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lens-artists … warm colors

images submitted in response to egidio.photography lens-artists challenge: warm colors

lens-artists: three of a kind

Visit Leya’s site to join this week’s lens-artists photo challenge: three of a kind

lens-artists: your inspiration

P.A. Moed invites photographers to share images of what it is that inspires them.

I find myself wondering what is…inspiration?

Scott Barry Kaufman (Why Inspiration Matters?) writes that inspiration awakens us to new possibilities by allowing us to transcend our ordinary experiences and limitations. Inspiration propels a person from apathy to possibility, and transforms the way we perceive our own capabilities. Inspiration may sometimes be overlooked because of its elusive nature.

a simple egg?

a child?

a weed?

or an invitation by Mother Nature to be … still.

weekly photo challenge: white on white

a white egg, on a white plate, on a white table cloth…submitted in response to Jenn’s Traveling at Wit’s End photo challenge: white on white

a photo study: contemplative photography

iPad f/1.8 1/130 sec ISO 64

“The object is of secondary importance to how I see the object. …concentrated looking is the way to get past labels and our preconceived ideas of what interests us. Looking slowly and in detail, …gives way to interlocked abstract shapes, energetic textures, ranges of colors, spaces in between things, sharp edges, and soft shadows. This way of seeing objects turns any item into an interesting subject.”

~John F Simon, Jr (Drawing your own Path)

I began this week with a posting of a 20 minute photo project with an egg and then went on to a second project…20 minutes with two eggs, a white small dish, a white tea cloth, a white pitcher, a small ball. Images edited in Snapfeed.

Limited resources has the potential to awaken creativity.

iPad…f/1.8 1/30 sec ISO 20

iPad…f/1.8 1/30 sec IS) 25

The third mediative photography project…one hour photographing an egg and a small white dish…2 minutes with each image before clicking the shutter. Images edited in Snapfeed.

iPad f/1.8 1/1,050 ISO 64

iPad f/1.8 1/370 sec ISO 64

iPad f/1.8 1 sec ISO 64

iPad f/1.8 1 sec ISO 64i

Creativity begins as we begin to think differently, move out of our comfort zone, start to use our head over the camera, and go beyond all apparent possibilities.

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iPad f/1.8 1/50 sec ISO 64

A closing note: My restless soul resisted the idea to photograph an egg for an hour with a point and shoot camera (I substituted the point and shoot with an iPad). As a consequence, I began with two separate 20 minute exercises and then found the inspiration to set a meditative app for an hour with bells to chime every 2 minutes. Now I’m wondering what images would have emerged if I challenged myself for 2 hours…

Are you up to this challenge…one 20 minute photo session, two 20 minute sessions, or an hour? Let’s tag with #aphotostudy.

an egg…

“An egg? Really…an egg? Why an egg for this contemplative photography project.?”

Many, many years ago, I was brave enough to attended an introduction to drawing class offered through a local art museum. The first drawing lesson included the use of charcoal with a single subject–a white egg. This elementary endeavor to draw an egg opened my world to the gradients of the whitest white to the multiple shades of grays and then to the blackest black. The other art lessons within this art class also served to be an introduction to the dynamics of perception and awareness that flow within moments of silent contemplation.

So, why not use an egg as a subject in a mediative photography project? Two minutes “being with…looking at…contemplating” a white egg, a small white bowl, on a white piece of cloth for each image. Ten photographs within 20 minutes.