I can't believe how blue that blue is! The sky is never blue like that here. In fact, it's rarely any shade of any color even remotely resembling any hue of blue.
Oh, my god. Why do you. . . Oh, gah. Woman! You have talent! Stop thinking that you don't! 'cause liek, squee! pritty!
Okay, attempting something coherent, but no promises. Of Blue and Shadows and Autumn Trees Reflected are my favourites, I think. The colours in Blue and Shadows are just amazing- the contrast is totally stunning. I love the slight distortions in Autumn Trees, and that there are leaves floating in the reflection of the trees - It's beautiful. Love! Excited! Exclamation marks!
Well, I listened to the wrong people telling me the wrong things I guess. Photography is fun and I try to find a way to capture what I see. Sometimes it does work out, sometimes it doesn't. But Viggo once said if there is one good picture on a roll of film than that's enough. Because this one picture outweights the others, and maybe that's the way it is. Maybe you have to take a lot of pictures before getting the one you want.
Blue and Shadows was taken on the same day as the Trainride ones. I was on a roll then. The light was beautiful and very dreamlike.
Autumn Trees was slightly altered. Well, I flipped it. It was upside down before, and I wanted to make you guess whether it is a reflection or not. The leaves give it away of course.
You shouldn't encourage me so much. (No, do encourage me :D). My hubby gives me those sideway glances whenever I start another "artsy" project. He accepts it, but there's always this raised eyebrow.
Stop listening to stupid people who tell you that what you're doing isn't enough, isn't good enough, isn't smart enough. It's good. It's enough. YOU'RE enough.
I agree, about the one picture thing. I'd not heard it before, but that's sort of how I look at it. One amazing thing makes the other less-amazing things less about them not being up to snuff, and more about being part of a progress. And that's what this is right?
You were totally on a roll the Trainride day, love. And who cares if it was altered? Half my stuff is colour corrected in Photoshop because my camera's for crap, and anything shot after about three p.m. has a strange orange glow to everything.
And I'm going to keep encouraging you, man. I think that it's fantastic. There's nothing wrong with artsy projects. I firmly believe that the world isn't going to be saved by bombs and wars, by fancy treaties and men sitting in stifling rooms, but by people, by artists and singers, writers and painters. It is the one thing that truly unifies people, and I think that it is what keeps the world running, is what allows us to remain sane even in the worst of times. Art will save us all, eventually.
*blushes madly at your compliment* Thank you so much, That's what I needed to hear, I guess. I always was the one with the brains, clever, to be a doctor one day. Well, bah humbug, turned out I want to do artsy things. :) It's just hard to not back down.
My mother told me today that she was very proud of me, but asked at the same time, if I could please please write something in German, so she could read it? That was a nice change. I originally wrote "that made me happy" but really, it didn't and I'm glad. Art makes me happy. Creativity makes me happy. To create makes me happy. Getting your lovely replies makes me happy too :D But it was a nice thing to hear coming from her.
Re: altered pics: I cannot change anything except size. I'm hopeless. Working with pictures on the PC doesn't suit me. That's why I like the Trainride series. They have this dreamlike movement. I keep the strange light effects my camera wants to inflict on some pictures. Some effects are pretty. Other are... well, something I can learn from I guess. :D
And you're vision of the world? So going to happen. Artists create. I get wary and weary of the media and of politicians. Politics seem to be limited to war these days. And that's not what will change the world. The way people sit together and share their work and thoughts, that's what moves us all. We'd be fools to look the other way and ignore that. It is what helps us to remain sane, you're so right with that. It does even more than that. It preserves what happens to us for those who come after us. Thanks for sharing these thoughts. Wow. That sure got me thinking. Or rather writing down what I always felt.
Your mom. . . I'm glad that she said she was proud. That had to be validating. Admittedly, would've been more so witout the immediate "but would you. . .?" but still. Baby steps with people like that, sometimes. At the moment, you are making me happy, all with your clever and creative and pleased.
I end up having to fix everything on the PC because my camera's crap, and if I don't at least fix the levels, I end up with orange skin. Orange. Really. And while I realise that many people pay a large amount of money to be sprayed with tanning stuff, it's not very becoming to me.
I totally know what you're saying, about the politicians. I mean, barring some kind of divine or supernatural intervention, there's not going to be one great thing that's done that just magically brings us peace. There's not going to be one war to rid the world of terror, not one giant public service announcement to rid us of hate. I don't think that it's the grand gestures that wil change us. I mean, sure, grandness alters things superficially, but I sometimes think that really it builds more resentment and hate, because it's so rare that anything gets resolved without someone being steamrolled. I think that it's more the tiny gestures, the little things that half the time we don't even think about, you know? I read once that when a landslide starts, it's started by a single piece of gravel shifting. Not even falling, just shifting. Just a millimetre. But it's enough to trigger a chain reaction, and the whole thing goes. And I sometimes think that we're all little pebbles, all little pieces of gravel, and if enough of us manage to shift at once, the rest of the mountain will come down. Um. Allegory at four thirty in the morning isn't quite my strong poing, but I'm sure that you get what I'm saying.
The point, though, is that I feel strongly that the only way that there will be dramatic changes in terms of social policy or social justice will be if we all make enough small changes, enough small connections to other people, to let it grow to something larger. I think that so often, a lack of exposure to other cultures puts people off of them, makes them suspicious, and leads to. . .not hate, per se, but unrest, and it makes it easier to minimise the value in other cultures, other places. And I feel like art and music are the best way to learn about other cultures, shy of actually going and living there for a while, you know?
So I guess that in light of all that, it really depresses me that people minimise art, minimise artists. It depresses me that there's not money to fund art programs in schools, but there's plenty for football uniforms.
Also, I'm glad that you wrote down what you felt, because I think that this is fascinating, but also, it's amazingly reassuring to me that there are other people out there who feel the same way that I do, because it gives me hope that there are more people like us, and that we'll pass this on to our children, and maybe eventually there will be peace.
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Date: 2004-03-04 04:33 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing!
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Date: 2004-03-04 04:39 pm (UTC)I didn't even alter levels in PSP, I just resized all pictures.
It was late in the evening, I caught the last light of day.
Thanks for leaving a comment!!
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Date: 2004-03-04 11:13 pm (UTC)Okay, attempting something coherent, but no promises. Of Blue and Shadows and Autumn Trees Reflected are my favourites, I think. The colours in Blue and Shadows are just amazing- the contrast is totally stunning. I love the slight distortions in Autumn Trees, and that there are leaves floating in the reflection of the trees - It's beautiful. Love! Excited! Exclamation marks!
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Date: 2004-03-05 05:54 am (UTC)Well, I listened to the wrong people telling me the wrong things I guess. Photography is fun and I try to find a way to capture what I see. Sometimes it does work out, sometimes it doesn't. But Viggo once said if there is one good picture on a roll of film than that's enough. Because this one picture outweights the others, and maybe that's the way it is. Maybe you have to take a lot of pictures before getting the one you want.
Blue and Shadows was taken on the same day as the Trainride ones. I was on a roll then. The light was beautiful and very dreamlike.
Autumn Trees was slightly altered. Well, I flipped it. It was upside down before, and I wanted to make you guess whether it is a reflection or not. The leaves give it away of course.
You shouldn't encourage me so much. (No, do encourage me :D). My hubby gives me those sideway glances whenever I start another "artsy" project. He accepts it, but there's always this raised eyebrow.
But eeep, you love it. Eeep.! ♥
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Date: 2004-03-05 11:54 pm (UTC)I agree, about the one picture thing. I'd not heard it before, but that's sort of how I look at it. One amazing thing makes the other less-amazing things less about them not being up to snuff, and more about being part of a progress. And that's what this is right?
You were totally on a roll the Trainride day, love. And who cares if it was altered? Half my stuff is colour corrected in Photoshop because my camera's for crap, and anything shot after about three p.m. has a strange orange glow to everything.
And I'm going to keep encouraging you, man. I think that it's fantastic. There's nothing wrong with artsy projects. I firmly believe that the world isn't going to be saved by bombs and wars, by fancy treaties and men sitting in stifling rooms, but by people, by artists and singers, writers and painters. It is the one thing that truly unifies people, and I think that it is what keeps the world running, is what allows us to remain sane even in the worst of times. Art will save us all, eventually.
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Date: 2004-03-06 04:40 pm (UTC)My mother told me today that she was very proud of me, but asked at the same time, if I could please please write something in German, so she could read it? That was a nice change. I originally wrote "that made me happy" but really, it didn't and I'm glad. Art makes me happy. Creativity makes me happy. To create makes me happy. Getting your lovely replies makes me happy too :D But it was a nice thing to hear coming from her.
Re: altered pics: I cannot change anything except size. I'm hopeless. Working with pictures on the PC doesn't suit me. That's why I like the Trainride series. They have this dreamlike movement.
I keep the strange light effects my camera wants to inflict on some pictures. Some effects are pretty. Other are... well, something I can learn from I guess. :D
And you're vision of the world? So going to happen. Artists create. I get wary and weary of the media and of politicians. Politics seem to be limited to war these days. And that's not what will change the world. The way people sit together and share their work and thoughts, that's what moves us all. We'd be fools to look the other way and ignore that. It is what helps us to remain sane, you're so right with that. It does even more than that. It preserves what happens to us for those who come after us.
Thanks for sharing these thoughts. Wow. That sure got me thinking. Or rather writing down what I always felt.
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Date: 2004-03-07 02:09 am (UTC)Your mom. . . I'm glad that she said she was proud. That had to be validating. Admittedly, would've been more so witout the immediate "but would you. . .?" but still. Baby steps with people like that, sometimes. At the moment, you are making me happy, all with your clever and creative and pleased.
I end up having to fix everything on the PC because my camera's crap, and if I don't at least fix the levels, I end up with orange skin. Orange. Really. And while I realise that many people pay a large amount of money to be sprayed with tanning stuff, it's not very becoming to me.
I totally know what you're saying, about the politicians. I mean, barring some kind of divine or supernatural intervention, there's not going to be one great thing that's done that just magically brings us peace. There's not going to be one war to rid the world of terror, not one giant public service announcement to rid us of hate. I don't think that it's the grand gestures that wil change us. I mean, sure, grandness alters things superficially, but I sometimes think that really it builds more resentment and hate, because it's so rare that anything gets resolved without someone being steamrolled. I think that it's more the tiny gestures, the little things that half the time we don't even think about, you know? I read once that when a landslide starts, it's started by a single piece of gravel shifting. Not even falling, just shifting. Just a millimetre. But it's enough to trigger a chain reaction, and the whole thing goes. And I sometimes think that we're all little pebbles, all little pieces of gravel, and if enough of us manage to shift at once, the rest of the mountain will come down. Um. Allegory at four thirty in the morning isn't quite my strong poing, but I'm sure that you get what I'm saying.
The point, though, is that I feel strongly that the only way that there will be dramatic changes in terms of social policy or social justice will be if we all make enough small changes, enough small connections to other people, to let it grow to something larger. I think that so often, a lack of exposure to other cultures puts people off of them, makes them suspicious, and leads to. . .not hate, per se, but unrest, and it makes it easier to minimise the value in other cultures, other places. And I feel like art and music are the best way to learn about other cultures, shy of actually going and living there for a while, you know?
So I guess that in light of all that, it really depresses me that people minimise art, minimise artists. It depresses me that there's not money to fund art programs in schools, but there's plenty for football uniforms.
Also, I'm glad that you wrote down what you felt, because I think that this is fascinating, but also, it's amazingly reassuring to me that there are other people out there who feel the same way that I do, because it gives me hope that there are more people like us, and that we'll pass this on to our children, and maybe eventually there will be peace.
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Date: 2004-03-05 01:57 am (UTC)I know most of these pictures
but it's always amazing to see them again
it's nearly unbelievable how you catch the right moment.
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Date: 2004-03-05 05:41 am (UTC)Thank you! But I think the right moment catches me...
:D