Tuesday 19 January 2010

ABOUT INNOVATIVE CREATIVITY.

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LOVE KNOT

Pietà for HAITI



GIFT OF THE ROSE


SMILE

LILY'S PROFILE




TANGO DI MARE


CAN-CAN DE LOS CALAMARES


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A TEXTILE ARTIST AND A PHOTOGRAPHER MEET?



Just another very personal deliberation and reflection on the matter.



Each time I think... that's it, there's only so much you can do with flowers, (which is only one aspect in my field)... and yet again and again, I'll see something new. I become inspired!
That is the ‘magic’ of the studio and lights, be it with flowers, people or other animals, lol!
Being creative is not a choice... it is an urge in me.

I can even experience it as a NEED?

I just HAVE to try something new... I’m motivated to be innovative once more!

I now have the expertise (technical, procedural & intellectual knowledge).

Let’s rock and roll!

I just read that:” It is often useful to explicitly distinguish between creativity and innovation.

Creativity is typically used to refer to the act of producing new ideas, approaches or actions, while innovation is the process of both generating and applying such creative ideas in some specific context.”

So does that make me an innovative creative? LOL.

I take photographs for self-fulfilment whenever I can. I test and challenge myself.

The lines and colours combined in a particular way, certain forms and relations of forms, I want them to stir the ALL IMPORTANT and often forgotten ingredient: our aesthetic emotions.

The photographer looks frantically for a 'model', because of course you have a creative idea, you are in a fever, a high state of excitement and can only relax... once you have taken the image, " you've got it in the bag!!!"

I forget time, day, night…I know neither hunger nor thirst. I am in my own world, nothing else matters, I WANT to see the end-result, the materialisation of the image I had in my mind’s eye, the creative idea my brain came up with.

It doesn’t always work first time, I have to live with ‘failure’ and review and rethink, sometimes for days… and ahem, patience is not my greatest virtue!

Then, in the silence of the night, that’s my peak time for ‘solutions’, it will come to me, but I have to sleep, work tomorrow, wait for the moment I can go back to it. aaahhh, the trials and tribulations of a photographer!

I use the title on purpose, I am a photographer!

I prefer my portraits and photos straight and 'uncooked', it is a personal preference.

I’ll write it again: Photography comes from the Greek φῶς (phos) "light" and γραφή (graphê) drawing with light", it is about composition, caring for your images!

In my humble view too many good images get destroyed in photoshop or the likes of it, too many gimmicks... Use it sparingly and carefully.

I also find it ‘fun’ to ‘play’ with a photo, try out things, of course, that’s how we learn, how we move on, renovate and innovate.

My problem lies with those who systematically over saturate, under or over contrast a photo, oversoften or oversharpen, plain OVERDO it.




Have a wonderful day and thanx for reading this, M, (*_*)


Friday 1 January 2010

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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O TANNENBAUM... the tree is up!


The Carol Singers.


HO-HO-HO, HOLLY HOLLY HOLIDAYS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS ARE COMING!



The night the snow fell and the world went whitely quiet.


STEP INSIDE LOVE, WELCOME!



THE INDIGO LADY IS BLUE!


NEW-YEARS EVE 2009.


NEW-YEARS EVE 2009.
Photo by Paul Indigo.


A BIG BEN MIDNIGHT.
Photo taken from TV screen.


A HAPPY NEW YEAR!



REMINISCENCE ABOUT OUR CHRISTMAS AND NEW-YEAR…

This year, my youngest son, his wife, my lovely daughter-in-law and my little granddaughter came over from the Continent for Christmas.
They arrived on the 23rd, late in the evening, and for once, my dream had come true… A WHITE CHRISTMAS!
Exhilarating for me, I had waited so long for this, the world went whitely silent, but not for them, they drove through the storm.
We had a wonderful time, a few days filled with joy, laughter and love... you know how it is, for weeks you live towards it, full of expectation and excitement, preparing and decorating, a bit more than usual for the girl. So beautiful to see her little face, the eyes all lit up, asking how much longer to open the presents... euh, only 5 min less than the previous time you asked? LOL. You remember your own childhood through them.
Then, it is over, you see them driving away, the last glimpse at the corner, they're gone again. You do not know when you'll next meet. You can feel something tearing inside, your heart aches, you hurry inside because you suddenly feel the cold, the empty chairs seem bigger than normal, the decorations less shiny, you hear the silence, you feel the pain of the 'separation’, with every heart-beat they are further away, that is when I become Blue, so very BLUE...
Hours later, you have them on the phone, their voices caress your ears and soul once more, you are touched, they arrived home safely, had a super time, thanx!

Then, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again... for the NEW-YEAR.

A quieter affair, just the two of us, all dressed up, nice meal, a glass of Champagne, a bit of reminiscing over the past year, it's been a good one for us.
More joy, laughter and love. We take some fun images.

At midnight we listen to Big Ben as it chimes in the New-Year, we watch the amazing fireworks on the Millennium Wheel, the London Eye, above the Thames, the crowd sing for Auld Lang Syne, TV back off.
We get a few calls from friends and family, after that, some relaxing time, enjoying the moment and already wondering what 2010 will bring.
We go to bed, satisfied and full of hope and good feelings.
Looking forward to the future.
For a moment, we had ‘paused’
I hope 2010 brings only good and prosperity in your and your family's lives!
Love, Magda, (*_*)