sculpting with soup

Monday, January 09, 2006

maple on copper beech with sky

seems to be the case when I'm not taking pictures of farmyard critters, it's trees! actually, I just enjoy making up the pretentious titles.

it seems to work this picasa.

4 comments:

Anne said...: Very striking; Wednesday, 11 January, 2006
Ian russell said...: an good old fashioned english summer that day...we'd gone cycling around the country lanes, i remember...; Wednesday, 11 January, 2006
Gary said...: Please don't tell me this is a recent picture or my winter depression will deepen! Beutiful contrast.

Oh, I see it's a summer picture. Good.; Saturday, 14 January, 2006
Finn Margrie said...: Wow, that vivd colour!; Wednesday, 18 January, 2006

mock turtle

There's a few references to photoshop. I avoided using photoshop in the beginning, it's a moot point whether it's still photography and not merely computer graphics. This idea changed when my friend and pro photographer, Anne, urged me to ''push'' my images to get the best results. Now I feel it's all about the finished image; the end justifies the means. In a way this implies photography has been devalued, and it has, but then no one has been using box cameras and silver nitrate for a while - it's progress. As long as the spirit is alive, it's still photography.

If we had never before looked upon the earth, but suddenly came to it man or woman grown, set down in the midst of a summer mead, would it not seem to us a radiant vision? The hues, the shapes, the song and life of birds, above all the sunlight, the breath of heaven, resting on it; the mind would be filled with its glory unable to grasp it, hardly believing that such things could be mere matter ... too beautiful to be long watched lest it should fade away.
Richard Jefferies, from 'Wild Flowers'

Monday, January 09, 2006

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