No sunset

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Concentration of tourists with cameras looking for that glorious sunset shot can be very high per square foot in Bali. I was the fifth on this tiny stretch of the beach. There wasn't much of a sunset that day so this dude is taking a photo of the beach guard removing the yellow flag from the beach. And I took a photo of him doing it.

Comments

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

I always wonder why people distract themselves on taking photos instead of just watching. Photos are poorer, reality is much more fascinating. When you watch with full attention, visual impressions are unforgettable. Besides, people almost never watch their photos again.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I don't think these two things are in any mutually exclusive. It takes half a minute to snap a couple of pictures.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Well, of course, they don't exclude each other. What about me, I noticed that when I begin to snap, I deepen into it: composition, angle. And it can take hours. And I lose the freshness of impression. So in the three years when I lived at the beach, I just forgot about the camera. I drank all this beauty everyday, litres of it, like an alcoholic.

I also noticed that some people are afraid of beauty, they hide behind the camera as soon as they meet something special. You saw this touristic syndrome, of course: a camera as a shield. Thus, the familiar and comfortable procedure of snapping replaces less familiar ways of dealing with beauty like enjoying architecture, for example. Or nature, to which very little people are really accustomed.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I am different, I do not care about angles and composition, I just snap what I see quickly.
And I have never met anyone afraid of beauty, ha ha.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

"And I have never met anyone afraid of beauty"

I hope you understood what I mean: people are afraid of unfamiliar facets of beauty and instinctively replace it with a familiar surrogate.

And I can add that you have a very strong and distinctive sense of beauty, a very open and flexible one.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Ah, I think it is unfamiliarity they are afraid of in that case not beauty ).
Thank you.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Maybe. As far as I understand, the sense of beauty means openness and freedom from just several surrogate cliches of "beauty" (sunset, palms on the beach, selfie in front of an old church, hollywood sex-bomb, cute kitten etc.)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Maybe. But I still think that sunsets, palm trees, old churches, kittens and beautiful women are beautiful ).

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Wish I were on a beach in some warm southern place sipping Marqueritas. 

It's starting to get cold here in the North.  Winter's coming (And no I'm not quoting Game of Thrones..Winter really is coming). 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

I am looking forward to a week of snow and skiing but will flee south to the beach afterwards.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

I think I wouldn't mind winter so much if it only lasted a week.  Like from Dec 21-26 that would be fine.  Snow for Christmas. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Same here. I enjoy a week or two of skiing and snow but then start drifting towards the equator.