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another round.  lots of things happening around me and with me and to me, and processing them into words is difficult.  I still haven't done it even for myself yet, so maybe photographs can share some of the feelings associated with them. “a trip into the backcountry; back East; and more travel for work.”

last time we spoke in this way, I said:
“…the feeling of a deep, visceral, gritty reality…”
different, this time.  less reality, more of a surreal sensation.  some of these images feel “inauthentic” of the experience that I took part in at the time, like they capture some idealization of what the experience is “supposed” to be, rather than how it really felt for me.

for at least one of these, paradoxically, the “inauthenticity” is part of what makes the image and the feeling even more authentically real for what it was.

then, presented below, images for your viewing: largely unedited, and largely without additional comment, the world that was briefly mine.

I hope you again enjoy.

(comments over on LiveJournal)

May 2016 - July 2016
Joshua Wise; CC BY-SA 3.0

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20:09, 2016-05-13

it's all coming, all coming, all coming back to me now...
that strange, and almost endless, dream...
(thank you so much to Colin and Elaine for their generous hospitality surrounding my and Josiah's trip into the Eastern Sierras!)
13:01, 2016-05-27
17:05, 2016-05-28
05:59, 2016-05-29
not to be used for alignment reference.
16:26, 2016-05-29
(this image is a Cardboard VR image. to view it, get Cardboard Camera for your phone, and use it as a viewer for the full-res image.)
19:08, 2016-05-29
19:54, 2016-05-29

...october moon, and rusty skies
ever changing feelings...
20:58, 2016-06-02
12:22, 2016-06-12
landscapes with airports I once knew fade away into summer sunsets
20:19, 2016-06-12
17:05, 2016-06-18

...and that makes me lucky, god I'm so lucky,
so much luckier than I ever thought I'd be...
19:12, 2016-06-22
11:11, 2016-06-25
11:25, 2016-06-25
16:21, 2016-06-25
19:09, 2016-06-25
19:16, 2016-06-25
20:05, 2016-06-25
11:05, 2016-06-26
19:11, 2016-06-27
(this image is a Cardboard VR image. to view it, get Cardboard Camera for your phone, and use it as a viewer for the full-res image.)
09:50, 2016-06-28
21:20, 2016-06-28
09:00, 2016-06-29

...but what I have
is the value that you see in these things...
16:27, 2016-07-04

Joshua Wise, 2016

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