Looking at – and seeing – the world
March 30, 2020 6 Comments
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Standing beside a road – at a bus stop, at dawn – and tilting the world.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 3200 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; rotated; south Bristol; 1 Jan 2020.
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March 18, 2020 7 Comments
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A bleak interior, facing a bleak main road, but still thought worthy of the armrests that bring comfort for the have’s while prohibiting a night’s meagre repose – out of the rain if nothing else – for the have-not’s.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the B&W 03 profile; south Bristol; 21 Jan 2020.
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March 15, 2020 6 Comments
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The bus to work in winter: everyone wearing heavy, bulky, overwarm, outdoor clothes; the atmosphere inside the vehicle humid, close; the windows steamy.
In this picture, I’m using the black surround of the bus’s window as a frame. But the corners of this surround are rounded, so that small areas of the bus’s grey bodywork show in the corners – but actually I like these, to me they add to the feeling that this is not in fact a real scene, but rather a picture hanging on a wall (in the home of a public transport enthusiast??? 🙂 ).
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 300mm (equiv); 6400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Velvia/Vivid profile; central Bristol; 1 Dec 2019.
Recent Going to Work posts are here: 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 . Each will open in a separate window. (Post 100 contains selected images from the first 99 posts.)
GOING TO WORK: THE EARLIER POSTS: 1-92.
You can see a summary of the Going to Work series here .
Earlier images from this series can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 . Each will open in a separate window.
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March 4, 2020 2 Comments
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Bus stop, sometime around dawn, way out on the edge of Bristol’s outer suburbs.
This is a stop for the Metrobus, Bristol’s new transport system, and on the left a list of its stops: from Hengrove Park, which is up ahead on the city’s edge, to The Centre which – unsurprisingly – is in the city centre.
Click onto the “early morning” tag (below) to see more images from the early hours of the day.
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Technique: TG-5 at 25mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 22 Jan 2020.
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February 26, 2020 8 Comments
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The morning bus. The rather grim expression; “that look”; foreboding? The passenger in red, slumped forwards over the seat.
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Technique: Z 6 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 300mm; 6400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait v2 profile; central Bristol; 29 Nov 2019.
Recent Going to Work posts are here: 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 . Each will open in a separate window. (Post 100 contains selected images from the first 99 posts.)
GOING TO WORK: THE EARLIER POSTS: 1-92.
You can see a summary of the Going to Work series here .
Earlier images from this series can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 . Each will open in a separate window.
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February 22, 2020 10 Comments
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Misty morning in the outer suburbs, somewhere I know well. To the left of the blue Keep Left sign, the dim lights of this supermarket’s warehouse area. And between that sign and the lights of the approaching car, the dim glow in the gloom is the bus shelter featured in these two posts: 1 2 .
Click onto the “early morning” tag (below) to see more images from the early hours of the day.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 800 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 22 Jan 2020.
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February 22, 2020 21 Comments
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I’m retired and, to some extent, I sit back and look at Life (note the capital). And I think about things, especially things which societies take for granted, and also those which are for some reason avoided or actually taboo – its interesting to contemplate how we function as an intelligent, social species, and I’m lucky in having a psychologist friend who is also very much into such thoughts and observations. I don’t think we’re looking for any profound and little known truths or answers, we’re just interested in how things go on.
Its also interesting to wonder, should intelligent lifeforms exist elsewhere in the universe, whether their societies will be organised along similar lines to ours’, and whether they will have similar beliefs, strengths, fallibilities, etc to ours’. Certainly, in view of humans’ all too well known inhumanity to their fellow humans, some degree of caution might be required should we ever come into contact with any other beings with intelligence / technologies equal to or greater than our own. LOL! >>>> H G Wells, The War of the Worlds??? Or Predator? or Alien? or Independence Day? >>> but never, ever E.T.!!!
I watch TV, but not so much because, so far as I can see, a lot of it is absolute drivel, totally shallow and facile rubbish – and I’m hoping that, should I ever be consigned to an elderly people’s home where watching TV may be the highlight of the day, then either said home will have a liberal booze policy or, as has in fact happened before, that enlightened friends will smuggle deliveries of the Electric Soup in to me, so that I can enjoy them … under the sheets … “in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.” – as Arthur Conan Doyle so elegantly put it in The Hound of the Baskervilles, a tale set not 100 miles from here.
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But sometimes, just sometimes, TV does come it up with little gems, such as this. It was some kind of quiz show, and amongst the contestants was a young lad who is engaged on a university course, something to do with the business world, that involves him spending one year of his university course actually out in the business world – actually out in the real world – as supposed to being cosseted in the more cloistered world of academia.
And so, after hearing that this lad was out there working in the real world, the quiz show’s compere asked him what the real world was like – and I’ll never forget the response:
“Oh its scary – you have to get up in the mornings!”.
Yes, well, pretty basic stuff, but that’s what you have to do … 🙂 ……… (as in the accompanying pictures here, which are from the Going to Work series; click onto the images to enlarge them – recommended).
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February 12, 2020 13 Comments
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Two worlds. Above: reality, what things are actually like, how things actually are. (For “things”, perhaps I should say, “Life”)
Below: marketing, persuasive design, imagined realities – how those intent on profiting from Consumerism’s great festival would like us to believe things are.
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Technique: Z 6 with 70-300 Nikkor lens used in APS-C format to give 450mm; 6400 ISO; in-camera production of jpeg from the raw file, using the Vivid profile; Bristol city centre; 29 Nov 2019.
Recent Going to Work posts are here: 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 . Each will open in a separate window. (Post 100 contains selected images from the first 99 posts.)
GOING TO WORK: THE EARLIER POSTS: 1-92.
You can see a summary of the Going to Work series here .
Earlier images from this series can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 . Each will open in a separate window.
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February 11, 2020 16 Comments
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Rain during the night, and the streets glistening and reflective just before dawn. On the right a bus shelter, and on the left, dimly seen, a supermarket’s advertisements.
There is another shot of this bus shelter here .
Other images in this Early Morning series – from both rural and urban settings, and from Kenya too – are here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 . All will open in separate windows. You can also search on the “early morning” tag.
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Technique: TG-5 at 85mm (equiv); 6400 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 27 Dec 2019.
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February 8, 2020 17 Comments
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Early morning, just after a rain shower.
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Technique: TG-5 at 100mm (equiv); 1600 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Portrait profile; south Bristol; 27 Jan 2020.
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