The Response: Galaxy Koi — Jessica This image is lucky to be here — I almost abandoned the initial idea to go to the botanical garden since I had Danny with me. I turned out to be a lot of fun and Danny had fun too, which was nice since he had the ear tube […]
The Call: Roses — Cheryl I almost abandoned my white umbrella, but I got it out for a few shots tonight. Perhaps I’ll do it more often.
The Response: Shades of Meaning (Unless You Change and Become Like Little Children) — Cheryl I’ve read — and believe — that if you think you have the virtue of humility, you don’t. A similar maxim seems to apply to art: if you’re certain you’re creating it, there’s a good chance you’re not.
The Call: More Azaleas in the Front Yard — Jessica I’ve been reading/ listening to a lot of theology this week (that always gets me in trouble). My take away: I’m attempting to abide in mystery and not lust after certainty.
The Response: Azaleas in My Front Yard Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. — Edward Steichen Well, not really. Not in this sense. I began with a technical ability — combine nine images into one by overlapping the brightest areas of each […]
The Call: Unconstrained — Cheryl I’ve started turning my walls into canvases for my art. I tape up pieces of paper, sheets of stickers, and lengths of tape. Then I shoot and shoot and shoot. Setting my camera to multiple exposure, tilting it, moving it, backing off, coming in close: all of it gives me […]
The Response: Refiner’s Fire — Cheryl This is one of those images that I won’t bother trying to explain (other than to say that it’s a composite created with two copies each of four different photos — two of them being multiple exposure ones). I had not planned on going anywhere near this direction, but […]
The Call: High Spring — Jessica If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. — Brian Eno Could you say the same about poetry? Drama? Story? Photography? Art? Is it a letting go of control and seeing/believing something from another […]
The Response: Eight of Hearts — Jessica I don’t trust my judgement. Experience has taught me that I don’t often judge correctly. Like today. I had a lot to do (like every day the past two weeks) and so I stuck to my list and didn’t finish half of the items. As I began to […]
The Call: White and Red — Cheryl I chose this image from all the ME/ICM ones I took today, because it reminds me of the work of Mark Rothko and the conversations my son and I have had about Rothko’s paintings. Luke can’t stand them, judging the works to be less than art. I long […]
The Response: Bold Abode — Cheryl Tonight’s Call involved a lot of wandering. I played around with in-camera techniques, then I played around with post processing techniques, finally settling on this image. It’s an ICM photo that gets its bold color treatment from a Lightroom preset I came up with a few months ago. It […]
The Call: Silver Lining — Jessica This was not the image I had in my head when I made the call earlier this afternoon. But while driving the kids home from school, I noticed this huge storm cloud coming over our area and thought it looked so bold and dark surrounded by the blue sky […]
The Response: Zig-Zag — Jessica Hockey was the first thing that came into my mind when I read Cheryl’s tweet with the call. The kids had just watched a section of “Miracle” in their gym class and we had discussed it a bit on the car ride home. (Their dad had made them watch the […]
The Call: Blowing Bubbles — Cheryl When I decided on placid for today’s Call, I imagined I’d create an image involving water, but I was thinking the calm, reflective surface of a lake, not bubbles floating through the air. Placid means calm, not agitated or disturbed, so blowing bubbles actually fits the bill for me. […]