Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Resolution.....

Torchlight voices coming together as one!
What does it mean to you?

1.
a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usuallyafter voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club,or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
2.
a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.
Focus
3.
the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.
4.
the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose.
5.
the act or process of resolving or separating into constituentor elementary parts.
6.
the resulting state.
7.
Optics . the act, process, or capability of distinguishing between two separate but adjacent objects or sources oflight or between two nearly equal wavelengths. Compare resolving power.
8.
a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem,controversy, etc.


Sandy or snowy beach?
9.
Music .
a.
the progression of a voice part or of the harmony as awhole from a dissonance to a consonance.
b.
the tone or chord to which a dissonance is resolved.
10.
reduction to a simpler form; conversion.


What do you see - discuss!
11.
Medicine/Medical . the reduction or disappearance of aswelling or inflammation without suppuration.
12.
the degree of sharpness of a computer-generated image asmeasured by the number of dots per linear inch in a hard-copy printout or the number of pixels across and down on adisplay screen.


Digital photographs are a series of pixels!
Mmmmmm, I wonder, choices, choices, so many choices!





Monday, 3 January 2011

Destination Unknown - inspired by Imogen Cunningham

Fairy Lights
I am so excited.  Why?  Well I am inspired, that is why.  Anika over at ACoLab has put up various "extra inspirations" over there and she has picked ones that I just love.  


Innocence
For January, I have chosen Imogen Cunningham as my extra inspiration:  


Imogen Cunningham was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest.  She began her photographic studies at the University of Washington and went on to become one of photography's early pioneers and commenced what became one of the longest photographic careers in the history of the medium.

Temptation
In the 1920's, Cunningham turned her attention to artistic nudes of friends and family and the study of plant forms found in her garden. The results are staggering; an amazing body of work comprised of bold, contemporary forms.




soft and hard


I love the work she did, and because she had various subject matters, I am going to use her as my muse inspiration for this month and try and tackle a number of her subject matters which is going to be hard because she did nudes, plant forms, and portraits and they were incredible.  
Mother Nature sees all


I don't for one minute think that what I will produce will be as iconic as what she did, what it will do however is provide me with a focus in which to experiment and challenge and educate myself, after all that is what the early pioneers of photography did, and photography to me is my own way of exploring me, what I see, what I want to express and I do love contemporary art a lot!
Tired

This is so exciting, and I hope that you enjoy what to me feels like the start of a journey to Destination Unknown - although maybe for me that will be getting to understand Imogen Cunningham a little more and tackling subjects that I have not!

Ripe
So firstly, thank you Anika for coming up with such stunning inspirations for 2011, I feel like 2011 is the start of a long journey for me......

Soft to the touch
Past it's prime
Propaganda
Bamboo Garden
Dangerous
V is for ...
Hanging fruit
Fanny Fan Fan...
Shiny




MM3