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Recently discovered self-portrait taken in 2019 during COVID, experimenting with facial hair. The image was created by shaping a single-source light into a noir-style low-key study.
Soft wings, strong spirit ✨
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ofc I meant to have posted this way back and haven't cause why would I ever do things when I want to? sh1t goes over my head sometimes y'know? And I cant get outta my mind ... its harsh in there.
♥ thankyou Lilly for taking the picture for me! ♥
At the end of last year I started a course in self expression and discovered the joy of art. This was one of my first attempts.
Please view large to get the full effect. xxx
A sparkle in his eye, never say die,
Just live—don’t hesitate, feel time fly.
He strides through the dusk with a laugh in his chest,
Chasing the next tale, giving each one his best.
The stars lean in close when his thoughts ignite,
He paints every moment in silver and light.
The past is a whisper, the future his gate
Cause while he still breathes there are stories yet to create.
MD
The saying expresses an idea of peace not sought outside but safeguarded within. The truest serenity does not arise from the noise of the world, from approval, possession, or control, but from the ability to pause and return to one’s own center. Listening to one’s breath means recovering inner measure, the essential rhythm of life, presence to oneself. In this sense, breath becomes a symbol of awareness, attentiveness, and reconciliation. The meaning of the sentence is deeply spiritual and existential. Those who know how to listen to their own breath also know how to withdraw from chaos, anxiety, and external pressure. It is not escape, but grounding. Peace is not described as a loud or heroic conquest, but as an intimate, silent, profound condition. It speaks of recollection, balance, and inner truth: peace lives in the heart of those who know how to return to themselves. The image translates this concept with strong visual coherence. The female figure emerges in soft black and white, immersed in clouds, her face lifted and eyes closed. The posture suggests surrender, listening, suspension. There is no tension, no struggle, no aggressive pose: everything converges toward a sense of interiority and quiet. The clouds envelop the body like a substance of the soul, while the light descending from above reinforces the idea of a silent revelation, of a peace that does not impose itself but allows itself to be felt. Breath, though invisible, is the true symbolic center of the image. I publish these images created with artificial intelligence not to replace pure art, nor to diminish the value of poetry, painting, sculpture, photography, or other artistic forms grounded in the living presence of the hand, the gaze, and lived experience. I publish them because I consider artificial intelligence a new medium, an additional instrument, a contemporary material to be used intentionally. I do not submit to it: I bend it to my desires, to my vision, to my expressive needs. For me, this medium does not erase art but opens a different operational space. It allows me to construct images born from a precise thought, from directed imagination, from formal and symbolic intention. The point is not to imitate what already exists, but to use a new language to express something that belongs to me. In this sense, artificial intelligence is not the end but the means: a tool that, through my intention, becomes expressive possibility. The real question is not the technology itself, but what an artist is able to make of it.
Background shot with Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8, and the frames and self-portrait are shot with the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G.
'Always greener at Spoonflower by Su_G': My entry in the 'Spoonflower Packaging' Design Challenge - reflecting the values that mean the most to our community: family, uniqueness, self-expression and creativity, to which I've added, sustainability. (cushions mockup c/o Spoonflower)
Original: Line art (vector)
© Su Schaefer 2020
The link for voting will be www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=578 - open for one week only. There are 640 entries so far. Voting could be fun - there are so many different interpretations of the challenge!
[Always greener at Spoonflower by Su_G_cushions_mockup]
A reminder that confidence is the real ink that never fades.✨
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KUNS Sinful Love Tattoo
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For today's alternative back street bicycle shot, you can also visit: www.michikofujii.co.uk/blog/xw5k6cy4se22psrkd8csp4k9bz8d3j
My favourite self-portrait! Too bad I no longer have the original version. That was a fruit of one of my first experiences with photography, I was 17 years when I took it.
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O meu auto-retrato favorito! Só é pena que já não tenha a versão original. Foi fruto de uma das minhas primeiras experiências com fotografia, tinha 17 anos quando tirei esta foto.
Twelve a Year: May
"I got too much passion in my bones
And too much fight in my soul to love half-heartedly.
You either get it all, or get nothing at all"
Poetry by Billy Chapata
Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.
Explore: June 5, 2009
"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."-- Unknown
Been feeling a bit uptight .... messed up my SD card (could not retrieve photos I have taken in the morning) .... receivables long over-due... absences of employees to name a few... Well.. I just have to cope and overcome all of these. I'll use the weekend to feel better. Have a great one too my friends.
Twelve a Year: October
“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Haven't had the chance to go out and take some new shots, yet... so I just did some indoor experimenting. Have a great day eveyone!
The most beautiful self expression existing in mankind is the ability to dance due to its limitless boundaries and its joyful subjective nature.
In fondo l'amore è una danza
dai confini indefiniti
che si anima dentro e fuori di noi.
youtu.be/x60PKOaIQoE
What emotion(s) are you connecting with right now? What do they look like for you?
LOVE: “strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties” is one of the definitions by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Last month, I went live on Instagram to take you behind the scenes of a triptych that I was working on based on my piece “Emotions.” I wanted to break down that concept a little further into three different emotions: positive, neutral (but could sway in either direction) and negative.
This is the first image in the series titled “Love”. For me, love could be the smallest expression of care to the largest gesture of affection. Love feels warm, kind and maybe even a little “rosy” to me. When I feel great love for someone or something, I want to give so much of myself. Everyone feels and expresses love differently.
😀Whether you are feeling loved today or could use some more, I just want you to know that I am sending you love on this beautiful Thursday.
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New blog with two additional new images: www.fiercelypowerful.com/emotions-a-continuing-exploratio...
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Dress: Vintage (Label says: Styled by RICKY. Toronto)
Shoes: Michelle K
Silk Bow on Hair: Handmade by myself
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