I am continuing with my rather dark idea of posting the last cell phone photos taken by people in the final moments of their lives, that I found on a site on the dark web.
These images were taken by Herr Emile Schmeel of Strudeldorff, Germany, who had always wanted to travel to Spain to ‘run with the bulls’. He seems to have been so caught up in the excitement of the moment, that he completely forgot about the ‘running’ part of the equation.
I know, it looks like some weird kind of gnome head.
But it isn’t, it’s just a baby elephant.
And that is why I am having so much fun with this mirror image thing. You never know what you might end up with.
Especially when you do more than one mirror on the image.
I try to make them more interesting than just cutting things right down the middle.
But you know…
Sometimes that is pretty funny anyway.
Slow but steady.
But it has gone from that, to this…
Bonus points if you knew the title of this post was a tip of the hat to Led Zeppelin.
Also, I miss the Bay Area.
These are the last of super-close-up-macro pictures I took of that paperweight I made in my glass blowing class, sitting on that light-up stand I have that has LED lights that change color… try saying that 5 times fast.
Just so you know, I am not done with playing around with macro photography.
And, fair warning…
I am saving a few of these photos to use later with those crazy digital filters I like so much.
But for now, no more glass pictures.
Because I am having so much fun with my mirror image pictures, and some other stuff. HA!
Famous monuments from around the world… with a slight twist…
Because architecture tends to be symmetrical, I needed to up the anti, so for some of these, instead of just copying part of the photo and then mirror imaging that part back to the original, this time, I occasionally resorted to pasting more than one of that part of the image, and mirroring them over again.
I didn’t do it with all the photos.
I didn’t feel I needed to. With these, I think it is the clouds that make the image interesting.
But with the Arch of Triumph in Paris, I didn’t want to just turn it into a fancy coffee table. Now, it is… uh… something else.
The great wall is not symmetrical, but I did extra bits anyway.
I like how those came out.
Stonehenge offered so many ways to go.
It is such a lovely henge.
I should really get a henge for my back yard.
These are the last cell phone pictures taken by Herr Rudolf Nuttzengrabber, who fulfilled his lifelong ambition to visit the Grand Canyon in the United States. He took some wonderful shots, from the rim, the canyon floor, and even some never-before-seen images of the parts in between.
They do say that travel can broaden your horizons and change your life.
I couldn’t do the side-to-side mirror image thing on the Taj Mahal, because it is too symmetrical.
So I went with the top-to-bottom flips…
And, as promised, as a bonus, I added this image, of what it would look like if tRump bought the place, and turned it into a hotel.
I guess I am old. I don’t feel old, or feel like I even look that old, but I might be considered old by some of you young whippersnappers. Tonight, my wife and I are taking her uncle out for dinner. Now, he is old, by almost any standard, other than that of a Galapagos tortoise or maybe a redwood tree.
While I was in the shower… hey, don’t judge me, I do some of my best thinking in there… I came up with a plan. And I am going to share it with you. Because that is what I do here: share stuff.
Whatever age you are, you have to interact with old people, at least occasionally. Whether they are a relative or an acquaintance or even a stranger, here is what I suggest you try doing:
Ask them about themselves… but not in that vapid, annoying way that we talk to each other at most gatherings. Don’t ask what they are up to now, or have been up to recently. Don’t ask what they did for work, or about their kids. (And for heaven’s sake, don’t ask them about their friends… most of them are dead now)!!!
Ask them about what they were like, and what they were doing, when they were YOUR AGE! (Okay, this might be specifically aimed at teenagers, and there might not be any of them here, so ask them about themselves when they were teenagers.)
Ask about the music they listened to.
Ask about what they were rebelling against.
Ask them about the coolest car they ever owned, and about the haircut they had that drove their parents crazy, and the fashions that were in… uh… fashion.
Ask them about the times they got into trouble.
This is a good idea, even though I had it. Not only will you learn some interesting things about the old person you are talking to, but it will be stuff you can relate to. Maybe Grandma got caught once, making out with some hooligan in the back seat of a stolen car. Hey, you don’t know. I bet you never asked. Maybe that old guy next door used to run with a biker gang. Maybe your uncle once streaked naked through his high school graduation.
Hey, I’m not saying that all old people are interesting. Most of them probably aren’t. But I am. If you asked me that stuff, your head would melt with the stories I could tell you… which I don’t share here, because… you know… family-friendly blog and all that.
Give it a try. Who knows what you might learn… because we, the old people, were all young once… and some of us used to do some crazy shit.
These are the last cell phone pictures taken by Mr. Milton Gristmill of Sludgewater, Texas. He was so excited, on his very first trip to England, to see the iconic sights, that, unfortunately, he forgot that some of them actually move.
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