Unplugged

I finally got the camera cord working again. I had been faithfully snapping pics, but couldn't download them either here or to my Facebook Project 365 photo album, so I found myself silenced and speechless.

As anyone who has spent a quarter of an hour with me will tell you, this is a most unnatural state.

Things have been strange here. My work is sporadic and the bills are piling up. We're having a grey but snowless winter, and the urge to sulk and hibernate has been overwhelming. My normally boundless creative and physical energy has deserted me, and I feel dusty and underused.

Also not typical, and quite uncomfortable.

This project has been a decent motivator over the past few days. Forcing myself to find interesting angles, or looking at everyday objects in new ways, has given me a creative push on days when I'd really rather fall into inertia.

And so, these photos are somewhat abstract and unusual. This first one is of our local library, as seen from the outside. Staff has placed a red plastic film over the windows, presumably to counter the bleaching effects of constant sunlight on their collection. As I peered in, the yellow lights gave the scene a rather chilling effect.



It kinda looks like The Library of East Hades, doesn't it?

This evening, as I drove home from my play rehearsal, I grabbed the camera at a stoplight, rolled down the window and snapped a few photos of the train tracks which run parallel to the highway service road right near my house. I suppose I wasn't entirely stopped, and so the lights near the tracks seem smeared and surreal...