No Particular Reason

Sometimes there is no particular reason for the images I choose to shoot other than at the time it seemed like a good idea. That's the beauty of shooting digital - it's very "green". I can take any shot I want and if I don't like it I can just delete it. I'm not spending money on film or prints (or polluting the environment with the chemicals it takes to process film and prints.

BTW - the photo is not double exposed (although it looks like it). There is a window between me and that other table and the "ghost images" are the reflections in the glass.

Anticipation

I think this photo could be used for a Rorschach test. Is this just a collection of empty chairs or is it a scene of anticipation? Is this a room emptied of life or will these chairs soon be full of people eger to be inspired, enlightened, entertained, educated?

How we interpret visual cues makes all the difference in how we live our lives. There were many artists sitting/standing in this room, standing in the balconies above it, walking through it at various times throughout the day. How many of them noticed the play of light on the chairs and floor? How many of them saw an artistic beauty in this arrangement? Surely I couldn't have been the only one. I think I'll post this photo on DeviantArt (deviantart.com) and see how many of the people who attended the party took a photo similar to this one or thought of chairs as art.

When we are children we play the game of finding "things" in the clouds. I saw a dragon just the other day on my way into the office. I had to bring a co-worker outside to see it (he's Chinese and born in the year of the Dragon). I though it might be auspicious (lucky) for him. He wasn't as impressed with the cloud dragon as I was. Maybe it was auspicious for me since I'm the one who saw it first.

How many things do you see every day and don't even think about them? How much more would you see if you looked for something artistic or interesting in your everyday surroundings? Wouldn't it make your life a little more interesting?

DeviantArt 10th Birthday Bash

Ana (my niece) and I went to the DeviantArt 10th Birthday Bash at the house of Blues last Saturday. Ana has well over 100 images (mostly drawings) on DeviantArt. I only have about 10 photos up. For anyone who doesn't know, DA is a social network for artists of just about every medium. Saturday they said they had about 15 million (that's MILLION) artists all over the world. When we got there we signed in with our screen names. Two of Ana's pictures showed up on the monitors on the 3rd floor while we were up there. That was cool!

They had monitors all over the place and showed random artwork of members on the screens all during the party. It was amazing to see all those people in one place who had this social networking place in common. It was very inspiring and humbling. I got some great ideas about pictures I want to do as a result of being at the party. I even wrote them down so I wouldn't forget.

They also had the new Bamboo drawing tablets available for people to try. These new tablets are also touch pads. They even gave a few of them away. It was a really fun day. I'm glad we had the experience.
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