tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84466367854117634102024-03-05T09:28:18.876-07:00Motel Zeroarrowrock photography imagery + robin starfish tales = sage/brushrobinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comBlogger2021125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-51756905924342207342017-08-16T19:56:00.001-06:002017-08-16T19:56:33.314-06:00O<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-87792234318337435952017-07-10T14:22:00.002-06:002017-07-10T14:22:48.320-06:00Silence, Punctuated<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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my grammar teacher</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-35718707337534669692017-04-06T06:15:00.000-06:002017-04-06T06:15:01.112-06:00Adagio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a small rotation<br />the tilt of an afternoon<br />rhythm of the blues</span></div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-54312634258448534882017-02-05T12:42:00.000-07:002017-02-05T12:42:45.506-07:00Translator Station<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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music of the spheres<br />or triangular lyrics</div>
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which do you write first?</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-87741293214363612842017-01-18T00:59:00.001-07:002017-01-18T00:59:59.743-07:00Time Being<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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they stood at the gate<br />as we lifted many stones<br />exit from eden</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-29745512372787634642017-01-13T23:09:00.001-07:002017-01-13T23:09:15.640-07:00Bird | Brain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a bird in one world<br />will recognize another<br />sermon on the mount<br /></div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-47928838195271546112017-01-09T23:03:00.001-07:002017-01-09T23:03:17.375-07:00In Over<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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one long tunnel for corgis<br />storm of the decade</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com2Eagle, ID, USA43.705096144469266 -116.3436269760131843.703661144469265 -116.34614847601318 43.706531144469267 -116.34110547601318tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-57441365870674593562016-12-30T11:36:00.001-07:002016-12-30T11:36:41.630-07:00Glyphism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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the question is not<br />as obvious as it seems<br />this one's in the bag</div>
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when cold and hungry<br />fill your glass with gasoline<br />and glow like gaga</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-80633594755940922182016-12-11T06:15:00.000-07:002016-12-11T06:15:00.872-07:00Veiled<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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snap of fallen twig<br />punctuates our silences<br />a walk in the wood</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-65271259347244166422016-12-07T06:15:00.000-07:002016-12-07T06:15:07.479-07:00Slicers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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at the kitchen sink<br />a flash of inspiration<br />cheese and apple snacks</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-738253777580345802016-12-04T01:23:00.000-07:002016-12-04T01:23:03.967-07:00Body Language<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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handel's messiah</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-55488011832709633592016-12-02T13:09:00.001-07:002016-12-02T13:09:37.685-07:00So If... Never Mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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the experiment<br />caused a sudden explosion<br />exedrin headache</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-63344130529203262412016-11-25T13:25:00.000-07:002016-11-25T13:25:15.679-07:00Title Page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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how stories emerge:</div>
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they stand there and wait for you</div>
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to put on glasses</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-87370328889389995732016-11-24T00:00:00.000-07:002016-11-24T00:00:13.801-07:00Pass the Cranberries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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we share our stories</div>
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like pilgrims and indians</div>
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oops wrong holiday</div>
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the morning after<br />
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i couldn’t wake up<br />
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It had been an extremely long day – up well before sunup for a morning photowalk, shot a wedding in the afternoon, and another photowalk at night. Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walks are always fun so I figured I could do two and still shoot a wedding. <br />
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Of course, after the wedding, the last thing I wanted to do was go out again. But I forced myself to do it anyway, just to hang out with other shooters. I didn’t really care if I shot anything. I was dead on my feet and running on maybe three cylinders, but was happy I went for the good times.</div>
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So I offloaded the photos to Lightroom just to take a look. I pulled this one up into Photoshop and just started fooling around, hoping the wave would hit me soon so I could go to bed. I bent lines, pushed colors out of their assigned zones, and just had fun. I finally hit the wall, saved the file, and hit the sack.</div>
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A few days later I looked at what I’d done and laughed out loud. I picked another image to submit to the Photowalk competition. But before I did, my wife intervened and insisted I submit this one. It took her a long time to convince me. She saw something I couldn’t. Finally, I said ok and off it went.</div>
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It’s real. And it’s a huge lesson to me - that letting down my guard, turning off my internal perfectionist, and just playing for the sheer joy of it really can pay off. It’s liberating! Photography has always been fun for me, but this is a whole new level. So I’m spreading the joy around – here, have some.</div>
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To see all of the top ten winners, as well as the Grand Prize winner – <a href="http://scottkelby.com/announcing-winners-9th-annual-worldwide-photo-walk/">here’s the link</a>. I feel so fortunate to be in such company.</div>
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one at a one at a time<br />
photo assignment</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-89742025182575010422016-11-14T14:21:00.001-07:002016-11-14T14:21:18.699-07:00The Queen In Her Court<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The night of the supermoon was cloudy, so the heralded Moonrise Event was a washout, much to the consternation of local prognosticators. Such a garish entrance would have been bad form for Queen Luna anyway, so she waited until the crowds had dissipated and gone home to sulk. Only then did she part the veil to reveal her glory to the few who lingered.</span></div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-69955646796125879962016-11-09T14:14:00.000-07:002016-11-09T14:14:43.329-07:00Let's Do the Foucault<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The most stunning revelation from yesterday's election wasn't the result. The clues were littered all over the map for anyone who could read the legend. It's not a shock, not a tragedy, not the end of the republic. It's not even unfamiliar territory. We've been here several times before and should be used to our uniquely American mood swings by now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The mighty pendulum that is our political nature has swung high and wide in fairly predictable cycles since the beginning. Why should it stop now? We are a dynamic people, explorers, demanding; we want change all the time. And as a people we are getting what we want this time around, just as we did when Obama first swore his oath of office. And in 4 or 8 years? Well, don't expect this wave to last.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However... it's not the pendulum that matters. It will always swing, as it's designed to do, drawn by agenda, ambition, money, ideals, patriotism, middle finger - whatever the force. But it only functions because of gravity. Gravity always pulls back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In spite of our differences, our common gravity, our American soul, is powerful and magnetic. It's in our music, literature, and art. It's not as invisible as we're led to believe - if we understand the legend. It's our uniting force, yet we sometimes forget it exists. In times of crisis, we discover its flag is still there. Who are your friends? Chances are they're all over the political spectrum. Do you really care when you're hanging out with them, absorbed by a common interest? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are now in a brief period of equilibrium position where gravity wins out. The election is over; that expensive and wild energy is spent. The pendulum has not yet raced up into potentially volatile policies and practices of a new administration. So today, right here, right now, we are blessed with a brief respite from the next period of amplitude. These next few weeks before January 20, 2017 are rare and precious, a period of calm to be appreciated and savored. It's a good time for all Americans to mingle. And we have two major holidays coming to practice just that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Full disclosure - I did not vote for either Clinton or Trump. I just could not ride either's pendulum. I choose gravity, the power of us, not some political savior. Gravity hasn't failed me yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gravity is love. Love is gravity. Let's get our gravity groove on. Let's do the Foucault.</span><br />
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-16055327676134793632015-07-23T06:15:00.000-06:002015-07-23T06:15:00.202-06:00BLUE EGGS<p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dn0AoUqaPa8/VbBwAU_bCHI/AAAAAAAAkTQ/F1rOZT-lYwk/s1600-h/IMG_1322%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="IMG_1322" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="IMG_1322" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ODJbOYe5brU/VbBwBJhcWLI/AAAAAAAAkTY/CJMZMT9sfwE/IMG_1322_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="788" height="788"></a></p> <p> </p> <p><font size="4">Yesterday morning, I held a dying robin in my palm. It had struck the front window and knocked itself unconscious. It struggled for several minutes, heart beating a mile a minute, then slowly faded away. At the last moment it tried to sit up, eyes wide open and staring directly at me, then fell over dead.<br></font></p> <p><font size="4">Its heart was still, body warm. I didn't know what to do so I held it for awhile.<br></font></p> <p><font size="4">Later we went bike riding around the lake, a 20 mile journey. Part of the road was dusty and rough, washboarded. It shook my cheeks and I made funny sounds with my mouth. We had lunch at a lodge on the lakeshore then rode the rest of the way home.<br></font></p> <p><font size="4">That night I experienced visual disturbances, flashing lights along the outer rim of my vision. I swatted at a big black fly that kept flying in front of my face. After a time I realized it wasn't a fly, but a floater in my own eyeball. <br></font></p> <p><font size="4">The aberrations worsened so today we called the opthamologist and managed an appointment. I feared the worst, a detached retina. He said I had done the right thing in coming in. My retina was fine but I had experienced a large vitreous detachment and a potential small retinal tear, causing the symptoms. I am to watch it for a couple weeks. It may either resolve or not. I'll know if the black flies multiply and swarm.<br></font></p> <p><font size="4">Tonight I retrieved a phone message from a woman requesting me for a photo shoot. Her name was Robin. I called back and accepted the assignment. Her voice was strong and warm.</font></p> robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-56435135553909658692015-05-25T00:00:00.000-06:002015-05-25T00:00:03.403-06:00Reflection<p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cVqliBdIEXw/VWK2cYG5YLI/AAAAAAAAkRA/miRS3A_USgQ/s1600-h/_DCJ7513%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="_DCJ7513" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="_DCJ7513" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uZh21XoP0SY/VWK2dEN-3oI/AAAAAAAAkRI/l6huZNLNrYQ/_DCJ7513_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="1044" height="532"></a></p> <p align="center">soundlessly standing <br>at eternal attention <br>faces wet with rain</p> robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-87075881774632243692015-05-22T06:15:00.000-06:002015-05-22T06:15:00.090-06:00Wax On (Wax Off)<p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LM5yGEaErQs/VV7IAyoZ6MI/AAAAAAAAkQo/lbNNCMFo9u8/s1600-h/_DCJ1615%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="_DCJ1615" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="_DCJ1615" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JpSTjFtunmg/VV7IBTQuKNI/AAAAAAAAkQw/7Bbja5SgInE/_DCJ1615_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="1044" height="704"></a></p> <p align="center">my familiar moon <br>keeps asking the same question <br>parlez vous sensei?</p> robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-32461060256166179922015-05-14T10:43:00.001-06:002015-05-14T10:45:58.421-06:00Smack<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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can you help me please <br />I’m searching for a princess <br />timeless fairy tale</div>
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robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446636785411763410.post-6662989998673314782015-05-08T06:15:00.000-06:002015-05-08T06:15:00.152-06:00Flirt<p><a href="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mexMPomVI9g/VUxByvEgL5I/AAAAAAAAkPQ/r0FJ-PpKFao/s1600-h/CRJO2849-2%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img title="CRJO2849-2" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="CRJO2849-2" src="http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aQ8aI-e7vcE/VUxBzSvJZNI/AAAAAAAAkPY/Rm1frA57O2Y/CRJO2849-2_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="770" height="770"></a></p> <p align="center">she bats her lashes <br>and all the boys come running <br>the birds and the bees</p> robinstarfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com6