Sami Serola (inactive)'s photos with the keyword: garbage season

Contribution for The 50 Images-Project: Still Life 48/50 Contribution for Fridays for Future Also a pre-taste on what I am planning to do next year .

Found on the ground, close to movie theater. Notice the name of the movie. A perfect image to end my Scavenger Hunt. Although, the ticket says this is a ticket for someone with a wheel chair ("Pyörätuoli") =( See notes for more ;-) P.S. I decided to switch my earlier #35 contribution to this because the image of a poster kind of infringed copyright, and at least the main subject was not mine to share in public.

I thought I had a very clever idea what to shoot, to illustrate the concept of "ephemeral". First I planned to shoot the smoke rising from an extinguished candle. But very soon I found out, I don't have home studio equipments good enough to take a shot like that. Then I went for a long walk around cemetery, to find something like withered flowers. And I did found flowers, and plenty of other nice things to photograph. But I just was not sure if that was a good idea either. Then on my way home, some white items on the ground caught my attention. I first thought they are mushrooms. It turned out they are tossed away plastic cups. So, the story is this. First we wait approximately 100 million years to get some crude oil. We pump it out from the ground. Then we refine it into plastic, like disposable drinking cups. And finally we toss it away. A huge amount of work and effort are done, just to get a cup for a short moment of use, no longer than one hour or so. That is surely ephemeral, I think! And after all, the consequences are not...

...who cleans the mess. And if not, then it will anyway become subjectively irrelevant within hundred years.

I took this shot in 2010, to test so called "tilt and shift" editing on GIMP. I followed these instructions: www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=774