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Chulalongkorn University dance team practice near the stadium on campus. Perhaps they are cheerleaders.
A border collie practicing the sport of agility.
Owner handler: Cindy Brick
ADCH, NATCH, MACH9, Ch. Topshelf Pizzazz UD, TDX, HT, VCD3
or, more simply, "Ariba".
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My oldest child takes piano, she practices (almost daily) with encouragement ( :
I have some baggage concerning this however, when I was her age my mother also wanted me to play piano, I even took some lessons, but I just wasn't interested-I had better things to do. Well guess what hindsight is always 20/20 right, I wish I had stuck with the lessons. I do tell my daughter this "keep it up, you will be thankful one day" I wonder if she believes me! Hopefully so.
Another practice shot with my wife, working on maternity shot. Taken at Beacon Hill Park on Canada Day.
I had the pleasure of having coffee with Mr. John Mckay, (Shoebox50) a couple weekends ago and his advice to me was lighting, lighting, lighting and keeping the shot pretty simple (John, I also used fill flash on many of the other photos I took today, as per your suggestion... made a really big difference, thank you!).
I thought the evening sun would be a good start, and I used a simple field, plain sky and an unexciting tree to back up the subject. I think it turned out decently, but I would really appreciate any insight, criticism, comments etc.. This is a type of photography that I am extremely new at so I could use some help from anyone with experience or just observation from the hobbyists eye!
Thank you very much!
I do Yoga to burn off the crazy 😜
Been trying my hand at calligraphy. It's not easy, but I plan to be persistent. The letters are poorly spaced and crooked.
Having fun practicing.
The University of Akron marching band plays during a skull session before the Zips' game against Marshall on Sept. 20, 2014, at InfoCision Stadium. The visiting Thundering Herd won handily, 48-17.
I found myself so angry this morning while reading people’s excuses for using Ai. So many people stating they use it to do creative tasks because they’re “not ✨talented✨ like the rest of us.”
I stand behind the idea that with most people whose work you appreciate, it’s not a matter of raw talent blessed to them by the gods. It’s WORK. It’s pure drive, effort, stupidity, and the willingness to do things over and over no matter how bad your results may be until slowly they’re not so bad anymore.
I am so tired of seeing Ai and thinking about it, let alone hearing lazy people (and I mean this with as little harshness as I can manage, people are being made lazier by the day by these sorts of things) make excuses why it’s ok for them to not try and to just get a dopamine hit from that social media like/favorite.
I spend so much time practicing in different photography conditions, trying different settings on my camera, & experimenting with techniques. I am not just naturally talented, although I know I have an eye for composition/framing. (Which, again, as evidenced from my film scan of a 1995 sunset & powerlines sky photo I recently posted… I’VE HAD TO PRACTICE AT FOR YEARS.) The same goes for my illustrating, my sewing, my style/fashion projects, my writing, and my small forays into music making.
I am a creative person who tries everything and does their best to hone various skills so I can best combine all facets of my creativity to create multi-media art. Sometimes that means YouTube videos, sometimes that means collage work, and sometimes that means doing styling/hair/makeup, setting up a scene, photographing it, creatively editing it, and making a collage from all of that or illustrating digitally over my images.
None of it is just raw unfiltered natural talent, it’s skill borne by constantly making bad art, taking bad photos, and writing shitty songs or stories.
The entitlement behind these excuses is infuriating. The more I see people lean into instant gratification demands instead of just being new to something and learning, the more I worry about the fate of people’s mental states. I know it’s disheartening to want to “be a great photographer/illustrator/writer” and start in at it and not instantly be applauded for how earth shattering your work is, but know that the people you admire have been putting in the work.
Some mornings I go out to practice night photography and I’m being lazy. I don’t want to take the tripod or use my remote and on those mornings I come back with nothing to share because I took a bunch of blurry grainy photos. Sometimes there is nothing to come of a photo session/walk but a learning experience and I am frustrated but grateful every time.
I took 3x as many shots this morning than you’re seeing here but this is all that came out even semi-acceptable for me because I didn’t want to dig out my remote and the settings I was using meant every little wobble, no matter how imperceptible, caused blurriness.
Please, when you have someone in your life who is destroying the very planet we live on, the only one we have, and lining the pockets of the corrupt ultra wealthy who run these scam Ai sites to “make art,” sit them down and talk to them. Lead them away from it.
Talk openly about your struggles as a creative, show the work that goes into taking your photos that people love. Be transparent and helpful to people who are interested in getting started and please, never ever play it off as just “natural talent.”