Category: Photographs
Photography is another great love of mine. I got my first DSLR over a decade ago and have been teaching myself ever since (though now I’m a mirrorless man). Most of my photos are from travel and sport matches, but I do try to capture the odd street photo with my iPhone.
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A Steaming Pulse That Is Undetectable
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) It was only after he crossed the river into the open country that he realized how much heat was pulsing below the asphalt veins and arteries of the city. The temperature cooled noticeably as he moved further and further away from a steaming pulse […]
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I Felt Bad For Not Liking Them
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) For years I allowed the world – or, worse: my idea of the world – to define me. My sense of self came not from within but from the people around me; people I didn’t understand, couldn’t trust and some of whom I just […]
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There Was No Light As He Walked
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) The odor of beer and piss slowly gave way to that of day-old seafood scraps. There was no light as he walked and the adjustment from neon glow to darkness made him feel as though he was quite literally seeing red. A single light […]
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The Peace Here Was A Fragile One
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) The peace here was a fragile one and the tranquillity of those gathered relied upon it. Departures upset the balance but rarely to the point of calamity. New blood was always recruited quickly and new life was thereby breathed into a community that could […]
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Benevolent Forces Pulling Strings
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Happiness was an elusive pursuit in which he invested negligible energy. At certain milestones of age as a number and ageing as a process he was prone, as so many are, to take stock of his achievements or lack thereof. At any given time […]
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Merry Christmas!
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Merry Christmas!
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I Knew How To Make It Go Away
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Her eyes were raw and red as if she’d been crying for hours but there had been no tears even five minutes before. “Just… give me a second.” She gathered herself, mostly through blinking and staring at the floor again. When she started to […]
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It Was Not Empathy
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Sometime in the last year he had discovered an obvious truth that had escaped him in his youth: adults are little more than children that have grown up and mostly learned how to cover up the insecurities that continued to plague them. Some use […]
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A Moment Too Late
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) He arrived just a moment too late.
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So Delightfully Otherworldly Yet Rhythmic
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) She was tired of fighting. Every single day was just a monotonous record playing on an endless loop, inspiring in her only the urge to lift the needle and return it to the cradle. The train was always this platform. At the other end […]