Photography or a single image I feel often captures those treasured moments in ones life, there is nothing quite like looking back and reflecting good or bad. But I also find that just like the act of writing our collective pictures can also be a art-form. The beauty and meaning of a photo can be expressed and shared in many ways including not even using a single word but instead just seeing what it makes you feel.

While I do enjoy photography I used to share those "everyday" type images that captures just those typical day to day activities, the feedback was mostly positive and so I continued sharing these "Ulog type" photos on Steemit.

Almost every picture as a story to tell right? Or at least that is what I was often been told by some of my followers when I first started sharing photos on here, and I would have to agree with them.

Today 24/7/2024 I share this capture.

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Images By: @simonjay

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Last night I went to sleep nicely under the usual late hour, this was because of the coming very early shift starting this morning. As for falling asleep this took a little longer than usual, there was the cat knocking on the door who was quickly put in another room to settle but the real culprit was a upset stomach likely from some rice I ate at dinner. This was mostly making me feel sick making it a little difficult to initially sleep. When I did fall asleep I only woke-up to my scheduled alarm which is what I want, the alarm was set for earlier than usual to make sure I would be up on time for work. Since I had work starting very soon there wasn't any time for me to get any chores done or any tasks for my father. Instead I got ready for work skipping breakfast as I would likely get something from work, however my stomach was still hurting. I changed clothes, organised my work bag and got ready to leave. As for the weather this morning it kind of turned back to being cloudy and miserable looking, but this was just because it was the early morning as it was gradually clearing with hot bright sunshine. On the way to work is when I began to notice the sky was clearing and the sunshine was coming out which was quickly raising the temperature. Arriving to work it was clear someone was already working, I looked around and I spotted my bosses car and so I started telling myself that I will likely have to work harder this morning compared to when the superior is on the early. Not really a problem it's just this morning I continued to feel unwell of my stomach with a few times almost thinking I was going to be sick. However I thankfully started to feel better just before all the other staff was to arrive, I had a great conversation with them this morning. We mostly talked about the insane amount of crime and danger in the area with yet the government doing very little to protect it's people. There was some idiots outside the house last night, teens hanging out who seemed to be enjoying throwing bottles of water at each other??🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ and being noisy. Seriously why do these people always appear during the warmer weather, why do they have no respect for others, why out of all places does it have to be outside my home and why don't they go outside their own homes and make noise? Well obviously because their own families would likely not approve or enjoy what they hear.... and so... I think the lesson here for them is don't do it to other people! Sure we could of worked a little harder this morning but I guarantee you our boss was no fine example himself being on the phone for a whole 3 hours when it should of been a max of 30 minutes. I even heard him saying he should really hang up now 20 minutes in but instead placed another member of staff in charge while he enjoyed hiding in the office continuing his chit-chat, yes it's always one rule for them and another for us. When he did finally wake-up from the long conversation he sent me to lunch, on my return I looked into doing some of the weekly tasks. This morning I wanted to get the secondary task done which I thought I would of had time for earlier but this never happened due to a lack of help from my boss. And so instead I worked on the other task I had which from previously was sitting around 40% completion, but after this morning now at 60% when I left it. I was too tired and unwell to get much more of it done and so I was pleased to leave in hopes of getting better. Leaving work it was mostly a clear sky out with lots of hot sunshine, I checked with myself to see if I still had enough energy to go and get the printing done already for my father. I spent a chuck of the afternoon yesterday looking at the document sent and seeing what needed to be done which unfortunately involves more printing. Steem tokens continue to strangely require to be over 500 to make a trade meaning I still can't trade the required needed to help purchase my own new printer. Getting to the printing place there was only one customer and one staff member, this seemed reasonable so I told the guy what printing I needed done and he got on with it. However this took much longer compared to the previous morning where they had two girls working, which makes no sense why would you have less staff when it gets busier🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️... This didn't bother me waiting it's just I guess because I felt unwell that I wanted to get home. When I did arrive home I started with doing a few chores before it started to kind of hit me that I was tired. I took this opportunity to try and nap and I believe I managed to sleep for almost 2 hours. With this I continued with the rest of the chores but took things easy after all I have another early shift again tomorrow and don't want to feel anymore sick than I already do. I have a very early shift tomorrow and will need all the rest I can get as that shift will be a little shorter compared to todays one. I went for a shower to relax, returning I had started on some dinner and settling in for the night. On Steemit.com I'm glad to still see it working as it should, work on updating the look of the Steemit.com interface continues on for something more "modern" I was very worried about this but the changes aren't anything drastic and Alpha testing can be trialled. Hope you have a good day or night and I will see you on the next Steemit post.

Today's Picture

As for the picture today I share some flower photography, a quick disclaimer I understand that this type of photography on Steemit has a bit of a bad reputation. This is because it was often used by spammers to make like 8 posts each day.
Hopefully as you can see from my blog I'm nowhere near making 8 or more posts per day on the subject of flowers.

I believe this was captured on the way to work, just before the first actual road crossing and around this time the weather was starting to get better. But if I remember correctly this was captured in the very early morning and so for the time it would still be icy. In this particular capture you likely can't tell due to it being black and white but the stems are iced over almost frozen. However I think there is still some representation of the cold here and so giving this picture a eerie almost alien terrain like vibe to it.
Well at least I would say it does on the sleepers side of the Common Ragwort while also being put together here with the black and white I feel can give it the vibe of something you might expect to only find on perhaps another planet.

But to break from that those happy faces of the Common Ragwort can masks it to the point that many people won't even notice this as a eerie type photo.
As we can see they are in clusters with flattened flower heads, they are a food source for many insects however they are said to contains many different alkaloids and thus making these a poisonous flower to certain animals.

I still believe these are indeed the Common Ragwort flower yes and while this is likely what they are the plant itself however gives me some doubts. If you happen to know for sure let me know in the comments section below, or tell me instead what it is you think they might be to possibly win 🏆 a upvote from me.

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Other Captures

Flower Photography B&W, 6 Rose Wall

Flower Photography B&W Feestroos Rosa And Bugs Overseer

Flower Photography B&W Razor Leaf Focus

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