september 21--beside myself

[zyzyly]

I spent most of the day driving from there to here, and spent most of my driving time listening to music and thinking.
My thoughts generally fall into two categories: "photography" and "everything else".
"Everything else" can be fairly neatly divided into "women" and "everything else that is not photography or women".
Such is my life at the moment.

Comments

[blues-dream.livejournal.com]

The text on this one really made me chuckle. Neat photo, too.

I plan to steal your idea, by the way, and do a picture-a-day project of my own next year. I hope you don't mind.

[pasticcio.livejournal.com]

The thing I like about your pictures is that every time I look at them I 'see' something else... I really like this one .. I still say you're the best captioner on LJ!

[pinkroo.livejournal.com]

are you in a hotel room?

And how did you do this??

Women as a group, or particular ones?

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

I don't mind at all--it is a great thing to do--it will stretch you creatively for sure. Can't wait to follow it!

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks!

What did you 'see' in this one? What was it you liked about it?

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

I am in a hotel room in southern california.

I did it by traveling back and forth through time and space while the camera shutter was open.

Both.

:)

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

your place looks so neat! :-)

[pinkroo.livejournal.com]

Well, I told you I love a good time travel story, so yay~

[calledisrael.livejournal.com]

that's an amazing photo, mike. beautiful.
i love so much how expressive you are.

and i feel a little more normal with that validation, too: my life seems to be "church, "the holy spirit," and "men." there isn't much else.

pig

[(Anonymous)]

dont'you think you should have looked at somewhere else but not the camera

[pasticcio.livejournal.com]

I liked the text, of course. I liked the way the one you was looking intently at the screen and the other was looking at the camera. I like the way you have all your important things laid out on the desk.

I saw the reflection of the screen in the bathroom wall behind you and the outline of your head and what appears to be an aura of something/one ... perhaps a woman?... right above your head!

I think I need to have my eyes checked ;)

[deeder55.livejournal.com]

Despite the fact that it means opening my true photography ignorance to the world, I have to ask...how did u do that?

how i did it

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

Well, it was really low light--just the light from the computer screen and a little from the back--the bathroom door open a crack. I opened the camera shutter and left it open. I sat down at the computer for about a minute, then moved to the other position for another minute and stared at the camera. Then I got up and shined a little flashlight on the flower for a few seconds. Then I closed the shutter and did the whole thing again about another 5 or 6 times until I got this particular shot.

Re: pig

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

oh yeah--I think about how all the above is part of my spiritual journey too--all the time.

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

No, my place is a mess. This is a hotel that is cleaned by maids--that's why it's neat!

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!
when i read the women part.... i actually thought "oh wow, his place is so neat.... women love neat men..." :-D
hahaha!!!
it is true though, personally i find neat men very sexy. :-)

Re: how i did it

[deeder55.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I'll have to try it.

The Woman who appears above your head...

[0nmyknervz.livejournal.com]

That woman above your head looks like a coffee pot to me. : )

Re: The Woman who appears above your head...

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

It is a coffee pot. But there is something else above my head in the image reflected in the mirror.

Re: pig

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

no. :)

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

having someone over is a really powerful motivator for me to clean up! :)