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[stormdog]

Twelve years since I took this photo. That's so weird.

Seeing things like this pushed me toward the master's program I chose. I still appreciate the aesthetics of them, but that program, even in the short time I was in it, cemented an understanding of the context of places like this that I think will keep me from ever wanting to photograph them again.

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[cmcmck]

I think I had the same thought!

This is looking up the interior of a Viking round towered church tower on the island of Egilsay in Orkney.

[stormdog]

That's fascinating to see; thanks!

Culturally, ruins seem to have become shorthand for a kind of beautiful and mysterious unknown. They're so prevalent in pop-culture. Danae is playing a console game called Breath of the Wild and the landscape is just chock-full of them. A friend called it a really beautiful game, and it is, but it's kind of sad too.

[sabotabby]

I can't tell if I'm reading this as "light at the end of the tunnel" or "looking up in despair from the bottom of a very deep well," and what does that say about my mental state, exactly? At any rate, love the photo.

[stormdog]

Thanks very much; it's really nice hearing that.

I do hope there's a light at the end of this tunnel we're in, and that it's not an oncoming train...