Fallen Leaf Prints

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Ah, this is so relatable on many levels. Feels soooo poetic. This is one of those posts where, I want to comment on every aspect of the post cos it just really resonated with me, but alas that would take the whole day 😅. But I'd say, that nudge, that's all you need and that brilliant brain of yours would run wild with ideas.

Also, I have a record to beat now. Off to wound up seven people this week 😁

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Thank you @stevenson7! A whole day?! That's far too much time. I'm glad my post resonated with you. You got the jewel though, it's about that nudge inside that I take direction from.

>Also, I have a record to beat now. Off to wound up seven people this week 😁

I don't think I've ever seen evidence of you winding up people. I wonder what strategies you'll employ. My only strategy is being true to myself, which has displeased many throughout my life.

> I don't think I've ever seen evidence of you winding up people. I wonder what strategies you'll employ.

Ohjhhh, I tell you!! I'm a natural, lol.
Like you, I just act like I usually would and people get feisty. who gives an eff, I sure don't.

May the best person win 🤝🏿😊
Good luck

>Like you, I just act like I usually would and people get feisty. who gives an eff, I sure don't.

😂😂😂 Now I have a clearer image. I see you like a bit of a contest of wills as well. You know, each day, I get a little more tired and have a little less energy for it. Still it likes to drop by my door, lol.

I don't recall when exactly I started to make use of a different technique that's evolved over time. It's become an acronym I use as a reminder, #ratep and nope, not going to explain that one to anyone. I've found it to be highly effective, conserves energy, and is not harmful to anyone. 😂

Dang it.
Way to raise up my hopes and then shove it back in my face 😏

I will have to devise my own technique then. Patent it or summat 😅

😂 The question always gets asked about such things, so I try to catch it before it gets asked. Yes, I'm ridiculous at times, but all meant in good fun.

>I will have to devise my own technique then. Patent it or summat 😅

Absolutely. You're an individual, gotta speak to who you are with what you choose. I highly encourage it (throws fuel on the fire).

In all seriousness though, my technique is nothing new, nothing special, and something that every human does many times in the course of their lives. The idea is to be very conscious and aware of applying it where it needs to be applied and not applying from an emotionally reactive place. So, a consideration, an observing of whatever it is over time, and intuitively deciding when to apply said technique. There is also flexibility built into it.

Maybe that helps a bit with finding your own technique. 😂🤪

No way😅

You practically just laid it all out now for me.
I'm thankful

Lately I've been in a bad place, also the reason for the late response, hopefully it gets better.

I trust things are well with you

>You practically just laid it all out now for me.

😂 have fun with that!

I'm a bit curious as to what you're going through but not going to ask since that's a bit personal. Since I'm not sure what you're going through, I'll say what I say to everyone, listen to your intuition and inner guide. That will never let you down.

>I trust things are well with you

As well as they can be given my personal situation since 2020. I focus only on the present moment, which makes it all manageable. Everything here is temporary and I take great solace in that.

> I'll say what I say to everyone, listen to your intuition and inner guide. That will never let you down.

Thank you so much. The only problem is that I seem to have lost my inner guide too. Crazy apathy. I would dig myself out of this rut though. I trust. And you've been of great help too 🙂

> Everything here is temporary and I take great solace in that.

This is really deep. Maybe a change in perspective is so I need. Thank you for being so wise 😅 and I'm genuinely happy things are good for you

You're welcome. Apathy is something I've experienced to enough of a degree to say that it obscures connection to one's inner guide, giving the sensation of that being "lost", when it's just the fog of apathy obscuring it.

>This is really deep. Maybe a change in perspective is so I need.

This is the approach exactly. You see, you already know. Everything in this world is a temporary experience, which is easily observed. That being the case, then a good question to ask oneself is what is not temporary? Throwing that out there for consideration.

I wouldn't say things are good or bad for me; they just "are", so to speak, and I focus on the middle ground, the space in between duality, a place of stillness.

Blow my mind every time 😅
I wonder why I keep coming back to read this comment and then forget to reply entirely.

Well, for starters since our little convo, I've started to get up. I even made a publication for my newsletter yesterday.

There seems to be a beacon of light. Thanks to you

The middle ground 💯🙏🏾

>I wonder why I keep coming back to read this comment and then forget to reply entirely.

I don't know, but that sounds like an interesting question to ask yourself. LOL

Sometimes it takes a little shove to get oneself going. Sounds good. You create the beacon of light when you choose to. 😉

>The middle ground 💯🙏🏾

Yes.

Thank you
thank you
thank you

This has been a very enlightening conversation. One I feel could go on for years and we might never not have anything to say 😅

Looking forward to the next one

😂 You're welcome. Next one is in process, up shortly and leafly.

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If I had to make sense of these photographs, I would see them as an event that tells about the rapid end of human life. The leaves show us very clearly that summer is over and now winter is coming.

That's deep, hadn't seen them that way, thanks!

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Just getting out and shooting is always the best way for me to get out of a creative funk. Been refusing to do that lately because it's cold and I'm still a bit miffed that summer is over.

Only six people in a week? Them's rookie numbers!

This is where I say that getting out in the cold is also a deterrent for me. I love autumn but I miss the heat of summer. Kind of grief it a bit every year.

>Only six people in a week? Them's rookie numbers!

Well, I've reduced my average, which was a lot higher, up until 2013 when I left a major telecom. Less exposure to certain environments has totally trashed my average. Got any tips for me to increase that? Might create an internal policy conflict, but maybe I'll learn something new. 😂

Thanks @coloneljethro!

Yeah, as soon as the leaves have fallen and it gets cold I have to sulk a bit before I'm willing to go out and do shit again.

I feel ya, when I quit working in the service industry my average went to hell too. I've been antisocial for a while so my numbers still haven't made it back up. Pretty sure no matter what you do you're going to offend somebody so it's really just a numbers game, the more people you interact with the more you offend. Now if you're talking about intentionally offending people, that's mostly a matter of reading people and don't know as I can give tips on that.

Totally a numbers game, you're right there. Ha, if I intentionally offended people, I'd have a hundred percent success rate and can't say I've ever attempted that. 😂

I think some of those leaves were falling too fast and had to slam on the brakes. Otherwise how do you explain those skid marks??

Super pretty.

One good tool I use to try to keep from offending people is to use "I" language. For example, "I am feeling uncomfortable with this conversation," or "I prefer not to discuss detailed aspects of my personal life with strangers" or "I dislike wasting my time communicating with morons." Sometimes it helps. 👍

😂, pretty intense lines, but I have to credit the combing of the fresh concrete for collecting the leaf juices in a brown trough. Thanks!

The "I" language I was taught to use, yes. Just a touch more complicated situations (like cheeseburgers, for one). You're right that it sometimes helps, but did not in these situations.

Well at least the leaves were not offended...

I don't have issues like that with nature or creatures, never even crosses my mind.

I'd say the world changed a lot in the last 20 years, or I have, probably both. Doesn't help that I spent 10 years disconnected from using internet for much of anything before 2019.😂

See but that's nice, though. I wish I could live phoneless and internetless sometimes but that would mean a very different life. I like my life pretty well right now so it is what it is. Nice thing about being constantly available is you can just turn shit off and not be.

It does mean a different life. There were circumstances at that time that resulted in my making a conscious choice to shift my focus away from all things tech as much as possible and into a different direction.

You can just turn it off. That said, I did have almost a month away from any phone and internet access in 2020. I expected that I would miss it. I did not; only exception was not being able to research a couple of wild plants I wasn't familiar with.

Library!

My big trip was a significant break, although not all the way off grid. I'm growing the crowtube channel but sometimes I can schedule things a few weeks ahead and duck out. Work, though, that's a different story. Need to be online and phoned to make money, and need money. So...

Yes, my Achilles heel, libraries. It put me in a position of more focused observation without it though.

Work is always a different story. It's the direction society was engineered to go in. Wasn't tech supposed to free us up for a better quality of life? I think that was the promise way back. Instead I experience the expectation of bells, chimes, rapid acceleration of pace, and constant demands of instant gratification. I don't find any of this to be improving the quality of my life.

I'm with you on that. But I do appreciate being able to text clients about appointments and submit invoices electronically with my portable tracking device.

No denying that it's useful, just having fond memories of life in a different time.

I really love these leaf print shots. I’m so glad you got out and captured these even if at first you didn’t feel like it. I’d really like to know how those skid marks happen, it’s so intriguing to look at.

It’s as if the leaves are saying “Behold the beauty of what once was, remember us when we’re gone”.

I really enjoyed reading this poetic piece ~

Thank you so much @crosheille! Such a beautiful comment. I love poetry. My posts (and some comments, lol) are the first time I've shared them like this. I appreciate the encouragement. 😊💖

Even if I'm not in the mood, my inner guide is at the helm and gives me no rest until I follow the direction I'm guided in, lol. I'm only sorry when I do not follow it.

>I’d really like to know how those skid marks happen, it’s so intriguing to look at.

This was the luck of that newly cured sidewalk, which is combed so that there are all these small ridges. Also, the sidewalk was slanted and the decay ran down into the tiny valleys between the ridges, collecting there and staining them.

You’re welcome 😊. I love poetry too!

That is so cool. Thanks for sharing how the marks came about. Nature is so amazing ~

You're welcome and nature never ceases to fascinate me. It's always amazing. 😊

For sure those are satisfiying ! great eye for capture details!

Thank you @malos10!

Glad you went out! And I like the ones you choose out of the six hundreds :)) this tail some of the leaves drag with them, it almost feels like even the way they flew on to the concrete is imprinted..
I wonder what it would look like if those prints wouldnt get washed away (they do, dont they?) and then you could find layers and layers of leave-prints making new shapes, maybe.
Its always the first steps isnt it and once you see or start something the could and even the gray becomes appealing!

Oh the six hundred plus photos, lol that was the entire photo shoot, not just of leaf prints, so next post will have the rest I've selected that are not leaf prints.

I like your description, "it almost feels like even the way they flew on to the concrete is imprinted..", that's so poetic.

The prints fade away fairly quickly, depending on the weather. I love the idea of layers and layers of leaf prints. I can visualize how that might look.

It is always the first steps and then expanding beyond that. It takes very little to get my imagination firing. 😂

...I am getting confused about which of the conversations we started I am about to get into😅

The prints fading away, fits into the picture too though, autumn, change, vanity... but yes I would kind of like to see such a pattern or print on fabric!! I think that could be awesome:)

😂😂 That happens to me at times also with conversations.

Oh yeah, these would be so wild on fabric! I can see it in my mind. I've sewn since I was very young, draft my own patterns for years, etc. I just don't post them, same as other things. Lack of time.

Niice!! well I would love to see🙃 (if ever some extra time comes your way)
...nothing better than having a pattern all after your likings!!
So you are sewing those kaki and colour mixing clothes yourself?

I have and can sew them, but for several years I have picked up what people throw away (its a LOT). Then I alter, change, take apart, re-combine into other things, whatever I need at the time, or turn it into "wearable art", usually I prefer jeans because they make the best canvas.

Since I have photos a friend took of these jeans, I'll show you one, hahaha...I am the worst model and my place is behind the camera. 😂

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The jeans were found. Altered them to fit me first. Created the design. Cut it out in jeans. Cut out pieces of sequin fabric (blue-green-purple and upside down they are matte black) to fit, backed with another fabric and sewn into jeans (machine sewn). Outlined with tiny pearl beading (hand sewn). Design is on front and wraps a bit around outside leg.

On the back of one leg is my logo done in same manner by hand, but on a piece of leather. On the side with the circle shapes are sterling silver beads hand sewn on. I think it took about at least 150 hours or so to make. I don't wear sequins, so this is a first, lolol.

>I have and can sew them, but for several years I have picked up what people throw away (its a LOT). Then I alter, change, take apart, re-combine into other things, whatever I need at the time, or turn it into "wearable art", usually I prefer jeans because they make the best canvas.

Yes!!! Feels like you just spoke out the thoughts of my brain:D
personally I find it so inspiring altering pieces, figuring out what you can make with it, how to change it.

..and then about the Jeans in particular, it is mad how many you find, I mean everyone literally has them and throws them away, there is lots of it... which is awesome.

The Jeans are really cool! What a patience indeed, you have my admiration:) sequins wouldnt be my first choice eighter, but then on the other hand, glitter?! and then really Jeans is kind of compatible with anything, or a lot..

Do you make them for your self or also for others?

>Yes!!! Feels like you just spoke out the thoughts of my brain:D

😂 Similar ways of seeing, based on your posts that I've read. I love to figure it out. The more challenging the better.

It's amazing what is thrown away. So many brand new things too. So many jeans, but really, there's a treasure of everything.

>The Jeans are really cool! What a patience indeed, you have my admiration:)

Thank you! Hahaha, all that patience has been intentionally self-taught through many years of discipline.

Yes, jeans work so well for many things, or else a heavy cotton twill like that. Hahaha, glitter, great description! Seems a lot of people like these jeans, since they stop me to ask about them. At this point, I forget I am wearing these glittery things and don't know why they ask, then have to remember what I'm wearing. 😂

>Do you make them for your self or also for others?

The jeans are for myself. People have asked me to make this kind of thing for them, but when I tell them what it would cost to make for them due to the time and work, they don't want to pay for that kind of hand work. I have made many clothes for others, but those were regular clothing, also I made any buttons. Custom fit clothing according to what the person wanted.

Weeell yess it is always kind of difficult with the prices at that stage... its a shame, but also very interesting to discuss I find. Maybe it would help to work as a collective to make it more affordable for people?

It would be awesome to get access to some clothe-dumps... or any sort of place they would throw away clothes, shops, or brands or I have no idea where else.
Actually I have seen this documentary about some pretty cool fashion brands (dont remember the names) maybe they where english? any way they made a collection with all sorts of clothes from brands (h&m but also prada) that where thrown away and they matched them back together... And they actually go all the "rubbish" straight from those brands.

>Maybe it would help to work as a collective to make it more affordable for people?

It would, but people are not so inclined to do that where I live. Most prefer to buy online (everything) or from stores. Labels matter to most also. If possible, I will barter with people that are also creative or have something else they can exchange. I like it when money is not involved. Old habits from growing up.

>It would be awesome to get access to some clothe-dumps... or any sort of place they would throw away clothes, shops, or brands or I have no idea where else.

In apartment buildings here, there is usually a spot that people put anything they don't want for others to take. Most people do this, including myself. It's been this way for many years here, never formally arranged, just naturally happens. Everyone likes it. Beneficial in so many ways.

That's really cool about that collection of all throw away brands. This is why I think there is very little reason to buy clothes, among other things.

I have come across places where people bring and take things, but that you have this in almost any apartment building is awesome!!

>very little reason to buy clothes, among other things.

for sure!

It really is awesome, also that others benefit and the enjoyment of community.

...yes that would be nice to have some people around some time:)

It is. I really like to see community with others fostered.

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