Sean McCormick ~ Patience Is A Virtue
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The last two weeks have been spent battling the worst cold and lung infection I've ever experienced, and now that I've gotten to the point where I have enough air to go for a walk, the temperature has dipped to minus twenty degrees Celcius. Actually, it's minus thirty when you factor in the wind chill (for Americans that translates as dangerously cold), so walking around with photo gear still isn't an option. Thus, I am forced to recycle a shot from August.
It's not uncommon to come over the crest of a hill in this area and find someone moving cattle. Normally I'm in a vehicle when this happens, but on this occasion I was on foot as I was out for an evening walk with my camera. These cattle seemed a bit spooky around people so I had to crawl through the barbed wire fence to the right and stay out of the way for ten minutes or so until the herd had passed.
In terms of being "wildness close to home" that is my home that you see at the upper left of the image. This is what where I live actually looks like and it is far removed from the more exagerated images that I'm wont to post over at my site. This is me being honest for a change.
Wilderness Close to Home
in Sean McCormick
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Reader Comments (2)
Hey Sean - thanks for posting this picture. I am really drawn to it because its, to me, very palpaablbe and palatable 'sense of place'.
I not only have a sense of place but I also have a vivid feel for the time of day, the smell, and the 'air' itself.
For me, it is an altogether absorbing picture.
Sean,
This is lovely to see. I agree with Mark about the feeling of the place. I'm able to look at this image for a long time, trying to understand all that is going on. And then we can also see way off to some distant horizon.
As for being "truthful," it's interesting to hear you say that... Naaa, I'm not going to bother going into that any more. We've been through it already, and it's too late on a Friday night to bother retrace it again. Thanks for showing us another world, one far from my little corner.