Is my photography art ?

well thats one question i am unsure because what really comes to mind is that i look at myself and think can one really define the boundaries of turning a photo into a piece of art,well yes.Being an artist self taught helps me to understand what it takes to look at the world around us in a completely different way,we are surrounded by beauty which is slowly being eaten up,or simply disappearing before our eyes.

Through the eyes of my camera i don’t just see something which i will know will make a good photo, purely because for me i will just be like one more photographer to add on to the thousands which are already out there. I also don’t want to be put in that awkward position of saying to myself do i really want this ( taking photos/painting pictures ) to be a lifetime hobby knowing that there is something unique in creating art from my photos

No i am neither a perfectionist, or constantly go on by saying i can do this and that,etc etc,another thing i never expect anyone to like what i do,but then i am a great believer in saying we can all find that creativity inside us.Taking photos,or painting a nice scenic landscape are all skills which if you go down the route of going to art college or in my case i ended up getting private lessons in understanding the art of perspective.

How did this happen well it was already being noticed i had a flair for drawing interiors of make believe houses and buildings churches objects like a television etc,from there the rest is history. Today paints a different picture and therefore if it wasn’t for technology i would still be on the verge of painting and drawing with watercolors charcoal and pastels

Meaning i can revert back to creating art the traditional way whilst utilizing the technological advances we have at our disposal i:e computers,digital cameras,ipods,flat screen tv’s,surely could we do without these things,no. For those of us who are web designers graphic artists and photographers the arrival of the digital age couldn’t have come at a better time, but then keeping up with all the latest software,gizmo’s and gadgets comes at quite a hefty price

Going back to the main topic and i hope you will have your say in this too on do you think my photography is art , my theory is simple one can define the fact a photo should stay true to its form from the moment its either recorded on film or memory card and then stored,framed or mounted. Move forward a step the arrival of photo -editing,digitally

manipulating photos,applying effects like sepia,silver gelatin,midnight blue manually/digitally to the photo or duplicate/copy of the original image something which is being done a lot these days,from there if that wasn’t enough turning your photos in to pop art,adding fancy borders,selective coloring,etc etc.What more can you want than to see images of that special day,birthday celebration turned into a large canvas print

Shall i go on knowing that its best to see the kind of images i create seen on my website along with sites like art wanted deviant art and art industri, not forgetting i might put some of my work here on this blog listed under gallery when i get round to doing it, please free to comment and if i have missed anything out let me know

 

" What does the word blog mean" !!!!!!

Well since i never knew this, when i saw the word blog come up in search engines on websites i had visited and so on. I thought this looks interesting, but then the big question ?, is blogging highly addictive well i never recall keeping a diary and these days i write any thing down on bits of paper lying around.

Only to go back and realise then I’d forgotten exactly what i had put down ( things you can’t really post on the Internet like blogspots personal spaces and your own website ) ie important contact numbers passwords and so on.

No wonder i have to request/send an email to say a couple of sites i am on could they retrieve my user name/password etc etc. Because even though a majority of content is free on the web these days

If you want additional content, you have two choices view what ever free content is available or sign up for a subscription, what would you choose ? the same goes for advertising photo-libraries. I could go on but then as this is my first post, i will wait to see on what ever responses i get

i once asked a question is Design !!!!! Art ? on a large art community i am part of called art wanted only three people i think replied to my post i subscribe to a website called creative-match and get various articles in an email news letter sent to my in-box once a month oh i also get a free-listing too for my website which will of course have a direct link to artistic inspirations good eh !!!!!!

So on the point of where i first asked the question is blogging addictive i think yes as i am quite enjoying this,one drawback keeping one’s blog updated ( already have two blogs) in need of fresh content.

But then as intend to publish future posts on my art & photography i might need more than just a bit of paper to write down everything which needs doing

Hence why i have been looking into an events calendar or some thing where i can keep a log/record of all the sites i am on including my own one, i have what i think is a form of short-term memory luckily it doesn’t get in the way of taking photos, i think thats all for now

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