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Flow My Tears (Elegy to a Musical Poet Part 5)
I took/edited this photo for the Creative Challenge Group - September theme 'Music to my Eyes'.
It's been a while since I did any music art shots and this is the first one with my lute so thanks to the Creative Challenge admin for picking this theme - it's got me motivated again!
Although not overly mournful, this image does have a certain pathos. I find that whenever I make images like this I'm reminded of my dear brother - he was internationally renowned on both the lute and the guitar and left us way too early a couple of years ago so I have a tendency to make such images melancholic without thinking about it!
I've given the image some mild distortion to give it a feel of looking through tears or looking through a glass into another world. I also added a subtle amount of spin blur (blended) because the branch of bamboo leaves appears the be strumming the lute and the spin gives it a little movement to that end. So, the lute (my brother made and played this one) continues to resonate beautiful music even though it's rested.
The title Flow My Tears is a John Dowland song - link below so that you can see where the inspiration for style and title came from
Flow My Tears (Elegy to a Musical Poet Part 5)
I took/edited this photo for the Creative Challenge Group - September theme 'Music to my Eyes'.
It's been a while since I did any music art shots and this is the first one with my lute so thanks to the Creative Challenge admin for picking this theme - it's got me motivated again!
Although not overly mournful, this image does have a certain pathos. I find that whenever I make images like this I'm reminded of my dear brother - he was internationally renowned on both the lute and the guitar and left us way too early a couple of years ago so I have a tendency to make such images melancholic without thinking about it!
I've given the image some mild distortion to give it a feel of looking through tears or looking through a glass into another world. I also added a subtle amount of spin blur (blended) because the branch of bamboo leaves appears the be strumming the lute and the spin gives it a little movement to that end. So, the lute (my brother made and played this one) continues to resonate beautiful music even though it's rested.
The title Flow My Tears is a John Dowland song - link below so that you can see where the inspiration for style and title came from