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big pile of garbage in the woods behind my dad's house in Chiefland, FL.





a place for someone to sit and observe the garbage, or maybe just enjoy a beer in the presence of the garbage...who am I to judge, I am out there taking pictures of the garbage


the rottweiler who barked at me all the time I was taking pictures of the garbage


the photographer, indulging in self-validation, even amongst the garbage


some pretty fungus


trees


We went to Manatee Springs that day and I didn't get any terribly interesting shots, so I turned them into these 1970s looking high contrasty things. They remind of the illustrations from a book of poems that my aunt had when I was a kid. Hippie, nature-y poems to be sure, for she is both. I don't remember the name.




this one I did in a sepia tone, instead




when we got out to the Suwanee River, the sky was alive with vultures, there were hundreds of them...kind of freaky, especially for my folks who are getting up in years, lol


Then even later on that day, we went to Cedar Key. It was foggy.






I have no idea how to take good pictures at night, so again, I had to fool around with them to make them interesting. This is still Cedar Key.






on the new pier - made entirely of steel and concrete, kind of strange


That's my dad on the left.


My daughter and I left the next day and took a side jaunt into Gainesville, but she is in almost all of those. I got some good shots of her, though.

Well, that is my mish-mash of images from last weekend's trip. As disjointed as they are they pretty much summarize the shapes and colors that have been in my head the last few days.

Merry fucking christmas, ya'll!

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dlish

merry fucking christmas to you too MM.

i love the delapidated pier pic.

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Baraka_Guru

These are incredible!

Thanks.

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snowy

I really like the third shot of the Manatee Springs three. It's the kind of photo that allows the imagination to do what it wants with it.

Thanks for sharing these, mixed.

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mixedmedia

Thanks, ya'll.

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kramus

Those high-contrast pics do indeed allow the viewer's mind to wander. And the fungus - made me think that the old log was budding moths. Very cool image, very evocative.
Thanks MM.

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roachboy

i like the tree images in particular. they remind me of my wayward youth, how things would look about an hour after i ate a tab.
also the first new pier image, because it looks like everything does in the snow.
very nice.

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mixedmedia

Thank you.

rb, I've no doubt that such was the inspiration behind the tree images in my aunt's book, as well.
For me, I just wasn't happy unless the images were as distorted as I felt last night.

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Fly

thanks mixed........very nice shots.

oh yeah...........merry fucking christmas to you too.

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Magpie_1

I love your work. My fav photos in this collection are of the garbage in the back woods, the fungous and the broken dock. Can't wait to see some more.

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mixedmedia

Thank you, folks. Merry Christmas.

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Magpie_1

Merry Christmas mixedmedia

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Manic_Skafe

The chair and crate shot is my personal favorite. I love the way it's composed. It's suggestive.

Reminds me a lot of this flickr group.

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Nimetic

These are great. Particularly like the black and white shot of the chair - and also the colour shot of the decomposing pier. Or the sepia one. All very good.

Ice|Burn

I like the grittiness of the first night shot. How everything is in a soft focus (from slow shutter speed and camera movement), it give the image an almost ethereal quality.

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mixedmedia

Thank you!

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guyy

I like the garbage chair and the presence-through-absence effect. I also like the first tree picture because of the texture of the pine needles against the sky.