Sam

Jack Hulme spent over half a century photographing one square mile of Fryston West Yorkshire.

He was trusted by the people he photographed and was familiar enough for his camera to be almost unnoticed. So his images are for the most part intimate, unposed and unselfconscious.

Anyone who'd read the same book would've read an entirely different book because literature, I always thought, was a wordless prayer, even though it's made up entirely of words..it's more akin to a wordless prayer, to..euphoria or..the pursuit of euphoria.
- Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins

#sundaysentence

Sometimes I think photographs, for those who take them seriously, ought to come with degree of difficulty, just as in olympic diving.

"How strange it is to have carried your convictions like a set of keys, only to realize they will not open any doors." - There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
#sundaysentence

Really nice picture.

Thank you. I did not know that about clicking the text.

Thank you. I've been trying to figure that out for more than a year.

I keep looking at these. So much to be said. Sadness, melancholy, timeless and as many here said a haunting quality. The one upper right brought to my mind John Prine's lyrics "hollow, ancient eyes." Your pictures honor children as people, not lesser than adults, co-equal fellow humans.

A wet plate collodion portrait of a child dressed in a cat costume - she is ride a tricycle and staring directly into the camera.

a portrait of a boy using the wet plate collodion process - the looking slightly to the right and his head is shaved closely.

A wet plate portrait of a girl - you can see her head and shoulders - her head is turned to the left ad she has a braid in her hair.

A wet plate collodion portrait of a girl - she is lying down and staring directly into the camera - she has white hair and bright eyes.

From my 'Stillness in Time' series in which I photographed children using the wet plate collodion process. You can read about it here www.deborahparkin.co.uk/about-s

Yes, and how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
- Bob Dylan

Maybe all the cheerleading for A/I is just an old fashioned sales pitch. They're definitely selling Something. And some of them are SO adamant about it, almost messianic, nearly religious. Makes me suspicious. Not sure what it is they're selling, or why most of us need it.

And thus I learned the word sesamoids.

As for suggestions, what do I know? - no credentials, no experience. Advil?

We use abstract words to the detriment of all of us. Those words push the muck to place that is elsewhere.

Beware pretenders bearing abstract words.

Recharging my solar battery =

Lying in the sun, goofing off, daydreaming.

#phrases #apropos-of-nothing-in-particular

What's Greek word for :
I don't want no stinking' artificial intelligence but it would be nice to see evidence of authentic, organic smarts.

The one that jumps out in my memory is Russian Literature.

I hate the trend of turning every noun into a verb. None of these people ever read Hemingway or Mark Twain or Jimmy Breslin.

My reading in 2025 has tapered off, only 19 books so far vs 50-70 per year for many years before this. So my sentence is from pocket notebooks i carry to catch a thought before it flies away.

Who is to say what a poem is? Do poetry police come if you step outside the bounds?
- Me

#sundaysentence

Everywhere plants
Flourish among graves,
Sinking their roots
In all the dynasties
Of the dead.

- Seamus Heaney, Human Chain

#SundaySentence

Baseball is one of the most enduring institutions in our country. And I think we ought to to take some comfort in that.
-Bob Costas, interviewed on Baseball by Ken Burns

#sundaysentence

“But the people and I knew nothing of power and how it works.”

Pat Conroy
The Water Is Wide: A Memoir

#SundaySentence

We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.~Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩

I worked with identical twins, also very hard to tell apart, until I labeled them Jolly Jill and Grumpy Jennifer. From then on, I could always tell.

Powerful. Prophetic even?

Otto looks skeptical.

Hypothetical situation questions are annoying. Nobody knows what they would do in a hypothetical situation unless and until it happens to them.

Same is true in photography.

I wouldn't have a clue. Amazing Grace is pretty awesome though, whether you're religious or not.

Opinion. There is no such thing as an objective observer.

Much less of what we do is actually under our conscious control than we think.