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Excerpt from Yes'
And You And I
Watching the world, watching all of the world,
Watching us go by.
And you and I climb over the sea to the valley,
And you and I reached out for reasons to call.
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
As a movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the side of seeds of life with you.
I'm not the type to use song lyrics in a description. However, I was listening to one of my old Yes CD's on the way to a friend's house who lived in the small town of Rancho Santa Margarita. RSM is one of those odd towns, like it should have a gigantic "inspected by 49" punched on the side of every one of the steel structures. Let's go back in time, it's 1997, and Rancho Santa Margarita is a rolling expanse of brush and hills. The toll road, highway 133 is being built through the hills, and the contractors realize that their road is going nowhere. That's California for you, keeping the money flowing by building freeways through vast planes of unadulterated nature. Heaven forbid we in California have a tree that can't hear the roar of a freeway next to it.
Then some smart guy came with a great idea. Instead of build a road to a town of particular importance, let's just BUILD a town for the ROAD to go to! Wabam! A few strings are pulled, and before the environmentalists at Greenpeace could organize a protest to save ten thousand acres of trees, RSM emerges from the ground. It's probably one of California's most successful weekend projects. After all, RSM has been deemed as the number one place to live in California.
Granted, that statistic was determined by a group of yuppies and soccer moms. As for us REAL human beings, we see it as a nice town with nice vistas, yet freaks us out because there's a freaking playground at every conceivable nook and cranny. I swear, I would have to step over a bustling playground when hopping out of the shower. And not just playgrounds, but also at every possible venue, there's either a swimming pool or a jacuzzi. And with those, there's always a weight room as well. This is a town where you'd find the horror of horrors: a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks.
It's a town that just hopped out of the ground and was infiltrated by Whirlpool and Maytag to build the jacuzzis before any plans were made for housing! "I'm sorry ma'am, we must buldoze your house to make way for a public laundry room." "But sir! There's one just five doors down!"
Attention potheads. Every high school kid in this town has a dimebag, and the police are too busy pulling over El Camino's for looking too "urban" to really care.
That's the story of this town. Beautiful place, really. Wouldn't mind living there, granted that seventy-five percent of the rent is for a mountainside view. But if it's to live in a place where there's a Wendy's within spitting distance, and to have the main street Alimeda be considered a traffic nightmare because the average commute speed is only thirty-five at rush hour, it's definitely one of those jewels far away from everything. I had always wanted to do a photography session there, and just last week, I finally got the opportunity.
And You And I
Watching the world, watching all of the world,
Watching us go by.
And you and I climb over the sea to the valley,
And you and I reached out for reasons to call.
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid,
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid,
As a movement regained and regarded both the same,
All complete in the side of seeds of life with you.
I'm not the type to use song lyrics in a description. However, I was listening to one of my old Yes CD's on the way to a friend's house who lived in the small town of Rancho Santa Margarita. RSM is one of those odd towns, like it should have a gigantic "inspected by 49" punched on the side of every one of the steel structures. Let's go back in time, it's 1997, and Rancho Santa Margarita is a rolling expanse of brush and hills. The toll road, highway 133 is being built through the hills, and the contractors realize that their road is going nowhere. That's California for you, keeping the money flowing by building freeways through vast planes of unadulterated nature. Heaven forbid we in California have a tree that can't hear the roar of a freeway next to it.
Then some smart guy came with a great idea. Instead of build a road to a town of particular importance, let's just BUILD a town for the ROAD to go to! Wabam! A few strings are pulled, and before the environmentalists at Greenpeace could organize a protest to save ten thousand acres of trees, RSM emerges from the ground. It's probably one of California's most successful weekend projects. After all, RSM has been deemed as the number one place to live in California.
Granted, that statistic was determined by a group of yuppies and soccer moms. As for us REAL human beings, we see it as a nice town with nice vistas, yet freaks us out because there's a freaking playground at every conceivable nook and cranny. I swear, I would have to step over a bustling playground when hopping out of the shower. And not just playgrounds, but also at every possible venue, there's either a swimming pool or a jacuzzi. And with those, there's always a weight room as well. This is a town where you'd find the horror of horrors: a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks.
It's a town that just hopped out of the ground and was infiltrated by Whirlpool and Maytag to build the jacuzzis before any plans were made for housing! "I'm sorry ma'am, we must buldoze your house to make way for a public laundry room." "But sir! There's one just five doors down!"
Attention potheads. Every high school kid in this town has a dimebag, and the police are too busy pulling over El Camino's for looking too "urban" to really care.
That's the story of this town. Beautiful place, really. Wouldn't mind living there, granted that seventy-five percent of the rent is for a mountainside view. But if it's to live in a place where there's a Wendy's within spitting distance, and to have the main street Alimeda be considered a traffic nightmare because the average commute speed is only thirty-five at rush hour, it's definitely one of those jewels far away from everything. I had always wanted to do a photography session there, and just last week, I finally got the opportunity.
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I like this one much better than the one of the post 
The picture is interesting, and I'm torn between saying that it's boring because the same idea has been used so many times before, or saying that it's really sweet and touching for the exact same reason. I suppose people can take this picture on different levels, on the one hand it's a sweet and touching image that most of us can relate to and see as familiar and close to the heart [because many similar shots are often seen in films and such], or that its simply a recycling of old ideas. Its up to the viewer!
To be honest there's not a lot I would change about this one. There are things I could suggest you try, but I don't know whether they would work or not and for all I know, you've already tried them and found that it looks better this way. But here's my suggestions anyway. Firstly, there's a lot of space at the bottom filled with nondescript plants, you could crop this out to bring the edge closer to the figures. I would also be interested to see the figures situated a little closer to the center of the picture and the brighter light - of course this can't be changed now as the picture has already been taken but it's something that occurs to me. OR you could crop from the left and see what this would look like with the figures nearer to the edge and corner of the frame.
One thing that really bothers me is that this picture is a little askew, it needs rotating just slightly to righten it. When I clicked on this, that was the very first thing I noticed - however after looking at a picture for a while the eyes tend to adjust so perhaps you couldn't see that it was askew - I've had that problem plenty of times with my [rather poor] attempts at photography.
I'm also bothered about the border, and I've made this same comment on another of your photos so I won't repeat what I said there on this one, but I just thought I should point it out at least.
In all, this is some very nice work.
The picture is interesting, and I'm torn between saying that it's boring because the same idea has been used so many times before, or saying that it's really sweet and touching for the exact same reason. I suppose people can take this picture on different levels, on the one hand it's a sweet and touching image that most of us can relate to and see as familiar and close to the heart [because many similar shots are often seen in films and such], or that its simply a recycling of old ideas. Its up to the viewer!
To be honest there's not a lot I would change about this one. There are things I could suggest you try, but I don't know whether they would work or not and for all I know, you've already tried them and found that it looks better this way. But here's my suggestions anyway. Firstly, there's a lot of space at the bottom filled with nondescript plants, you could crop this out to bring the edge closer to the figures. I would also be interested to see the figures situated a little closer to the center of the picture and the brighter light - of course this can't be changed now as the picture has already been taken but it's something that occurs to me. OR you could crop from the left and see what this would look like with the figures nearer to the edge and corner of the frame.
One thing that really bothers me is that this picture is a little askew, it needs rotating just slightly to righten it. When I clicked on this, that was the very first thing I noticed - however after looking at a picture for a while the eyes tend to adjust so perhaps you couldn't see that it was askew - I've had that problem plenty of times with my [rather poor] attempts at photography.
I'm also bothered about the border, and I've made this same comment on another of your photos so I won't repeat what I said there on this one, but I just thought I should point it out at least.
In all, this is some very nice work.