Moving On

I like the Lamp Post Climber!

Armadillos.....

Back Yard.....Hints of Fall in the air down by the creek.

COVID FREE PHOTOG RA FEE. Crusin’ the fields, creeks, hills, and hollows in the cool, clear air of the Ozarks. Life is Good.

Pentax ME Super. My original “River Camera”. I fashioned a .50 cal. ammo can into a waterproof case with a small brass chain for securing it in the canoe, spray painted silver, some 40 years ago. Still have it. If you look closely under the canoe bow left of the left bucket you’ll see it.

"It's really an anti-American song," Mellencamp told Rolling Stone about "Pink Houses." "The American dream had pretty much proven itself as not working anymore. It was another way for me to sneak something in." So you see, you didn’t need the emoji...... All kinds of Bigots out there.

Review record employment demographics..... Review Prison Reform. Hardly indicative of any policy espoused by any white supremacist I’ve ever witnessed. However, if you look at the homeless demographic and numbers in California......Hmmmmm Washington, D.C., ranks first, followed by New York, Hawaii and California.

I don’t think the CHAD, CHOP, or violent destruction comes to the level of a National rise of Nazism. But their tactics are certainly fascist in nature......

Perhaps a cursory review of General Patton is in order........ Or maybe the contribution of the productivity of that generation’s engineers, GIs, nurses, farmers, and taxpayers. Individuals all.

Perhaps the “German Collective“, eh Sam......;)

No, I call it a reply to your assertion of Doom in the context of this conversation, documentary photography. Plenty of that of late. It isn’t “demographic“ trait, it is documentary photography. In fact most of the documentary photographic evidence I have seen of rioting and violence is anything but stereotypical. And It didn’t take a Federal top down funding program to produce the excellent documentary photographs...... Most of it is definitely bottom up.

“......you either can't or aren't willing to commit to a specific connection of top down and bottom up to the examples I gave or the photo I posted and in what way top down bottom up means anything of significance here.” I’ll spell it out for you then..... NAZIS, TOP DOWN. AMERICAN RESOLVE TO DEFEAT THEM, BOTTOM UP.

Well that didn’t take long..... Note the documentary photography from those cities congruent with your posted pessimism. Simple cause and effect.

I expect living in S.F., L.A., Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Kenosha will do that...... You have my sympathy.

The context is clear. Read the last couple of posts again. You are entitled to your utopian propaganda...... You wear it well. But I know better.

Bottom up vs top down.......

I expect so...... Little Pink Houses and such.

Look closer......

Concerning the leaky part... Human struggle is integral to every human life. It is what results from an intentional determination to contend with Chaos. It begins with the struggle from the womb. It nourishes change as well as preservation. It is the very lifeblood of any successful venture. The occasions when human struggle ends in tragedy, more often than not, are due to a measure of complacency, and far outnumbered by the successes. My time here has led me to believe that on balance, the efforts of the individual far exceed in good and beneficial effect upon the collective, that of the collective upon the individual. The former being prone to promote Life and Liberty, the latter to Death and Enslavement. Simply put, the responsibility is my own. Photographs that remind me of that are appreciated. And for the second part, high bars make high jumpers.....;)

Man, that is a BIG place...... Second the “Thanks”. Easy to navigate as well.

This place suits my personal time constraints.....;)

Excellent

I expect you can go to any country at any time and photograph the best of times and the worst of times. I expect Dickens was well aware of this. Life is perpetual, even universal, ebb and flow.

“It’s up to us to record this history in a way that future historical revisionism can’t deny.” I don’t think pictures like this particular image are any great salvation from “revisionism”. Nothing to revise in this case. It is really quite ambiguous in that respect. Lots of folks these days seem to overvalue the social impact of street photographs simply because they show what could be interpreted as social or political commentary. This particular photograph could have been taken at almost any time or place. I see it more as a comment on the very common trait of humans to age and reflect. Not some social or political documentation. Human struggle is seldom tragic in any proportional sense, and certainly not in every photograph that might be presented as such.