by Grryo Community | Jul 30, 2014 | Stories
The Abandoned Kingdom of Camelot by Andy Butler
I was inspired by the subject of abandoned photography by Anna Cox‘s interview with Mike Hill in Mobiography magazine back in August last year. Mike talked about the theme of the abandoned and showcased a selection of his amazing imagery from several locations including the famous Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and the Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans. The stories behind these atmospheric locations got me thinking about searching for old and abandoned locations that I could explore for myself.
It is the history and stories that lay behind a building or location and the idea that nature reclaims them that fascinates me. Inspired by this idea, I set out to find my own abandoned project. My quest led me to ‘The Magical Kingdom of Camelot’.
The Towers of Camelot
Camelot, a local theme park, was once a bustling tourist attraction. It was based on the legend of King Arthur and opened its gates in 1983. It grew in size and popularity before finally closing in 2012, due to a downturn in visitor numbers. This downturn was blamed on a combination of the UK’s economic recession and several seasons of bad summer weather. Personally I feel the extortionate entrance fees played a major role in the parks demise.
During the summer of 1991 I worked at the park so in a small way I have a fond connection to the place or at least some fun memories of doing hand brake turns in milk floats as we stocked up the various food outlets at the end of the day.
My interest in Camelot as the subject of an abandoned photographic project was ignited following a story in the local press about local opposition to the land being developed into a large housing estate. My appetite was further fueled following the discovery of a series of photographs of Camelot on the Abandoned Playgrounds website.
I had to get inside the walls of Camelot and check it out for myself before it was gone forever.
My opportunity came one spring morning which saw the day breaking to clear, sunny blue skies. My dawn raid on King Arthur’s Camelot saw me enter the park through a large hole on the fence at the back of the complex. After a short walk across a field I entered the animal centre. This was the same farm I visited with my son only four years before. Once full of life with all sorts of inhabitants roaming free, I now found it to be a desolate and empty place. An eery ghost town.
King Arthur’s Animal Centre
Leaving the animal centre, ahead of me stood the towering framework of Knightmare. Once the jewel in the crown and centre piece attraction of Camelot, this landmark was visible for miles around but now it’s steel framework stood proud and rusting.
Photographically Knightmare presented thousands of photo opportunities everywhere you looked but there was an air of sadness to see it in such a state. Four years previously it had been full of screaming and had a buzzing atmosphere but now it was quiet and bleak with its only customers being the birds and rabbits.
Your Worst Knightmare
As I headed deeper into the kingdom of Camelot I came across the Dungeons of Doom. The dungeons was a small ghost ride of sheer terror which as I remember wasn’t actually a very scary experience. However, in its now abandoned and derelict state it presented a much more eery atmosphere with plenty of photographic opportunities to be had.
Dungeon of Doom
Onwards my quest led me to the jousting arena which in its day played host to daily displays of jousting and swordsmanship before a baying crowd of onlookers. King Arthur would sit on his thrown, observing the battles between the red and black knights. Again, four years previously I was part of that crowd. I have fond memories sat with my son as the court jester entertained the crowds.
King Arthur’s Jousting Arena
As the sun broke over the trees I began to make my way back through a small village once ladened with souvenir shops but again an air of sadness engulfed the place as the memories of a vibrant atmosphere long faded into the distance of time.
Camelot Village
The thing that struck me about shooting an abandoned location is the unique atmosphere it presents. It has memories embedded into the fabric its being. There is a contrast between something that was once proud and majestic against something that is now decaying and neglected as the passage of time and nature takes over.
This was my first experience of shooting an abandoned project and the first of many I hope. I have since returned to Camelot on several occasions and intend to a few more times before it is gone forever.
The path to the Arena
by Josh St. Germain | Jul 29, 2014 | Stories
To understand where Chloe is now you need to understand where Chloe began her journey and where it is headed. The Reinvention of Chloe is a collaborative effort by much of the Grryo team to realize a dream our dear friend Ale began before his death. We do hope you enjoy the journey.
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All that remained within was nothing
Nothing
She looked inward into this nothingness and saw freedom. There was now nothing in her way. Walking through the ashes of the pain inside of her she was a feather awaiting a summer breeze.
Nothing suddenly became everything
Nothing. Everything. Chloe was reborn
As she turned and took that first step, a phoenix, she was reborn from the ashes of ink and paper smoldering in her shadow.
That was the deepest breath Chloe had taken in years
by Grryo Community | Jul 28, 2014 | Stories
Harness the Spark
How It’s Done, An Interview with Brandon Kidwell by Mike Hill
M – Introduce yourself!
B – Hmmm… I guess I would describe myself as a normal guy with an abnormally overactive imagination. I’m from Jacksonville, Florida, US but I’ve lived all over the states including Maryland, California, Missouri, and the Chicago area as well as many friends couches off and on for a few years in my late teens, early 20’s. I’m a happily married guy with three incredible kids, a mini farm and I work in Financial Reporting for a large company. I daydream often and my wife would say I’m still a child at heart (or in everyday actions).
To Find Truth Sometimes You Have To Reach Into The Darkness
M – Right? Nothing wrong with being a big kid, guilty! But your artwork is that of a seasoned veteran. I’ve seen both straight photography to very edited from you, both done with precision. Do you prefer one over the other? And do you have a photography background?
B – Oh man, thanks, that really means a lot. I don’t have a photography background which I think is why I enjoy all styles of photography. I feel like I’m still green so I want to be a sponge and absorb all that I can learn about photography while leaving myself outside the confines of labeling or styles. This is really just a way to fulfill a creative need and express myself while hopefully learning more about myself and the world around me through photography. I don’t want to close any avenues and explore all roads because you never know, some of the photos I tried that felt completely foreign or unnatural at first, later became some of my favorites and pushed me into areas I was once uncomfortable with. I think that over time I’ll find my vision and my photos will become more consistent.
Morning Battles
M – Nice, that’s a good attitude, and I always say that photography is better approached as a hobby. On Instagram, your part of a group called Silhouette Creative, what can you tell us about it?
B – Silhouette Creative is a great Instagram community that consists of some incredible and inspiring friends. Jonny @jonnylove8js, Elaine @sunflowerof21, Marko @mmmarac, Jeff @postaljeff and Jess @jess1fer are all my talented teammates. The group started with a conversation with Jeff after he saw a few images I started tagging #silhouette_creative from my old Instagram feed (now gone). I was using the tag because the only time I had to shoot was on the way to work or on the weekends before my wife and kids woke up. Living in Florida I naturally compiled a ton of silhouettes and started getting very creative with them and wanted to organize them. From there Jeff tagged a few of his photos and shared the tag. I had a conversation with Jonny who also shared my knack for getting creative with silhouettes and @silhouette_creative (SC) was born in mid 2013. Jonny and I featured Elaine then naturally asked her to join. SC wouldn’t be the same without Elaine, she keeps us organized and focused, I’d say if we were a company she’d be our COO. We added Marko shortly after, he is a true artist and has an incredible eye for aesthetics. Jeff was later added and brought his creative genius to the team. Jess was the latest addition who’s talented and uplifting attitude was a perfect fit. We never wanted SC to be anything other than what it is, a community that likes silhouettes of all kinds. We don’t use tags or promote, we just like to celebrate and help share artists that inspire us and hopefully help others make some connections.
Driftwood Sunrise
M – Speaking of Instagram, you deleted your profile a few months ago, then after a while started a new one. Why? You and I pretty much agree on what Instagram has become, but what made you decide to come back?
B – I love the connections I made through Instagram, it’s where I found photography because I didn’t have the time or the money before my iPhone to enjoy and learn to capture and create in such a convenient way, it made it all accessible. On the other hand I got caught up in the “Instagram” of it all. The influence of what’s popular on Instagram started bleeding into me and I didn’t see it until I had to take a break for Thanksgiving last year. I noticed that I wouldn’t post a picture because it didn’t look right on my feed or was reluctant to post something I didn’t think was popular. In a sense, I took a step back and felt I lost my way. I had no purpose and no end game for photography or Instagram, it was merely a way to record scenes I thought were interesting, capture my corner of the world how I see it or create an image that conveys an emotion or a story I want to tell. I stopped doing that and started just taking what I thought were just pretty pictures that had no significant meaning to me. After I deleted my feed I started up on Flickr and iPhoneArt, and got much more involved in AMPt and started my own website to organize my photography (I’m very inconsistent and open to any style that fits the emotion or image). Through these communities I found my way back to why I was interested in photography in the first place and fell in love all over again. When I rejoined Instagram it was with the intentions of following all of the people that inspired me from my prior feed and occasionally posting to advertise for WeAreJuxt (now GRRYO) or AMPt and help support the communities I enjoy, but I found myself posting more and more over time but using Instagram just as a tool to share and connect, a means, not an end.
Devan
M – My introduction to your photos started with your double exposure work, this was back before everyone was doing it, now it’s EVERYWHERE. There’s a lot of ‘follow the leader’ in photography, and specifically in the Instagram circles. What inspires you to stay creatively forward thinking, and not getting mixed up in the latest artistic trend?
B – I try to make it a point to step out of my comfort zone and try something new or let myself be open to try new things, sometimes they turn out better than you could have imagined and open you up to new realms of creativity. Honestly, the double exposure interest has always been there but it was at the time that I deleted my Instagram feed that I took the time to play around with some photos and ran across a tutorial for a double exposure setting within the Canon Mark III, and I thought I could mimic that within Filterstorm, and was hooked. I wouldn’t have found that if I didn’t take a step back to clear my expectations and open myself up. I think no matter what is trending if you are creating something that’s meaningful to you it will show in your work and it will be original. I think it’s a great idea if you feel you’re in a rut to clear every photo from your camera or your phone and just go for a walk or a drive, rediscover the world with a blank slate and clear eyes.
Where Is My Mind?!?
M – I agree, and do the exact same thing where I clear all photos and start over. It helps to reboot. You recently had a new addition to the family, the birth of your new boy. Congrats again! With the birth of Brayden, has that changed your creative flow?
B – I can say he’s been the greatest distraction from my creative process I could ask for. He’s definitely inspired me to create but I don’t want to miss anything so I’ve kept the phone and my cameras on charge more and left the exploring and photo adventures for another day. I look forward to seeing everything fresh through his eyes in the coming years. Our two oldest and myself are a bunch of kids at heart. My wife is great and enjoys the fun with us but she’s our ground control, keeps us on earth from time to time, she’s incredible. I’m sure my photos will be filled with cute and silly stuff with lots of family for a while. In the meantime I keep busy with random photos when convenient, I’m always shooting something.
Lil Dragon
M – You and I have spoken many times about the significance and future of mobile photography, specifically the term “mobile photography”. Do you think it will last as a separate thing, or will it all eventually merge into just photography?
B – I’m not really sure where my photography will go but my interest in photographing people is growing. I’m not sure what that really means but there is something about a well done portrait that is starting to speak to me more and more as I grow with my photography. I think that we will see compromises on both sides until it merges eventually into one field. Right now the mobile cameras cannot compare to professional cameras but they have the advantage of being portable and more versatile in situations that you wouldn’t have a professional camera. I know there is a lot of discussion about this right now but that happens anywhere there is change. I’m sure DSLR’s were frowned upon for die hard film lovers when they hit the market and mobile is just the latest evolution. I think the term mobile will eventually lose its distinction and we’ll all be equipped with devices that any photographer or digital artist can use anywhere. I think it’s empowering and limiting at the same time depending upon what school you come from. There is an indubitable art to shooting with film like there is a DJ still spinning vinyl. I think how we do something becomes a different kind of appreciation for the artistic process but at the end of the day it’s all about the finished product, the story and how well it’s captured and translated through your art either for yourself or to an audience.
Uncovered Truth
M – Man you sound just like me, haha that’s a scary thought huh? I’ve said pretty much the same thing. It’s good to know someone thinks the same way and isn’t afraid to admit it. Thanks, dude, for taking the time to shoot the shit with me once again. In closing, is there anything else you wanna say?
B – You know what they say, great minds and all that haha. Thank you, Mike, for letting me share a bit about myself. I don’t think of myself as overly interesting but I hope if you’re reading this you walk away with something new. I’ll take a note from the gentleman Ben Staleys book and leave you with a quote.
“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is proof that he exists”. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Dragon Boat Racing Along The St. Johns River
Thanks for reading. You can find more of Brandon’s amazing work these places:
Website // AMPt // EyeEm // Instagram // Grryo
by Josh St. Germain | Jul 27, 2014 | 1000 Words, Josh St. Germain, Stories
Welcome to the eighth edition of the GRRYO 1000 Words Facebook Showcase! Since the creation of the Facebook group, we have seen it grow and watched inspiring work being posted daily. We are happy to be able to showcase some of the outstanding work that is being shared.
GRRYO believes that mobile photographers/ artists tell stories through the photographs/ images and art that represents their families, their environment, themselves. This is important because of the level of communication that is portrayed in imaging today.
We want to support the mobile arts community by having a place for artists to share, discuss, and critique (if requested by individual). These dialogues help the individuals and the community to grow.
We look forward to you and your art. We thank you for your contribution to the mobile photography/ arts community. To submit your work click here.
This month’s submissions showed us that the quality and creativity of our artists is growing exponentially and shows no signs of stopping! Last week my wife and I were happily surprised with the birth of our son… 10 days earlier than expected! Due to my time spent in the hospital and getting us settled in back at home, I was unable to give my selected artists the usual amount of time to submit the stories behind the images I had selected from the group. Due to this, there were a few that were unable to meet the short deadline. So, I am asking our audience to please take a few moments to go view the GRRYO – 1000 Words Facebook Showcase – Submission group and see the brilliant work being submitted.
Thank you as always for the participation and support!
“She Thought She Was Safer This Way” by Meri Walker
EyeEm // Website // Flickr // Blog
Apps used : longexposure, cameramatic, afterlight, afterfocus, mextures
After four years, making photographs and paintings with my iPhone remains one of the strangest things I do. I say this because when I go walking with my phone camera, what I’m doing is waiting for a call.
The experience of walking with any camera in hand has always felt to me like a kind of “hunting” and being hunted – at the same time. But, from the beginning, walking with my iPhone, with no special lenses, no extra filters, no “gear,” I have felt free, like a child, to look and listen for someone/something to call me – without words.
“She Thought She Was Safer This Way” started with me and my dog, Blaze, walking along Bear Creek late in the afternoon. It was early in June and the long low light filtering through the fresh green leaves was highlighting patches here and there in the gathering dark. Giant thistles had begun fluffing out and the one in this shot was lit like she was on her own little stage. I stopped to watch the wind blow her and was surprised to see that nothing happened to her hairdo. I climbed over some vines to get closer and made several shots from different positions, using LongExpo to gather all the light and detail I could in the low-light situation. The more shots I made, the more I noticed how tough her helmet of hair was.
Many of us who love plants but aren’t botanists carry around fanciful notions that these thistles are soft, sweet and feminine, standing passively in fields, waiting for a child’s soft hand to pick them and blow their seeds to the wind. However, spending time with this little beauty, she used my phone to tell me that her 360-degree helmet was more like armor than some gauzy, fancy-girl headress. At this stage of life, I could easily identify.
When I got home and looked carefully at the images, I imported the best shot into Cameramatic, a quirky little square-format app I recently learned about from Eloise Capet that has some interesting black-and-white films and lenses. Then I used Afterlight and Afterfocus to bring up contrast and clarity in the thistle structure and suppress detail in the surrounding areas. helped add a little unifying texture without compromising the detail.
As is so often the case for me, as I approached the end of the apping process, I heard the image title whispered into my right ear. It almost doesn’t freak me out anymore when an image calls me with its title. It’s like a little blessing. As I said, having a camera in my phone – and a phone in my camera – remains one of the wierdest experiences I’ve had in this life.
“Enlightened Men Always Escape” by Stephane Vereecken
Website
The “Enlightened Men Always Escape” picture was created in the studio with two models. Then reworked on photoshop touch for duplicate characters and add prison bars, hand-drawn. And this is Repix and Snapseed applications , that were used to process the image.
I worked for about two years with models wearing masks to express deletion of the individual and of the human person, crushed by the mass of people on earth. The individual alone and lonely is no longer possible … We are part of a greater whole and our move is watched constantly.
I am also at this time, actually going to make some experiments on social networks for this purpose. And it’s very interesting how people react.
This is my new lab.
This picture shows the characters imprisoned and only a person realizes that he can escape. Because this person, who has a clear face, and light out of his head, is the only one with knowledge. And because without knowing things in life, and the world, it remains in place and imprisoned.
And masks monkeys bring us back to our beastly origins and prehistoric.
We must escape and then show the way for others.
“The City Without You” by Aldo Pacheco
Flickr // EyeEm
the title came after I almost finished the edition and because my love ones are on a trip back home (Lima Peru). express for me some kind of sadness, the sensation of not to being with them for a month and a song of one of Joaquin Sabina (spanish singer/song writer) “Calle Melancolia” (Street Melancholia) that talks about a lonely person that life in that street and he wants to move to the Street Happiness, but always is to late… anyway…. it’s a city without you
Edition :
The photo edition starts with 2 different photos, the first on is a selfi of me and my daughter (Sabina) at the airport the day they left and the second one was of some mechanic games at a ribfest fair in Toronto. For both of them I used Clever Painter app to get the thick brush. I worked also with the selfi in Repix with Drips and Spray edition tools.
In iColorama I combine and mix the second (after and third photo, and re-combine the result with the previous one. as a result of that we got the “buildings”. Next step was the drawing lines done with Scketchbook Mobile app. Finally Snapseed for image tuning, crop, grunge and retroflex filter
“At Days End” by Rob Depaolo
This image was taken at Salisbury Beach Reservation in Massachusetts earlier this summer while walking the shore with my family one evening.
As I was taking various shots, this young girl walked down into the water before quickly turning and running back out. There was something about how she was approaching the water with caution at first that grabbed my attention. I snapped away and managed to get this one image that really captured the feel of the moment.
All editing was done in Filterstorm Neue on my iPhone (the shot was originally taken with PureShot). I cropped the image in a bit to better frame the girl, converted to black and white and made a few typical adjustments to the levels and contrast. I used the clone tool to remove a part of another person that remained in the left side of the frame. Finally, I added a bit of vignetting (I love a vignette!) and that’s it! I like to keep thing relatively simple in my editing workflow.
“Safari” by Kathy Clay
This image was inspired by a recent trip we took to a Game Lodge near Kruger National Park in South Africa. The experience was amazing. We went out twice a day in open jeeps and saw more animals than I ever imagined.
I took hundreds of photos and the one thing that was constant in many of the photos was the back of the Trackers head (his name was Peter). He sat on a small fold up chair attached to the front of the jeep. I tried to capture the beauty and silence of the open savanna in the photo.
The apps I used we’re Superimpose, Snapseed and IColorama.
“Tubos” by Patricia Larson
Instagram // EyeEm // Flickr
Photo taken with iPhone 5s
This photo was taken at my work, this structure belongs to a machine that generates electricity with gas, daylight shines on the structure with much sunshine. It did not require any editing, just put it in black and white with the filters of camera+
App used : Camera +
“Turn Away Before He Sees You” by Andrea Koerner
Instagram // Flickr // Website
This photo came about when another mobile photographer reminded me about the double exposure feature of Hipstamatic. I’ve always loved Hipstamatic and it turns out the double exposure feature is terrific for the self portraits I love to do. This one was done using the Hongdae HipstaPak(Yoona lens and Blanko 012 film). One of my favorite combo for taking photos of flowers in a vase. This one was a self portrait double exposed with a flower that was past it’s prime. The title came about from the intensity of the eyes in the photo.
by Grryo Community | Jul 25, 2014 | You Are Grryo
a Beginning, a Middle, & an End by Miranda Kelton
My name is Marie.
I thought about not mentioning it, because at first I imagined that my choosing to remain nameless would help add to the overall sense of anonymity that appears to have become my role in this book. Maybe it’d leave more creative room for those attempting to interpret my character, I thought. But then, as I considered the idea more, I decided that perhaps knowing what I’m called could help someone feel like I’m personable. More relatable, I suppose. Maybe they’d connect with the material more.
This is my story, and I don’t know why I’ve written it down.
Torrance, Los Angeles, CA.
Summer, 2012
Chapter One
I stared at my right hand and watched it shake uncontrollably.
Completely neurotic.
I held my fingers up to the window and watched the sunlight reflect off of the vibrating tendons underneath my skin. I’d always been sickeningly fascinated with myself in these moments of mental/physical disconnect where I had no control over my own mind or body. I felt guilty for that sometimes, but it had never stopped me from reacting any differently.
I could tell my muscles were tensing, preparing to cramp at any given moment. I took my left hand and mashed the heel of it over my right down onto the windowsill. The smothered hand twitched, resisting, but I could feel the spasms releasing and after a few moments, the quivers stopped. Cautiously, I removed my left hand and bent down to watch my right, anticipating the moment when it would start again.
My hand looked smushed and dead, like an air – drowned fish. It even acted like a drowned fish. Well, a fish in the process of drowning. Except that it never completely died. It always came back to life when you least expected it to, right when you thought the fight was won and over and it was safe to leave it alone on the river bank. That’s when it would start to flop again, desperately trying to fling itself down into the river before you could notice that it hadn’t died yet, regardless of the fact that you’d beat it over the head with a rock more than just a few times.
Fish. I used to have a fish. It was blue and it sparkled and I used to sit and watch it just as I sat watching my hand now, waiting for it to speak to me or attack or do something drastic. The difference here was that I had trusted my fish, it never did anything unexpected, only swam in circles and tread water behind the fake green water plants.
I picked up my index finger, bent it, then slowly moved my wrist up and down until I felt relatively confident that my hand had stopped shaking for the moment.
I clenched that hand into a fist, flexed, and clenched again. Pressure.
I took a deep breath, and moved both of my hands out of the sunlight.
TBD SCENE: (Chapter Number Yet Unknown)
I vaugely wondered what the world would be like if people’s ceilings were all painted a greenish – blue color. You’d always feel as if you were underwater, safe from being pummeled by waves and ships and wind and everything that goes on above the surface. Yet, at the same time, it might make you feel like you were suffocating, that you would never be able to twist upwards enough to escape the constant canopy of silent color.
“Tell me something, will you?”
I blinked, and my imaginary ocean was absorbed by the swirling cloud of smoke that now slid over my head.
“Why aren’t you up on a gallery wall, or getting your illustrations published in books? How come you’re not traveling the world, and using your artwork as a way to advance your life?”
Momentarily, I wished I was deaf. I inhaled slowly, and the airborne smoke was drawn downward in a funnel, even closer to my face. I liked to see how close I could pull it without breathing any in. I looked for my sea-ling again, but it hadn’t come back yet.
Exhaling reluctantly, I propped myself up on my left elbow in bed, pulling the covers over my bare shoulders. I didn’t feel cold, I just felt uncomfortably vulnerable, especially with the question i’d just been asked.
He blew another cloud of smoke into the air, and i watched him reach his fingers out towards my face through the haze. I smiled, just because I felt like I should.
There it was. Deep, blue-green and constant. Denny’s eyes looked up at me with a trusting, curious expression. I knew I must have looked distant as I stared back, but I tried to hide it by laughing nervously and burying my face down into the surface of the bed.
Black. Black, dark, and suffocating. Yet somehow, safe.
I felt Denny’s fingers on the top of my head, and he slowly trailed them down the back of my neck and back up again. I felt chills running across my stiffened shoulders, and I did my best to swallow the slight uneasiness that automatically rose up in me. I usually hate to be touched.
But this wasn’t really happening, no one would ever know. So it was okay to let someone in for just a little bit. Just this once. It wouldn’t hurt.
“Really, why? You’re more than good enough. You know you’ve got more talent than anyone, than all of the halfrate, egotistical, self-proclaimed artists you see everywhere, all trying so hard. Why are you spending your life being someone so normal, when you’re clearly miles above everything you do for a living now?”
He didn’t say it in an accusatory tone, but I still felt accused. I came out of my cave and flipped over on my back. I tried not to look at the ceiling, or think about drowning, or swimming, or anything but this moment.
I stayed silent for another few seconds, trying to think of something to say that would make sense. I felt trapped, like I couldn’t move. Everything but my head was underneath the blankets, and I wasn’t touching anything but the bed I was lying on. Detached, as always.
I pulled together my scattered thoughts and rolled over to look him straight in the face. “Den,” i ventured – “Are you going to tell anyone?”
Denny bit the end of his cigarette and dropped it in the stale waterglass that sat on the windowsill. He looked serious, concerned. Too involved, really. “What, about this? About us?”
He reached out and brushed the hair back from my face. Why are men so obsessed with touching things? I nodded my assent and he pulled his hand back. “Do you not want me to? Tell anyone, that is? I don’t have to if you’d rather I not.”
I couldn’t tell if he felt hurt, confused, or both. “It’s not like that,” I said, in what I hoped was a reassuring tone. “Besides, I’d never want you to feel like I was asking you to hide anything, or that I was ashamed of you.”
His fingers began tracing the folds in the sheets as he broke our eye contact. Den was definitely unsure of what I was asking him. I had lost sight of the ocean again and realized I was probably saying all the wrong things.
I just wanted him to kiss me as if he wanted me. “It’s all complicated,”, I responded. “And I’ll never want to talk you out of me, so I’ll never want to talk about it.”
This wasn’t supposed to be a love story, after all.
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Miranda Kelton
Website // Instagram // Flickr // Facebook // Twitter
I’m Kelton. I make things and I like carrot cupcakes and Frank Sinatra and photographing jungles. I am an Artographist, which basically means that I try and do it all.
Visit my website – www.keltonkat.com – to learn more about the types of work I do, read an extended artist statement, and find out all about every project that i’m currently working on.
