Brad Pitt and I share the exact same birthday (month, day, year) outside of that, our stories diverge considerably. Mr. Pitt went on to become an internationally famous superstar, while I have led the much more interesting life of the starving artist. I come from a long line of storytellers (whose gift for gab stretches back through the mists of time to our native Ireland) and professional malcontents who were seemingly born to create something in the arts, be it music, writing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I started writing at age 12 with a screenplay with my cousin Ryan about a planet where everyone looked like Elton John entitled "Don't I Know You?" More screenplays followed, several of which received epic Super-8 production with budgets that sometimes ran up to $10. A few even had sound!  More writing followed: songs, poems, short stories, numerous unfinished novels, etc.. Somewhere in there was an attempt at being a rock star...
Still living at home, at age 22, my father dropped an elderly Nikromatt 35-mm film camera into my lap, in the hopes that I would "make a go of it" as a photojournalist. That didn't happen, but I did develop an abiding love of photography that along with writing and archival work have been among the chief passions of my life. When it comes to my photography, I try to be as creative as possible while at the same time striving for a documentary/archival quality. The only set rules I adhere to, when it comes to making pictures are: 1.) Try not to make the picture blurry, and 2.) Don't drop the camera.
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Comments (13)
whaleman
This is a classic view, and more interesting because of the proximity to Dana's upload with a similar perspective on a lighthouse (uploaded a few photos after yours). I always enjoy it when unrelated people by happenstance upload photos that seem to be related. Yours is well done too! Gotta watch them curbs! I know how you feel; to borrow a line from a Garth Brooks song, "I'm much too young to feel this damn old!"
beachzz
Oh boy, I just wish I'd thought of that title first!! This is a GREAT shot--but I'm so sorry to hear about your various sore spots. I have a knee that lets me know loud and clear when it's not happy.
durleybeachbum
They say middle age isn't for wimps! I've recently come to realise why earlier generations used to have 'complaints' rather than conditions or illnesses. There is something engagingly bleak about this pic, and I love the way you have placed everthing in the composition.
flavia49
excellent capture!!
jmb007
beau point de vue!!
Meisiekind
Oh dear Corey - I find myself everyday saying something like "growing old is not for sissys..."... Sorry about your injuries and that you didn't feel well! I had a good giggle about your struggle for a title!!! It is a lovely image with great depth!
sandra46
very interesting POV, i like the effect of the horizon and the verticality of the pier. I'm sorry for your helath ptoblems, but i'm getting old too, and i believ that one should love oneself even more than usual if we want to laugh in old age's face...
Miska7
Very nice scene and POV. Great shot!
Chipka
This has an odd intensity to it that I like quite a lot! It's a calm shot, with no tempestuous stuff going on in it, but still...there's a sense of the dramatic. I think it's in your POV and in the limited colors in the picture itself. At any rate, it's a brilliant piece of work that really makes striking impact! It's stark and a bleak--just the way I like stuff from time to time, and well...it definitely captures the not-exactly-warm nature of Lake Michigan in the spring. I like this a lot!
auntietk
The navigational hazard marker Helps you see when it gets darker It lights the way of Nosy Parker And noisy puppies known as barkers You're right ... it's not easy! LOL!
myrrhluz
I'm very sorry to hear about your fall. It's amazing the long memories that knees have. My sister's remember a less than sober night on the shoulders of a guy wearing roller skates. It when downhill fast from there. Mine remember jumping off a wall onto a slope, avoiding a guy with his arms out, and landing ignominiously at his feet after bending in a rather novel way. Excellent simplicity of shapes, cool gray and blue of the ocean and concrete, and red of the posts and marker. I like that they recede in the distance to a standing figure, very considerately wearing black and the hints of red on the posts leading down to the larger area of red at the end. Great image and title!
KatesFriend
Well, I'm very sorry you got hurt. Not familiar with knee injuries, though I do suffer from kidney stones. Equally chronic and worse than labour - so my mother tells me. It's a lovely shot though. A nice tranquil mixing of blue and gray colours. I've never seen such markers at my end of the Great Lakes. Though our navigation rules are rather different.
kgb224
It is certainly a problem when one had injuries in ones younger days.One does feel it when you get older.