Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Directions to the Future

Arrows on Road Pavement, Charleston, SC  © Doug Hickok  All Rights Reserved




Deciding which direction to take in life
 is a guessing game... 
and there are no arrows pointing the way
as there are on a highway.

 But suppose you have a time machine, 
like the one in the H.G. Wells story,
 that can spin you into your future... 
so you can see where you have been
and all the turns you have made.

 Would you take a different turn along the way
if you had a second chance?



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15 comments:

  1. Duncan D. Horne - the Kuantan bloggerNovember 28, 2012 at 12:25 AM

    Good day Doug,

    I'm sure we would all do some things differently if we could, but that would take away the learning experiences of bad choices or events, which are equally as necessary as the good ones. Don't you think?!

    I like the angle and colours of your photo.

    Duncan In Kuantan

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  2. yzNovember 28, 2012 at 4:23 AM

    exactly :)

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  3. JoeNovember 28, 2012 at 5:54 AM

    An interesting conundrum Doug. If we learn from our mistakes we would do things differently but if we don't make the mistakes we don't learn and that would make for a dull existence.

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  4. ChristopherNovember 28, 2012 at 7:41 AM

    Ah, this is the great question right? I love the color and texture in this shot but the orientation is super-cool. It's like a decision tree at this angle. Excellent!

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  5. píxeles y neuronasNovember 28, 2012 at 9:59 AM

    Fantastic textures and tones. Nice diagonal.
    Agustín.

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  6. georgeNovember 28, 2012 at 10:03 AM

    An abstract shamrock perhaps?

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  7. franzNovember 28, 2012 at 1:38 PM

    ah, the misery of deciding ... and the eternal question "where to go next" (incidentally, i let emilia ask the same question today ... ;-)
    thanks for visiting and your good wishes, doug! the treatment is doing wonders for me, but the fog persists ... and offers all kinds of wonderful photo opportunities (more of which later ...)!

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  8. john4jackNovember 28, 2012 at 7:54 PM

    neat

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  9. Andrew Graeme GouldNovember 29, 2012 at 3:35 PM

    Firstly the image, Doug. This is a wonderful example of "found art" the way you've presented it so colourfully here! As for your question, who know where life could have taken us? (All right... it wasn't really an answer, I know!)

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  10. ArndNovember 29, 2012 at 5:25 PM

    That’s an awesome abstract you got here! The blue hues are pretty amazing.
    I recently saw a play by Max Frisch at the theater. The protagonist was given the chance to re-live the key moments of his life in order to alter his fate. Interestingly, he could not give his life a new direction; he made the same (faulty) decisions again.

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  11. E.L.T. PhotographyNovember 29, 2012 at 9:28 PM

    Beautiful

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  12. theys rolandNovember 30, 2012 at 4:44 PM

    Fantastic textures good shot Doug.

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  13. Traveling HawkDecember 1, 2012 at 4:59 PM

    The structure of the pavement makes it be like a stelar way in Enterprise!

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  14. London CallerDecember 2, 2012 at 6:14 PM

    Oh I love the Time Machine!
    But I would like to travel forward to the future.
    Past is past.
    What's done cannot undone.
    The unknown is definitely more exciting.
    Time paradox is another interesting thing I like. :o)

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  15. DomLOrthaJanuary 3, 2013 at 10:48 AM

    Gorgeous blue! Nicely seen!
    Have a nice day.

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