Update: though no longer available for blog access, the awesome photo from above can still be seen via direct link here:
Oakleafmold loves flickr, a massive online repository of photography and other imagery into which I could dive for hours at a time, rising for breath only occasionally, like a whale or sea lion, before plunging again. Tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of user/contributors have uploaded millions of images, a cornucopia visual art, from traditional realism to super-experimental, from family vacation photos to elaborately staged and painstakingly executed professional photography. Rough or slick, traditional or digitally manipulated, silly or sexy, amateur or pro, haughty or unassuming: there is something for everyone--and quite a lot for me. A person could learn a lot about photography just roaming around here.
My Big Flickr Adventures do not claim to represent the best and brightest work available here, but are rather a reflection of a particular moment's meandering. It's an impulsive thing--and since it's my blog, that's just the way it's supposed to be. Likewise, any commentary I include is, of course, unlearned and amateur. I have neither the eye nor the vocabulary to critique photography, but I do happen to be self-aware enough to recognize when I admire a photo, when it moves me, makes me grin, or--best of all--makes me wish I'd shot it. (not that I could).
I like this one for a lot of reasons--the depth of field, the lighting, the intimacy of an otherwise unremarkable action, buckling the strap on a pair of shoes.
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