hanging in a restaurant window. I understand about dry-aging, but I wished they'd chosen a more visually appealing way to show it off somehow. This particiular display didn't look appetizing so much as zombie-eaten. And I'm not sure about the sun exposure.
an image of aloneness that is actually kind of humorous. At least, it so seems to my eyes. But as to why it should seem humorous, I'm not sure. Maybe it's the mural in the back? But I think the image would still be... well, let's say not lacking in some mysterious kind of humor even without the mural. Hah, "mysterious humor"! Good one.
Maybe it's because the lone figure here somehow manages to convey a feeling not of loneliness so much as of... aloofness(?), as if alone by conscious choice...
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Thanks to the streak of subzero temps it's survived on the sidewalk long enough to be immortalized by moi^
Late afternoon sun looking oddly p̶s̶y̶c̶h̶o̶t̶i̶c̶ intimidating.
Maybe this says more about me, though.
Being OC and a photobug means being forced to expend a lot of mental energy (and often varying amounts of physical energy as well) doing this sort of thing every day.
It looked so out of place, a lump of snow out of the blue, by a busy sidewalk with not a trace of snow anywhere else around. Hardworking "environment beautification technicians" (aka street cleaners) had cleared all the snow off the sidewalk, but had left this one snowball alone. Or perhaps made it themselves, as a reminder of a moment in time. Kind of poignant, that.
A cleaning crew with a sense of poetry. Or perhaps irony.
Looking at this image, I feel like I should improvise a short poem in the old sijo style, just like the gentlemen scholars of old Korea; that, or perhaps a zen-succinct haiku. Too bad I don't understand the first thing about poetry...
I also thought about "The Moon Taking Aim" as a title, but decided against it, because it might oblige the Moon to be perceived as taking sides in the petty mundane conflicts that only concern us manusha.
My Facebook memory threw this out at me today. Taken in panorama mode, the photo itself isn't dated, but the FB post is dated February 1, 2020, so it must have been taken not long before I left L.A. for Korea, and shows a highly unusual cloud formation stretching tornado- or maybe dragon-like from horizon to horizon. I̶t̶'s̶ a̶l̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ a̶s̶ i̶f̶ i̶t̶'s̶ s̶h̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ m̶y̶ l̶i̶n̶k̶ b̶e̶t̶w̶e̶e̶n̶ t̶w̶o̶ c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ o̶n̶ o̶p̶p̶o̶s̶i̶t̶e̶ s̶i̶d̶e̶s̶ o̶f̶ t̶h̶e̶ w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶.
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He is always with me no matter where I go.
He is invisible to the naked eye.
But he still casts a shadow.
Today I went out and shot (photographed, not hunted^) pigeons in the plaza. Not on the ground, but in the air as they flew in to land on their customary roost on the roof of the metro entrance, with the waxing moon providing the backdrop. I had to be patient and be prepared to brave the freezing winds because the rascally pigeons kept blithely ignoring my telepathic commands^, but anyway after a fair while and many wasted shots, I had a handful of images I considered presentable. Here are the best five of the bunch:
And as a kind of humorous also-ran, here's one I'm calling "Pigeon carrying the Moon piggyback":
I started to watch this video with giant contrabass saxophones on YouTube, and found myself spontaneously saying "Fill that with water, and you could drown a kid in it", just like that.
This time it was in an alley across from the leasing office of a fish market in Euljiro, Seoul. Not just any fish market, but specifically a market for dried fish only. Proudly self-described as the largest such market in all of Korea.
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