Happy 2009, let's hope it will be better than 2008.
"The skies of day and night
colours, densities, forms,
may-be these are
(as doubtless they are)
only apparitions, and the real
something has yet to be known"Of The Terrible Doubt of Appearances
- Walt Whitman (excerpt)
A day of wandering around on the last day spend in Victoria...it was cool to discover Dragon Alley tucked away neatly in Chinatown.. The narrow alley made for some interesting shadows and light on the cobblestones. Since I spend most of my life chasing light, it was nice to find it neatly self contained here. The two headed man showed himself this day...
December seems to be a great month for light in extremes and diffused. I spent the better part of this day chasing not only the light, but most importantly (to me), the fog. It got away from me more times than I care to remember, and with the winter fast approaching I figured this might be the last chance. The day of chasing fog resulted in NO fog photos at all...but when it was decided it was best to chase light instead, it didn't turn out half bad.
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls." -- Ingmar Bergman
This woman on the beach, a hot sunny day, but yes, gusts of wind still on the cool-ish side. She struck me as odd, many layers of clothing, shielding herself from the sun. This is more and more frequent, umbrella's on a sunny day as the strong sun tries to make us all become raisins.
Today is my dad's birthday. Happy birthday Dad!
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. -- Anais Nin
I never did find out what it was all about...
on appearances