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peterkopher In reply to hallucinajen [2006-04-20 23:08:06 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! They were pretty awesome to see in person. Do you like seeing that sort of thing in person? I've got to meet someone locally who is into that sort of thing, of the female variety. I think - after over two years of not being invloved with anyone - that I am ready for another relationship. I believe that maybe I can find that certain someone by continuing to visit places like this arboretum, where my senses are heightened and I can visualize how something might look on camera. I have to be in the right frame of mind, so that I can really SEE what is there all around me. After that it's just a matter of being sure all the technical aspects - such as film speed, composition, lighting, shutter speed, f stop etc. are correct for what I'm trying to capture on film or - more recently - digitally. For a long time I didn't really consider photography to be "an Art", but there is a lot more involved than just clicking the shutter.

I'm glad you liked it!

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hallucinajen In reply to peterkopher [2006-04-22 15:04:56 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I love seeing that sort of thing in person.

Do you ever meditate?

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peterkopher In reply to hallucinajen [2006-04-24 01:48:56 +0000 UTC]

No, not really...

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hallucinajen In reply to peterkopher [2006-04-24 16:44:56 +0000 UTC]

Meditating is kind of fun. It's rough at first. There's lots of different ways to do it and none of them are "wrong". It's basically just paying attention to your inner workings. Some people try to clear there head and some concentrate on certian mantras but I just kind of see my mind as a playground....sometimes there is tension in the playground and a lot can be learned from smoothing that tension over without just shouting......NO STOP....cuz that never works.

There was something I read about critical thinking. It's the process of thinking about your thinking while your thinking to learn how to more efficiantly think. Or something like that. That's hard at first too but eventually can put the fun back into crazy..........lol

I think a lot of people meditate without even realizing they are meditating......like when you were soaking up the shadows and the tree's. I just thought you might have because of how you think sometimes

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peterkopher In reply to hallucinajen [2006-04-25 02:58:46 +0000 UTC]

I guess what I do when I shoot is a kind of meditation. I try to actually "see" what is there; frame details differently than we are used to seeing them, compose pictures in a way that I try to extract a feeling from the composition, isolate small parts of a whole that can be easily missed when looking at the big picture. That is what I find the challenge to be in photography - trying to see things in a way that is different from how others might view the same scene. The technical aspects can be learned by anyone; they don't even HAVE to be learned, if you leave your camera on full auto, without trying different parameters. And I think that is where the "art" comes into being: Seeing things differently and capturing that vision for others to share. It's a conscious choice and effort to try to view the world differently, and I have to be in a certain state of mind to be successful at it.

Are you implying that I am still able to think? Lol...

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hallucinajen In reply to peterkopher [2006-04-26 15:28:49 +0000 UTC]

still able to think? hmmmm......... Maybe

I love art

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hallucinajen In reply to hallucinajen [2006-04-30 18:10:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, we both have a thing for art and music......gets a little wild sometimes

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peterkopher In reply to hallucinajen [2006-04-28 01:49:55 +0000 UTC]

Art? Art who?? Does Jeff know about this?

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