I heard a rumor that this was a travel blog. Let’s help that rumor spread!
These pictures are all from an extended road trip I took last summer, I think some of them turned out quite well.
Lense flair & Silhouette! I wish the color had turned out better 😦
A bit different than what I would normally take a picture of…but variety isn’t always a negative.
There is a certain level of loneliness that I enjoy. That is why I like this picture. I haven’t really given it any deep thought, but I like the notion that I could ascribe to it real meaning. Maybe I will sometime.
I am a little surprised how well you can see the movement of the water in this one, it is just a phone camera after all.
Not a perfect reflection, but that really wasn’t the point. I appreciate the picture that I got
I like pictures taken from up high and I like colors; of course I like the picture of the valley with the rainbow
I still find it novel to be above clouds
This one doesn’t feel comfy lonely like the one on the dirt path in the forest, this one feels scary lonely. Intimidating.
I appreciate a good blue hue.
I will tell you something that you may have noticed by now – loneliness is a theme in my writing & pictures. Most of what I write about is still things I enjoy and most of the pictures I share I do so because I think they look cool – but some is usually at least alluding to loneliness. There isn’t really a lot to read into there.
I’m trying to make a scenario for a game I play. It is going to be based on a book series that I rather enjoy – Throne of Glass. Essentially one player will be an assassin, the main character of the series, and they will be tasked with various kill quests. I imagine that for her to win the player will need to somehow prevent a tragic character death (which I am still slightly teary over) and also not…um…die…
Which leaves an unknown number of other players. One should probably be the Assassin’s Guild, who will begin the game allied with her and have the option of turning on her in order to fulfill their own objectives, probably to cause tragic character death, and accumulate attribute? Another would have to be Adarlan, the empire in which the story largely takes place. They would be tasked with killing/capturing the assassin, and so would begin the game neutral to the Assassin’s guild but an enemy to Celaena. Then another player could be the Thieve’s Guild…I think that’s the name, I’m not entirely certain – it could just be a generic criminal guild. Their job would probably be a fairly straightforward “accumulate attribute” and they would probably get gold in a similar way to Celaena and the Assassin’s Guild.
I haven’t really thought through these victory conditions all that much, mostly I am concerned with getting the map of the city done. I have never done a city of this size or in this detail or which is supposed to see so much action before, so this is going to be a little difficult – especially once one realizes how spread out descriptions of the city are in the books. I am going to have to reread at least Assassin’s Blade (the primary source for the scenario) and maybe some of Throne of Glass to get all the necessary items in. After that game play mechanics should be fairly easy to establish, I’m not looking to make this mindblowingly unique.
Not sure why I didn’t go farther out to take this one, maybe I wanted the plant in the way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Vaguely reminds me of the Dead Marshes but in a significantly more sanitary and less haunted way
I really wish this had come out clearer, I feel it had more potential. I’m not sure why, I just really like it
Not much of a sunset, but the snow makes up for it…I think…
Bit of snow, bit of fog, bit of haze…kinda nice
Google color shifted this one for me, I kinda like it. It might not be “real” but it certainly is cool looking, even if the colors are too harsh to be pretty
Not a lot of color going on here, but I do appreciate the golden light of the sun struggling through the clouds and failing to illuminate the ground
I just think this one is really pretty, its a mess, but I think it is pretty all the same. Clearly I’m a fan of the silhouette
I think this is my favorite – as has been established I like the ground really dark and I though I tend to like a lot of color I just find this pink really agreeable. My personal favorite of the bunch
I don’t know if they are good pictures, but I do know that I enjoy them – especially that last one. I think I know what I’ll post next…If I ever get to that.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever completely lost your mind and ridiculously developed {let’s call it} a crush on someone *entirely* out of your league and sorta stayed that way for…let’s say six years? Honestly its both embarrassing and hard to keep track of the time at this point. Anyways, I have and it sucks. To a point… I’ll be honest the clarity it provides is nice. You don’t have to wonder “Do they like me back?” cause you know the answer, and it is a resounding “LMAO”. So you get to spend however long you want just kinda pining after them passively before rolling your eyes and going back to work on whatever ridiculous project you like to imagine would in some convoluted way impress them and make them want to be your best friend and you’ll binge watch all of Lotr and Buffy and Community and go on runs and walks and maybe some jogs and have a picnic… *shakes head* Uh…yeah… So maybe I never stopped being 12?
I don’t always feel certain in my choices, I am very insecure in enjoying the things that I enjoy so I look for clarity and absolute certitude in things that should be abstract and opinionated. I mean…look through my photo captions, I clearly like the photos and yet I am clearly pretending that I think they are just “meh”. So that’s why I kinda like having this ridiculously long-lived crush, it is nice to have one thing that I can feel positively certain about – this person is *Fucking Amazing* and I wish we could cuddle until the end of time. Maybe this is unhealthy or maybe its just idiosyncratic… or… Eccentric! I will probably get over it eventually, its all in my head so I am in an uncommonly strong position to put an end to it unilaterally. Or is that not how people work?
Everything I wanted to say and to show, but failed to find the time and space in the other blogs. You know, I’m going to post this and immediately remember something I wanted to ramble about feel dumb about going back and adding it later. It’s just going to happen and I need to accept that.
I wish I’d been able to get a better vantage point, it seemed like a lovely sunset.
Is this a good picture? No. Did I think it would be when I took it? I mean…not really, but I hoped it might turn out well, and it kinda did. Do I know how to take a good picture? Not. A. Clue.
I’ll be honest, I’ve quite forgotten what this is and don’t care enough to figure it out.
I remember what this is now…its a random building on the Trinity campus. I don’t know why I included this…but I did…so there… -_-
Pretty Colors 🙂
This isn’t exactly an original statement, but if you are going to travel, you would do well to find someone worth traveling with. It helps if you don’t want to throttle them every time they open their mouth. (unless you are into that)
Probably the only good thing that came out of the day trip to Corrymeela…sry guys
Honestly though, looking back on all the thing that I have just called unimportant or simply not worthwhile, I could have done a lot more fun stuff and a lot less standing around with my eyes glazing over while people talked at length about things I honestly can’t even remember anymore.
One of the only pictures I was able to take at Giant’s Causeway without a thousand people in it.
I’m really weird about appearances. I hate looking as though I care, and I hate looking like a tourist…even though I often am. So I walked around taking pictures while trying to to look as though I was taking pictures a lot. This gets awkward any time people are standing in front of something you want a picture of, as there is the constant worry that they will think you are some weirdo who is trying to sneak pictures of them, which is correct on two counts. (Weird? Yes. Sneaking pictures? Yes. Of them? Not intentionally) There is one major benefit to this however, as no matter how your photos turn out, as you had a significant handicap in taking them, should any turn out to be halfway decent, you may boost your ego with stories about your natural photo taking abilities. Even if it is abundantly clear to everyone involved, you have no photo taking abilities, natural or otherwise.
Look, I really appreciate that you tried, but now you just look silly.
Honestly, I’m glad it was cloudy when I went to the beach. It made certain there was no ambiguity in my location. I was in Ireland for two weeks and it rained only once. It misted periodically and was cloudy five or six of the days, but I got a lot more sun than I anticipated. Normally I would balk at this being the case, the well of “lol Ireland is rainy” jokes may be bland and watered down, but it is still a well and I need all the help I can get in social situations.
I love it when Google makes my picture pretty for me.They used this beach too many times in Season 8.
I’ll be honest with you. (Because you, dear reader are special) I hate watched Game of Thrones starting in season 5. When season 8 came out and people were finally on board with the whole “Hey, these guys have No clue what they are writing” I was more annoyed that they hadn’t arrived at that conclusion sooner than anything else. Did I feel validated? Definitely. Did I regret hating on season 5 so much after watching season 8? Absolutely. Season 8 makes season 5 downright tolerable. Well…parts of it at least.
Stormont…its big…its white…its got pillars…not very original…
This is exactly what I think of when I imagine an 18th or 19th-century European seat of power. A big white building on a hill with a massive meticulously kept lawn, that invariably features pillars in order to look stately. Why do pillars make a building look stately? Because all the stately buildings have pillars. There is nothing inherently stately about them, we have just conditioned ourselves to see pillars and think “oh, that building is important”. Its like architectural shorthand…which I say knowing absolutely nothing about architecture.
I mean, how does one actually take a picture of a hole?
So, I used to play a lot of Minecraft right? Specifically Minecraft Factions, that’s where you essentially make bases, raid other people’s bases, and pvp. It is, or was, highly addictive. Anyways, I learned after a few months that if I wanted my base to look…at all pretty, I needed someone else to do it for me. Because my idea of a decorated base was just plain marble with a bunch of arches. Anyways, so I really appreciate marble as a building material, so I appreciate the Belfast City hall, as that is its primary building material. (That was a lot of explaining for the payoff of “I like marble”)
So… who all has seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer? I love that show way too much. Keep in mind that I am a male college student, so my enjoyment of this show that was geared more towards the 8th grade girl audience does feel a little wierd. But I’m trying to get over it. I really am. Maybe I should just stick with the Lord of the Rings and a Song of Ice and Fire. Though now that I mention it, Game of Thrones has sort of taken all the fun out of reading ASOIAF. So what else is there? Oh, I really, really, really, really hate Mortal Instruments, but I love the Very Secret Diaries. (its by the same author, she just tweaked her name) Oh, and Percy Jackson! I never really got into Riordan’s other series, I haven’t even picked up the Norse one, and I only ever read any of the Heroes of Olympus for the Percy and Annabeth story that took three books to pick up again. Political Science major, History minor… Sometimes I wonder whether I should have just majored in History. My history GPA is higher, I am better with history than most history majors (though that doesn’t say much) and history is just something that I find very easy to get into. But they also have to write a lot more than I am comfortable with…so…nope! Now, you might think that this belongs in my bio…and you would totally be right, I’ll just copy and paste it there. 🙂
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