sculpting with soup: rambles about town

Monday, August 28, 2006

rambles about town

'tis the end of august and this, the final bank holiday weekend before christmas, and i'm trying not too hard to get the winter blues. it's my perception that the oddments of time we pick over, after everything else has devoured its share, do not amount to enough hours to inspire great creativity.

also the weather is conspiring against us this weekend; the diminishing patches of blue sky wrestle with the grey billowing clouds and the air smells faintly of rain.

i have an art course beginning next month and, with thoughts of this, i walk into town to buy pencils and stuff, and gather these few images on the way.

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, August 28, 2006

rambles about town

ian russell"s photoblog

cream of tomato

chicken soup

inspirational minestrone

Mulligatawny

cullen skink

Gazpacho

mock turtle

animal crackers

filé gumbo

pea & ham