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There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
So after a very long time I am participating in Flickr group roulette again today. Sorry fuggers, I have been lazy lately :) anyhoo todays theme was warped self reflections, I had a shiny chromy bugsheld I have never instaled that warps stuff so I used it to my advantage today. I hate the toothy grin, it really shows how bad my teeth are, but what the hell I have lost all pride doing this project anyway :)
Location: CITADELLA ÉTTEREM
Étterem is a restaurant and beer-house on the famous Citadella. The ancient building made the food tastier than it actually was. While waiting for the food, I had nothing else to do so I looked for something to shoot and this is what I got.
self reflections ... play with wide open Hexanon 57mm f1.4 .. at home, hazy day outside + high ISO on S1R.
An open notebook.
I used the notebook as a way to represent self reflection through writing or drawing. I think this is a conceptual shot due to the angle and mood created in this photo.
When I say self reflection, I mean that literally. This is a picture taken in the mirror with a long exposure and flashing a small light.
I love photography. Ironically, I used to hate camera for no real reason. I don't know how to describe myself, hopefully the picture will explain itself.
Size: 42.0 x 59.4 cm
This piece was created for my project about the word ‘’Perception’’. This was a response to Mark Demsteader which I used in my art project for the word perception. The Idea when creating this was that a person never stops judging their selves entirely as the three heads represent the past present and future of this person. The drips where purposeful and helps to create the feeling of lose as it covers the facial features making them less prominent. Which shows that she still feels that a part of her is incomplete. In my project this was showing how people are never satisfied with who they are as a person and are more willing to accept flaws within themselves.
2008: A Year in Pictures - Day 10/366
I did another photoshoot for Respond Clothing for the latest shirt to finally come in: Autumn.
Their model was one of the founders: Steven. This is his bike. Very cool.
That's me. I don't know if I'd ever ride one. Not as cool. :)
My experience with the photograph, “Graves”, was one primarily of self-reflection. My immediate thought when I first saw this picture was of my grandfather who passed last year. His death was the first in my life of someone I was very close with and it forced me to consider how I conceptualize death and its utter finality. I have no religious beliefs and no belief in an afterlife, so I’ve only had the option of thinking about death from a biological standpoint. Unfortunately, this hasn’t brought me much solace. Because of this, the idea of death has always been a wonder of mine, sitting silently in the back of my consciousness until I have reason to consider its greater implications.
With this thought it mind, I decided I would like to express my experience attempting to conceptualize death throughout different points in my life, some of which I’ve reached and some I haven’t. The series of photographs I’ve made are of individuals of increasing age with Graves positioned in different areas of each scene. However, the photograph, Graves, is always out of focus to represent two concepts. One, that my concept of death is not fully focused, and most likely won’t be for the majority of my life. And two, that death is not the subject of my focus on a daily basis but rather when an event, like a death, occurs that forces me to consider it again. While I wish that through this project I was able to develop a more concrete concept of death, it did spur conversations with others about the topic. This has helped me to remember that conceptualizing death is a nearly universal struggle and is not a phenomenon whose questions are easily answered.
I absolutely love this picture. It's easily my favorite of all time. To me it looks like the first one that seams like it could take me somewhere and i'm not just kidding myself.
Guardarsi allo specchio.....senza essere speculari......
Look in the mirror ..... without being mirrored......
After dropping off my submissions for the small works show I noticed the light. I don't think that I captured the gold contrasting the shadows cast.