If you’re going to try
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Great shot! Looks like silver paper? How come I already feel like I live my life this way?
February 12, 2013 at 20:37
Thanks. Would have been nice as a print.
February 14, 2013 at 21:26
Beautiful shot…
February 12, 2013 at 21:34
Takk Drake
February 14, 2013 at 21:27
I, too, feel almost like I’m already living that way
Perfect treatment for that lovely picture.
February 13, 2013 at 02:42
You definitely went all the way: moved to far, far, far away land.
I’m still living in the over-sized kindergarden called Scandinavia.
February 14, 2013 at 21:34
…men det är ganska bra där också!
February 14, 2013 at 22:54
Herlig bilde!
ha en flott kvld!
February 13, 2013 at 18:54
Takk, det samme til deg!
February 14, 2013 at 21:35
Yes, wonderful shot – so much so that I accidentally clicked the like button instinctively! Great quote too.
February 13, 2013 at 23:07
Thank you Richard. I like Bukowski and find him very quotable
February 14, 2013 at 21:37
For some reasons, every time I see a Bukowski quote in the summary I get as an e-mail, I know – I just know – that I’ll see some genius shot.
I know the initial shot itself was nothing short of great, but might I add – what fabulous, mindblowing, fantastic post-processing!
February 19, 2013 at 06:11
Thanks for a lovely comment Kriti-ji. I’m flattered and Mr Bukowski would have been to (though he most likely would have pretended not to care).
On this and a couple of other photos I’ve been playing with some new post processing techniques (new to me that is). I’m glad that you like the result.
February 19, 2013 at 21:59
A “starving artist” Bukowski quote that I always remember. I like the scene here and the edit very much.
February 19, 2013 at 08:09
Thanks again for your support George.
February 19, 2013 at 22:00