For those who also follow Andrew’s blog, this is not nearly as sublime as his image of the same name. Actually, I am almost embarrassed to share it after you have seen his image. If you didn’t click to see it, please do so….I’ll wait…….
So, this was seen as I was culling images from last Sunday while preparing to archive. I am usually fairly aware of my surroundings, but somehow I missed this snowy fellow who was keeping an eye on me while I shot. I once called the town to see if it was OK to photograph on posted water supply lands. The super told me not only was it OK, but they appreciated my going there as I was their eyes and ears. Well, I apparently am not the only pair of eyes at Dean Brook.
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Steve, you are over generous. Thank you. I love these shots of yours and this is no exception.
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Just telling it like it is, Andrew. Thanks! 🙂
Bonny Voyage.
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I wonder what she and the others are looking up toward.
Nice teeth on that fellow.
You are eyes and ears. Good. I get that sort of designation by being a weather spotter. Radar can’t see what is happening on the ground. Our reports give some ground truth to their images.
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It is a music venue, so maybe she is imagining the program to follow.
Just out of the picture at the upper left is all that remains of a mill. A tall stone chimney and some concrete supports. People camp there at times which is illegal as the brook feeds into one of the town’s water supply reservoirs. I was there early one day several years ago when a camper rose and relieved himself into the brook in plain view…as a matter of fact he saw me and I think was proud of the act. I guess he believed that dilution is the solution to pollution. I have no idea the outcome of my call. It was before cell phones so had to wait until I got home.
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I like your “dilution is the solution to pollution.” Did the camper follow up with an ablution?
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I didn’t keep watching him once I realized what was happening, Steve. Bit of a prude, I guess. I am not sure I would want to take a dip in water that I had just polluted, but maybe he did.
I’ve a bit of a gross story about that, so tender readers look away.
Many years ago, I knew a less that bright individual (the idiot son of a former employer) who spent the winter in a cabin in Vermont with a bunch of friends. There was no plumbing, so they did what they had to do in a snowbank upstream from the cabin. In the Spring they all got quite sick as they got their water from the stream. He seemed rather proud, as if it was a badge of honor or something..
That saying obviously did not help them. I learned it while taking an environmental conservation class years ago. It is a saying that polluters used as an excuse for dumping.
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Ha-ha. A good one Steve. Andrew is quite the looker in the photo. Big wide grin and eyes wide open. You should make a crop of the “face” and post that as well.. Excellent find.
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I wasn’t thinking that was Andrew watching me, but maybe…. 🙂
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Steve, these just get better and better 🙂
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Thanks, Lottie. That is really it now for last Sunday. 🙂 But tomorrow is Sunday and I just might go out in the cold again. Snow on Monday.
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I feel silly, Steve~ I don’t see a face. The photo is grand, though, and I’m glad you get to be the eyes of the place. That is important.
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I looked for a while too, and I finally found a stylized face in the upper right. It’s a wide face with a dark open mouth, between the tree farthest to the right and the broad trunk to its left.
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Oh, ok, in the roots? I wondered whether that was it.
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In the roots is where I take it to be, but the photographer has yet to confirm that.
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Bingo.
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Well, Steve showed you the face, so I’ll just say thank you for the kind comment, Melissa.
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I was looking for a creature like a rabbit or fox at first. Then, I decided you were being more playful — that’s when I spotted the alligator. Nice teeth!
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You and, I think, Jim are seeing something that I am not. But with something like this that is open to interpretation why not? As Steve S mentions above, the face is the combination of snow and roots near the upper left corner.
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The left left something to be desired, and you meant the upper right, right?
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Yeah, my other left. 🙂
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(In multiplying,) two negatives make a positive, so maybe two lefts make a right. That would set things aright.
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Actually, three lefts make a right.
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Sorry….as Steve points out below, and in his earlier comment, it’s on the right.
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Sheesh. I’m on a roll…as Steve points out above.
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You make a good point, at least on a flat surface.
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“‘Tis flattery makes the world go ’round’.” (Shakespeare had to have said that. If he didn’t, he should have.)
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In The Journal of Delinquency, v.7, 1922, I found this multiple-choice question:
Flattery is the food of fools, means
It is foolish to do everything anybody tells you to
Praise and flattery make the world go round
Don’t believe all the praise you get
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That fellow looks a little chilled.
Another fine image Steve.
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I think his grimace froze that way from making the face too often, Rod. Just like his momma said it would. 🙂
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I was never very good at either ‘Where’s Waldo’ or ‘I Spy’ and even the back-and-forth with Melissa hasn’t helped … I still don’t see the face. That doesn’t detract from this nice image however. I also liked the stories embedded in the many comments above.
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Thanks, David. In the upper right (Yay, I got right right) there are three trees. Look between the large one in the middle and the thinner one on the right. The face lloks as if it has an arm wrapped around the larger tree.
Did you also click on the link to Andrew’s image?
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Oh … yup … there is it … thanks for the assistance. Yes, I did look at Andrew’s image and thought that it was full of emotion. I like photos other folks take of people. Although I appreciate and like these images very much, I don’t see myself in any way a photographer of people. Isn’t that funny? People are certainly terrific subjects but not one that I’m comfortable with. I should drop in to Andrew’s site again and LIKE that photo.
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Please do. Andrew is a very good street photographer. Like you, it is not anything I have a desire to do. His most recent posts have had some very nice images from the inside of a temple in Hong Kong. Take a scroll through his posts.
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I’ve done so. He certainly lives in a very different part of the world, with very different scenery, than I am used to!
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He just left Hong Kong to live in the UK. I will, along with all his followers, miss his posts from there. The one you saw was from a trip to Italy.
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I went to Andrew’s and could find no way of locating the original post in which that image appeared originally.
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Sorry…. https://ajh57.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/around-st-marks-monochrome-evening-shoot/
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Thanks. I’ve been there and back. Really nice shot.
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