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April 18, 2006
Colorado Rockies Spring Slideshow
This slideshow is composed entirely of images I shot in March/April 2006 with the Canon EOS 20D, Canon 17-85mm lens, a 67mm Hoya circular polarizing filter, and a Bogen tripod with a pistol grip. The presentation is mainly composed of outdoor landscape photographic experiments, and shots of my little ankle-biter and her friends.
This slideshow is an 23 Meg self-playing executable named desert_rose.exe created using Imagematics StillMotion PE. Soundtrack is Desert Rose by Sting, the former front-man for The Police.
Click here to download the presentation. If you have an Apple, or you're running Unix, or if you're nervous about running a .exe file from my site, then click here to download the Macromedia Flash version. The resolution is not quite as good on the Macromedia Flash version, and you can't pause and go backward and forward, but it loads faster, and it's a fairly decent presention. Click here if you need help.
Lyrics in the extended entry.
NOTE: The translated Arabic lyrics sung by Cheb Mami are located after the song's lyrics that were sung by Sting. The translated Arabic lyrics are UNDERLINED.
Lyrics:
I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my handI dream of fire
Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
And in the flames
Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desireThis desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than thisAnd now she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realize that nothing's as it seemsI dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my handI dream of rain
I lift my gaze to empty skies above
I close my eyes, this rare perfume
Is the sweet intoxication of her loveI dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my handSweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than thisSweet desert rose
This memory of Eden haunts us all
This desert flower, this rare perfume
Is the sweet intoxication of the fallI've found two different translations and am not sure which is most accurate.
* Translation 1
o It has been a long time
o And I am looking for myself and my loved one
o And I am looking for myself and my loved one
o And I am looking for myself and my loved oneo My life is for you
o And no one other than you
* Translation 2
o This is a long time
o I'm the person who loves more
o I'm the person who loves more
o I'm the person who loves moreo My life is for you and you are my life
o There's nothing else but you
o Only you
Posted by Peenie Wallie on April 18, 2006 at 11:37 PM
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