SAR_4_along_the_way
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Above: Footprint after Today's 32K SAR dune/beach-traning. Not all trainings-days are created equal; some are more handsome than others… The intertwining wind, sun, high-tide provide great touch to circumstances and training-experience.
"The most difficult task for today's director of photography is to "think" in black and white again. He must become mentally color-blind, imagining what each scene will look like on the screen when it loses the colors it has in reality. Because black and white provides less visual information, I [...] use more lights than usual. To "draw" characters and objects, I almost always [ need ] a backlight to avoid confusing the foreground figures with the figures in the background. On the other hand, my work [ is ] made easier because I […] blend lights with different color temperatures without any problem; for instance, I [...] mix daylight with electric light without needing corrective gels.
As I have said before, I feel it is almost impossible for a black-and-white film to be in bad taste visually. The variegated, vulgar colors of contemporary life vanish, and are replaced by an absolute elegance -- like evening dress."
Nestor Almendros: 'A Man With A Camera', page 272 (first published in Switserland in 1980)
SAR_14_along_the_way
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Above: FP SAR 30K BL. Running is very boring, is it not? [Silence]. Why do you go? To train; training creates unity, unity leads to acceptance of change. To keep doing it, training needs a code, a way. I would call it: the barefoot way -- [so, why?] to train the barefoot way.
Along the Way: The Credits
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Above: The Credits -- De Groote Weiver, Wormerveer (last night). Lead-singer Chris Palmen, is a neighbour and seen here whilst playing with the band. Click on photo to start 'Sleepy Time'', tribute to Drakula-actor Bela Lugosi and the 1931 version of the Tod Browning and Karl Freund-film 'Drakula' - clip.
More 'The Credits': www.thecredits.nl
Undercurrent
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IJmuiden, 360° today. Structure [ team ]
Above: With Nico (the boss behind the desk) and mechanics Cees and Mike at TCY. Nico and his self-taught team are excellent car mechanics and pleasant people to deal with, located in the dunes, near the sea.
Min/max temperature: 6°C/11°C; humidity: 70%; precipitation: 0 mm; sea level pressure: 1016.14 hPa; wind: W 24.1 km/h; visibility: 10.0 kilometres; Clouds: Few 731 m., Scattered Clouds 1341 m.; Moon: Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
"[C]hilderen all over the world acquire languages with the same basic characteristics, in about the same sequence, at about the same age, almost regardless of their intelligence and almost regardless of their environment. [ This ] suggest that the basic forms of language -- the duality between phonemic and morphemic levels, the organisation of utterances into phrases, the transformation of phrase structure -- are somehow genetically inevitable. They are a model which experience can clothe, but cannot reshape. Just this was also the nativism of the Gestalt psychologists. They never argued that experience had no effects, but only that its effects were organised and determined by the deeper requirements of structure."
Ulric Neisser in 'Cognitive Psychology', page 247, first published in 1967 by Pretice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Perspective: command your brand™
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Dune/beach training, today. Foreseeing trough awareness [ devil is in the detail ]
Min/max temperature: 2°C/6°C; humidity: 100%; precipitation: 0 mm, sea level pressure: 1019 hPa; wind N 5.0 km/h; visibility: 9.0 kilometres; Clouds overcast 1493 m.
Once upon a time, in an episode of a magazine ('Elan', approx. 1991 - 1992, untraceable today): "Corporate identity is expressed trough (its) employees".
It speaks for itself; it is a proven truth.
