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9/6/2010 7:13 am |
I’d walked for an hour towards the city centre, following the afternoon sun’s long cool shadows along the avenues. I hadn’t stopped. I’d passed through the reggae festival at Jubilee Park, been buffeted by the traffic’s noise in the lee of the Commission buildings, negotiated crossings and tramlines, and dodged the swift silent cyclists. Feeling a little footsore from the unforgiving pavements, I’d stopped near the fountain in the park opposite the Federal Parliament. She was sitting opposite me, smiling wistfully, while another girl, camera slung around her neck, fussed around her. The breeze was whipping her hair across her face, to the annoyance of the photographer. With a laugh, the seated girl waved her friend away, took off her jacket, and quickly tied her hair back. The sun was casting a slanted light through the trees, and the leaves made the light dance across her face and shoulders. The girl looked up into the light, squinted, and grinned. Cradling the camera in her left hand, the photographer leant in closer, circling, searching, looking for something I could already see. |
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4/29/2011 4:32 am |
I see... Naive, but convincing. A child prodigy 
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4/21/2011 2:16 am |
My teacher(a liberalist who does not fit in the environment) said, "If you feel painful, that's because your pain is not deep or enormous enough." I apply his thinking to another case: if you feel desperate, that's because you are not desperate at all. However, to say that if somebody feels something then that means they don't feel it enough, or that it isn't real, is to belittle the feelings of others. The existence of the extraordinary should never negate the ordinary.
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4/16/2011 7:13 am |
Have you ever said "Thank you for visiting the blog" to me? You didn't, and you should. By the way, I won't feel footsore even if I run in Converse for an hour. I guess that's why I don't resist spring as you do and insist there IS perfect writing and...despair is always perfect as the only perfect thing. Perfect despair makes me smile....and that ruins it.
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9/30/2010 2:52 pm |
nice post, nice observation ... sounded like you were in the moment Thanks for visiting the blog.
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9/30/2010 2:47 pm |
to funny 
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9/30/2010 2:46 pm |
sometimes looking up helps... its all around us we just have to take the time to see it ,,, and of course putting away the mobile phone helps 
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9/29/2010 2:47 pm |
Again??? You have confused me with someone else, again.
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9/20/2010 1:14 pm |
You're confusing ballerinas and witches.....again. You have confused me with someone else, again.
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9/19/2010 2:21 pm |
Do they throw spells on you?
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9/19/2010 2:20 pm |
What's even worse is if you go walking in Reverse. You never know what you're going to back into.
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9/18/2010 1:06 pm |
The ballerinas always chase me when I steal their shoes. Which is why I steal them.
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9/18/2010 11:39 am |
Exactly those or worse Ballerinas Which is why I steal them.
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9/18/2010 9:48 am |
Don't go walking in Converse. or worse Ballerinas
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9/18/2010 8:24 am |
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9/18/2010 8:24 am |
One hour of walking through town and you're footsore?You need to exercise more... But then, you wouldn't have seen this scene and you wouldn't have post a "one blink moment" and I wouldn't have read it. Nice capture, btw.
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9/18/2010 12:07 am |
the most beautiful view is the one I share with you
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9/15/2010 10:59 am |
One hour of walking through town and you're footsore?You need to exercise more... But then, you wouldn't have seen this scene and you wouldn't have post a "one blink moment" and I wouldn't have read it. Nice capture, btw.
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9/13/2010 3:16 pm |
in other words... there was nothing there! *sigh*
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9/13/2010 3:15 pm |
To me they beat big boys on earth, besides asteroids come and go and come and go and......mmm Luna Mezz'o Mare rings a real big bell
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9/13/2010 11:26 am |
*it's a secret*  "...paint paradise, then in you go..."
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9/12/2010 3:49 am |
Never listen to small boys who live on asteroids.
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9/11/2010 4:43 pm |
"One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes." Le petit Prince
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9/11/2010 4:42 pm |
And of those thousand things...only one will matter...the one your heart whispered as you watched.
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9/11/2010 4:41 pm |
I'm currently looking at pictures of my friend and her new husband's wedding photos on FB, while also checking in on the blogs (I'm a talented multi-tasker) and this goes hand in hand with those photos just felt you should know that (the migraine I've been sporting all day plus these beautiful wedding photos PLUS this sweet little thing you've written has turned me into a ball of mush...it's really a deadly combination)
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9/11/2010 4:41 pm |
He has great shutter speed.
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9/11/2010 4:40 pm |
and the color of her eyes were? .. details are everything.
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9/11/2010 4:32 pm |
Sometimes it is nessecary for a woman to tie her  back on a windy day.
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9/11/2010 4:31 pm |
Sometimes we look and do not see. Sometimes we see and do not know what it is we see. Sometimes we do not know, but the vision pleases us nonetheless. As an amateur camera slinger I have become much less worried about the camera and more open to what the mindseye can reveal in a shot. I love the shot you took and the picture that developed in the darkroom of your mind!
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9/11/2010 4:27 pm |
so... what did you see? *stage whisper* i really like the way you immortalize 'kodak moments', gower.
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9/11/2010 4:26 pm |
The eye of a artist.
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9/9/2010 12:45 am |
"One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes." Le petit Prince
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9/7/2010 8:13 pm |
And of those thousand things...only one will matter...the one your heart whispered as you watched. Feel the passion, walk in peace, live in love....Ari 
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9/6/2010 11:46 pm |
I'm currently looking at pictures of my friend and her new husband's wedding photos on FB, while also checking in on the blogs (I'm a talented multi-tasker) and this goes hand in hand with those photos just felt you should know that (the migraine I've been sporting all day plus these beautiful wedding photos PLUS this sweet little thing you've written has turned me into a ball of mush...it's really a deadly combination) There is no reason not to follow your heart. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.- Steve Jobs
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9/6/2010 5:37 pm |
so... what did you see? *stage whisper* i really like the way you immortalize 'kodak moments', gower.
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9/6/2010 1:54 pm |
Sometimes it is nessecary for a woman to tie her back on a windy day. HuzatKrazyLONG -edMayne???
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9/6/2010 11:03 am |
Sometimes we look and do not see. Sometimes we see and do not know what it is we see. Sometimes we do not know, but the vision pleases us nonetheless. As an amateur camera slinger I have become much less worried about the camera and more open to what the mindseye can reveal in a shot. I love the shot you took and the picture that developed in the darkroom of your mind! Good things come to those who wait; remember to live while you do the waiting!! ~*Michelle*~
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9/6/2010 10:15 am |
so... what did you see? *stage whisper* i really like the way you immortalize 'kodak moments', gower. "...paint paradise, then in you go..."
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