13-9-28

The rain was biblical today so I didn't get many pictures of this house. If the rain lets up tomorrow I'll go back and take more. Christo would be proud.

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It was nearly impossible to catch the majesty of this exploding white cloud. I say "nearly" because I'm pretty sure someone better than me could have done it.

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Her actual birthday was a couple of days ago. Today was the party. She's got some really great friends. So she should, she's pretty great herself.

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They were having a 2 for 1 sale on photographs today.

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The abandoned bicycle has within it a tension borne from its haphazard placement, wedged between a building, a bush, and a retaining wall. It's a possession discarded, and a means of transportation. It's not locked. It's simply dropped and left. That makes this the final destination so there's a weight to how easily this bicycle is discarded. There are no further travels to be considered, this is it. The bike is no longer needed, the voyage is over. Even within that there is a spontaneous potential within the bike. Anyone on foot who happens upon it is immediately granted the gift of covering an exponentially greater amount of distance with little effort. It simultaneously represents escape and contentment. It's a magical tension that is mirrored in the organic and the constructed (the bush and the building). The whole image speaks of balance and potential, the idea of "balance" in tension with an idea of "potential" which, by definition, is about upsetting "balance."

It's a bike in a bush, but it's a place to be, a place to escape from, a critical mass of energy, a home, an escape from somewhere else, a spontaneous moment, an idea of freedom, a metaphor for the Buddhist doctrine of having no possessions. And more. And more again.

Or it's a picture of a bike stuck in a bush next to a wall.

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A theme of loneliness and isolation has run through these images lately. And the style has changed, subtly, with the use of a different camera than usual.

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I like that everyone is looking away from the camera. Everyone. Regardless of where they are actually going. Not sure why.

13-9-9

Two photos. A new camera deserves a second photo? I now own my second version of a Fuji X100, the subtly upgraded/updated X100S. I had an X100 for about 6 months and sold it, it was a frustrating though beautiful camera.

The X100s fixed a lot of the problems, and the X100 took very good photographs despite its quirks. And it looks great. I'm such a sucker for these things sometimes.

Because of Breaking Bad, every time I see a car wash I wonder what meth supplier owns it.

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Technically taken after midnight.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor played tonight at The Vogue Theatre. They played the entire show in the dark and it was brilliant but it didn't make for many (or any) good photographs.

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Christmas gift bags full of trophies left by the curb. I have no idea.

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I always feel like I haven't done the day justice when the date is a palindrome. There have been a few this year, and last. This is the last one I'll ever see in my lifetime.

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When in doubt, there's always the sunsets.

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It rained like it was winter this evening. 10 minutes into it and my chest tightened like it was never going to stop because, in Vancouver, sometimes it doesn't ever stop.

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Wheel building day. Any day that's a wheel building day is a good day.