Waterspirits

Wanted to be creative tonight, resorted to old photos since neither muse nor opportunity were forthcoming.

Obsolescence

Dear Inspiration, please come back.

Craving creativity but none is forthcoming. I am without substance.

Goddess Athena

I hope she doesn't mind I'm posting this on my blog but I'm kinda proud of it. I'm especially proud because the minute prior I took a picture of myself in shadow and she said, "Oooo! Take one like that of me!" and I was afraid I couldn't because A) I was drunk and B) it was an accident. Seems I pulled it off. I Photoshopped her a little bit but I think it looks fantastic as it adds to the mysteriousness of the composition.

Spot the ghost

From a couple of weeks ago. I posted them on my Facebook but not here, so now that that's been remedied: these are for Kristy who liked the surrealist one below and for mentioning me in her blog even though I don't have a public writing blog. Thanks, Kristy!

Flora Louise

I've got nothing better to do today except try not to be sick, might as well look through pictures and practice being better friends with Photoshop.

So here's "Burlesque Me" from the other night. The wig is named Flora Louise after Louise Brooks.

I was on a platform behind a stage that was ordinarily a guy's bedroom. I set the camera on his bed and ran really fast across the room against the wall before the ten second timer went off. [I was by myself and a little drunk while I did this, which would explain why I forgot to make sure the camera didn't take itself off of monochrome for the first shot. I usually don't like myself in color. ;0]


This was the second shot, and I put the camera back on monochrome. In this one post-production, I fixed Louise's hair, the skuzzy ends of my lace gloves, and removed a wristband and also an annoying spot on the wall behind my head in Photoshop:

I hate Photoshop, but I think I did okay with it. :)

Practice, I guess.

I'm sick again...and playing with Photoshop.

I am going to try to post things a little bit bigger provided they don't run into the column on the right. I meant to do that at the start of January (new year, clean post start date) but forgot.

Juxtaposition

I'm not allowed to post anything I shot last night but I hope that since there's nothing really identifiable in this picture that I won't get in trouble with the party mafia.

vacant, burned, forgotten

I liked the color.

Start, Stop, Reset

Perry Farrell & Dave Navarro's Black Canary Barbie

Because I'm dieting like madwoman this week to fit into *my* corset by next Saturday, I remembered that I had shot about 1000 pictures of a man wearing one...
From last May...because I never uploaded any of these for some reason.

an attempt at surrealism

Me as a ghost [again]

An experiment with the fake ghost thing in color since the oranges match my hair. *shrugs* I think it still works better in black and white but I take too much stuff in black and white, particularly pictures of myself.

[I keep adding things that really don't show up small. Sorry. Especially you people with small screens who don't like to click on the images to enlarge them. You'll just have to take my word for the fact that my hair matches the oranges...or maybe that there are oranges in this picture at all?]

cacophony of crows

I know better than to try to take pictures when it's dark, but...
caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw.

First self portrait of 2010

New Year's Blue Moon

There are other shots where the moon is bigger or more visible, but I decided I liked it lost among the branches in this composition- however, it *must* be seen large to appreciate it. In other words, you really *should* click for detail!

Victorian family plots: gates and chains

Saw someone else's very contrasty picture today that reminded me of this...so here's mine.

The Remembered

Succulents in bloom. From September. Near Dominique Dunne's grave.

Shelter from the Storm

Yesterday.

Coworker to me upon picking up my camera at work (after FedEx dropped it off ) and seeing me with an umbrella: "Cool camera. Whoa, hey, you're going to get it wet?"
Me: "Not my intention to get it wet, but to take pictures in the rain walking home. Though I know from experience I have a hard time composing while holding an umbrella but it will be fine."

30 minutes later- standing under a church to dry the thing off, listening to Testament on headphones, cursing the motion detector light...and nothing burst into flames. Thank God. LOL.

So...um,

I got my wife back. ;)

New photographs to come...soon.

for some reason I really like this picture

It's fuzzy and random but I like it for some reason.

Me, I'm not.

Random picture from the old camera in the old aspect ratio.

Guitar

One of the last images I got off my camera before the hardware failed.

*Happy Dance* at nearly 3 am

Canon accepted my repair under warranty. I'm supposed to get my camera back in ten days. *giddy*

Well, since I've got nothing new to post, I might as well find something old to post.*

Another metaphor.



*2 weeks so far without a camera.

Slight update...

Gotta ship my camera to some factory in Virginia where Canon will determine whether or not to fix it under warranty...

Well, this is an unfortunate development.

My computer and camera have apparently had an argument and are no longer on speaking terms.

When I really bloody need my camera, when I need to take pictures, when I need this catharsis really, really bad right now...this happens.

They need to kiss and make up. I must get these pictures off my camera and onto my computer. I need my outlet so badly right now and I don't have it.

I was sad already but this seriously sucks.

Earlier I cried.

Still in a rut.

The Mind Let Me Go

Despite having the urge to be creative, I haven't felt especially inspired. I don't need a muse; I just need an idea and I can't manage to rattle one out of my head...I feel artistically paralyzed.

under makeup

...love her, but she hides...