Friday, June 6, 2014

What level moves you?

I posted this photograph last evening. Now, on the building, it tells the name. In the bottom left it tells the name. Yet, when I posted it to Facebook, around ten people speculated what the name was and where.
I had to chime in and kind of scold people for quickly looking and not really looking, then moving on.
I originally posted something along this order, which I changed this morning:
If this photograph does not move you on several levels, you are either:
Not old enough to know what a "negative" is
Not a photographer
Not a film photographer
Not a medium format photographer
Not a darkroom photographer
Not a historian
Not a church goer
Not a friend
A "friend" who could care less and never comments on anything I ever post.

I changed the last two lines to:
Or just not moved on several levels...LOL.

So far, as of 11:30 Friday, it has received 55 likes with 37 comments, excluding my many comments along the way, so a lot less comments than 37.

It kind of proved the point that no one really is interested in what you post beyond a cursory look. The other day I posted a church photograph and over Christ I inserted Charlie, The Revelations of God and Charlie Christ. It was a take off on Charlie Crist running for Governor again of Florida. I called it the second coming of Charlie Christ...

No one got it. No one commented. And is it any wonder?

Last evening, around midnight, I got one of the best photographs yet of a jet intersecting the moon. I sat there for nearly four hours. Pondering, waiting, praying, thinking. While I suppose inside the world was scrolling along at a rapid pace.  Ponder-ment, my new word. Akin to wonderment.

2 comments:

  1. In all my years of looking at the moon I have yet to see an airplane's shadow. This is very beautiful and telling of how the modern interacts with the natural world to make it almost surreal.

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  2. That is the actual jet, not the shadow...

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