Pictures, pictures, pictures. I've always loved taking pictures. So before ever laying my hands on a digital camera, I've fiddled around with a 35mm Konica, the lenses, the settings, and all the bells and whistles which I still have lurking around to this day. Back then, for me it was no trouble at all to be carrying that big old clunky thing around and replacing lenses and adjusting settings. For me, it was worth it for the end result:
Red Fish II
Plasma
Candle Glow
Air Doodle
And then there was infrared film in which I was not aware of the appropriate settings for so I just went around and casually snapped photos like a tourist:
LocalMotion
Fountain of Youth
Church
Ghost Town
Made of Stone
Ohmmmmm
And of course now in this digital age that we're all so lucky to be in, with all the effects and developing which took forever to accomplish years ago is made so handy and convenient at our fingertips. When I first started snapping shots with a digital camera and got introduced to Photoshop I was in my glory while discovering the limitless creative possibilities. And yet, here we have another level of a creative evolution through a (back then) newly discovered media...
Shadowy Stare
Blue Building
Mad Magenta
Pretty Blue Peepers
After geeking out some more (one of my many favourite past times) discovering this new technique which I will call the "selective colour layer blur" effect which I thought was (and still is) a sweet thing to play with:
Sunflower II
Monochromatic
Violet with Yellow
Jellyfish Flower
Poison Daisies
Trouble in Bloom
And of course carrying on, I got happy with the concept of digital replication to form symmetrical
patterns:
Symmatreez
Butterfly
Pansy Mandella
Symmatreez II
DeliciousFictiousRepetition
Mirror Planet
Which reminds me of when I much later experimented with the symmetrical idea into the visuals for this video:
K, now back to photography. Whether you have a Blackberry, Android, or an iPhone (which I use), with all the gazillion free photo editing and other creative apps there are out there (especially when tired after work but still wanna be creative), Photoshop for iPhone is pretty handy when you want to make basic type of adjustments and add a nice border plus an fx filter if desired. I also enjoy this one called Instagram where you can use a variety of vintage filters. These days, when time and energy is scarce having such a handy device with me at all times can be the greatest thing in the world.
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