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Reflections
We are reflections of our past.
But reflections can only be seen when the water is calm.
Don’t fight where you come from; choppy waves only make the journey more challenging.
Indecision
There are days when indecision sets in.
What should you do? When should you go?
Indecision can lead to apathy, which can lower the mood and expectations of yourself.
Stand up, take a step.
It doesn’t matter where or how, just begin the journey!
The World Keeps Turning
With everything going on at the moment, it’s easy to forget that this virus and its complications, while bad enough, is only affecting humans. Mother Nature is still keeping the world going (grateful, I am guessing, that us pesky beings are giving the planet a bit of a break from our pollution), and across the Northern Hemisphere spring is, well, springing…
Three shots, then, from my back garden! (Click on an image to see a larger version.)
9 in 45: 4th April 2020
It was a sunny weekend in Somerset and, while the restrictions in force still allow a daily walk, I thought I would take my camera out for another 9-in-45!
The idea of the project is to set out on a walk with a phone/stopwatch and your camera. Set your stopwatch for five minutes and start walking. When the five minutes is up, stop walking. You have a minute to compose and take a photograph. Set your stopwatch for another five minutes and start walking. When the time is up, stop and, within a minute take and compose your second photo. Keep going until you have walked for 45 minutes and have nine photos.
I’ve undertaken several of these before and now, with the move to the South West, it’s giving me an opportunity to explore new places and seek out new routes!
I promise not every set of photos is going to include the Tor, but on this occasion made it too good an opportunity to miss!
A welcome to the Somerset town, but I was walking the other way. There is no “Thank you for visiting” billboard, however, so this will have to do!
…definitely no more photos of the Tor, I promise…
Walking along the River Brue, you come to a small weir. This hut, I would imagine, has something to do with water management, though don’t quote me on that.
Graffiti on out of the way huts: good or bad?
It really was a lovely day for a springtime walk! The sun was shining and it was pleasantly warm…
Love Actually is all around. Glastonbury is a place of peace, calm and openness and these painted rocks – on the road from Street – stand as testament to that sense of love.
Heading back homewards now, and a steep climb through a field of cows as I ascended Wearyall Hill. The timer on my phone went off and there was little obvious to photograph (apart from cowpats and hoof prints).
The chimney in the foreground belongs to the old Baily’s Tannery and Glove Factory, disused since the 1980s.
The top of Wearyall Hill now, and a place to stop and relax. I have sat here and relished the view on a number of occasions, but today I carried on, because I had a ninth photograph to take!
Never ever be afraid of being the odd one out, the black sheep. Life is made for standing out!
Another nine photographs taken in 45 minutes, then; my seventh attempt! Click on the links below to see the previous results:
And the original “Take Nine Photos In Forty Five Minutes” collection can be found by clicking the link.
Change
One of the things about the current situation we are all finding ourselves in at the moment are the changes that are happening to the way we do things, the way we work, the way we live.
Shops – the few that remain open – are opting for card payments, rather than cash. Businesses are finding ways to work with staff working from home. Television and radio channels are streamlining their workforce (BBC Radio sharing news reports, rather than having individual ones, for example) and using classic television (repeats) as a focus for their prime time programming.
While we are in an emergency situation, I do wonder if the new normal will be a permanent replacement for the old normal when this is all over. Will these emergency changes become commonplace post-Coronavirus?
To take part in the current Mass Observation Project post on ISOLATION:
- Take a photograph based on the theme of ISOLATION, however you want to interpret it.
- Email the image to adayinphotographs@outlook.com by Wednesday 1st April 2020.
- Images should be a maximum of 650 pixels wide.
- Include your name, website/blog address and a short note about the image, including where it was taken.
- Come back and see the results on Sunday 5th April!
Glastonbury Spring
As with much of the UK, Somerset has had a pretty damp start to the year (in fact, it’s chucking it down yet again as I type). But, grey clouds notwithstanding, there are signs that spring is on the horizon, and so for my second ode to my new home, I thought I would post some budding new photographs.
(Click on an image to see a larger version and scroll to the bottom for some information about a new post!)
Even on the darkest of days there is a hint of brighter things to come, and he knew this gave him an advantage he would be able to press home. He could show her that things had changed, that he had changed.
He knew that the temptation he had given into has been ill-advised – no, more than that, it had been the stupidest thing he had ever done! – but she had hinted that there was the slightest of opportunities, the tiniest glimmer of hope that he would be able to rectify the damage he had done.
The “slip” – that was what they had taken to calling it – had happened last autumn, and this new spring gave him the hope, the push to start putting things back together again…
It’s time for a new Mass Observation Project post too! With everything going on in the world at the moment, the next theme is going to be ISOLATION.
The idea, as with previous MO posts is to:
- Take a photograph based on the theme, however you want to interpret it.
- Email the image to adayinphotographs@outlook.com by Wednesday 1st April 2020.
- Include your name, website/blog address and a short note about the image.
- Come back and see the results on Sunday 5th April!
Images should be a maximum of 650 pixels wide.
Thanks! 🙂
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