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Shot from my backyard this evening with a 200mm le Shot from my backyard this evening with a 200mm lens. #bobcatfire continues to creep closer but is meeting some fierce competition from firefighters, who are, of course, goddamn heroes.
#bobcatfire #bobcatfire
A salmon colored sun peeking through smoke filled A salmon colored sun peeking through smoke filled skies over Arcadia this morning. #cafires
Grateful for the opportunity to introduce these br Grateful for the opportunity to introduce these brilliant women from all over Africa to the language of cinema as part of another @americanfilmshowcase doc workshop with my partner in crime Ramona Diaz. The world will hear from these women someday soon and we will all be better for it. Thanks to @newfcongress for making it happen! @slh72488
#floorgazing #floorgazing
Still but not stagnant. Silent but not without a s Still but not stagnant. Silent but not without a story to tell. #stilllife #motionpictures #canonc200 #50mm
“The windows of the soul are infinite, we are to “The windows of the soul are infinite, we are told. And it is through the eyes of the soul that paradise is visioned. If there are flaws in your paradise, open more windows! Vision is entirely a creative faculty: it uses the body and the mind as the navigator uses his instruments. Open and alert, it matters little whether one finds a supposed short cut to the Indies—or discovers a new world. Everything is begging to be discovered, not accidentally, but intuitively. Seeking intuitively, one’s destination is never in a beyond of time or space but always here and now. If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” -Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Page 24 . #sonya7sii #50mm #henrymiller
A still from our lockdown inspired crowdsourced #T A still from our lockdown inspired crowdsourced #TheDawnChorus now streaming free via @dceff_org until 7/19. Our pal talented filmmaker @ar_forrester shot this scene in his backyard in Atlanta, GE and in the process fell back in love with nature that day. Watch now at link in bio. . “Recognizing that I was witnessing a longer and slower experience helped me understand how to better be in this pandemic for this moment and not be too anxious for the precise point when it is "over." I don't think the sunrise had a precise moment when it was over, at some point it just felt like it was time to go make breakfast.” -Adam Forrester
A still from The Dawn Chorus captured in Brighton, A still from The Dawn Chorus captured in Brighton, UK by the talented @alex_kozobolis. Film is now streaming free worldwide thru July 19 via @dceff_org at link in bio. . “i forgot how to use a zoom recorder and experienced retrospective humiliation + i forgot how to use a thermos and subsequently scolding my lip on molten tea, witnessed pain.. those aside .. what i think i enjoyed the most was having a tangible excuse to stand still for a long amount of time- I felt like i began to earn the trust of the birds around me the longer i stood still.” -Alex Kozobolis
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