Posts Tagged 'place'

Paris by Night

It’s about time I posted this somewhere else. It’s the fruit of this summer’s obsession with low light photography, time lapse and Paris. I originally intended it to be a souvenir of the four months I spent there, a sort of visual comfort blanket that I hoped might give me that Paris hit while I was wallowing in the murky depths of suburban English life. So far, it’s worked well. Every scene says so much more than a single frame photograph ever could – more than regular speed video even – and I think it’s precisely this intensity that keeps me spellbound when I watch it, even for the thousandth time. More importantly though, it protects my bank balance when all I want to do is jump on the next Eurostar.

Time travel


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Originally uploaded by crumplestiltskin.

It’s one of the sad facts of the fourth dimension that we cannot go back in time. Even if we could, it would be impossible to experience everything as we did at the time, because while things and places may appear the same as they were months or years ago, we are not even the same as we were yesterday.

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to go back to a place you loved, years on? Would it still take your breath away? Or have you changed so much you’d wonder what you ever saw in it in the first place?


Flickr Photos

Nice and easy

Green and orange

Awkward scraping

Paint coming off in sheets

Two inches deep

More dust falls out

And it all falls out

Poke

Appears to be filled with damp plaster dust

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