LIP Goldsmith group on Urban PHotography

Tuesday, starts a new collaboration, between Goldsmith students and professors interested in Urban photography, and the Greenwich's London Independent Photographers.

I look forward to it and I am sure will learn a lot from that collaboration.

Already, I look different at some of my photos I have taken lately in Depford, wich is the area that fascinates me most around here.

I went there first because my daughter in law went with a photo--class from Greenwich, to the market of Depford's High Street, then as directed by John, leader of our Greenwich Lip, on a weekend photowalk. I went back alone, and with Rachel and then Rachel and her husband again, and again.

Each time, the same streets offer me new insights and bring me new stories.

So important to dream

If one looks at this picture, one can see the children, living in a huge house, near a bridge, but then also the water, who goes far and in the dream they take the boat like so many did before and travel far.

Or, in their dream, they are their parents or grand partents who did arrive, there, but no more cut, the image and the dream link the far away place and here now together.

Part of the Depford wall where I go back, again and again.

Click on the image if you want to see it in more detail, on my flickr there is also a panorama of the whole wall, and one can see, in large size, the details part by part too. So much is expressed on that wall!

Looking down this morning

It did snow a little the night, but some have already departed to work, as I looked down this morning.

Others can be a lot more courageous, be better equiped also then me for a bit of winter and a little snow, but I have to admit, I did not dare to go out.

I intended to go to my Toasmasters meeting yesterday, but my calf was hurting, so I did not dare.

I knew that taking more then two hours photos while strolling is all I can take, but did not imagine that three hours standing, without moving could be worse.

I learned now, and the leg will be better with time - I hope.

Matt Weinstein: Video on TED.com

Matt Weinstein: What Bernie Madoff couldn't steal from me | Video on TED.com


Let us make the most of every oportunity.

"people are not disturbed by things but by how people react to them

we cannot choose our external circomstances but we can choose how we react to them"

it was true 2000 years ago and it is true today too, so finally a speech can let us see another side of our own story, or someone else's, can also help others see it differently, and thus we can "make a lemonade out of a lemon"

epictetus

Videos on YouTube: Tuna Univ. Granada

Videos on YouTube: Till now, I did succeed to put four or five of the videos on it, here are the last two. Those are the people who before and after the spectacle were happy to pose and even sing for me, and happy if I put the spectacle on web.
 

Granada granada

I took lots of videos the 19th December in Granada, and do ot know what to do with them. My new program, makes a great video of them, even the sound is better, but so big, huge, that I cannot upload it to show.

So I put up some of the images from the evening, and did try to upload a partial video, and it went so slowly theat all the morning got up only about 15 percent of all.

Ok, I'll have to find something else or another program that makes thinner videos. Or just put them on, one by one.

Did I already show here any of them?

Probably, the first I uploaded.


Here is at least a slidshow of the last uploaded images from that day.

Snow in the courtyard

On the tree, the fir, it is beautiful, but on the ground alas, icy.

So I try to go out for the moment the minimum I need. This morning my family helped to make provisions for a few days ahead, so other then helping out with the children there is nothing very urgent to push me out of the door.

For the moment, other then my couryard, and even that is quite icy, I did not feel the impulse to go out alone.

I have thought, lately, that I feel just, if I have the disadvantage of age, at least have some of the advantages too. But each thinks differently, of course. We could have at least accept each others point of view... I belive.