John, I would hang that first photo on my wall. For some reason it makes me think of the lyrics to "Own my Own"
"On my own Pretending he's beside me All alone, I walk with him till morning Without him I feel his arms around me And when I lose my way I close my eyes And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver All the lights are misty in the river In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight And all I see is him and me for ever and forever "
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
The pensive girl photo is really, really good, as well. Excellent balance, lighting on her face and artistic mood.
WhoAmI
· 1 year ago
It's not a mushroom cloud....it's hope springing forward. Great picture.
cay
· 1 year ago
You have quite an eye. Open-minded people with good cameras tend to see things in revealing ways.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
That's one of the things I love most about photography. It quite literally forces me to see things differently, or rather than "force," I find that I SEE things differently when I get into camera mode. I just start scanning around, looking at the details everywhere, it's kind of hard to explain - but it's a totally different way of perceiving things than when I'm not taking pictures. And more generally, that's probably my favorite thing in photography, capturing moments that exist, that are real, but that no one or very few people noticed. But they're there, and you capture them on film to the degree that they look fake. ("It looks more like snow than the real thing!"
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
can we get some pictures of myrtle beach?
canuck55
· 1 year ago
Off topic, but it's late and as a Canadian I have to purge myself of our national shame.... After 5 days, no Olympic medals. Here is a Partial list of the countries ahead of us: North Korea Norway (Norway, they have no unfrozen water and they are all drunk on Aquavit) Slovenia Vietnam Armenia (They're best know for being swarthy - and that's just the women) Algeria Belarus Croatia Georgia Azerbajian Kazakhstan Kyrgystan Uzbekistan (it's very bad when the "stans" are beating you) TOGO - the tiny African republic of effing Togo for God's sake! Togo! In kayaking! We got beat in kayaking by a guy from Togo! Burn all of the paddles, blow up the kayaks!
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
National shame? You must be kidding. Try having a neocon Republican administration like the Bu$h administration who has destroyed our country's reputation worldwide and THEN we will talk national shame.
Oh, you're talking about Olympic medals. Ha! medals shmedals...
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· 1 year ago
Busboy is a bitch.
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· 1 year ago
Busboy was reared in Oklahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plains.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Wait a minute. I was raised here, too. Believe it or not there are so good thick skinned, tough progressives here as well! Oklahoma is breeding ground for TOUGH TAKE NO PRISONERS PROGRESSIVES who refuse to drink the Kool-Aid.
I'll give Busboy credit for one thing. He actually reads a liberal blog. Most Republican schmucks around here never venture beyond Fox News because they can't handle any cognitive dissonance for fear they might have to admit just how wrong they've been for most of their entire lives. Its also hard for those ultra conservative Dubya lovin' Oklahomans to admit its not right to have been born with only one set of grandparents...
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· 1 year ago
I don't care. Busboy is a total BITCH!
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· 1 year ago
John, don't take pictures of individuals like that. It's bad luck for you both and offensive to that person without their permission.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Yes, John, you can get killed in some undeveloped countries in the amazon for stealing their souls by taking their photo! (snark...)
come on glasses - lighten up.
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· 1 year ago
No, for real. It's annoying about Americans think they can just go around the world taking pictures of people like that. They wouldn't just do that here. It's rude.
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· 1 year ago
Poor thing sitting there. I get that she's sad and trying to get in touch with here structural surroundings for stability and then some American/Japanese person with coke-bottled glasses snapping her picture. Sheesh.
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· 1 year ago
I think when you do that, you're taking part of their spirit without their permission. Just ask for their permission and they'll usually give it. That way, no bad on you or hurt to them.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
I don't have a problem taking pictures of strangers IF they don't know - meaning, I'm not going to stand in front of their face, that I find rude. But if they don't know, and they're in public, no harm no foul. Now, i wouldn't publish a photo of that girl that actually showed her face clearly. I don't like that. But this one doesn't, thus the reason I published it
cereal
· 1 year ago
Not to knock Paris, but that light that Rembrandt, Vermeer etc. painted is farther north, up here in Holland!
You get longer evening light being farther north, you get more dramatic clouds and movement of weather, you have a universally low horizon since it's flat here, and you have all that water everywhere, which reflects and refracts the light.
Bring your camera to Holland for a weekend and you'll see what I mean.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Of course, I thought of that when writing this, that's why I wrote "Europe" :-) And have been to Holland, but need to get back and get out of Amsterdam a bit so I can really shoot some photos
cereal
· 1 year ago
point taken...but when you come up here, don't tell Hollanders "their" light is just some kind of general pan-European light quality thing. They get sore about it. maybe because there is no "landscape" to speak of, like they have in France etc., they get real attached to the mystical qualities of the light you can (supposedly) ONLY find in Holland, dagnabbit!
Indigo
· 1 year ago
You and Fabien are spending a lot of time together. Is there something you want to tell us? :-)
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
He's an old friend :-)
MDThom
· 1 year ago
My partner and I are going to be in Paris the middle of October.
daingel
· 1 year ago
If you go back to the Louvre there's someone's, a friend of mine, work you should see. He's a native Clevelander and the Louvre just put his work in the permanent collection. He's done work for Pearl Jam and others, and also has done Captain America. His name is Derek Hess. Here's is website www.derekhess.com and he also just did the illustrations for a book,Please God Save Us,
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"On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone, I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me for ever and forever "
After 5 days, no Olympic medals. Here is a Partial list of the countries ahead of us:
North Korea
Norway (Norway, they have no unfrozen water and they are all drunk on Aquavit)
Slovenia
Vietnam
Armenia (They're best know for being swarthy - and that's just the women)
Algeria
Belarus
Croatia
Georgia
Azerbajian
Kazakhstan
Kyrgystan
Uzbekistan (it's very bad when the "stans" are beating you)
TOGO - the tiny African republic of effing Togo for God's sake! Togo! In kayaking! We got beat in kayaking by a guy from Togo! Burn all of the paddles, blow up the kayaks!
Oh, you're talking about Olympic medals. Ha! medals shmedals...
I'll give Busboy credit for one thing. He actually reads a liberal blog. Most Republican schmucks around here never venture beyond Fox News because they can't handle any cognitive dissonance for fear they might have to admit just how wrong they've been for most of their entire lives. Its also hard for those ultra conservative Dubya lovin' Oklahomans to admit its not right to have been born with only one set of grandparents...
come on glasses - lighten up.
You get longer evening light being farther north, you get more dramatic clouds and movement of weather, you have a universally low horizon since it's flat here, and you have all that water everywhere, which reflects and refracts the light.
Bring your camera to Holland for a weekend and you'll see what I mean.