San Clemente Beach May 2016, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale
This was not a great weekend. Earlier in week I was not feeling great, but Thursday evening and Friday morning I seemed to be over what-ever-it-was. But what-ever-it-was came back to bite me Friday afternoon and only this morning did it seem I was getting on the mend. I suspect it was strep throat. sigh. I have been drinking so much hot tea that I keep track of by the kettle-fulls, not by the cups. Even sipping a cup while I write this.
So in between some long naps, I have been thinking about my photography and my art. Seems that I have wondered into being more of an artist than a photographer with my second artist book Bluewater Shore. Which has a lot to do with the fact that I used someone else’s photographs as a source material versus the fact that I did not take the actual photographs. This appears to be a bigger deal for a lot of other photographers, galleries, photo magazines and now collectors. At the moment I just need to think about this some more, but it does create a shift in my/others perception.
The photograph above was something that I had energy to play with this weekend between my various naps; initially this was a very straight photo but after posting my earlier Experiment/play urban landscape, I decided to apply some of the same SnapSeed magic to this image. It’s a combination of desaturation of the colors and some refined Lens Blur filter. I feel it definitely changes the feeling that this photograph now evokes. Interesting. Btw, I made the original just about this same time last year but added the current copyright date to reflect that I created this new edition recently.
So that’s all the energy I have for now, perhaps time for either another cup of tea or a nap (or both in quick succession!)
Cheers!
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