Monday, October 1, 2012

No Pressure Photo Opportunities


Photo Title: Robotic Shadows

I used to enjoy taking photos with my digital camera or SLR. Recently though I've been enjoying taking photos with my camera phone. I love it for the fact that there's no pressure for the photo to look a certain way and I'm ready for any sort of photo opportunity. Like this photo for example. I went downstairs to get some breakfast and noticed a really cool looking shadow on the ceiling. I snapped the photo and turned it into this.




I feel like the best kind of art is the kind that's spontaneous and you don't place any sort of expectations on it to look a certain way. Instead you focus on finding opportunities and make the most of them as they come up. Being ready for these opportunities is the real challenge though and that's something I feel I'm ready for when I use my phone to take pictures as opposed to my other cameras.

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Gentily almost facilely I'm roused from my sleep. The enigmatic cause of this effect inspires wonder in me every morning. The unspoken almost indiscernable feeling immediately puts me in a state of awe. Not another moment goes by until my mind begins absorbing the images or the feeling of colors that danced behind my now open eyes not too long ago.

The feeling of awe disipates as I fill my day with less meaningful activities. Every action taken without thought, every unfelt smile and empty conversation I comply to vexatiously chips away a piece of myself. The seemingly insignificant and ordinary things in life rouses another discernable feeling that sharpens my mind and makes me feel awake again. Whimsically I share my thoughts and experiences with others hoping to rouse them from sleep with the unexpected beauty I found. Repeatedly I am left feeling misplaced and misunderstood before I finally cultivated that art of listening. Shortly afterwards I embrace and eventually value the idea of being a mystery to others.