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In viewing photos online at Flickr and I am always amazed and ever so grateful for those that take the time to photograph the celebrations, the environment and the history of where they live or the places they have visited. The beauty and art developed via film never ceases to amaze me.
If it were not for photos, I would never see the beauty of France or Egypt or Greece and places that I otherwise never dreamed I might visit. Photos have a way of fulfilling some level of our dreams and curiosities.
- When we want to visit a country and have no idea where to start, photos help us determine the route best traveled.
- When budgets or time prevent us from making a long journey to the other side of the world, photos can bring the place of our desire to our computer desktop, in the comfort of our home.
- Photos do participate in
the shape of our world. Without them, would we know what was happening
in another part of the world as quickly as we do today? Could you
visualize a tropical beach if you had never seen one? Through a verbal
explanation and some imagination you could.
Photography has been around for a long time and thanks to our ancestors, we have visual glimpses of their lives saved in our genealogical archives, whether personal or displayed in museums.
Many of us photograph as a hobby; some make a living as professional photographers; and many of us photograph for the family memories or the pocketbook picture cache known as 'brag books' of our babies and grandchildren. The traditional photo album has been replaced by picture scrap booking where glitter and glam can be added to the photo book pages to further enhance the story behind the photo.
What intrigues us to photograph? Why are we enticed to take snapshots of our vacations, childhood birthdays, holidays, pets, sunsets, sunrises, flowers, oceans, lakes, streams, fields, old barns, new houses, our first car, a teacher, and more? Is it because we love to share our memories with others and there's no better way, shy being there first hand?
Undoubtedly, photographs connect us with the world. Many of us can attest to sharing photographs via email and world wide web photo sharing services since the creation of digital cameras, computers, CD's and smart cards. What a wonderful technological advance for imagery.
When you're driving down a country road, you see a beautiful landscape and comment how pretty that old barn looks in the center of what is now a field of wild flowers, and against that beautiful blue sky. Darn! Did you forget the camera? Why do you desire to capture that scene on film when you have the beautiful memory of being 'in it' for the moment.
I'm not saying that we should be grateful for 'that moment,' but rather questioning why we are moved to saving it.
Photography is an art form and can be mastered by anyone. All photos carry expressions of art whether they were taken with art in mind or not. They express human interaction with nature and the people around them. Photography captures smiles, frowns, space nebula, planets; and offers a wealth of information in crime scene investigations.
What would we do without it? We know what our ancestors did. They painted, carved and built their visions. Some of the world's most profound and creative painted art originated before the era of photography; and some still exists on the walls of caves, temples and other ancient ruins.
Just food for thought.... What are you thinking when you are framing your subject(s) in your camera's lens for a photograph? Art? Memories? Beauty? Aperture setting and shutter speed don't count in this question. ;)
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I made this a couple of weeks ago but it's been a favorite of mine.
Yo! Haven't been at my blog for a few days. Did ya miss me? ;) Jez checkin.
Where did I leave off? .... oh yea, was working on some images and got side tracked with some other images and some more Flickr art challenges like this one.
And this one...
Otherwise, life is as usual except the recent ice storm added some beauty to the day regardless of the havoc it's wreaking on community power lines and more. Beautiful 50 degree weather over the weekend and a sudden plunge yesterday created ice rain and still no snow to speak of. But I'm perfectly ok with that in case you were wondering. I do, however, worry about those oranges in L.A. 20 degree temps and ice like this...
covering the fruit will be a big concern to our grocery budget. The photo is from a tree in front of my house, taken this morning.
Had to take a break from digital art to help the husband. He can't see the back of his neck you know, when he's trimming up his hair line. (doh, can anyone?) I noticed a spot on the back of his head (he uses man shears to shave is hair short), that looked like he took a wee bit too much. He said, "I can't take too much because I'm using a blade that only trims so far from the head." "Ok honey, then maybe it's a bald spot?" Like that went over well. So he switched blades so I could trim up along his neck. Was busy thinking and talking and not paying attention when "Oh Shit!" came out of my mouth. Thank God the hub has a good sense of humor. He will be wearing a cap with ear flaps for the next 3 weeks. "I said the BACK OF MY NECK, NOT MY SIDEBURNS!" "Damn honey! What was I thinking?" We laughed so hard, my eyes got blurry and I couldn't see for shit. When the tears of laughter cleared, he was absent one side burn. oops. I finished up the back of his neck and handed him the shears. He said, "Are you done?" "Yep, I didn't think you'd want me to even up those side burns."
I haven't made an oops like that in a long time. There is one time that I will never forget and it took place a long time ago. Mom had made roast beef for dinner and I hate the stringy type of roast, but I had to choke it down. Today, it doesn't gross me out as much but it has to be really really lean before I'll indulge. Anyhow, I was busy talking while clearing the table and somewhere in my mind, I heard my mother say to put the leftovers away for Dad's lunch the next day. Maybe it got buried quickly in the deep recesses of my mind when another command was made to feed the dog. Ok, so multi-tasking was new to me back then and I messed up somewhere along the line. Clear the table, do the dishes, put away the leftovers and feed the dog. Life was simple then and I still managed to screw it up. :)))
Dad walked into the kitchen for a drink when he noticed the dog mulling over a huge chunk of roast beef. "Uhhh, is that suppose to be my lunch for tomorrow?"
'Nuff said? At the time it was hilarious. You had to be there I suppose. ;)
What do you collect?
What a wild question because today I feel like I am collecting dust. And I know there are a few bunnies under my bed that need to be tended to.However, most of my "odd" collections are are all tucked away.
Shot glasses with any one of the 50 states, the Detroit Red Wings and a couple of others.
I use to travel quite a bit so I collected ash trays. Not your normal run of the mill hotel ash trays from Reno, Tahoe and Las Vegas (which I admit having). Rather, I prefer ash trays that are in odd designs and I have some from places that don't exist anymore. Ok, like I have one from Gillies in Texas - which I paid for. I have an (oldie) ash tray from the Chin Tiki restaurant on Cass Ave. in Detroit, back in the days when it was a hot place to hang and eat - which I "took." One that has a nude man pushing a wheel barrel with his penis which someone made for me. I have another one shaped like a lobster; it's red-orange in color and I bought it in Virginia Beach. And a couple of others purchased in states that I visited. You know, from the typical tourist gift shop.
All in all, the ash trays, shot glasses, drinking glasses and a few other collectibles are just wrapped and stored away to afford room to display my more desired art collections.
By the way, anyone still have 45's? 78's? I remember tossing 8 tracks out the car window that the player ate.
