Timeworn trail marking passages of time and travel...
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
1/25/15
1/9/15
9/2/13
4/15/13
Depot In Gloaming
Labels:
abandoned,
arizona,
depot,
desert,
end of an era,
high power lines,
jet,
JR Snyder Jr,
mobile photography,
phoenix,
poles,
railroad,
southwest,
stone,
sunset,
time,
train,
vignette,
visual art,
warehouse
1/19/13
Adventuring Sorrow Road
Blue buckled and weary expedition...
Adventuring sorrow road
blue buckled and weary,
expedition to mountains
earthly, ghostly, bleary.
Harrowing sadness 'til furrowed
rugged path paved sagely,
wagoneering mesas and canyons
dodgly, deftly, gamely.
Traversing time eases load
memories rich in bronzy,
making the way not so blacken
dusky, loamy, calmly.
Adventuring sorrow road
blue buckled and weary,
expedition to mountains
earthly, ghostly, bleary.
Harrowing sadness 'til furrowed
rugged path paved sagely,
wagoneering mesas and canyons
dodgly, deftly, gamely.
Traversing time eases load
memories rich in bronzy,
making the way not so blacken
dusky, loamy, calmly.
Labels:
arizona,
clouds,
desert southwest,
grief,
healing,
high desert,
Hwy 69,
JR Snyder Jr,
mobile photography,
mountains,
phoenix,
poetry,
prescott,
sky,
sorrow,
time,
verse,
visual art,
writing
12/15/11
11/24/11
Trains Gone By
Labels:
arizona,
clouds,
desert,
everest,
gravel,
history,
hotel,
journey,
JR Snyder Jr,
memories,
new mexico,
photography,
postcard,
sepia,
southwest,
spokane,
time,
tracks,
train,
washington
11/5/11
Sometimes What We're Seeing
Isn't what is really happening at all...
Perception is not reality since there is obscurity in motion.
It's interesting how the human eye and mind capture what is happening around us and makes sense out of it when we are in motion and the objects around us are simultaneously in motion. The camera operates in stop motion, what you record in that millisecond is the fact that is happening at that brief moment in time. As we're driving in one direction the car speeding by in the opposite direction is presented in such clarity we may instantly recognize the make, model and year.

Photographic equipment doesn't have a complex network with the capacity to sort out all the components of the image it sees and grasp the full meaning as the human brain does. It is a piece of technical equipment that merely observes and records that instant what exactly appears to the digits that compose the picture. If the camera is in motion when the shutter is snapped it archives a methodical perception rather than one that deciphers and makes sense of it in human reality. We can alter the picture afterwards to another valuation but it is remains the original capture reorganized by manual intervention for a different comprehension.
Perhaps sometimes I do think too much. This observation about what human consciousness perceives and cognitively reorganizes what the eye intakes, along with our other senses and reorders it in a highly developed recognizable form makes me wonder about common phrases. For example "Perception is reality" and "It is what it is." If a piece of technical equipment states what is in front of us in a "real" way and our highly developed brain perceives it in a logical order that makes sense to us it seems to me these phrases are inane.
Perception is not reality since there is obscurity in motion.
It's interesting how the human eye and mind capture what is happening around us and makes sense out of it when we are in motion and the objects around us are simultaneously in motion. The camera operates in stop motion, what you record in that millisecond is the fact that is happening at that brief moment in time. As we're driving in one direction the car speeding by in the opposite direction is presented in such clarity we may instantly recognize the make, model and year.

While we're chasing that bus we had wanted to catch that has pulled away from the bus stop our minds are racing and thinking "there goes my bus!" Although are thoughts are likely muddled the image of the bus appears in our minds eye with absolute clarity. We may be in a state of panic, our hearts racing and our thinking illogical but the image of that bus is clear in our head.
Photographic equipment doesn't have a complex network with the capacity to sort out all the components of the image it sees and grasp the full meaning as the human brain does. It is a piece of technical equipment that merely observes and records that instant what exactly appears to the digits that compose the picture. If the camera is in motion when the shutter is snapped it archives a methodical perception rather than one that deciphers and makes sense of it in human reality. We can alter the picture afterwards to another valuation but it is remains the original capture reorganized by manual intervention for a different comprehension.
Perhaps sometimes I do think too much. This observation about what human consciousness perceives and cognitively reorganizes what the eye intakes, along with our other senses and reorders it in a highly developed recognizable form makes me wonder about common phrases. For example "Perception is reality" and "It is what it is." If a piece of technical equipment states what is in front of us in a "real" way and our highly developed brain perceives it in a logical order that makes sense to us it seems to me these phrases are inane.
Labels:
arizona,
black and white,
blur,
brain,
bus,
camera,
cars,
color,
human,
image,
JR Snyder Jr,
motion,
obscurity,
perception,
phoenix,
photography,
reality,
sight,
time,
traffic
10/14/11
9/21/11
Oh!
Labels:
abandoned,
auto,
clouds,
Continental Divide,
desert,
Dodge,
gas,
guzzler,
JR Snyder Jr,
lost,
Made in America,
new mexico,
sixties,
sky,
southwest,
time
8/16/11
Light Rail Blues
Labels:
arizona,
heat,
JR Snyder Jr,
light,
light rail,
morning,
people,
phoenix,
platform,
reflection,
shadows,
summer,
sun,
time,
tracks,
urban landscape,
waiting,
work
10/19/10
Quote of the Day: Horace Mann
Time is gone forever, never to return...
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, because they are gone forever."
Horace Mann
Educator
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, because they are gone forever."
Horace Mann
Educator
Labels:
Horace Mann,
JR Snyder Jr,
quote,
sunrise,
sunset,
time
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