"Favorite" Photos

^Shot by David Light

^Shot by Brian Valentine

I honestly really couldn't decide upon my favorite photo that I've taken so I decided to narrow things down by only looking at the photos I've taken with my new camera. Out of those photos I like this self portrait the best by far, although it hasn't receive very much attention from the public. I spent about 2 or 3 hours editing it in Photoshop, so maybe I like it so much due to the time I spent with it. Well I chose the macro shot of the dew drops by Brian Valentine for my favorite piece by a well known artist because I find it very inspirational and similar to my work in the realm of macro photography. They are similar in that they are both macro shots with an interesting composition. However they're very different in the subject and matter of composition itself. They obviously both have to do with macro photography, which was in my list of 100. All in all, I find Brian Valentine as a huge inspiration in all forms of my photography.

Artists born in January

Garry Winogrand was a prominent street photographer, born 14 January 1928 and died 19 March 1984. He was also a painter and wrote many books as well. I believe he described photography perfectly when he said "A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space." His work has been quite influential on me, even though I am prominently a macro photographer, the street photography I do take is very much Winogrand inclined. He primarily shot black and white photography which, in what he was trying to capture and make his audience perceive the shot therein, I feel gave it more character. One quote of his that I find myself living by daily without even thinking about it is "All things are photographable." Especially in my macro style of photography, I have found there is a way to photograph virtually everything and make it beautiful. Sometimes you'll find beauty in the most unusual places, you would have never thought of if it were not for a chance being taken.

Please check out his work. It's defiantly worth taking the time to look at.

http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS344US344&sourceid=chrome&q=Garry+Winogrand&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=O3_WStOjBJOqlAen58W3Bg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQsAQwAA

Stories

Not in relation to Art:

My family and I went to Washington D.C. One of my favorite cities in the world, and our great nation's capitol. Upon our arrival, we had no actual map of the city, thus my father decided to get out of the car and see if there were any near this giant street map on the side of the road. Well there is a lot of traffic in D.C., and no parking on that specific road, thus after dropping him off we had to continue driving. So we just circled around the block in plans of picking him right back up. Except he wasn't there! In reality we later realized we came back onto the wrong street. We drove around all over D.C., searching for him. It was pouring rain, and he left his wallet and cell phone in the car! So we had no way of contacting him, and apparently no one would let him use their cell phones. In the end, it took us over a half hour before we found him again. My mom and I both though he was going to be pretty angry. But as soon as he entered the car he just broke out in laugher. That was quite the experience for his first day in Washington D.C. His family ditches him in the middle of the city.

In relation to Art:

On this same trip I stopped and talked to a number of photographers. I spoke to one guy, who I met in the National Gallery of Art, for over half an hour. I got a lot of inspiration from these guys and was surprised at how open they were to talking to me about their art and the field in general. I took over 3000 photos on that trip, most of which I still have yet to edit. So I defiantly got a lot out of that trip.

List of 100 dLightful Things

photography, camera, nikon, music, piano, harmonica, george clooney, muse, spoon, bon iver, bob barr, big red gum, chapstick, blackberry, fleet foxes, ipod, brian valentine, macro, wallet, lens flare, photoshop, lens, glasses, water, strawberry shortcake, cats, ap art, video production, us history, dramatic lit, chair, lamp, poetry, window, abstract, conceptual, mrs chan, alarm clock, pocket watch, f stop, iso, depth of field, ps3, tribal wars, joanna newsom, feist, jazz, diana krall, blanket, battery, backpack, thesaurus, blog, twitter, myspace, facebook, stumbleupon, groovshark, deviantart, youtube, [insert word here], coins, knee, printer, preamp, flash, b3 organ, the kooks, rubber band, ring, ribbons, house, the oc, duct tape, g9, d90, hd video, afternoon delight.

i think that's 100?..

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Taken at the sculpture field trip..

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