The ability to turn an everyday pic into something “artistic” at the click of a button is the very embodiment of digital photography’s curse of convenience - no long learning curves, or trial and error with expensive rolls of film. But is it creative?
I said goodbye to someone that I love
“It’s not just me, I tell you it’s the both of us”
And it was hard
Like coming off the pills that you take to stay happy
I’m going deaf, you’re growing melancholy
Things fall apart, I don’t know why we bother at all
But life is good and ‘It’s always worth living at least for a while’
Ordinary people. The courage to say no.
The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowd, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labor for marrying a Jewish woman.
We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.
Cause sometimes great men stand alone!
Taken with instagram
Loved this season!
(Source: magicallybabelicious)
My son is terrified of death. All I want to do is embrace it.
When it comes to my life, I always feel like I am being pulled in two very different directions. In one direction, I know where it leads and all that I can gain and lose from that route. The other is a complete mystery. It’s unknown and I have always been very hesitate to walk in that direction in fear of what might become of my life and of myself. Maybe it is time to stop being so frightened and just go….
