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Japanese Meadowsweet blossoms, taken with Canon SX170IS. Contrast edited in GIMP.

girly rock room

Back: Ryan, Tom, Lou, Steve, Jim, Westie, Emma, Anna, Kate

Middle: Iain, Marie, Rob, Gar, Dicky, Binnsy, Popsy, Mat

Front: Clare and Becky

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire)

 

Date:

1879–80, cast 1910

Medium:

Bronze and marble

Industrial Project, scaned film

 

Toronto, Canada

split shot horizantal

I used this for my homework assignment, but I kept forgetting if he hated this or like this.

Here we were posed with a different problem; how to make something flat that already had depth, with the help of light.

I struggled a while with this, I definitely felt stuck in the shadows concept with this one as well.

 

Then I started asking myself the question, "How do we perceive depth?" At first, you think of a room being created by different lines that have an optical vanishing point. Now, to make this flat would be interesting, technically but I felt there would be a limited esthetic value in it.

I then got around to thinking that we also perceive depth by the use of movement. Something moving back and forth gives us this sense; there is a foreground, a middleground, and a background that is achieved in our view.

So, by the use of a longer exposure, I blurred the lines between all of these, therefore creating a more abstract image that, I feel, becomes "flat" (at least in a photographic sense) in its abstract nature.

 

More pictures will follow.

A shot in the dark; the guitarist has only one fan, but it should be enough

Yesterday I had a conversation with Hope Edelstein about privacy and the internet. She seemed surprised at one or two of the thoughts I shared.

Lucy and her new toy, with which she is rediscovering the joy of music

© 2007, W. Scott Bliss, Jr., all rights reserved.

I saw this sign through the window while Aryn and I ate breakfast at our hotel restaurant. I thought it worthy of a photograph.

The yellow on this photo was too bright and washed out. I was trying to adjust the photo to tone it down, but to no avail. I did get this photo at one point playing with the saturation, and thought it would be good for the high contrast group.

On-location shooting session in a 13th century castle - more to come, soon.

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