Dave McLane

Dave McLane
Location
Congress, Arizona, USA
Birthday
April 14
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My overall subject of interest is the relationships of mankind to the universe which takes a multitude of forms and are best represented in both photos and text which is why I call myself a citizen photojournalist. While I was born in the United States, I more or less lived abroad for 30 years and only returned in 2001 which provides me with a rather unique viewpoint on what is happening here. I work together with my wife, Sueko, who writes in Japanese. We record interviews with an Olympus DS-40 Digital Voice Recorder. Photographs are shot with a Nikon D300 and edited with Photoshop.

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Salon.com
JANUARY 18, 2011 11:51PM

I stole this post

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As his train crossed the Harlem River on that cloudy morning he never thought the journey would ever end. Perhaps it was due to the distinguished passengers aboard but it seemed that the train would never get to the other side.

In any case, he always enjoyed the ride, especially on cloudy days, when everything turned monochrome as though the colors had been leached away.

As time went on, he began to realize that something particularly curious was happening as even though he could see the river below it was flowing in the same direction as the train while the next bridge was getting closer and closer.

"Perhaps this is what happens," he mused to himself, "when you steal other's posts."

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Dave, excellent!! What a great post about that train ride over the bridge! Thanks very much for adding your creativity to the open call by using both words and image! I'm so glad that my few words and photo could result in such unique approaches. That's a great ending and nice use of the photo that was altered to fit the story!
designanator
January 19, 2011 08:48 AM
Designanator: Actually, I didn't create that story.

What happened is the words to finish your sentence popped into my head and I gave it a whirl. The altering (photoshopping) of the image went down a number of dead ends which looked OK, but "Not Quite" until it (whatever/whoever that is) said, "OK." Then the rest of the words popped into my head.

IMO those ideas come from some place wherever dreams come from and are then are accepted or rejected from some other place we typically call rational. There's only a sliver between building on what you said to "Kill Gabby" and receiving the "OK."
Dave McLane
January 19, 2011 09:15 AM