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cream of tomato
Most of these were taken on a Canon ixus400.
I've had it for four years after noticing how much fun others were having with pocket-sized cameras. It's a bit arthritic now but it's still my little favourite.
About three years after getting the ixus I bought a digital SLR and one of these days I'll learn how to use it.
chicken soup
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inspirational minestrone
Mulligatawny
cullen skink
Gazpacho
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- i want my m-me
- intimacy just curious to see if the ixus could see...
- checkers One of the old images taken with the me s...
- kids are the same the world over Ever wonder why w...
- more offcuts
- candy cane tiller some say members of an island ra...
- proof of blue sky!
- chain, grains and mickey mouse shadows
- windings
- I'm aware one of my weak points is capturing scene...
- broken I've been having a bit of difficulty upload...
- ahoy!
- crane
- hookDon't know whether it was the sharp sunlight o...
- x marks the spot
- scraping off the barnacles
- cable
- cap'n flintI was lucky to spot this bird, it's a r...
- cabin clutterproof to the contrary or exception to...
- a scarecrow(shurely, it's in the wrong story?)
- well, I had my orders!
- the colourful escape. grime, rust, algae and...ran...
- checker plate
- escape
- brick work. the odd discolouration was effective i...
- pussy knocker. when I opened a flickr account, a v...
- eyeless. okay, it's a shutter, the eye part of the...
- the flaming bush. Almost expecting to find moses h...
- holy trinity: beyond this point.Ixus has four sett...
- prohibition.such hard times in a one horse town.
- Head
- sunday shopping couple. These two passed by while ...
- amputeeSaw this on the way into town (no pun inten...
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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.
Very nearly all the images involve some photoshop but I've only tagged those that used more photoshop than photography.
Technically, I still don't use photoshop. It's Paintshop Pro Photo XI. At one tenth the cost and able to do everything I need it to, I can put the half-grand saved towards another lens.
animal crackers
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- animals (5)
- architecture (10)
- bichrome (1)
- black and white (18)
- collage (1)
- colour (49)
- EOS (27)
- flash did not fire (2)
- geometric (5)
- Ixus400 (35)
- machines (8)
- monochrome (21)
- movelet (1)
- movement (4)
- nature (18)
- pentax 35mm (1)
- people (12)
- photoshop (9)
- portrait (3)
- scanograph (6)
- scenic (16)
- still life (9)
- symbolic (13)
- town (12)
- water (7)
- womad (4)
- zakynthos (12)
filé gumbo
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
What is art? Art could be how you view life and not necessarily tied to the production of objects.
Hamish Fulton
Hamish Fulton
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'
Richard Jefferies, from 'Wild Flowers'
Photography needs more anarchists.
Anne de Haas
Anne de Haas
In our creativity, we should endeavour to make mistakes. There is nothing wrong in making mistakes; in fact it should be regarded as a creative virtue. After all, success is just an accident that occurs while we are making mistakes.
potager's proverb
potager's proverb
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
walk slowly,
take your time
and smell the roses...
take your time
and smell the roses...
pea & ham
Being a blog, photos get posted in chronological order not always in the order they're made, and never in an order which represents my own favourites, whether it's artistically pleasing, a fascinating learning process, an enjoyable day's hunting or just bloody amazing that anything turned out better than I hoped!
Also, as every picture tells a story, I thought I'd select a few images which mean more than the majority I've snapped and place them to a sub-blog, which I call Short Back & Sides, and I'll record some notes and memories, motivation and inspiration, and any other mumbles that come to mind.
2 comments:
And proof we are not birds...but left chained to the earth to fend for ourselves! But such nice other earthlings to share art with. Like you.
So glad to the the time to climb on my ladders. It is kinda heady up there. You see I knocked that one down...ladders make one crazy.
May I blogroll you? ... Thanks for the fab comment. Love your bloglinked friend "Keep the Coffee Coming" Nice one.
Smooches,
The Tart
how can i refuse after comments such as these? blogroll at your will!
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