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All things go

            I think this may have been the only photo I made this past spring of the cherry blossom's in downtown Portland, having spent most of my attention on the cherry trees up in Seattle.  But it isn't sakura that this image makes me think of, or even spring, but rather motion.  Everything is moving, nothing is static.  Certainly this image shows the ghosts of the crowds of people as they flowed or loitered around the trees.  In some spots you can see the branches where they were blowing in the wind.  If I had stood here long enough I would have seen the sun cross the sky and the parked cars over on the edge of the frame disappear.  Longer still and I could watch the grass grow.  As would the trees.  The ground would shift, subtly heaving up or sinking down as it was wont to do.  Even longer and I could have watched buildings grow or tumble, for nothing in a city stays the same for terribly long... depending on how you measure time.  Children playing under the blossoms would become young adults snapping selfies under the blossoms would become adults watching their children playing under the blossoms.  The river would swell, maybe flooding its banks, then it would recede.  Without human intervention it would eventually carve an entirely new course and may find itself out of sight of these trees altogether.  The Earth is spinning and then it is tilting, all the while tracing an elliptical orbit through space.  The core of our sun will shrink while its outer gaseous layers will expand.  Talking about expanding, the universe itself is growing a bit more every day.  At least for the next 65 million years at which point we think it will stop "briefly" before staring to contract in about 100 million years.  And that is considered a short amount of time as far as space is concerned.  

So yeah, I love watching change, even the change I know is there but I cannot see.  I can unfortunately stand still for only so long, but it is at least long enough to dip a toe in those waters and to make an image like this that helps my imagination extrapolate beyond its edges.

Hasselblad 500C
JCH Street Pan 400
Infrared R72 filter
   

Taken on: March 25, 2022

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Camera: Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED
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