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“ Spinning Thoughts-Masked Emotions ”
"I wanted to make up for my "long shutter" disaster last week. It was time for a self portrait. It was fun creating this. I got my favorite mask out & set up my tripod & timer.. and snapped a few shots, this one being my favorite. I feel like this image, screams "emotion".
I'm all about "mental health awareness" & I like to show/discuss it in my PERSONAL images.
& I feel like this photo shows the inner feelings of someone, during an anxiety attack.. overwhelmed, scared, head spinning, unsure, out of body, numb, can't breathe.. the list goes on. I hate anxiety & PTSD, but it's important for people suffering to know that they're not alone. & Also to raise awareness to friends & family of those suffering.. Trying to show them what their loved one feels.. It helps. God bless you all!"
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Above, was literally copy and pasted from my 52Frames Submission. Which actually will not be available to view until at least Tuesday, I believe. However, the link to my page if anyone IS interested is:
52frames.com/photographer/17600
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I hope that everyone is doing fantastic this week! I'm doing and feeling a bit better than last week.. Which is why I wanted to do a decent photo for this week's challenge.. *dedicated to mental health, as always*. Thankfully I was able to do a self portrait, and I'm actually happy with the way it turned out.
I even liked my hair ties on my arm, almost to offset the other arm not having them I guess? Either way, I liked & left them there.
**THIS is "Long SHUTTER". Me set up in front of my camera/tripod with the timer on.. and moving my head while the camera snapped away. This one was my favorite. I'm quite happy with it, to be honest.. which is why I wanted to share with you guys..
LOCATION: For those of you wondering, this was taken at my house. No flash or reflectors. I just used the little bit of sunlight coming thru the window in my front door - but I left the door closed this time (I usually will open it). I set up my tripod & used the light coming from the door, and positioned myself in front of it.
I recently bought a NICE FLASH *that you put on your camera* & a diffuser. I really am thinking that I ought to practice with that darn thing soon! I am such a procrastinator... I truly am! I need a push.. or a big shove.. to start playing with it again lol. Or take it out of the box... at least lmao!
Tkae care & GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
For Pride at Home Expo, GHB brings a collection of gifts celebrating love, identity, self expression, and the freedom to exist without apology.
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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.
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]
An exercise in visual self-expression. Repeating resonant song fragments blindly across the page until the words dissolve into texture and rhythm. Combining freehand ink, geometric line work, and a digital yellow border to frame the chaos.
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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.
Twelve a Year: October
“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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.