8 posts tagged “photography”
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...
It may disintegrate and crumble into inconsequential rubble. Or it may be lost forever; crashing burning... into the yellow sun. And tonight...as I look into the sky, and it looks back on me...
I want to know...which am I?
I need to know...is this the beginning of the journey...
Or the end?"...
Frank Black (Millennium Episode: 2.0)
Some I found so incredibly sad, others words from love ones to the departed. It made me think of the power of words, and how every day , no matter where we are, we are taking in the words of advertisers, media, news events and so many others we probably are not aware of it.
The most striking words I came across this day however, were the ones I found written on the wall in a back alley on the East Side: "Love is here everyday!". I don't know...it just kind of struck me as a meditation of sorts for the people that live here, beside the dumpster. Kind of amazing.
The long shadows on a winters day are the most intriguing to me. The faceless silhouetted people create a great afternoon mood as their long figures trail off down the streets and spill into doorways.
It makes me wonder about them, where they are going, what are they thinking? Real life cinema as they quickly pass by, perhaps film noir in broad daylight.
I came upon this during yet another sleepless night. It struck me as being a world of dreams. Actually perhaps 2 worlds...the one on the city street at night and the world through the looking glass...in other words the world through the reflection.
nevertorun is one of my favourite photographers. I love the way he sees the world and shows us that the ordinary is really the extraordinary.
