State of Mind
State of Mind
Returning from the heavenly summer suspension of real life in New Zealand and landing hard back at work and in a polar vortex left me stunned, and I looked to my camera roll to tell me how, or what, I was feeling.
To my surprise, I found that apparently I wasn’t feeling anything bexcuse I wasn’t shooting anything. I was in a sort of shock I suppose. Eventually I took this picture of the Hudson at a low ebb. In contrast to NZ’s spectacular strong and silent outdoors and not quite ready to face the cacophony of the City head-on, I was drawn the minimal soothing randomness of these old pilings.
In response to the Weekly Photo Challenge
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I had to read the post to know what this was. Interesting photo. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for stopping by, Marie!
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You always share the unusual! And I love it!
Thank you! It’s funny, when this challenge was posted and I scrolled through my camera roll, I saw this photo taken the day I got back to New York. It hit me that it really was about my state of mind; I was really wasn’t looking at the subject matter or documenting where I was. Instead I was just in the neither-here-nor-there no man’s land of the jet lagged — if that makes any sense! 😉
I really like this image a lot- it begs the viewer to just stop and look-and I can imagine after the pastoral beauty of NZ NY is a jolting adjustment😉
You got it in one, Meg! I really couldn’t bear to lift my phone up and take on shooting the city – I was missing the big bold “empty” outdoors. This was a soothing contemplative shot – I’m glad the challenge came up, this really was a state of mind shot without me intending it to be!
I love your old pilings … sensational shot. Your comment ‘NZ’s sensational strong and silent outdoors’ moved me. I hope you had a brilliant time here with and without your camera 😀 ..
Oh we just lapped up every second of NZ – so much so that coming back this time was a hard landing. Fortunately the weather is cooperating this weekend and NYC is winning us back with warm sunshine and fierce street style. Couldn’t be more different than bold and beautiful NZ!
What a stunning image – maybe its about less is more, taking in the feeling rather than physically capturing.
Paintlater – we’ve missed you! Thank you for visiting – and you are absolutely right, this was about the feeling although it took the challenge to make me realize this about my own photo. So glad you’ve stopped by, we’ve been a bit sporadic of late, thanks for sticking with us!
Sometimes life just gets in the way & forgetting my WP password.