The Egret’s Story

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Splash!

All downhill from here

Yesterday I posted my splashing egret image and did not really think much more about it. I also posted it to Flickr. Well as of now it has been viewed over 21,000 times, has generated 49 comments and been favourited 250 times. It reached number 3 on Explore. (Update 30th September – views have risen to 54,800)

You may remember my Lotus photo also had similar treatment but even today it is barely reaching 5,000 views.

The more I try to understand what makes a popular (not necessarily good) photograph the less I succeed. It is a complete mystery to me and that makes the whole idea of trying to turn images into money a route I shall never pursue. (Never say never?).

If anybody can tell me why the egret image is so popular I shall be much obliged!! Sadly Flickr does not pay per view. If only…….

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“Stages”. European Tour.

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Heart wrenching!!!

Through Harold's Lens

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Your Town
Through Harold’s Lens:

Shock

Pete!
Dead?
Mom, I just saw him!
What happened?

Story

Pitch night
Old man
Alcoholic
Drunk
High speed
Head-on.

3000 pounds
Into
3000 pounds.

Metal rips metal
Metal smashes glass
Smashing glass tears tender skin
Sharp edges saw bare bone
Chards puncture eyes
Blood
Rivers of blood.

Denial

No Mom
This can’t be
This can’t be happening to our family
Pete! Pete!
My dear brother Pete!

Anger

@$#&%*
@$#&%*
@$#&%* liquor
@$#&%* alcoholic
@$#&%* alcoholic driving a car.

Tears

Streams roll over soft cheeks
Tongue tastes salt
Lips tastes mucous
Shoulders shake
Body quivers.

Eyes stare into space
Howl
Long, low, hollow
Nooooooooooooo!!!!

Depression

@$#&%* life
I can’t do this any more
Pete was my strength
My best friend
My God.

Acceptance

Mom
Dad
I have you
We have each other
We have love.

Ring. Ring. Ring.
“Hello.
Alcoholics Anonymous.
May I help you?”

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Serengeti – Tanzania

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Geoff shoots the world

Ah the Serengeti (why do I always want to put two t’s in Serengeti?). In my mind nothing conjures up more images of African wildlife than the thought of the Serengeti.

We had one evening drive, then camped the night in the park where we were warned to shine a light out the tent if we had to go toilet, if you saw eyes shining back then hold it! Then we had a morning drive the next day before heading back, you could easily spend much longer there if you had the time and the money to do it.

On the evening drive I ticked off the last of my cat list, a cheetah way in the diastase (the shot below represents a heavy crop) and a servile (actually 2 serviles). We also saw our second leopard up a tree having a bite to eat, as we left her we…

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My South Africa – Prof Jonathan Jansen

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No picture but a true word from the heart of Prof. Jansen of the Bloemfontein University.

Soothsayer.Seer

“My South Africa is the working-class man who called from the airport to return my wallet without a cent missing.It is the white woman who put all three of her domestic worker’s children through the school that her own child attended. It is the politician in one of our rural provinces, Mpumalanga, who returned his salary to the government as a statement that standing with the poor had to be more than words. It is the teacher who worked after schoolhours every day during the strike to ensure her children did not miss out on learning during the public sector stay-away. 

My South Africa is the first-year university student in Bloemfontein who took all the gifts she received for her birthday and donated them, with the permission of the givers, to a home for children in an Aids village. It is the people hurt by racist acts who find it…

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Surrealism Challenge: Meta Meadow Inventory

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This reminds me to Russian born artist Marc Chagal of whom I’ve seen work in a museum in Prague and Washington!!! Love it. His work brings a smile to my face as does this image!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Pics by Peep

Meta Meadow

Ironically, one of the fundamentals of Surrealism is to incorporate chance and spontaneity. This has got to be one of the most planned and carefully orchestrated photos I have ever taken. However, it did challenge me to push the boundaries, so at least I followed that tenet of Surrealism!

Why would I do this, you ask? Well, because Berry asked me to, of course 😉 And what Berry wants…

…we’ll just leave it at that.

Here are the instructions:

Meme instructions: Create an image in Second Life that has a surreal feel to you. Don’t forget to share your link in the comments (of this post) and add your picture to the Blog Memes flickr group.

And you don’t have to remind me this is a Monday meme and it’s now Thursday. It took me this long to figure out what I might do. Then I remembered…

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