I’d like to introduce you all to Molly. (*)
Everyone Molly, Molly everyone.
Molly’s alright actually.
Not because of what she says but how she says it. Quietly and persistently.
Often times so quiet to be drowned out by all the other noise but persistent enough to sometimes just catch it.
‘It’ might at first seem overly harsh or dismissive but roll it around the head for a while and yeah, ok, I can see it.
It doesn’t matter.
There’s absolutely no point in me getting all upset, disappointed, frustrated, and
anxious over the photos I do or don’t take. Its not like my photography has to feed a family or, heaven forbid, an algorithm.
Of course like everyone I’ll use the tools and skills to the best of my ability to make the image just so but if it doesn’t work out, so what?
This was one of the better sunsets I’ve seen in a very long while. The colours were just spectacular.
Turn my back to the now set sun and I’m in my happy place.
Sometimes all it takes is a change of perspective.
So yeah, Molly’s alright. Listen out for Molly, Molly’s wise. (*)
(*) any resemblance to an actual Molly (Stewart or otherwise), living or dead, past, present or future is purely coincidental and entirely unintentional.
As a photo, I do agree with you, its not great, mostly there isn’t really a point of interest. As a sunset, it looks like it was spectacular though.
We get a lot of sunsets like these out here in California. Sometimes lovely and contrasty orange/blue, sometimes cotton candy pinks and purples. More often than not, I’m not in a good place to make a photo. Often I’ve finished work, walk outside, and go “wow. i wish I’d been out on a walk or somewhere where I could’ve made use of this.” But I’m not, and that’s OK. I’ve learned to appreciate the moments that can’t be capture (or are a boring capture) as more ephemeral. Maybe that makes them more special in this time where so much is recorded; all I’ll be left with is the memory of this sunset. I’ll soon forget that I didn’t make a good photo, but some of those sunsets I do remember as just “wow.” I think that’s nice. I’ve missed more great light/scenes than I’ve actually photographed.
And when you are in the right place with you camera, it makes it all that much better.
The 2nd photo is nice. Great color, love the lines that run thru it. And actually I think its better with the blue sky and orange clouds, it gives color contrast to the foreground. If you’d have put that amazing yellow/orange sunset behind it, you’d loose the building an wall, as there wouldn’t be as much contrast.
I never understood this quote from Gandhi. Sure, from the perspective of the universe, whatever you do will be insignificant (even if it affects the fate of humanity in a drastic way, this is just one little planet).
If you affect the life of a single person in a good way, that is highly significant.
BTW, I really like the sunset on the beach. Sure, I have seen that a zillion times on postcards, and a few hundred times with my own eyes. But I am still moved by it, it is such a nice setting.
Apologies for the late reply. Taking the disjointed nature of these interactions? conversations? to an extreme. Moved house. Not actual bricks and mortar, just from one abode to another. Though not sure which would be more disruptive. @paperdigits - nothing wrong with a good ramble, usually end up somewhere interesting @Tamas_Papp - that quote keeps me humble. No matter how awesome I think that last photo I gotta remember it means diddly squat to anyone else. It nips any delusions of grandeur right in the bud.
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Now which box is that camera in…
