Day 77

Title: The "Been There" Bush

"You've used 1% of your 100 MB limit this month - that leaves 99.08 MB." -Flickr

I organize my daily photos into monthly folders. Within each monthly folder there are 30 or 31 subfolders named numbers N through N+30 or N+31, and each of these contains anywhere between a minimum of 1 photo up to a theoretical maximum of ∞, but more realistically around 200, given the amount of photos I took that day. Folder 77 looks really lonely, especially when compared to folder 76 which is accompanied by 29 others. But soon 77 too will be lost in the crowd; a crowd that will also contain the folder that will mark the completion of twenty seventy-thirds of the first year of this project.

Summary: Start of a new month. Day 100 will occur this month (100/365 = 20/73).

I'm not particularly attached to this photo itself, though I do like it. Anybody willing to climb through spiderwebed bushes could have taken this photo (but then again, anybody could have taken any other photo I've ever taken. This is not a unique artform. I suppose that's why I've been told before that however much you eff up your photos during post-production, they make them more unique to you. Anybody could have pointed their lens at these flowers from this angle, but would they have attempted to achieve a medium depth of field so as to capture some of the bridge details? Would they have created the same contrast, color bal....this is a stupid tangent. I'm going to end it now.), but it's the area I was in that was slightly significant.

I've been reading this guy's blog a lot lately, and the variety of scenes he is able to capture astonishes me. He often talks about how many of his photos are taken while walking to and from work, and he will occasionally take new, different, or unfamiliar paths through the large city of Vienna to find these new, different, or unfamiliar scenes (or at least that's the information I have gleaned from his posts). My action space (a topic for another post) is really quite limited, and I rarely leave the beaten path. When going home from work today, I decided to change that.

Then I realized that Boulder is a pretty small, straightforward city, and I only live 2.5 miles from work. Instead of taken Canyon home, I took Arapaho. Lotty-fucking-da. I gave up on my search for unexplored territory and dove into the familiar Creek Path to get home. When I got about parallel with Folsom Field, I realized that the fire I had taken a picture of a few days ago had occurred right there and I thought it'd be cool to take an "after" shot. It turns out that the fire only took up a space of about 10'x10'. None too spectacular.

But what was spectacular was the dirt road it was on. I never knew that it existed. Oh my god, did I just find undiscovered territory? I think I did. Nothing too exciting, I mean it was just Creek Path II, The Southside, but it was densely(ish) forested and you could barely if at all see the actual path on the other side of the creek. I took a bunch of pictures in this area (none of the lame burn site), road my bike joyously along the dirt path, smelled the pine trees, and sweated a lot, but when don't I do that? I ended up taking the dirt path for probably a quarter mile or so until it abruptly ended in a random corner of a random parking lot behind the Dal Ward Center. Word.

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With the smell of citronella and Macanudos blending into one, we sat and talked for hours without realizing that any time had passed. A friendship has solidified for all time. Brotherhood cannot be forced, it just is. I may not ever know another man like this, and I regrettably yet anticipatively must wait to meet him again in the future.

Interesting how the moonless sky was able to fill my car with light through the open sunroof; fill it almost as full as it was with my singing. Song: Where Is My Mind? as sung by M.I.A. in her slight cover of it entitled 20 Dollar.


You know Untitled Track Number 3 on Panda Bear's album Young Prayer?

No? (It's times like these that I wish I could upload music onto here, but apparently you have to pay for it and I'm a stingy bastard.)

Well then you should hear it (download Azureus, go to isoHunt, search for it (or just click here), download it, listen to it) because that's how I felt today.