Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Almost good. I wish I’d caught my eyes…
Self Portrait again
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Gianluca Drago
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A triple (and more) portrait! This is neat and surreal, the film Inception comes to mind 
Gary R. Smith
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Mom always cut off the tops of people's heads, you've cut off the bottom. The thing is, we still know it's you...
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
A triple (and more) portrait! This is neat and surreal, the film Inception comes to mind
Oh yes, Inception was…ahem…my inspiration…ahem.
Glad you got something out of it, Gianluca! There’s something I like about it.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Or is it Einstein??
Bill Brown
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You stole my comment! I thought it could be Einstein. I think it's the very intelligent looking hairstyle. Gary, my mom did the same.
Gianluca Drago
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I think the photo is extraordinary, even with your incomplete head, @Rob MacKillop. In my opinion one the most beautiful photos of you, I keep coming back to it and looking at it again and again because it always keeps telling me something. Leaving aside the human factor (the harsh health contingency, which however is fundamental to give depth to the meaning of the photo), but even stopping at the form... the brilliance of the point of view, the geometry of the lines, the colours and the action, in short the authorial point of view, are all things that I find very interesting. Unfortunately the medium at hand (the smartphone) is what it is, and it ruins everything a bit on the graphic side. But @Rob MacKillop, I applaud your perseverance in documenting your journey and I kneel before your presence of mind in capturing the moment.
I feel sucked into the photo as if I were there, and that is a good thing.
I feel sucked into the photo as if I were there, and that is a good thing.
Ralph Turner
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I rather like the fact your eyes can't be seen - it adds more of a surreal edge to the image. Great stuff.
Gianluca Drago
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@Rob MacKillop, I realise that making an aesthetic judgement on a photo documenting a dramatic moment in your life may seem out of place, but I am sure you will forgive me.
Ralph Turner
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Btw @Rob, I admire your courage in continuing with your art where possible under these circumstances
Gianluca Drago
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@Rob MacKillop, was the lift door opening or closing at the time of the shot? Just curious.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
I’m truly humbled by your comments, gentlemen. The constraints of the phone camera could be seen as mirroring my physical restraints. Each morning this week a hospital porter wheels me to a distant room in this vast complex, where I undergo Plasma Exchange, washing the self-made antibodies out of my blood. It can be exhausting, but after three two-hour sessions I am able to swallow gulps of diluted blackcurrant juice, something I couldn’t have contemplated just last week. So, I’m happy to make the journey. I hope the progress continues to include soft foods.
The doors were opening, Gianluca. As usual, I wasn’t prepared, and only had a few seconds to line up the shot as we descended one floor.
It’s not everybody who gets photobombed by Albert Einstein!
By the way, by far the worst part is getting two tubes implanted in your neck, just millimetres from the main artery! Here is one of my favourite shots of this whole series:
The doors were opening, Gianluca. As usual, I wasn’t prepared, and only had a few seconds to line up the shot as we descended one floor.
It’s not everybody who gets photobombed by Albert Einstein!
By the way, by far the worst part is getting two tubes implanted in your neck, just millimetres from the main artery! Here is one of my favourite shots of this whole series:
Gianluca Drago
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The doors are opening. I'm glad to hear that.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Indeed!
Brian Moore
Moderator
Einstein,...? Or Darwin? Regardless of which scientific luminary it is, it's a brilliant shot. (I like the eye-less forehead looming from the edge of the frame.) I have a feeling your orderly has never seen himself from that angle.
Brian Moore
Moderator
Beautiful family portrait.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Thanks, Brian! The sunglasses were borrowed from Rhona - not quite to my taste, but it was an uncharacteristically sunny day.
Those orderly’s or porters have seen it all, and have stories to tell.
Those orderly’s or porters have seen it all, and have stories to tell.
Brian Moore
Moderator
Make nae excuses for those specs! They suite your Darwinian noggin very well indeed.
Gary R. Smith
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Other than the red and blue attachments, you look hale and hearty in yesterday's posted photo!
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Thanks, Gary. I actually had this procedure once before, back at the start of June, and the photo was from then. I’m much more haggard now!
