🪑 On the way back to the city.

In the meantime we’ve been rammed by one of the caravan’s cars, had a wonderful lunch, and worked a bit.

@maique The second one ain't bad, but that first one just makes me sigh all over. It's like an Edward Hopper painting.

@maique You were rammed? Yikes, I hope everyone's okay.

@cliffordbeshers Thanks!!

@alexink We definitely felt the impact. Felt a bit woozy for a while. All good now, I think. The van has a big dent, and some sensors not working anymore.

@maique The rammed part of your comment was shared in a off the cuff manner, but I hope that you are all OK.

@crossingthethreshold We are, yes, thanks. No big deal, van still working. We were not driving fast, inside a village. Guy behind us failed to see us braking, he was probably looking at his phone. All good.

@maique Holy cow, that must have been some "bump". Good to know you all recovered, but shame about the van that can't be good.

@alexink Yeah, the van will need some work. But we’re good, no issues. These things happen more often than everyone would like. Lots of hours on the road, not a lot of sleep, driving very close to the other cars, often a bit over the speed limit,…

@cliffordbeshers You don’t like Edvard Hopper???

@odd Quite the opposite. I'm not sure what didn't come across, so I'll just say: the second photo is easily up to Maique's usual high standard, but that first photo has magnificent painterly qualities to it.

@maique At least it was the van and not one of you or your colleagues.

@cliffordbeshers @odd That‘s the difference of when I would make that photo vs. when an actual photographer makes that photo. Seeing the potential in a scene is a great skill on its own. To me this would look like a pile of garbage, and my photo would like a pile of garbage, if I even took it 😉 @maique makes it a piece of art. Really great 😊

@hutaffe While I thank you, very much, for your comment, I’m not sure I fully agree with you. Your pile of trash is your pile of trash and, if you like it, it’s as good as my pile of trash. That’s all that matters: you liking it.

I just shoot things my way, whenever I look at them and they, somehow, make sense. To me. A lot of times I’m actually surprised when someone else likes it.

@cliffordbeshers @odd

@maique don't self yourself short. I envy the eye you have.

@jimmitchell I’m not, really. It’s my eye, and I like the way I look at things. I have developed it, and a way to get all that into a photo I like, over a long time.

But, as with everything else, it’s not consensual. Some like the way I do it, others do not. Likewise, I appreciate some photographers more than others, while respecting their (all of them) way of doing things.

All I wanted to say is that you should find your way of doing it, and feel proud of it, regardless of what others think. That’s it.

@maique Fair enough and I agree with you. But I do enjoy your work.

@jimmitchell And I appreciate that very much, thank you 🙂

@cliffordbeshers I don’t think I understood what you wrote exactly, but now I think I do. Sometimes the subtleties and multiple meanings of words in the English language makes me think wrongly. It was that “sigh” that I interpreted as a dissatisfaction.

@odd it often does mean that, but it can be positive. I think it is exhalation of air on feeling a genuine emotion. Sigh of exasperation is what you are thinking of. There’s also sigh of relief. Could be sigh of joy. This was a sigh from experiencing the beautiful light in that photo.

@cliffordbeshers Yes, we agree on that. Now that I have thought about this, we do use sigh in both meanings too, “stønn“, (pronounced “stun”, like in stun-gun), but I think it is mostly used in the sense of a expressing a displeasure or frustration. It was very common to actually say “Stønn!” in my youth, when you heard some new fact that bewildered or displeased you.