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Edition Seventy Eight (opens the original)
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It’s been a minute.I haven’t really been in the mood to write something. Perhaps ‘mood’ is not the right word. My mind has not been focused on writing. I have a lot of ideas but once I sit down and start to expand on them the tap would get turned off. As quickly as creativity appeared it would vanish.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kBrZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2
Midweek Photos. (opens the original)
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The previous week was unplanned chaos. Starting with a three day stay in hospital, an operation on Sunday and getting discharged on Monday my photo time completely disappeared. I spent my week nursing an injured hand and it’s my camera hand. Yip - I can’t hold my Canon or XE-2 at the moment -_-Monday I went out and captured a few phone images. I had my Kodak with me but surprise surprise the battery died on me. The photos below also include a few from previous weeks out in the mornings.With that
Midweek Photos. (opens the original)
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For the photos this week I opted for another album I own. This time St. Anger from Metallica. Load was the first Metallica album I bought and somewhere in 2005 I got my hands on St. Anger. This was a difficult time for the band with Jason Newstead leaving and James Hetfield’s addiction problems. There is just a single band photo inside the booklet which also shows Hetfield slightly away from the rest of the band. Perhaps the photographer unwittingly captured the emotions inside the band at the t
Midweek Photos. (opens the original)
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Canvas.Not the shoe type though, but the type you hang against the wall. This bug bit me somewhere in 2010’s when I had a canvas made from a photo of a road in Iceland. It hung on the wall in my room for almost a decade. Recently it had to come off the wall due to some repainting but it is likely to find a new spot.Back to 2024: I started following a local artist on Instagram - neon_charlie_za. Long story short I found a piece I liked and bought it. Had it made onto a canvas and now it’s hanging
Midweek Photos. (opens the original)
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I took my camera out the past Sunday but this time I didn’t head out in the darkness. I left home a bit later and this game me a few shots which didn’t need a high ISO. I kept the open aperture and went with slower shutter speed. Looking at the results perhaps next time I’ll slow down a bit more and actually stop for a few different images.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zhYP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstac
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