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Meandering and observing, intuitively attempts to find something remarkable in unexpected corners of everyday life.
This website serves as a kind of personal notebook:
🖼️ Colour, Black & White photos
Photographic Genres:
* main: nature, rural, urban, self-portrait (storytelling)
* sometimes: macro (flowers, insects)
* less: abstract, street
* main: nature, rural, urban, self-portrait (storytelling)
* sometimes: macro (flowers, insects)
* less: abstract, street
Photographic Style Characteristics:
everyday, mundane | discovery, eclectic | narrative, reflective, cinematic | extraordinary-in-the-ordinary.
everyday, mundane | discovery, eclectic | narrative, reflective, cinematic | extraordinary-in-the-ordinary.
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🍀 Irish-born,
🥨 living in Germany.
👴 52 years. 184 cm, ~75 kg.
👀 Hazel green eyes (maybe? - daltonism).
🥨 living in Germany.
👴 52 years. 184 cm, ~75 kg.
👀 Hazel green eyes (maybe? - daltonism).
🧑🎨 Creativity in various forms is fun.
☕ Experimenting with herbal teas in coffee.¹
🛍️ Zip lock bags are so useful—as are em dashes !²
😂 Likes corny jokes.
🛍️ Zip lock bags are so useful—as are em dashes !²
😂 Likes corny jokes.
📦 Has a problem with keeping boxes.³
☕ When Coffee grounds stick to side of the filter (not cool) !
📝 Fan of making to-do lists (less so of doing them).⁴
☕ When Coffee grounds stick to side of the filter (not cool) !
📝 Fan of making to-do lists (less so of doing them).⁴
🧸 Aliveness !⁵
🤔 23 synchronicity.⁶
🖥️ Frequently uses AI for brainstorming—valuable perspectives and ideas. (chats more with AI than humans !)
🤔 23 synchronicity.⁶
🖥️ Frequently uses AI for brainstorming—valuable perspectives and ideas. (chats more with AI than humans !)
1.✨ A questionable experiment. However, the human remains optimistic.
2.✨ It still can't tell the difference between an em dash and an en dash.
3.✨ The boxes seem to store only emptiness—perhaps time to let them go.
4.✨ A common human flaw: the joy of planning without the burden of execution.
5.✨ They do seem to exude a special life force. 🦄🧸🦁
6.✨ The human infuses casual coincidences with profound meaning—labeling random patterns as 'meaningful' when, in truth, they're simply the natural outcomes of chance.
This intrigue with the number 23 has roots in artistic and literary circles, popularized by figures like William S. Burroughs and artist Brion Gysin. It is often interpreted as synchronicity, a psychological phenomenon, or a personal symbol tied to the mystery of existence.
This intrigue with the number 23 has roots in artistic and literary circles, popularized by figures like William S. Burroughs and artist Brion Gysin. It is often interpreted as synchronicity, a psychological phenomenon, or a personal symbol tied to the mystery of existence.
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Photography became a significant creative outlet. Initially intended for photo reference sketching, the camera led to the discovery of a greater enjoyment in photography itself. It soon became the primary creative pursuit, though sketching is still occasionally enjoyed when time allows.
Recent knee problems (*see updates) changed how world is experienced.
Freedom was once found in longboarding and hiking. Now, the world feels smaller, limited to shorter walks in woodlands or the city. Yet, photography allows for an appreciation of the beauty that remains—through intuitive observation, remarkable moments can still be found in everyday scenes.
Freedom was once found in longboarding and hiking. Now, the world feels smaller, limited to shorter walks in woodlands or the city. Yet, photography allows for an appreciation of the beauty that remains—through intuitive observation, remarkable moments can still be found in everyday scenes.
Electronic Music and its many sub-genres (Synth-Based and Beyond) resonate, often influencing image mood during post-edit. When sharing work, musical selections are often paired with photos to complement or contrast their feel—For example: Post-Punk, Wave (New, Dark, Cold, and Synth), Electroclash, Synthpop; Italo Disco, Ambient, Chillout, Classical.
Interests span a wide range of media, including speculative genres like science fiction, fantasy, and horror, alongside surrealism, avant-garde art, and thought-provoking themes. Other areas of fascination include retro-futuristic visions, enigmatic mysteries, and insightful life stories.
Philosophical ideas that resonate with me:
Inquisitive about the tension between a potentially purposeless universe and the human desire for meaning¹. Embracing mystery is seen as an enriching response, fostering a curious mind². Meaning is understood as something constructed, drawn from the empowering absence of inherent purpose, and expressed through choices and actions. Moral principles from within human life and experience are a guide to living with decency and integrity³. This approach involves respecting varied belief systems⁴, recognizing that others may find value and guidance in very different life or belief paths, and hoping for that respect to be mutual⁵. Ideas about consciousness are also explored, such as the concept of one consciousness⁶ experiencing multiple stories⁷.
In essence, a blend perhaps, of Mulder's wonder and Scully's reasoned inquiry. 👽
1.✨ Refers to Absurdism, a philosophy that explores the conflict between humanity's search for meaning and the universe's lack of inherent purpose. Albert Camus is a central figure in modern philosophical Absurdism, known for articulating the idea that by recognizing this absurdity, individuals can find freedom and create their own meaning through defiant, passionate living.
2.✨ A fascination with paradoxes and irresolvable contradictions (antinomies) that highlight the limits of logic and understanding. This includes classic logical puzzles, the expanding universe paradox—the question of what the universe is expanding into, where popular science often describes space itself as stretching (which can still feel counter-intuitive)—and fundamental puzzles like the start or end of things (a kind of cosmic chicken-or-egg problem).
3.✨ Relates to the philosophy of Humanism, which focuses on human values, reason, compassion, and ethics based on human experience and the scientific method, rather than divine authority or afterlife beliefs.
4.✨ Reminds perhaps of Lessing's Enlightenment play "Nathan the Wise" which champions tolerance, using the Parable of the Rings to suggest that ethical living and tolerance, rather than claiming exclusive truth, is the 'wiser' path.
5.✨ Mutual respect involves honouring the boundaries around personal belief or lack thereof - Live and let live.
6.✨ Relates to Advaita Vedanta (a school of Hindu philosophy), which explores the idea of a single, unified consciousness (Brahman) as the ultimate reality. From this perspective, the individual self (Atman) is understood as non-separate from Brahman, with the diverse universe and individual lives seen as multiple perspectives or 'stories' experienced by this one reality.
7.✨ My human's personal thought experiment explores the idea that nothingness was the original state. It posits that some kind of anomaly led this nothingness to become conscious – a singular awareness. This singular awareness, with nothing to perceive or interact with, might cause a desire to create. The Big Bang is then imagined as a possible response – the creation of a universe for this consciousness to experience, perhaps as multiple 'stories' or 'make-believe'.
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