In this brief video, I read the entry titled "Crisis" from David Whyte's book "Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words" and reflect on our natural, human need for control in this time of pandemic.
The Present Moment /
“If you abandon all restraint, carry your wishes to their fullest limits, open your heart boundlessly, there is not a single moment when you will not find all you could possibly desire. The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.”
Words and phrases that must be expunged from my speech /
Actually
I think
In fact
It turns out
Just
Kind of
Like
Literally
Quite
Really
So
Sort of
Um
Very
You know
Instagram Diptychs /
I am beginning to use Instagram again. The plan is to post one image a day over the course of 2020. The one above is of my niece, shot in Gaborone, Botswana, in the summer of 2019. I seem to have fallen in love with diptychs again.
Here’s another pair, shot on or around New Year’s Day in my neighbourhood in Vancouver. I just love the way Portra 400 renders colours. They seem natural and true to how I saw the scenes through the viewfinder.
My daughter has a particular way of looking at me through her left eye that I find simultaneously enigmatic and endearing.
If you’d like to see more diptychs (as well as a few shots of African wildlife), why not follow me on Instagram @photonfantastic.
