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This is the same whale bone photograph in
yesterday's entry modified with successive
applications of the same filter and then a final
"ink sketch" effect. I actually think it conveys
the feeling of seeing these huge bleached bones on
land better than the photograph did. More
emotional, less literal.
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This image actually started as one of Istvan's
photos of pine cones. I experimented with effects
until I got a pattern I liked and then ran it
through the vortex filter to get the reflections.
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I've been fooling around with Photoshop a lot
lately, instead of writing. I had this idea of doing 17 ways
of looking at Motif #1 the other night and spent a long time
on it. Some of the results are really really really weird.
And I only got up to 9 ways before I got too tired to keep
at it. Some of the images at least look like Motif #1, but
then I got carried away and let myself get weird. Believe it
or not, both images started with the same
photograph. One thing that has consistently frustrated me in
going any further with photography is the difficulty of
finding any New England image that is not already a cliche.
When I go to "art in the park" fairs or the like, I am
always struck by how everybody has the obligatory scene of
the swan boats, apples, Bass Rocks, the fisherman memorial,
autumn leaves, autumn leaves in snow, apples in snow, the
fisherman memorial in snow... and much much more... yet they
are all the same. It's actually refreshing to come across
photos of the southwest (also rapidly becoming cliched - how
many lone raven on top of a cactus, chili ristras, or
desertscapes can we take?). The entire New England landscape
is a cliche. There is nothing new to say about it visually.
That's why I got this bizarre notion of 17 ways of looking
at Motif #1 - just to see if there were other ways of
looking at it. My weirdest image so far doesn't really look
much like a cliched fishing shack - more like one of those
paint spinning things kids do up at the arcade at Hampton
Beach. I did a couple of other abstracts, not shown, that
look more like they are at least related to Motif #1, but I
wanted to put the strangest one here for perusal.
Anything to keep from writing about mutual assured
nuclear destruction. India and Pakistan can't learn from our
mistakes? They have to make their own?
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