.2 - it's all a blur
blurred vision? or try find beauty in the perspective no matter how it looks?
Had so much fun rolling out some ‘lost’ shots recently that I had to run it back with more. In part because it was fun and liberating and shouldn’t that be what art is?
And also because I have so many misfires that are IMO quite interesting.
soul enjoy!
I’m going to describe the shot above a bit like what it’s like to have your corrected vision applied but for a moment, you lose total clarity. Maybe the lens of your glasses or contacts go blurry or fog so the image in front of you is not as sharp as can or should be. Then you wipe the lens or blink and it’s back!
I actually like the shot as is but think it has the potential to be even cooler. Like maybe there’s a way that I could utilize photoshop or AI to slightly enhance the tents or Sage Creamery sign, making the contrast between the blur of the people and the solidness of the static objects even more stark.
Sounds a bit like 20/100 vision that gets corrected although I have to take y’alls 20/100ers word for it…
This shot and the one that follows were taken that same evening this past year at a Free Spirits/Pitch Sports Bar event in The Barn at SALT in Our Kaka‘ako.
I liken this to me looking across the mat at Jiu-Jitsu and seeing movement but no hard detail because I no longer train wearing contact lenses (those inadvertent eye gouges I tell ya) and it’s a pain to put your glasses off and on because I’m not risking leaving it on the edge of the mat to get crushed by some spaz white belt.
Note: I say spaz white belt with love. I mean, in some ways, at Brown, I still feel like a white belt, especially when encountering higher level, more athletically gifted practitioners, but I never subscribed to the spaz game. Something about paying attention to surroundings and being away when you are driving your partner into the wall, another group, or off the mat. Idk, just seems to be more practical and compassionate. But I tend to have a more calm approach to the martial arts (not that that was the case of Muay Thai, my first martial art).
I have to blame the shot’s outcome on not undertstanding my camera fully. A friend would later share with me that when you realize you’re shooting the light, it changes the game.
Facts.
But that said, it’s these essential steps that we take on the journey, perhaps in the pursuit of mastery, that get us deeper in the Here + Now, to vibe-preciate the moment, finding the beauty and depth of where our micro-story binds with that of the vast beyond us. That beautiful [too many words that fall short to describe it here] is there, embedded somewhere within each shot of life we are soul gifted to experience. - jmaw
Plus when I tell you they are vibing out to the “The Cha Cha Slide” and dancing joyfully, that adds a bit of charm to the image, doesn’t it?
If you read the last piece here (the shameless self-promotion continues), you might recall that this is how I see lights at night. And today’s selected shots have gone from the least blurry to blurriest. Yet, tbh, I love this because I wasn’t trying for the circular lights action, it just happened.
Streaky.
Larger than life.
Or maybe this is just a bunch of spirits vibing out soul we experience the manifest joy of the one shared long momentary experience that is our existence on this plane of the (Multi/Uni)verse.
Who knows?
This concludes today’s episode.
Until the next, be well, be you, go aloha and be mahalo!