Study In Red, out on the porch, July 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
last day of July
sun vase over the deck rail
red refracting light
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Everyday Art – Study In Red
August 25, 2007 by QuoinMonkey
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This is stunning! I love it.
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Lovely and captures a kind of summery light.
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I love the subtle outline around the green leaves, and that red! great photo – you’s obviously a photographer who really “sees”. G
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Thank you all for your kind comments. I was mesmerized by the light that day. The way it was low on the horizon, filtering through the trees, and bouncing around inside the red vase and out on to the leaves.
G., that’s one of the greatest compliments a photographer can receive – that she really sees. Photography is so little about the camera one is using – and so much about the way the artist/photographer is seeing. So thank you.
I feel so happy that I have fallen in love with my photography again. After a few years of doing nothing but writing, I feel like I now have two passions. It is heaven. A great gift.
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Nice haiku! 🙂
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Wow, this is fantastic.
What a color!
I’m spellbound and applaud, and I’m ashamed of the pale words of my review at the same time. The air is living there – it moves and opens a door into the incredible depth of the visual story .. Wow!
Thank you. It was a great pleasure to view your artwork.
I would be proud of meeting you on my blogs, and I greatly appreciate your feedback.
Thank you
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QM,
When I look at something, I either get this certain feeling inside…or I don’t. It’s a sense of balance that I cannot explain…it’s just there…has been since childhood. Something either feels right to me or doesn’t. It can be art, the lines of a car, a certain melody, the way food is arranged on a plate…
even the way a bow on the back of a women’s garment is tied. Until it’s there, that certain harmony…I cannot be satisfied.
When I look at this new photo…actually the last few photos…I see something new coming over you. I can feel the “balance” in me when I look at them. I love the idea that you actually tell the readers that you are finding a new passion for photography again. I can “see” it happening to you…just as you “feel” it.
I took up photography again after a long period of no creative outlet. My parents were both diagnosed with terrible illnesses and to keep my sanity…I picked up my camera again. It was the single most important change I have ever made in my life.
Without it and a very dedicated teacher, I’m not sure I would have survived my Father’s death.
What made it even more special was that this very gifted man thought he had nothing viable left to give his students and was going to end his teaching career. He changed his mind after I told him how much his guidance back into this particular art had meant to me. It’s funny how two souls can find each other when they need to….and it makes my heart so happy to see someone else “getting excited” about finding photography again as well.
This photo is graphically beautiful in line, color and “balance”. I like to concentrate on the very tip of the center leaf and wait until my eyes “unfocus”…then I see something altogether different again. I also like the wavy diagonal lines that guide your eyes from one corner to the other. I look forward to seeing what comes next…in your own adventure 🙂
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I, too, keep going back to that center-most leaf. How it pops against the gray, shiny cement. How it’s a different color altogether than the rest of its lot. How it makes the screen three-dimensional. I can see the miniscule veins of the leaf, how some are embued with the reflection of the red vase, how others are green, how they form a sort of teeny tiny grid on the leaf’s surface, and then the thicker green line down the middle.
QM, and same for you Heather, you must find a way to offer your photos for sale.
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The thing I notice most about this is that the center of the picture is empty (leaf-wise). Still, just like anuvuestudio, I feel there’s balance to this piece. It makes me think of music and how sometimes, silence is a welcome breath of air. In this instance, the eye immediately is captured by the vibrant hues of the leaves and the vase, but is drawn inside by the empty center.
Did you photoshop this? 🙂
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Liz, I like the comparison to music, and the space in the silences between the notes. The empty center – that space is vital to good art. Thanks for your comment.
BTW, I don’t edit or crop any of my photographs. They are posted full-frame (as we used to call it in print photography). Meaning you compose the shot, in the moment, while you are shooting. And when you print in the darkroom, you print the full negative, just as it is.
That’s the way I was taught and it has stuck with me. It also teaches me to take time to compose a shot. And pay attention to what I am doing.
But, I want to say, I’ve got nothing against Photoshop or manipulated images or art forms! It’s just that for me (as I feel right now, it might change later) all of my images are full-frame and unedited, unless I state otherwise in the credits. I guess I’m Old School!
There have been a couple of photos I’ve cropped for anonymity purposes as well, so that faces don’t show.
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lone beader, I like that you commented on the haiku. I know you write a lot of it yourself!
Tomas, thanks for coming by red Ravine and I appreciate your comment. I hope people will check out the vibrant color in your art on Candleday!
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Heather, I really appreciate your insight into my photography. It’s so good to hear from the outside that something is changing. And that there is a new balance.
I could feel it a bit in Taos last year when I sat in silence at the writing retreats I attended. And then when I would go out around Mable Dodge, or into the New Mexico landscape in silence and photograph – it somehow deepened the practice of photography for me.
I learned a lot about how practices carry over into one another. And all practices come from the wide empty space that Liz speaks of in her comment. I love that people are noticing the empty spaces in the photograph. Because there is so much going on in what seems empty.
Thanks for sharing your story about how you picked up your photography again when your parents were ill. And that you found some peace there. Your story about finding a teacher is moving, too. It reminds me that teachers get as much from their students, as the students get from them. And sometimes it’s a new lease on life, or new insights into an old art form.
Thanks so much for your valuable comment.
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I was happy to come back and to enjoy your picture again. Thank you.
Your “study in red” has accompanied me wherever I went form my first visit at your site till now. Your red refracting light pierces the heart – it looks unforgettably. I would like to invite you to my blog Captains bridge. I think you will enjoy what you will find on http://captains-bridge.blogspot.com I want to exchange the links with you.
I will greatly appreciate your feedback and eagerly look forward to your comment on my blog.
Thank you.
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