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"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams."
- the Eleventh Doctor
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Surrounded by these magical creatures, my body became weightless as they flutter around me leaving me in awe of their beauty.
It's been a long time since I've don a levitation shot and I forgot how hard and tiring it was to do. I've had this idea to use paper cranes and make them fly around me while I float in mid air.
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This is one of the photos from my recent hike to a mountain rich in folklore and stories and was also said to be very haunted! Although I didn't encounter any scary stuff while hiking it was really a magical place and I would come back again here in the future!
This was a bit hard to edit but it was fun to do! The fire was shot separately by burning an old rag with a black background.
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Let's Get Creative 2015 - Week #2 - Spherical
I'm so late with these! But I'll try to take this week to catch up with this fabulous challenge.
I hope you're all having lovely weeks, and that your days are filled with joy!
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In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer
-Albert Camus
7/52: Quiet
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“Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
We were at the beach and wanted to try taking photos of stars and it really took me a while to get the settings right for capturing the stars. I really wanted to get a human element into the frame so just went in there and did it. I used a lighter for the light to give it more interest.
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6/52.
'reflection'.
Even the words speak as the silence does, even the actions speak louder than words, even the incoherence consume all your energy to keep going, there always be a blue sky to make you stop for a while and make you feel that you're not lost at all, that your thoughts are not darker as you feel.
I almost give up on LGC project, but willpower is making me to keep going.
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The image depicts a drought where there is not enough food for life to sustain hence, I have chosen the backdrop dried branches which I had to stack to look like a backdrop(it was a tree that dried up and was down on the ground). I picked small flowers that were growing near the area and created the small bouquet and placed it in my mouth to portray the feeling of having to eat something again for a long time(feels like pleasant blooming flowers in your mouth exploding with taste)
This is how I would probably feel after eating something good, like chocolate. Lol
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I found this small spot behind giant tall ferns and thought of doing this simple concept with the tulle I brought with me. This only took me a few minutes to shoot since it was just beside the trail up the mountain. I find the most random locations like this and it triggers inspiration in me to create something with the space that I discovered. Experiencing new things and going places you have never been before can be a very powerful inspiration for everybody so I suggest to everyone to never stop exploring, take the trail that most people don't take and if you do you might be surprised at what you might discover with yourself. It is human nature to wander, don't be bound in your seat and stay in a single place forever. Go out there and see the world. It doesn't have to be grand, you can always start small and just go outside to walk a little, it could be at the park or up a mountain.
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Week #8 - Mythology
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This week was one of the main reasons I joined this challenge. As soon as I saw ‘mythology’ as a theme, I knew I had a place to share two of my obsessions: iconography and religion. This, what I’m representing in this photo, is something that I’ve held very close to my heart ever since I was 13, and even though I have only half-practiced when I was a teenager, I adore the culture and the history of it: Candomblé, or Yoruba.
This religion was its roots in Africa and was taken to Brazil (and the rest of Latin America) by slaves. These men and women, forbidden by Catholics of practicing their own rites, found a way to mesh the two religions, with connections that last to this very day. Every Orixá, or deity, has a Catholic correspondence, in the form of a saint or a figure of the church. My Orixá is Oxum, usually represented by Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (in Portugal and in some places in Brazil) or Our Lady of Charity de El Cobre (in Cuba). A more widely known Orixá is Yemanjá, who has a big following in Portugal because she is usually connected with Our Lady of Fatima. Just to exemplify. (You’ll have to forgive me, I get really excited when I get to talk about this).
I have been completely in love with this religion since I was thirteen years old, I have read book after book and it’s just one of those things from my teenagehood that brings me an immense amount of comfort. I’m a daughter of Oxum, the Orixá of the rivers and lakes, mother of lovers and deity of vanity (self-portrait artist, anyone?), of beauty and wealth, represented by the colors yellow and white (and gold), by a mirror in her hand and the waters of the river Osun, located in Nigeria. I tried to hold on to this iconography while giving it my own spin. I hope you guys like it! And that you don’t think I’m a weirdo. :p
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“I was nervous. Like an ice cube, I just froze up. Then I melted in some strange guy’s drink.”
Week 1
Theme: Elements
This is my entry for the Let's Get Creative 2015 project. It is the first time I have attempted to enclose someone in ice and the project proved to pose some big challenges. I think the weather outside helped out a lot! I was really felling the icy cold outside while editing this.
Take a look behind the scenes. youtu.be/u21aR_0_grs
Let's Get Creative 2015 — Week #4 - Music
(title stolen from the 'The Mamas and the Papas' song!)
It may look like I jumped week three, but it only looks that way because several events occurred so that I would... Yeah. I jumped week three.
(The photo is taken, though. I'm just struggling a little bit with the processing, so it'll take me a bit longer to post!)
So this one is for music, and it left my room peppered with little golden stars that are still sticking to everything, a week later. You're welcome, family. I'll always be here to fill up your house with glitter.
Have a fab weekend!
Let's Get Creative 2015 — Week #1 - Elements
I'm doing the LGC challenge until I can find a project of my own to dedicate myself to, this year. And the word for this week was 'elements', out of which I chose fire.
I've been sick, these past few days. A stomach bug, and I hadn't felt this thrown down in years. It's a terrible feeling, so I keep thinking of my friends who have actually serious diseases and have to deal with feeling like this every day for long periods of time. Buddies, my heart is with you.
Still, I was forced to stay on Lipton Ice Tea and Coca-cola for a day, and that was the only thing I could put into my mouth that didn't make me want to die. This is a callback to that, a small homage to the coca-cola bottles in which one stored blood for transfusions in WWII.
So, have a wonderful start of year, my friends! May 2015 bring us all the joy and all the fun in the world, and may we all get our best wishes!
theme: Imperfections
We all have what we call imperfections. A sign, a stain, a bigger member than the other, a defect of character, a shadow in the soul ... We all have something that keeps us from perfection, because we are human. However, these imperfections nothing more, nothing less, what distinguishes us from others, which identifies us as unique. Is the society doesn't let us see well and transforms our brands in imperfections.
Let's Get Creative week #5 — Reflection
"These are not common mirrors."
"They're not?"
"They show the people inside. As many as there are."
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Here's my entry for reflection! And boy, do I feel like it's a throw back to how I used to edit. I missed playing with reality like this, editing in that same innocent, wondrous way I did when I first started. This is also a shout out to my graduation project and the use of frames. I never published it, but it was done mostly around this particular frame.
I hope you guys like this, and have a fabulous rest of week!
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Fruits that determine your up heaving or downfall.
I found this unique tree and really wanted to take a photo in it! I love weird trees, haha! So I decided to use this as a photo to the theme of Pride for Lets get creative 2015.
Pride is a very sensitive subject to having such a thin line between being positive and negative.
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The theme of this week was Spherical and I thought represent my dream: travel around the world, the giant sphere we inhabit.
I love Autumn, the weather is perfect, the trees are beautiful, and there's almost always a nice, pleasant breeze. It's also when Doctor Who comes on, which makes it even better.
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For decades we have been influencing nature in the worst possible way. Forests lost, animals disappearing and global warming. Although we are trying our best to restore nature, severe damage has been done and it could take a lifetime or even longer to recover from this. We should all do our part to save this beautiful planet we call home!
Sorry for the lack of updates but it has been a very uninspiring week and I took a break from using too much of the computer. But I will be uploading a couple of photos soon and one of them has an elaborate set that I built!
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'Spherical'.
Earth it's made up of thousands of little own worlds, worlds full of joy, passion, hope, sadness, pain, sadness, and horror. Full of words, or even silence. Full of emptiness, or empty of life. Full of music, photographs, poetry or empty of art. Hope you can fulfil your own world with whatever you want; it's in your hands to decide what your world is made up.
Thanks for all your support, infinitely grateful!
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Weather
I'm swapping week five's theme for week six one. (Haven't got the chance yet to make the other one)
“ Everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong. We call it a "perfect storm". Funny. Never thought it would happen to me.
But here's an end to every storm. Once all the trees have been uprooted, once all the houses have been ripped apart, the wind will hush, the clouds will part, the rain will stop. The sky will clear in an instant and only then, in those quiet moments after the storm, do we learn who was strong enough to survive it.”
I'm letting this storm swallow me and rip myself, to tear me down, to break me in the inside a little bit, but trying to make myself stronger.
Week 2
Theme: spherical
This week's final image was decided upon by an army of lovely creative geniuses. Too much time playing with photoshop seems to lead to indecisiveness! Thanks to everyone who helped to choose the final shot <3
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'Elements'. Earth
Hey! I'm back. It's been like years, and I've felt all this time that my creative soul was dying little by little. I've let the shame swallow me until little by little I even wasn't able to be in front of the camera to express myself.
That's why I encourage myself to start a 52 Weeks again along with so many photographers at LGC comunity (even though I started a 52 weeks one 2 years ago and ended dropping out).
I've chosen earth because it's the element where we all are, where we all fall, where we all stand up and from we all rise to go ahead.
theme: temperature
Often, we are considered distant, cold, one built barrier for our own protection and that firm in character. But this barrier is not unbreakable ... know what can cause enough heat to melt the ice?
This has been the most tiring week in a long time. We were at a church convention thing all weekend, constantly busy. I was totally unprepared for this week's self portrait and didn't really expect to be able to take a nice looking one. Right after the convention was over we went camping. I'll admit I was hoping to find some nice scenery to save my unpreparedness. But man what I found was a lot better then just a few nice looking trees, and I have to say, that I'm really quite proud of this picture. You see, about eighty years ago these arches were the entrance to an amusement park next to the Ohio River. That is, until the park was flooded and destroyed beyond repair. Now only the bare foundations of the various attractions are left. What I saw of them was pretty cool, and I think it's really neat that I got to take my self portrait there.
4/52 Learning how to fly
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
- Patrick Overton
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