THE WRITTEN RECORD

Author: Chris

Three Corners

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Country Roads Take Me Home

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Outdoors + Travel

Get Out

I’ve been feeling out of sorts lately so we decided to get out of the house for another day trip- this time to the ghost town of Ingalls, Oklahoma. Even better was the fact that our destination was unknown to…

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Minimalist Photography

For awhile now, I have been playing with the idea of minimalist images. This means sticking with the black and white, monochrome images but using less to compose an image with. An old friend named Brandon helped create a unique…

Photography

More thoughts on a Stoic philosophy from a Roman Emperor

Wake Up Early and Get To Work “At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going…

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Stoic Virtues

Marcus Aurelius, one of the more decent Roman Emperors, kept a journal on philosophical topics which is now known as the Meditations, such as how to live well and how to be a good leader. Some of the virtues he…

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Progress

The organization of my archives is slowly starting to look better. I’ve moved images to their proper month/years and removed the duplicates. The current process finds me removing the images I do not want. The example above shows over 15,000…

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Post-Processing The Past

A year ago, it feels like eternity now, I visited California again; this time through Route 66. I took this photograph in Joshua Tree. I never really got around to processing those images except for a few. Like most of…

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One Day

Or Day One? I need to decide.

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No Sense

“The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?” - Pablo Picasso I like this idea and maybe need to rethink some of my photography.

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Be Quiet

“The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.”

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Changes

“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.”

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Both

There is peaceful. There is wild. I am both at the same time. Sum

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iPhoneography

I just got back from a quick road trip and took almost all my camera gear in one backpack. It was fun but exhausting. The simplicity of the iPhone camera brings back the same happiness and exploration that made me…

Photography

In Or Out?

Men seek for seclusion in the wilderness, by the seashore, or in the mountains – a dream you have cherished only too fondly yourself. But such fancies are wholly unworthy of a philosopher, since at any moment you can choose…

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