I don’t normally take vertical photographs for reasons probably having to do with my RTF education and because I generally like stepping back and seeing a broader, almost voyeuristic picture, even if it’s cut off at the legs. I like these though, all taken on separate rolls of film, though I think they belong to each other.
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I don’t know why I’ve been taking so many pictures and spending so much money on getting them developed. I’ve never wanted to be a photographer, but I guess in the lapse of having an interesting story to tell for film or animation, I still want to capture things that I feel have a little story in the moment, maybe something easier to say through a picture than words (God that sounds stupid.) I feel pretty aimless and uninspired about it all though. Do I want to be good at this? Do I just want to take “pretty” pictures? Do I want to inspire feelings? To tell a story? Am I being lame? Yeah prolly.
In other news:
On flickr I always submit to this group called All Things Girl, because I was invited to submit something one time, and I don’t know, since I’m a girl, it’s an easy place to send new uploads. It turns out, the group is a pool for submissions to their online magazine All Things Girl and I had no idea it even existed. They recently asked to use a self-portrait I submitted to the flickr group… and there’s no better way to make me self-conscious about taking pictures of myself than to have it put online as a representation of pictures I take. I guess I set myself up for that by taking/uploading it in the first place. I’m really flattered though; they have a very nice community. Here’s the pic among some other lovely photographs. Too bad I couldn’t get a better scan.
Things to Make: Effort.