Washington Post photo of 45,000 fans greeting Taylor Swift
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-image-makers/2015/12/23/c06e729c-a9a9-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html Today's Post "Outlook" section features five giant-format photos taken in the past year. One grabbed me, a Taylor fan, as few others could. I wish you sweet readers could see the impressive detail, somewhat lost in the darkness of the image -- but, trust me, it's impressive. That July night, Washington's new baseball stadium was full of fans, and each been given a glow-in-the-dark bracelet -- so the photo in effect permits one to see the ocean of pinpoints of light of her fans paying a luminous tribute.
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Do please indulge me in another episode of my "old tags" game. I happened to see one, "when lights go out," and I added it to another three tags for this particular post -- and clicked on it to see what I had turned up. http://devifemme.livejournal.com/1472931.html
It's a photo by a girl named Lora Mathis; I had her permission to re-post it from her Flickr account. Alas, that handy facility was ended by Flickr about a year and a half ago, so I no longer can post such shots -- a real pity. I had been enjoying it since I started with LJ in 2005, re-posting thousands of shots.
Here's where it gets freaky: there was a different tag ("fuck Flickr censorship" -- I was pissed at the imminent demise of the re-posting gizmo!) that I had applied to my preceding post a few hours ago, and by the purest coincidence THAT tag took me to a post I did in March 2014. Here's the old post, mainly a deleted photo BY LORA (!) -- http://devifemme.livejournal.com/1478316.html (The text of that post does illustrate my long-time annoyance with Flickr...)
Well, at that point, I had gone to Lora's Flickr to see whether she had closed her account there (that's ONE way old re-posts disappear from my LJ archive; Flickr censorship [!!] is another). She had NOT, and so I had a lovely fifteen minutes catching up on her marvelous work there, and I did a comment to her, recalling her kind collaboration.
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Do please indulge me in another episode of my "old tags" game. I happened to see one, "when lights go out," and I added it to another three tags for this particular post -- and clicked on it to see what I had turned up. http://devifemme.livejournal.com/1472931.html
It's a photo by a girl named Lora Mathis; I had her permission to re-post it from her Flickr account. Alas, that handy facility was ended by Flickr about a year and a half ago, so I no longer can post such shots -- a real pity. I had been enjoying it since I started with LJ in 2005, re-posting thousands of shots.
Here's where it gets freaky: there was a different tag ("fuck Flickr censorship" -- I was pissed at the imminent demise of the re-posting gizmo!) that I had applied to my preceding post a few hours ago, and by the purest coincidence THAT tag took me to a post I did in March 2014. Here's the old post, mainly a deleted photo BY LORA (!) -- http://devifemme.livejournal.com/1478316.html (The text of that post does illustrate my long-time annoyance with Flickr...)
Well, at that point, I had gone to Lora's Flickr to see whether she had closed her account there (that's ONE way old re-posts disappear from my LJ archive; Flickr censorship [!!] is another). She had NOT, and so I had a lovely fifteen minutes catching up on her marvelous work there, and I did a comment to her, recalling her kind collaboration.