The creativity was being open enough to see the image in the first place. Andrew On Mon, July 25, 2011 2:01 am, wildimages@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >>> Rob Talbot - Hot Ashes >>> >> >> I've been having lots of fun imagining how the person who set this up >> got it just right. I've often noticed the way ashes finish if no breeze >> or well-intentioned fire extinguisher messes with them. Selecting the >> wood so it would burn out and make the pattern would be quite an >> amusement. >> >> Using some artsy filter in Photoshop would not be half as much fun. >> > > > I wish I could claim some creativity here ... sadly it's just an "objet > trouvé". All I had to do was point the camera, focus and fire. It's the > top of somebody's black plastic dustbin (US= Trash Can?) on a frosty > morning. > > > > > > > >>> Christopher Strevens - On the Serbian border >>> > >> Sad how universal such places have become. Nothing here particularly >> > >> says Serbia. > > One part of me mourns the day when places accross the world were > different: they are fast becomming the same. > > > > > > >>> Yoram Gelman - Power Hungry >>> > >> We see some conceit and >> > >> imagine that others will grok it and then, subjected to the lack of > >> imagination of the average viewer, discover that our conceit is just > >> ours. > > Ain't that the truth Emily. > > > How many times have I taken a great abstract, that I think is fantastic > ... only to discover nobody else gets it? > Turns out it's just a self-indulgent picture ... > > > > > >
