Gary, I'm crying.
How you've turned into the level headed person you appear to be now, I'll never know.
Dude, that brought tears to my eyes. Kudos for having such a wonderful view on life, I do share that with you, but I'm less sure of it than you are.
Chris
Gary, i don't really know what to say about what you have written. But i do see what you mean with the "STOP" and the stop sign in the picture.
Tony
Gary, this is good, very good, in fact so good it should be published, that's all I am saying, simple as that no smilies.
Seriously.
Hi Gary, thanks for our conversation today. As you've noticed Joined up straight away and will explore the site. Take care pugwash.
Gary,
What a trully mind blowing post, I am not usually a person who sit and reads books. I look at pictures and make my own story up most of the time, Your 365 is different.
Your post is something that you could build books and films from, I'm 22 and i seriously had a small tear in my eye reading this, this is not because i feel like your part of the movie in which the kid gets the world from nothing and when old becomes the millionaire sob story.
(and bareing in mind i dont know you) i think this is because you seem genuine, honest and above all striaght - by this i mean you could have taken a life down the easy route, "I was beaten so i decide to do everything illegal and blame it on my childhood". I'm sure your not golden boy, nor a saint - but to write/snap and mix them toghether to create such a powerful read is trully amazing and is completely against the usual grain in which many poeple would fall into.
Can you do this for every 365 picture you take? Maybe not,
Will TP get bored after the extreamely long posts everyday? Certainly not,
Are you insprational in your approach to the way you look at life? Deffinately to me!
Thank you for a powerful read, on a day in which I felt **** and as if the whole world is on top of me - i realise that even if days are bad - if you want life to be better - its in your hands.
gazedd
Another with tears in her eyes..As others have said your writing is wonderfully discriptive and the pictures enhance the writing/writing enhances the pictures. Thank God you were rescued out of there. It must have been tough leaving all you know at that age even if it was a war zone....or was there no looking back for you?
Jo
First off the pic...
There's only two pics I would of thought of for the title, one: Stop sign implanted onto tarmac, two: Stop sign on a roadside.
Yet again you've managed to think outside the box and get something very different.
As for the wording...
Awesome mate, yet again the whole world just stopped for me to read this, tv off, msn off and phone off. I love coming here on night or day and reading what you've put. You really could create a book or something similar. I can imagine times were hard when it all kicked off, but I think instinct tells you to go with the flow and see what happens?
One thing I want to know is, where do you get your motivation from?
I've recently lost my job, before then I was really self motivated, got myself a hobby and enjoying coming on here and viewing peoples work. I've completely lost it now!
As reflected on what somebody said earlier, you seem like a very genuine guy, I could imagine you being an easy person to get on with, as you appreiciate your life and everything around you.
I'll stop typing now before I go into how your words reflect your photography etc!
So, have one of these >> but better still, give your wife and your son one, trusting in the knowledge that YOU are what prevents them having to say Stop the way you did.
AARRGGHHH - Don't know what I can give you
Apart from my continued support through your sublime 365! I'm personally 'Happy'! Happy to be reading this 365, happy to see such good pictures, happy that the sun is shining through the window, happy that I joined this forum of bloody nice people, happy to be able to do something I enjoy (Photography), happy that I won golf last night after never really paying it before and happy that I'm seeing some good friends tonight!
I'm just happy today, so here have some of my 'happy'... :-D
<throws happiness towards gary>
Catch!
Not saying your moody or anything, but looks like you could do with a huge smile and a hug in your last shot, which coincidentally - I love!
Damn, I do love this 365!
Keep it up dude, Can't you make it a 730 and do two installments a day - you have me hooked!
No wonder you feel emotionally drained! It must be a heck of a rollercoaster getting all that down on paper. You obviously didn't just write the surface story, we got it from deep down and it showed, That's why it is special, just as you are.
Like Snowball, I'm happy. I had a hell of a day at work yesterday, could cheerfully have strangled one director but today is a new day. And I'm always grateful for that.
I'm lucky just to be here at all, died on an operating table 4 years ago and if not for a brilliant team of people I would not be here today so, for me, every day starts with just simply being grateful I'm here. Simple things like smelling the rain this morning, my day is made already.
Have some of my contentment Gary.
Feeling like a wrung out dishcloth after that out pouring is only natural I think but like any draining experience, a day or two to recover is only expected. FWIW, your pictures are telling the story well and your dialogue fills in more gaps than I thought I would ever see on a photography forum. The hidden lives behind the lenses are usualy that, hidden, and it takes a brave, or some would say stupid, man to reveal themselves quite so deeply and openly.
So, have one of these >> but better still, give your wife and your son one, trusting in the knowledge that YOU are what prevents them having to say Stop the way you did.
Fantastic, again. Remember, you don't have to trump the previous days, each installment is new and interesting. I have just woken up and had to get onto TP just to see if you'd posted yet today! Its gripping stuff mate.
Will buy you a beer next time I am in the capital Gary
*Subrscibes to thread*
great image, do you use a remote or a self timer?
oops! dude I didn`t know the half of it. I can certify that you are a genuine chap and call it like it is keep it up mate.