One Photo at a Time

Too much to look at in the world. My paradoxical antidote is to create one more thing, ONE PHOTO AT A TIME.

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Summer’s here, and the time is ...

Sisyphus here, rolling this blogrock up the social media self promotion mountain, but to what end?  Original idea was to provide a forum for myself to post thoughts about the process of continuing an online photo project, but the project seems not to need, or want, much commentary.  And maybe the commentary and potential extras photos I could post here run counter to the intent at the heart of the project, which was to create a somewhat reflective space on the interweb.  I will be posting a new photo soon, just ruminating in the meantime ...

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Time Passes Slowly ...

Or not.  It’s been a year since I began this project, One Photo At A Time.  I think it’s averaging about one new photo every six weeks or so, not sure if it’ll stay that way or not.  I was hoping to capture some terrific scene for this “anniversary” photo, but wasn’t able to put in the time to find anything worthy.  So I chose a photo from my recent trip, taken about six weeks ago.  When I came upon the scene, at dusk in Vienna, a young girl on the street was eating a pastry and mimicking a woman on a large TV screen inside a shop window.  The scene was perfect but by the time I unholstered the camera the girl’s mother had appeared and the girl started walking towards her, “ruining” the moment.  So when I looked at the photo the first time I saw it as a missed opportunity.  But today, as I was looking through images to see if I had overlooked anything, the image caught my attention.  It had something that appealed to me, that felt right, and I instantly thought, “I’ll use that for this next posting.”  Don’t know what to say about the project one year in except that I’m extremely grateful for the interest from people and very happy about how interested I remain in trying to continue.

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Vienna May 2015

A few scenes from Vienna. 

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Just a few souvenir snapshots.  Before, winter 1976/77 - after (now), spring 2015 - Paris is still an amazing and amazingly beautiful place.  But there are too many people and too many tourists and too many old things gone for the city to be able to possess the same kind of transcendent power of reflection and refraction that it once did.  Tant pis.

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OLD EUROPE

A lot of photos to digest here, but wasn’t sure how to parse them out in a way that makes sense to the blogosphere.  I was in Europe from December 14, 1976 to March 13, 1977.  It was a cold and rainy winter, and I spent most of my time in Paris, with trips to Poitiers (France), Florence, Rome, Amsterdam and Vienna.  What strikes me most about these photos is how “empty” everything was then.  Please feel free to comment. 

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