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Vista has a double meaning:
- one physical; a pleasing sweeping view,
- the other cerebral; a mental view of a succession of remembered or anticipated events
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Creating pretty and colourful scenics is fun. Sweeping beds of flowers and shrubs is one my own particular favourites.
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Equally I have a penchant for views with receding lines leading the eye into a vanishing point to create a 3D look, again underpinned with vibrant colours.
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In creating more such images recently, this has triggered thoughts of previous photo walkabouts and vistas created on those days and in those places in past times.
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Happy times, memories of people and places come flooding back. Interestingly, also memories of making the pictures themselves and the feelings it engendered at the time.
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A series of events flash by, echos of half forgotten moments, barely remembered images of past delights suddenly recalled and all because I framed a picture and pressed the shutter release at that particular instant to capture a new vista. Weird what instantly triggers your thoughts and recollections.