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Zigzag
The first time I used a pair of Fiskars I was four years old. It was an orange handled set of pinking shears and when I held those blades in my hands, it felt pretty magical. The urge to cut and create was overwhelming, where should I start? Haircuts for Barbie and me, of course. I dragged the full-length mirror from the bathroom into my closet and snipped away discreetly. After each chunk of blonde fell to the carpet I whispered “Perfect”. The excitement quickly transitioned into disappointment when I did my big reveal; to say my mother wasn’t pleased would be an understatement. It may have been the first time I saw her cry, actually. From that point on the pair of zigzag scissors became contraband, and she made sure to hide them from us children in every apartment we lived in. Or so she thought, because I was continuously sneaking into their drawers and pulling them out when I felt inspired or a bit naughty.
By Jessie Leigh5 years ago in Photography
New Ideas and New Challenges
With every image that is captured it always leaves a lasting mark that people can hold onto for generations to come. Over the course of time, we have seen countless photographs and paintings that have always been redesigned and tweaked. In which it inspires artists to almost redesign it from their perspective and almost highlight it to entice viewers back to want to pay homage to the original pieces that we all know and love. Which transforms the art and photographs into something that is new, fun, and exciting. It is this sense of creativity and imagination that inspires me to do this with other peoples’ photographs and my own. I get a chance to see how they look from my perspective, and I get to express myself more by adding my own personal flare.
By Joanna Blaze5 years ago in Photography
Putting Away My Photography
Just the thought of snapping an exceptional photograph at the click of the shutter button while holding the firm leatherette grip at the same time and holding the barrel of the lens attached with my left give me nothin’ but pure joy, the time stops for a moment as my mind that normally, habitually acts like a “rottweiler” starts to calm down escaping to its solitary cave while I’m left to just soak in the present moment.
By Guije5 years ago in Photography
Photoshop Thoughts
There it was. Melting into spring. The half-frozen world from the tiny window in my parent's basement. Truly the ugliest time of the year, or what I call it, hybrid spring. Or hybrid winter. Depending on how you look at it. Either way, I didn't want to be here. I wanted to be back in Australia.
By Kelsey5 years ago in Photography
Rock. Paper. Scissors.
The original inspiration for my artwork series: Rock. Paper. Scissors. are the intricate Chinese paper cuts that my mother would create during Chinese new year called chuāng huā. As a child I would watch her meticulously cut traditional Chinese designs using her tiny pair of scissors. She would make designs including zodiac animals, flowers and Chinese characters arranged within a highly patterned background. These intricate paper cuts would be hung in the window to catch the sunlight and create beautiful dappled shadow patterns. Throughout history, many different cultures have their own version of paper cut folk art customs similar to this such as papel picado in Mexico or scherenschnitt in Germany & Switzerland. I wanted to create patterns of my own like my mother created but with organic and natural shapes that I am familiar with in my contemporary life.
By Natalie Cheung5 years ago in Photography
River Lagan Walks. Part Eight.
Getting out and about in Mother Nature is good for my health, mental health and well-being and for my River Lagan Walks books available on Amazon.com-Aunidan Christi and for my stories here on Vocal.Media.com and the various Social Media Sites and photography sites I am on online.
By Aunidan Christi KPGS5 years ago in Photography
The Great Blue Heron Debate
I interval run and was out for the first time since we got back from vacation. I took my camera with me. I've gotten used to lugging my big ole Canon along because I don’t want to be sorry I didn’t have it. I'm always on the look out for things that might make interesting photos.
By Peg Luby5 years ago in Photography
Karma Chameleon
Have you ever experienced one of those moments when you look up from a thought, profound or not, and find it inexplicably reflected in what you see in front of you? When the inward and the outward do a tandem dance. Far beyond any logic. It’s magic. This was one of those moments for me.
By meenu5 years ago in Photography
Learning Magic One Frame at a Time. Third Place in Create Your Happiness Challenge.
The Beginning Growing up in the 90s, I'd often hear adults talk about all the harmful consequences of television. They argued that apart from exposing kids to obscene content, tv also caused all sorts of adverse psychological effects on young minds.
By Chad Verzosa5 years ago in Photography
