Aminus3: Darkness

A Long Night in the City of Lights

I don’t have much to say about this week‘s Aminus3 prompt, Darkness, but at least I found an image to contribute. Last week’s prompt was Scenic, and I don’t do scenic.

I don’t like making decisions, so it took me a long to time to finally pick one. The deciding factor was that it required the least amount of figurative positioning to fit the prompt’s literal parameters.

Here’s the photo I contributed along with the two runners up and two honourable mentions.

A Long Night in the City of Lights

The lights of an ambulance move across the wall of my hotel room in Paris. The title refers to the long night for whomever needed that ambulance and the insomnia that kept me awake to record the image.

First Runner Up

Avoiding the Spotlight

Avoiding the Spotlight was recorded in Toronto and is included in the album Like There’s No Tomorrow. It’s got kind of yin-yang thing going. I like way the light cuts between the two stripes providing some depth while flattening the beam. It gives me the impression of the sweep of a spotlight that can’t reach into every nook or cranny.

Second Runner Up

The Remedy

The Remedy was recorded in Tours and included in album Good Looking. I took the title from my favourite song by the Black Crowes. I see an angelic figure rising like a phoenix in the light and demonic character lurking like a temptation in the dark, each offering a remedy for what ails. It’s a meditation on the difference between transcendence and substance and the misalignment of needs and wants.

First Honourable Mention

Rock ‘n’ Roll ain’t Light Pollution

The city lights stream through the window from all directions while getting ready to turn in for the night in our apartment in Toronto.

Second Honourable Mention

Darkness on the Edge of Downtown

Recorded in Toronto, this one’s obviously not Really Abstract but I’m feeling nostalgic and a little homesick. It’s the first time in over twenty years that I’m not in Canada for Christmas and I’m missing the people, city, and country that I love over there.