PhotoLedger: Painting – Photograph

A painting looks like a photograph; a photograph looks like a painting.

I like paintings because it is the headline of art. It’s the prominent art form that I first think of when ‘art’ is brought up. It’s meticulous and expressionist.

I like photographs because they capture real life moments. They are testaments of how the world looked like.

I like it when painting and photographs cross boundaries, you don’t know which is which. It’s impressive to create one that rims in the slim distinction between painting and photograph.

This artwork is by Frans Lanting:

This artwork is by Alyssa Monks:

Whose work is painting? Whose work is photograph?

PhotoLedger: Flying by Sachigusa Yasuda

Sachigusa Yasuda, an artist from Tokyo, features a desolate perspective on being an elevated ground. 

She takes us to the view of looking down the earth from a skyscraper through her digital photography. And it was excellent.

The experience of her Flying photos was as if you were on the edge of a building’s window, your eyes coordinating with your mind in magnifying the distance to the ground. Some people feel nauseated by the photo, fearing the heights.

What do you feel about this? I’m kept between praising human’s brilliance of industrial design and longing for the natural view we should be seeing but obstructed by these buildings.

PhotoLedger: Bubble

Reflex should be faster that the burst of a bubble. 

Bubble Photography. Photo from crookedbrains.net

You know bubbles. It is just air entrapped by some kind of liquid. We loved it when we were younger as we try to pop every single we see. A mere touch will explode it, so capturing the action in a photograph is a deal with timing.

Bubble photography amazes me. It takes a simple act of joy to the level of immense creativity. Tom Falconer’s flickr has a great set of bubbles in photos.

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PhotoLedger: Starry Night

A Starry Night. Photo from all-that-is-interesting.com

Notice the glitz of stars lights away – stunning allure, mesmerizing nature. I’ll do nothing but stare at you all night.

It’s a calming and peaceful experience everytime, but everytime as well pelted I was by enthusing complexity. Possibilities are boundless, even the foremost scientists imagine and wonder. And that’s the best thing, we don’t know what’s up ahead, but we know it’s beautiful.

I was in a beach, lying in raw and shivery sand, high was a shower of stars the moon guides. It’s a serene moment, and for the first time a falling star showed. Uplifting.

When thoughts clear some sleeps away, starry nights reboots my mind. Whatever I’m thinking, fades. I’m feeling.

Has starry night amazed you too?

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PhotoLedger: Camera View

See a live concert through your phone’s screen?

Photo from Fredrik Smedenborn

HD video recording is almost in every smartphone now. I believe the one in iPhone is among the best, with 8 Megapixel capture embedded in their elaborate light capturing technology. With only a clutch from our pockets, we can capture movie-like scenes.

A pitfall I see is people tend to use it extensively, and for the wrong purpose. In a recent Pyro Olympics that I’ve been to, people everywhere just shoot the entire show in their phones. Accounts of an eagle-eye told me they mostly watch the fireworks gleam against the Cimmerian sky through the small rectangular screen of their phone or camera. Their view is very limited, and they miss out the entirety of exaggerated lights show. I call it a camera view.

Another instance is in a concert. People just record it all; perhaps YouTube is a reinforcement. I went to the concert to loosen up, jump, wave, scream for the artist and all those fanatical liveliness. People recording missed that hella of fun. Sometimes they do jump and scream while recording, which only messed up the video so why bother then?

That’s the way I see video cameras. It is best for familial moments, or moments dear to us like our first born, graduation, or a legendary outing with friends. It saved us the bulk of VHS recording of the past and gave us the ease of digital sharing.

What’s your view on this?

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