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The beauty of weeds set during the fading colors of Late Autumn.
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The beauty of weeds set during the fading colors of Late Autumn.
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The "Frosted Marsh" series co-exists with my series "From the Edge". Both series view the beauty of nature from the edge of a frosted marsh, forest, lake etc...
What do you think. Are the series cohesive enough to stand together? Comments, commentary and lively discussions are vigorously encouraged.
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Just thought these worked together, like the gates to heaven.
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Frosted Marsh Series.
Muted colors, intimate complex scene, with just a touch of vibrance. Beauty everywhere one looks.
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Click to EnlargeThought these were a nice example that Mark refered to in "Grace". They were relatively easy to make.The components in each just seemed to flow together wonderfully.
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"walking with THOR" large... As much as I enjoy faking dagguerotypes, I would love to find some reference guides, books, classes, on how to actually do the real thing. Talking about snapshots, dagguerotypes are the most intense images of people I've ever seen. The always bug-eyed gaze of the model, the attire, and mood... I don't tend to find many dagguerotypes with smiling happy faces? is there a reason for that? or have I just not seen enough to know that there are shiny, happy dagguerotypes?
p.s. if they made panoramic dagguerotypes I'd love to see'em too!
Wow what nice colors. We don't have colors like that here this year.
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This is the lead image for a show of my work that is currently hung in C'ville Coffee in Charlottesville, VA. You can see the rest of the images from the show here. All these photographs are an attempt to find "beauty" wherever I happen to be standing. Maybe there's even a "message." Free Food this Friday, Oct. 5, if you're in town, come to the opening!
I am looking for any kind of feedback on this. I want to know how you all feel about this.
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Here's my take on the debate between strictly pretty pictures and those that pose a question for the viewer. For this image I could have adjusted the composition and exposure and shown an image that was gorgeous, majestic, and momentarily powerful. But wouldn't the response only be fleeting? Mine would. Instead I left it (with a little exaggeration) as I saw it. I also put myself in there to remember the tranquility this spot brought to me, along with the stressful thoughts of my upcoming show and other life matters that I pondered while resting there. I can hear the rushing water better, smell the mist and damp ground better, feel the emotion of sitting there thinking. I don't think I could if I adjusted it to be near perfect (perfect as in "zoned" and accurately colored to enhance the scene).
So, I guess I just don't understand what makes some people linger on an image that has only a (in my opinion) fleeting glimpse of a place that they once were and saw the same majestic vista, or a place they would like to go and see that majestic vista. I'm not saying I don't get sucked into those images and enjoy them from time to time, I do.
More importantly, is that I guess I don't care why people enjoy those images and I don't...I'd still have a beer with them if they were cool people.
so cheers cool people,
Aaron