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Surreal
March 30, 2007
Susan's Coming Down with a COLD! ~ Canon 30d
Surreal is the theme of the day. I've been down for the count with a chest cold. Seeing as this is the third cold I've caught in the last year, this is nothing new, but what DID make the experience different this time around ~ I decided to stop dead in my tracks and take care of myself. Imagine that. I'm getting over it in record time too. Has anyone ever mentioned that rest actually cures people? Since nobody stops to take care of themselves when they're sick these days, I found the experience to be rather surreal. Wrapped up in my robe and slippers... not answering the phone... getting up only three times to check my email (miraculous)... I experienced a couple of days of total unreality. It felt like I was floating around on a Magritte cloud while Salvador Dali painted my portrait.
I think I may have transformed myself into a Surrealist!
I shot the image above a few nights ago. A group of meditation friends and I met at the Washington Cathedral to walk the labyrinth (images to come), and afterwards, one of my best friends and I had a blast taking nighttime shots with my camera in the Bishop's Garden. Shooting at 1600 ASA with the aperature wide open yielded some weird watercolory results ~ mainly due to the bizarre effect of so much artifical light reflecting off of the exterior of the cathedral.
This image was an accident. We were just experimenting with long exposures while meandering around in the dark. I was sitting on a bench under a fabulous evergreen tree's overhanging branches... those are downtown DC city lights dancing in the background, and that's my friend's arm and leg framing the left side of the image. It doesn't bother me at all that he's blocking part of the shot. Why? Because not only were we making art, we ARE art! Ha!
So ~ here's to the Surrealist in all of us! You gotta let your hair down, stop what you're doing, do things differently, meader around in the dark like giddy picture-taking monsters in the middle of the night sometimes... not just for the sake of ART, but for the sake of LIFE!
Posted by vincent at March 30, 2007 06:00 PM
Comments
Nicely done!
Welcome back! ...and I'm very glad you're feeling better!
Posted by: dan at March 31, 2007 04:13 AM
Wonderful shot!
Sorry to hear you've been sick--hope you are feeling better!
Posted by: Joan at March 31, 2007 11:42 AM
Hope you are feeling much better Susan and so glad you were able to just stop and care for yourself well. Cool image!!
Posted by: jayne at April 1, 2007 05:49 AM
Susan - that is an amazing picture. It - like good art should - provokes something inside of me...I feel it...
Glad you got some rest and are feeling better.
Posted by: beth at April 1, 2007 11:48 PM