excellent subject matter

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I have been trying the first challenge; making pictures from different perspectives. I had done this before, but not so many as you advice. I like this challenge and will practice it more.

This is what art means to me:

Art is one form of diverse media, to communicate the human condition. Today it is a compilation of all media, in history, the human emphasis on life.

Art started out as a tool to record history, and events; “this is how we did it, and we were sucessful.” Before written language, the only form of recording events is through drawing pictures on cave walls and sculptures. Skipping about a million years or so, art became a way of illustrating religion, mythical stories, and historical events capturing an event in a single instance where spoken language failed us. Like a circle around a campfire and as the story changes hands, as it is passed to each person. Not an effective nor accurate way of recording history.

After the Sumerians invented written language and mathematics, it was hard to pass on their stories to the average person, who could not read and write. Only the elite could afford education. So Art reverted back to pictures, but the paintings and sculptures became more detailed. Moving forward a couple thousand years, and Christianity enveloped Europe, the Roccoco period influenced art to be as realistic as it could be. Here we have Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and Micheal Angelo, recording the Pope’s law and the aristocratic hierarchy.

Moving ahead another 800 years…The industrial revolution was upon us. In the mid-1800’s photography became more available. WW1 and the American Civil War, gave birth to a new form that could actually capture an event, moving, and accurately. The term “take my picture”. or steal a moment in time became universal slang for photography. During WW1 the motion picture emerged as a means to communicate to the public of what was actually happening on the front lines.

For a dozen or so French painters, saw photography, and asked themselves: “how can we compete with Photography?” They realized that photography relied solely on light, these painters applied light theory to their paintings. They said that “there is no true color for any shape. A shape relies on the quality of light for it’s color and tone.” And their subjects changed from Biblical and aristocratic portraits to normal everyday life subjects similar to street photography.

This point in art history that photography and painting merged together as art form. and That’s what art means to me.

i got your email with the link, thank you so mutch. i have to read it now, i read a few pages today on my way to work, i come back with new photos soon 😀 thany you once again!! best wishes!! Andrei D.

I have replied to your email.

Thank you Majorie, much appreciated.

I LOVE the road between the trees! Such lovely tangled branches. And the interplay of warm and cool light on the tree trunks and boughs is a subtle but wonderful form of contrast.

Lovely little church, and lovely images of it! I especially like the one in the lower right corner.

Thanks Carmen

Thanks Darlene 🙂

They look sharp to me, but hard to tell at this size. Look at them on your computer at 100% viewing size.

you have some lovely shots here… it looks like you had fun, and the light you had that day was wonderful