Argent

Here's something you won't find in car showrooms, fresh raindrops from an autumn storm...

Argent |ˈɑːdʒ(ə)nt|
adjective poetic/literary & Heraldry
silver; silvery white : the argent moon.

ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting silver coins): via Old French from Latin argentum ‘silver.’

Facing Life

While messing around with fd's flickr toys' ego surf, I happened to find this shot I took some years back, and its sort of recently featured in Presscue's top 10 political graffiti heh.

If I remember correctly, this was shot while we were in Bethlehem, at a street right beside the massive concrete barriers set up by Israel to prevent insurgents from sneaking through. It was taken with my first digital camera borrowed from my parents, a little Creative silverbox that's probably about as good as most phone cameras today.

I guess the trip down to Israel was one that really did expose me to a whole other side of the world, and probably a little spark that did get me pretty much interested into photography, sort of a mini-revival of the photojournalist dreams I had when I was a kid. Its such experiences that makes you grow alot. We were on ground zero during an escalation, the tension hung like a thick blanket in the air. It was pretty much commonplace to hear rockets and jets flying over, and meeting armed men all around the city.

I utterly do detest those who have a whole lot of opinions and comments on the situation, but have never seen a single shot fired in anger, or faced a loaded rifle.
Just to think about all the general paper essays being written and school debates simply makes one sick. Kids playing politicians, having intellectual debates over issues where their only knowledge comes from wikipedia and the mass media.

Being in the face of such reality, it only felt right that such images of daily life be brought to the world.

If I had a choice, I'd gladly return back there, and just wander around at street level. I'd have no qualms about heading down into the heart and heat of things in Iraq either.

Smother

Despite Urban renewal, development, or growth, however you'd want to phrase it, its still nice to see that certain things are left untouched by the hands of men...

Growth. Naturally, artificially.

Spotted this amidst Capitaland's development of ion downa in orchard, scotts, and well, thought that the cranes and construction work would juxtapose nicely with the tree amidst all the grays and harsh lines.

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Sketch ! I've always loved drawing as a kid, and its always kinda fun working with monochrome, even in photography =)

Off the cuff inspiration, well, it pretty much sums up the much-forgotten reformation that flipped the light switches on to a world of darkness...

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