A curious week.

Browsing through this weeks collection of flotsom and jetsom that washed apon my shores, I discovered something rather significant: NOTHING!
If I'm good at anything its finding worthless bits of life to record. That, in itself is an artform I am quite proud of, mind you. Its what sheds are for: collecting what others believe is junk and treating it like its the crown jewels, then pretending it will be of some use to future generations. Why, someone might even pay a dollar for some of it. You never know.
I hold no pretence about my photos. They are what they are. Small glimpses of a life well lived recorded for me to enjoy. This is why I get so emotional when people tell me how I should take them or rearrange things. Go live your own life. Leave me to make a mess of my own shed.
Christine knows and respects this, my only rule. She knows how messy I can be and leaves me to it when it comes to my shed and its contents. Step past that line and drop a single fragment of dust on her beautifully polished floors and I am road kill.

Tom dinning said:

I hold no pretence about my photos. They are what they are. Small glimpses of a life well lived recorded for me to enjoy. This is why I get so emotional when people tell me how I should take them or rearrange things. Go live your own life.

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Tom,

Just glimpses! That you allow. but it's not you! Still, we do get to sniff around at your trouser legs, but that's as close as we get. Still it's enough to know you don't smell entirely horrible and you do know about soap and water and civilization.

Your pictures however, are real choices you made: to take, to save and then to share with the world. We get a gestalt of what you whims you have and then what of these you'd want us to see.

Add to this, with you, we do have to invert these inflections of self-criticism and dismissal by a varying truth factor. So, it's a really hard challenge to fathom the character and standing of any another person. But, when they do something in our world, the really interesting things eventually happen. Then as as much as we try to camouflage and hide, each time real characters meet, clashes occur. That's a certainty. This is how a little more is revealed of each of them. But one has to be aware and that's the drama of it!

Asher

Asher Kelman said:

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As much as you try to hide, each time you meet other characters and clash, a little more is revealed. That's the drama of it.

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To me, that's the fun of it Asher, not the drama.

I like this one picture. In fact I probably like them all, but you placed them with the others, knowing they are like the odd socks, that don't match, left after the washing machine ate the rest! So was that disorder random or a chosen collection we have to view as a whole. Anyway, I like this by itself as it would justify paying the airfare to that holiday location.

Asher

Yu're probably right again, Asher. They are a bit of a hodge potch.
You're ever so right, Cem. If its not fun its not done.

This one was fun. I outran this storm to get to the coast in time to see it come over the horizon. I was to meet one of my classes here. They all chickened out. I did get wet but I got the shot I wanted.
Its a bit cliche-ish but, hey, I'm that sort of bloke.

I try to separate my own feelings when putting forward C&C for a photo, but it is difficult to suppress my enthusiasm for this one Tom. You are thus that kind of bloke who runs to the beach despite an oncoming storm, forgetting all about his safety or other things for the want of being there. I like that. I like it even more when we get to see such results.

I see here a deserted beach and a dislodged tree in the foreground. It is not clear whether the tree has been there for a while or it has just been blown by the passing storm. One can interpret the skyline both ways, either the storm is approaching or it has already passed and receding. In any case, there is the promise of light towards the right hand of the horizon and the calm seas. The waves are meeker than they would have been during a storm. Against this calm, we have the fierce storm clouds up above, with the accompanying lightning. You have captured it very nicely, I know from experience that the timing is not always easy to get right unless one uses an automatic lightning trigger device.

We have had discussions in the past about the (un)importance of the cliches. If we would stop taking these pictures just because it is a cliche which has been done before, we would not be able to take any pictures at all. Every picture is unique and this more so, it is yours.

Thanks for sharing.