ready to catch one, before being frozen by some kind of magic into a bronze skin.
«OK, you don’t get tired, but what about him?» My guest winks just behind me.
«Him, you say? Nothing to blame. Feeling a little sleepy after feasting on all that beauty... it’s understandable, comprehensible, not a bit reprehensible, it’s so defensible...»
Beauty hides behind every corner, blinks from the darkness of a doorway, ignored by most, even dreaded by some. Beauty is a responsibility nobody wants to undertake.
Still, beauty is there, everywhere. Even if we were chained at the bottom of Plato’s cave, it would peek from outside, casting its shadow on the blank wall before our eyes.
In the eye of the beholder? Yes, sure. Often under a cover of dust and nostalgia.
Something no counter can measure, no scale can weigh, no needle can nail. Beauty doesn't need any assessment.
Across decades and boundaries.
With dignity, beauty bears the lines and scars of time...
… and stands brave, incongruous and magnificent, against outrages and exploitation.
You can find it by accident on a Sunday stroll, bumping into a weird installation, with the camera playing on you the trick of an unplanned double exposure...
But what pure delight it is when beauty comes to you crossing generations, emerging from the crowd, and lets you capture it on the fly!
superb series, excellent images and all processed beautifully....but I'm taken aback at the level of your core strength to be able to balance on your elbow like that ;)
@pdulis Thank you very much! @vignouse Do you really mean that these lines are an acceptable reading for an Englishman (even if in France?) @blueberry1222 Thank you, that’s exactly how I felt looking at it!
This is a composition worthy of study. Wonderful combination...and loved thinking through your story. My first response was to see a seriously leaking roof, water falling into the hallway, and a very studious fellow trying to sort out what to do! All while balancing on a single elbow.
An image that calls the mind to attention and inspires it to consider what it's seeing is a triumphant image, in my opinion. This one definitely demands study. Job well done. Of the words, "when you didn't have a sell-by date" were my favorites. So much is said in the statement. (And thanks for the triple-fav on my 'cello hug' picture...)
@vignouse Thank you very very much. @cjphoto Thank you, Chris! @kwind Thank you kindly! @taffy Thanks a lot, also for the interpretation. Actually, it should be a photo of an iron element in a ceiling, reflecting a glass element in the wall, so that I resulted rotated 90° on the reflection of the hallway, while my elbow was just supporting for stability of a slow shutter shot... @lyndemc Thank you so much. I have a soft spot for music and for music instruments, you know. I used to play saxophone and flute, then gave up because my bands dissolved and recently moved to basic-strumming on a guitar, because I can’t live without... I’d love to listen to your cello! @radiogirl Thank you very much!
Phenomenal on black, I love your creative ramblings, too. You could write a book, illustrating each point of your story, it would be an awesome book. I would buy it.
@seattlite Thanks a lot. Discovering is watching things with new eyes...
@s4sayer ;) Thank you!
@bkbinthecity Thank you so much!
@ludwigsdiana Thank you very much, Diana!
@graemestevens It takes of practice... lol thank you!
@juliedduncan Thank you so much!
@overalvandaan Thank you on both accounts!
@jgpittenger Thanks a lot, I did not remember having taken it!
@golftragic Too nice of you, Marnie! I’m blushing!
@vignouse Do you really mean that these lines are an acceptable reading for an Englishman (even if in France?)
@blueberry1222 Thank you, that’s exactly how I felt looking at it!
@cjphoto Thank you, Chris!
@kwind Thank you kindly!
@taffy Thanks a lot, also for the interpretation. Actually, it should be a photo of an iron element in a ceiling, reflecting a glass element in the wall, so that I resulted rotated 90° on the reflection of the hallway, while my elbow was just supporting for stability of a slow shutter shot...
@lyndemc Thank you so much. I have a soft spot for music and for music instruments, you know. I used to play saxophone and flute, then gave up because my bands dissolved and recently moved to basic-strumming on a guitar, because I can’t live without... I’d love to listen to your cello!
@radiogirl Thank you very much!