Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....
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@friday said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
LOL.
My husband used to do that to me. Only not with poetry, but with Stephen King. He would get engrossed in a book, get scared, then wake me up.
That's awesome.Yesterday I was going to post in this thread about how I don't do any of that shit. Which I don't. But what I did do was wake her ass up at around midnight by wailing on the front door while covered in mud yelling, "it might have gotten a little interesting out there but I got one motherfucker, I GOT ONE I think! "
What happened was that there was rain but also heavy fog in our area, which seldom happens. So, I snuck out to do some long exposure photography. I found myself near a school and was setting up to take a photo when a cop car rolled in with lights that ruined my exposure. Also, spotlight on me. Apparently I may or may not have been trespassing. So I walked away and hid in a swamp until they left because eff you, 5-0, this is gonna be a good photo, I just need you to get the hell away from here so I can take it. After they drove off I took the photo, but they were driving back (more aggressively) when I was wrapping up so I felt it was a good time to leave, very quickly.
To state the most obvious thing you'll hear today, my wife puts up with a lot.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@mik said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
That's great.
By the way, have yo read King's latest, Later, yet?
I've not! It's a crime story, right?
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@mik said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
Not sure, but it has that True Detective vibe to it. I'm about due for a good King read.
I love his "Hard Case Crime" books. After I read The Colorado Kid, I was hooked. I queued this one up, too.
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Stephen King - is he like an American J.K. Rowling?
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@aqua-letifer said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
After they drove off I took the photo
Can we see it?
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@doctor-phibes said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
is he like an American J.K. Rowling?
More like Clive Barker.
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@catseye3 said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
@aqua-letifer said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
After they drove off I took the photo
Can we see it?
I took a handful, but this is the one I had to go back for.
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Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
Oh, my sainted aunt. That is so fabulous that words fail me.
Can you blow it up and hang it someplace?
Yeah, after the world stops, y'know, ending, I'm going to compile all the ones I took in the past year and probably put a book together. Not to sell or anything, just because I want to keep 'em.
I think you've got serious, and I mean serious chops as a photographer.
Yeah, I don't know about that.
But I do practice a lot and try to get better.I really liked photography in high school, but no one ever told me to pay attention to the things you like as a kid because they're actually important. Took me decades to look into it again, when I worked with a guy who was doing some fun things with editing his negatives using Nuke and Photoshop. I figured hell, I used to know how a camera works, I guess I can try to get into it again.
So I'm keeping it light, just having fun with it, doing whatever I feel like. Trying not to take it too seriously.
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@aqua-letifer said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
@friday said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
LOL.
My husband used to do that to me. Only not with poetry, but with Stephen King. He would get engrossed in a book, get scared, then wake me up.
That's awesome.Yesterday I was going to post in this thread about how I don't do any of that shit. Which I don't. But what I did do was wake her ass up at around midnight by wailing on the front door while covered in mud yelling, "it might have gotten a little interesting out there but I got one motherfucker, I GOT ONE I think! "
What happened was that there was rain but also heavy fog in our area, which seldom happens. So, I snuck out to do some long exposure photography. I found myself near a school and was setting up to take a photo when a cop car rolled in with lights that ruined my exposure. Also, spotlight on me. Apparently I may or may not have been trespassing. So I walked away and hid in a swamp until they left because eff you, 5-0, this is gonna be a good photo, I just need you to get the hell away from here so I can take it. After they drove off I took the photo, but they were driving back (more aggressively) when I was wrapping up so I felt it was a good time to leave, very quickly.
To state the most obvious thing you'll hear today, my wife puts up with a lot.
Son, when I was your age, I may have woke my wife up by wailing on the front door, but I damn sure wasn't covered in mud...
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@jolly said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
Son, when I was your age, I may have woke my wife up by wailing on the front door, but I damn sure wasn't covered in mud...
Nerds forge a different path I guess.
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Aqua, I urge you to acknowledge, if only to yourself, that you are creating something important. You may describe it as having fun, but I think your photos deserve more.
We have all suffered very much for what seems like forever, and are suffering still. We are in a time of celebration of infamy: hate, dishonor, sneering, men stalking the streets venting their violence, and other men and women battening on ugly divisiveness for their own gain, with deliberate indifference toward others. A population that is alarmingly ignorant of where they live, and greatly unprepared for the consequences thereof. And of course, sickness, sickness everywhere. We are so tired -- more than that, we are weary.
People need sources of joy, if only fleeting. To come upon a picture of a man gazing upward in wonder at a magnificent, unique creation like this tree can be a balm on the soul that far outweighs the moment of the picture itself. In these heavy days, such a moment can give respite to a mind, a soul -- even a life.
But no pressure.
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Well, the problem is, I don't take photos to take on more responsibility—the whole point is that I can use photography to shirk my present responsibilities.
But if people like what I'm doing and they get something positive out of it I think that's really cool.
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@aqua-letifer great picture
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There's a lot of truth to what Cats is saying. I felt like you and the tree were having a nice conversation, and it made me happy to see it. Thanks for sharing it. -
@friday said in Hey Aqua - pro marriage tip....:
@aqua-letifer
There's a lot of truth to what Cats is saying. I felt like you and the tree were having a nice conversation, and it made me happy to see it. Thanks for sharing it.+1 Tree and Man Have a Conversation
That how I saw it. Very frame worthy, too.
