A Lamp Rant

highly,highly over the top processed. the front yard at the end of the sidewalk lamp post. used at the john clare site to illustrate a poem by Anne Lindbergh. used also to illustrate that while one does not have to go beyond the end of the walk to get a shot, sometimes it helps. this one was a double exposure. first the lamp, then added the pine trees in the front yard swirling with a slow exposure. again, did not have to leave the yard, but sometimes it helps. if your work is becoming repetitive and boring, perhaps you are spending way too much time in one location, maybe stuck on the sidewalk. sometimes, all it takes to break the monotony of the same results, is to change the location. go beyond the sidewalk, beyond the end of the yard, beyond the county line, the state line, the ocean line. anywhere, just GO!

and....by the same token...if all you ever do is go,go,go....always going to that exotic location...even there you can become bland and ho hum in your always capturing the extraordinary....come home...simplify...spend some time on the sidewalk....there is more to life than always being on the GO!
so there...two perspectives on GO! now go...