'Leaving the holiday memories behind and already fading to blur'.
by graysummers
I live eight miles from Aberystwyth so this is no actual holiday of mine. However, I was reflecting upon how my family [who all live over 100 miles away] wish to forget the unhappy knowledge that they are leaving us and will not see us for maybe another few months. I took this as if looking back, so pointed the camera over my shoulder and simply shuttered and shuddered.
Original Title 'Heartache upon Departure'.
Original Title 'Heartache upon Departure'.
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Posted 02/05/2014 - 14:46
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OK Giulio. I'm glad this title is more apt. Thankyou for your insightful considerations.
"The Latent Image that exists before development is a truly mystical and exciting entity and some subsequent individual photographs can make the spine tingle."
Good Fortune:
Gray Summers. Website www.graysummers.com
Good Fortune:
Gray Summers. Website www.graysummers.com
Posted 02/05/2014 - 17:48
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With the proviso that this is a technically poor picture it didn't stop me really liking it. Maybe I have some of that "Lomo" thing in me? I really like it. When I initially enter the website the most recent Gallery pictures are shown. It doesn't usually distract me but this picture did. Cool.
Steve
Sometimes I'm serious and sometimes not, but I consider sarcasm an artform. Which is it today?
Sometimes I'm serious and sometimes not, but I consider sarcasm an artform. Which is it today?
Posted 02/05/2014 - 20:04
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IMO a image stands by itself as the image makers' final product. If the result is visually stimulating to others, so much the better for the viewer. The only true technical skill a photographer need have is to know how to turn the camera on and which end to point. A imagery artist visualizes the world differently than a photographer. Snapshots require technical skills, Imagery art requires a artist. Blah, Blah, super image, thanks, tg
Gravelrash wrote:
With the proviso that this is a technically poor picture it didn't stop me really liking it. Maybe I have some of that "Lomo" thing in me? I really like it. When I initially enter the website the most recent Gallery pictures are shown. It doesn't usually distract me but this picture did. Cool.
With the proviso that this is a technically poor picture it didn't stop me really liking it. Maybe I have some of that "Lomo" thing in me? I really like it. When I initially enter the website the most recent Gallery pictures are shown. It doesn't usually distract me but this picture did. Cool.
"It's not what you look at that's important, it's what you see" - Thoreau
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Posted 02/05/2014 - 20:21
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Hi all,
IMO a image stands by itself as the image makers' final product. If the result is visually stimulating to others, so much the better for the viewer. The only true technical skill a photographer need have is to know how to turn the camera on and which end to point. A imagery artist visualizes the world differently than a photographer. Snapshots require technical skills, Imagery art requires a artist. Blah, Blah, super image, thanks, tg
Thanks drobbia for your support and of course you are correct in your deliberations. I look at a technically perfect photograph and it moves me not one jot sometimes. I seek solace in examples of fine work by the greats [the famous historical photgrapher iconic names]....and the greats can sometimes produce photographs that are ridiculously off centre. Yet they still manage to hit me between the eyes. The photograph above is simply a throwaway to many I should imagine. To me it is part of my feelings and memories. I took it because I wanted to express. It succeeded and for that I am happy and content.
Gravelrash wrote:
With the proviso that this is a technically poor picture it didn't stop me really liking it. Maybe I have some of that "Lomo" thing in me? I really like it. When I initially enter the website the most recent Gallery pictures are shown. It doesn't usually distract me but this picture did. Cool.
I am not a professional photographer. I do not seek perfection of imagery. I take photographs that seek meaning for myself. If others enjoy the results then that is a bonus. I am pleased you enjoyed the final whack that this example of latent imagery gave you.With the proviso that this is a technically poor picture it didn't stop me really liking it. Maybe I have some of that "Lomo" thing in me? I really like it. When I initially enter the website the most recent Gallery pictures are shown. It doesn't usually distract me but this picture did. Cool.
IMO a image stands by itself as the image makers' final product. If the result is visually stimulating to others, so much the better for the viewer. The only true technical skill a photographer need have is to know how to turn the camera on and which end to point. A imagery artist visualizes the world differently than a photographer. Snapshots require technical skills, Imagery art requires a artist. Blah, Blah, super image, thanks, tg
Thanks drobbia for your support and of course you are correct in your deliberations. I look at a technically perfect photograph and it moves me not one jot sometimes. I seek solace in examples of fine work by the greats [the famous historical photgrapher iconic names]....and the greats can sometimes produce photographs that are ridiculously off centre. Yet they still manage to hit me between the eyes. The photograph above is simply a throwaway to many I should imagine. To me it is part of my feelings and memories. I took it because I wanted to express. It succeeded and for that I am happy and content.
"The Latent Image that exists before development is a truly mystical and exciting entity and some subsequent individual photographs can make the spine tingle."
Good Fortune:
Gray Summers. Website www.graysummers.com
Good Fortune:
Gray Summers. Website www.graysummers.com
Posted 02/05/2014 - 22:17
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Putting the camera over your shoulder has given this picture the emotion you described of "departure" (sorry Giulio) an intense emotional outcome captured
Posted 03/05/2014 - 00:05
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Thankyou Maria so much for understanding the message within.
"The Latent Image that exists before development is a truly mystical and exciting entity and some subsequent individual photographs can make the spine tingle."
Good Fortune:
Gray Summers. Website www.graysummers.com
Good Fortune:
Gray Summers. Website www.graysummers.com
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