really felt nice to read about your nice day.
i was thrilled too. actually, it reminds me - long back not only during my
school even during college days too i used to paint - and those concepts of
composition still stand valid in photography. in fact, i kind of moved to
photography on account of lack of time - couldn't find that much time to do
a painting - especially portraits. with camera, you can do a lot. and then
i somehow stuck with camera only. however, as i was reading your message,
it struck me again - light, composition, colors, contrast, all those things
we talk in photography - are basically inherited from painting.
thanks a lot for helping me re-new my old interests.
anand.
>From: Jon Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: My wonderful day, sort of OT
>Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 02:30:18 +0800
>
>Hi all
>
>I managed to catch up with my 84 year old aunt today, or is it yesterday
>already? Whatever. :-) I haven't seen her for almost 5 years and haven't
>visited her for the best part of twenty five years. My mother had told me
>last week that she (my aunt) wanted to have a look at some of my
>photographs, and maybe I'd like to look at her paintings. I couldn't agree
>quickly enough.
>
>Anyway, we popped down there for the afternoon for a visit. My aunt is 84,
>going on 25. She still paints, and has about 3 works on the go at present.
>She and my uncle had dragged out every canvas for viewing. Some of them are
>absolutely wonderful. One took my eye almost immediately, a painting of a
>street in ... erm ... [insert city in Europe here]. My mind is playing
>silly buggers with me, I'll remember the city later, about a minute after I
>post this. It is a most wonderful picture. I'm probably the worst art
>critic in the world, and that'd be stating the bleeding obvious. I was
>smitten with the painting, and I'll have to talk to my mum about what it'll
>take to acquire it.
>
>We talked about her methods and how she was still learning how to do
>things. We talked about light, we talked about colours, we talked about
>technique, we talked about composition. It is a shame I have as much talent
>as painting as I do at bricklaying, which suffice to say is almost nil. I
>was amazed that she was still learning new techniques, some of which
>require quite a deal of control to master. She was unfazed about learning
>them, but her eyesight isn't as good these days, so it is a bit harder than
>it should be. :-)
>
>We talked about how she got started, and how she wasn't allowed to draw
>when she was a kid. It wasn't until she was living on the farm, and things
>were good, that she picked up a paint brush and started to paint. She still
>goes to workshops, and showed us a charcoal on paper drawing she did at the
>last one she attended, about 2 years ago. The workshop was on getting ideas
>on paper in a short amount of time, using the minimum amount of effort (or
>something like that). I reckon had the person in the drawing walked in the
>door he would have been recognised from the drawing.
>
>All in all, some of her insights will be incorporated into how I see images
>when I'm about to photograph them.
>
>We got onto my photographs. Where I look at the picture and see the image,
>my aunt was taken by the light on objects, by how scenes flowed, how the
>colours came together in a scene. I said she could keep any of the photos
>she wanted, as I have the negatives, and re-prints are pretty cheap. She
>was unsure, but I still left about 20 or 25 photos with her. I found it
>pleasing that a lot of the ones she wanted to keep are among my favourite
>photographs.
>
>The one she liked the most is the one that sits above my computer here at
>home. The same photograph is my backdrop to windows at work, and has been
>for the past year and a half. One day I may get around to submitting it to
>the PUG, but I'm more inclined to be selfish, and keep it to myself. LOL
>
>I left thinking it would be a shame to let 5 years go by without visiting
>again. Maybe I will take some 12 x 8's when I go visiting next time.
>
>All in all it was an inspiring day. I came away feeling that if I live to
>be 85, and still think of myself as a wrinkled 25 year old, I'll be doing
>alright. If I can still be learning new things at the same time I think
>I'll have done better that could ever have been expected.
>
>Like the subject says, it was my wonderful day. I just thought I'd share a
>bit of it with the list.
>
>Cheers
>
>
>Jon
>
>Relax! Take life as it comes, you can't chase the sun, you can't race the
>wind
>
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