Thank you @carolkean and now also my new friend @erodedthoughts (whose Horrible Art Monday Contest is not to be missed) for nominating me to do this photo challenge. In turn, I nominate @LilyCat83, and present for Day 4 the photo above.
But don't wait to be nominated, anyone can join in! The rules are simple:
- 7 black & white images that represent an aspect of your life.
- Present one image every day for seven days.
- No people.
- No explanation.
- Nominate someone every day, but anyone can join in.
- Use sevendaybnwchallenge as one of your five tags.
Photography (in case you can't tell) is not my usual bag. So if you want to see an at least nominally better post of mine, please check out my latest fiction:
And if you are a writer who would like to hone your craft, swing by the Writers' Block and say, "Hello!" We have workshops for every conceivable style of stringing words together, and a great community we'd love you to be a part of.
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For someone who says photography is "not my usual bag", this is really good. I love the composition. In a way, it captures "at the end of the tunnel there is light", but it also centres the viewer's eyes in the photo. When you force your eyes away from the middle of the photo you can look at for example, I think, the bed: it is in the mirror.
When I started this comment I didn't think about it, but when I looked at the photo again it popped into my mind: this is very close to what Derrida wrote about the frame and who is framed. I read it a long time ago, I cannot remember it all, but it is something about who is in the frame, or rather about the mirror as well.
I wish I could elaborate what he said, I'll need to reread him again. But wow, such a compact image with so many meanings! Maybe I see too much in things, but I cannot help.
Wow! Thank you so much :) I like taking photographs but never thought they were any good. I've always said I'm a failure at visual art lol. But I did quite like this one... I liked the bright, sunlit, lively trees sort of bursting through the drab and decrepit man-made structure. It was a contrast, but also made me feel hopeful because the structure is drab and decrepit, but it does have a lovely view :)
Don't think negative. Be positive. Not everyone is made to be a star, but that is not the point. Be the best version of yourself and never give up. So don't think you cannot take good photos, just take photos until you are happy with it! :D Good luck and have a great day :)
Love this one and thanks for mentioning Writer's Block. Aspiring blogger who loves conveying how I feel in the written word
Thank you! And I hope to see you around TWB. We there's a non-fiction section for standard blogging where you can get feedback on writing style, proofreading, etc. And the community is fantastic :)
Thank you. I have written for the British Medical Journal Blog and some other prestigious sites, but I am unknown and accept that I can always improve and grow.
Oh, how cool! Are you a doctor? Researcher? Or just fantastic? All three perhaps? We will embrace you regardless ;)
hahaha @jrhughes I am just a guy who was once hugely obese who changed his ways and wanted to help others. It led to some amazing opportunities and I now do my best to expose fraudulent or misleading health claims and to inspire and empower more to to move more, regardless of age, ability, size or shape. There's a story there somewhere lol
Ah! "How many miles..." I am guessing however many, they transformed your life. Congratulations! "Just fantastic" it is!
Haha, I almost nominated @lilycat83 but didn't want to overwhelm her day one.
I feel your pain on that window but it will look awesome once finished!
That's actually about to be LilyCat's room, lol. I've been plastering all week. That's one of four of those behemoth windows in her room and the previous owners had the bright idea to strip all the paint and varnish away, inside and out, then give up on restoring so the wood sat unprotected for 60 years. Some of them are horrific. But they're coming back thanks to youtube, LiquidWood and sweat lmao!
Thank god ours only sat empty for ten before we got it. Last owners took a lot of the older fixtures off and updated which I have been fixing item by item but most of the work came from the bandits who broke in while it was empty and stole pipes and wiring. I've officially spent three times more in repairs and time than the house cost us and that's doing it all ourselves.
Oh my goodness! Our friendship was foretold in the stars lol! When we first bought the place we rewired and I plastered a lot of the rooms, we got the old furnace plumbed back into the radiators, then while we were in Boise for work for 2 years, the jack of all trades we were paying to look after it stole all our tools and gutted the place for wiring and pipes. We came home to a place in worse shape than when we bought it. Been 2 years trying to catch up and only just getting to the point where making anything "pretty" can be a priority of any sort. I feel your pain and cannot believe how common dirtbags like those people are. Much luck to you in coming back from it. It's tough, but rewarding and worthwhile :)
Pretty cool... It almost looks like a mirror... a mirror to another dimension :-) Nice shot.
Thanks, Jason! You actually picked up exactly what I thought when I saw it :D