Thanks to all those who braved following my thread, notwithstanding the occasional posting. The photos were taken with the Nikon Micro-Nikkor 105mm f: 2,8. A great machine, only a little difficult to focus on the mirrorless, especially at a distance. A very specialized lens, great for macro work, less practical without the AF support, for other uses, unless wildly stopped down!
Here follows the full story:
STORY OF MANY STORIES
It always starts from here: a tangle without rhyme or reason.
But.
Somehow it stands out, crisp, tempting like a promise and you can't help following its bends and curves, looking for a thread.
And it comes a moment, I couldn't say at what point, when a thread effectively shows up, challenging you to grab and follow it. Nothing but a thin thread and a cloud of possibilities, a snake charming you from his basket.
Just a thin thread... Exciting enough to cheat your fingers, elusive enough to make you risk misusing the instruments of your trade...
It takes patience. At times, you feel it’s really easier for a camel... And even once you have threaded the needle, what’s there, but a start and an end. At best.
There’s nothing to do but jamming around, for a while. You play with this thin thread, look at it through your own very personal glasses. Until it bears your sign, your signature.
It does not mean that much, yet. The question mark is the sign under which the whole thing is born.
Oh. Yes, of course, love. How could you do without? No story can. What a challenge, though...
And luck. As essential as love, as elusive as the little shamrock hidden in a meadow of clover.
Sometimes, when you’re sure you’ve got the rhythm, when it all seems clear and at your fingertips, it happens. No more fuel. And nobody to blame but yourself.
Then there’s little to do, but undo. Backwards, step by step, looking for the very point where things started to get messy.
Until somehow you find again the right thread in the wrong place. Then things start to become clear again.
Stitch after stitch, the idea gets stronger and stronger. The possibilities line up into a form and the form anyone can follow and understand.
Yes, anyone. So off to the world it shall go, looking for fortune.
I had only seen some of the photos and I noted it seemed a series of photos with captions but seeing all the lines come together like this into a complete expression is remarkable.
Once again, the master of creativity invest a new form of creative expression!
@louannwarren@overalvandaan@runner365@radiogirl@sharandrah@jyokota thank you very much - and Apologies for the late reply!
Claes: I’d love my first novel were translated in English... Hope that the ginormous success that necessarily will benefit the second (LOL) will arouse interest in some Anglo-Saxon publisher.
Junko, Shar: too kind of you. Really undeserved. But thank you so much!
@jyokota I will thank you for all your kindest comments here, Junko: I do really appreciate the time you are spending reading the whole stories, one photo after the other. Thank you so, so much!
@domenicododaro -- It's MY pleasure, and although I take bursts of short 365-breaks during the work day, the evening is when I take longer 365 time to appreciate and ponder things that require uninterrupted reflection. Like your wonderful stories.
March 24th, 2020
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I had only seen some of the photos and I noted it seemed a series of photos with captions but seeing all the lines come together like this into a complete expression is remarkable.
Once again, the master of creativity invest a new form of creative expression!
Claes: I’d love my first novel were translated in English... Hope that the ginormous success that necessarily will benefit the second (LOL) will arouse interest in some Anglo-Saxon publisher.
Junko, Shar: too kind of you. Really undeserved. But thank you so much!