Far Egg

An earthling with a beginner's interest in film photography and yeah, some poetry.

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Nottingham Lights

Camera: Kodak Retina Reflex III

Film: Kodak Ultramax ISO 400

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Calton Hill from Arthur’s Seat

Camera: Kodak Retina Reflex III

Film: Fujifilm Superia ISO 200

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Kitchen perspective

Camera: Kodak Retina Reflex III

Film: Kodak Ultramax ISO 400

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Days to come stand in front of us like a row of scented candles- golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us, a gloomy line of snuffed-out candles; the nearest are smoking still, cold, melted, and bent. I don't want to look at them: their shape saddens me, and it saddens me to remember their original light. I look ahead at my lighted candles. I don't want to turn for fear of seeing, terrified, how quickly that dark line gets longer, how quickly the snuffed-out candles proliferate.

'Candles' by C.P. Cavafy. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

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Laundress Lane and plant double exposure.

Camera: Kodak Retina Reflex III

Film: Fujifilm Superia ISO 200 

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Sometimes I wonder, sweetest love, if you Were a mere dream in a long winter night, A dream of spring-days, and of golden light Which sheds its rays upon a frozen heart; A dream of wine that fills the drunken eye. And so I wonder, sweetest love, if I Should drink this ruby wine, or rather weep; Each tear a bezel with your face engraved, A rosary to memorize your name... There are so many ways to call you back- Yes, even if you only were a dream.

Rumi, Nightingale Under The Snow. Translated by Annemarie Schimmel.

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Lone Monk

Camera: Kodak Retina Reflex III

Film: Fujifilm Superia ISO 200

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Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.

J Nehru, 1946. The Discovery of India. p. 20.

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South Bank

Camera: Kodak Retina Reflex III

Film: Kodak Ultramax ISO 400

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Effort by Rumi

"Go on scratching and scraping and cutting the stone wall that bars your way."