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20-NOV-2010 shu

Third Place - S L I P P I N G away by shu

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Guest 22-Nov-2010 02:38
I know the feeling! Excellent image.
Canon Image Challenge21-Nov-2010 13:41
trav--you have grasped the meaning of this image. therefore, it must have impacted you in a special way. i am so pleased that you caught my message and, most of all, were able to respond to it. shu
Michael Kilpatrick21-Nov-2010 11:58
Another striking and thought provoking image shu. Regards, Mchael
Canon Image Challenge21-Nov-2010 04:31
Well, Shu, you are a very attractive woman....but being of a certain age? In American culture, I often think that...we...might as well be dead for all people want to understand our concerns.

I'm still faking it, but I am old, (soon to be 66) becoming largely over-weight regardless of what I do short of starvation....is my memory going? Why is my skin turning to the texture of crepe'? Why am I sleeping less and have so much less energy?

I generally hang out with men 20 years or 30 years my junior....several have invited themselves on this upcoming journey of mine...but I have declined them an invitation....because I can't keep up with them anymore. It is best I wander and smile and touch the world by myself.

This coming Thanksgiving I'm having diner with a nice authoress, but that night, men, adventuring men, are flying in to hang with me till Monday....I am less than happy about this....but they are friends, you understand?

I don't have a choice in the matter...which is why I write about it here.

Oh, we'll go away and we'll have a good time swapping stories and whatnot...a man needs his friends, and there will be new friends I am told...

I am good with this...but I am changing. Physically. Emotionally. Intellectually.

My art should, but does not yet, honestly reflect these changes.

I would like to be honest on the subject but do not feel I can be.

I like what you are doing work-wise...because I sense that you are reaching for something...and speaking for me, sometimes with perfect rhythm that I fully understand, sometimes less so....but echos, echos, yes I hear them.

Thanks for the opportunity to communicate.

Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge21-Nov-2010 02:59
i love to hear your analysis of my work! thank you. if anyone else has an idea, i would also love to hear it. shu
Canon Image Challenge21-Nov-2010 02:36
Wow, someone is at the top of their game, conceptually...powerful....and I understand, more, I understand that this is something that needs to be said. Traveller