The beauty in decay

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  • oysterjar
    oysterjar NH Posts: 1,235
    Thanks for the tips. Any books you suggest for further suggestions or a place I can reference?

    I enjoy your drawings too. Are they charcoal?
    Wind this thing up.

  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    edited April 2014
    Well...it depends on what kind of photo's your interested in, I think... To be honest I don't think you can learn how to photograph out of books. But Looking to photos you like, and explore what makes you like them can be helpful. Analyzing those photos in how the photographer uses the light, choose his objects and uses the diaphragm can help you to sharpen your own view, I think ... But as I stated before, experiencing it and practice, helps a lot more. And it doesn't have to cost much in this digital age, accept the time you put into it. In my photography I am a self made woman, So I don't know a lot about the technical stuff. so maybe I'm not the right person to ask...

    I'm glad you also like my drawings, thanks for your kind words, the are indeed made with charcoal...

    Here are two more... an other pic and drawing...


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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Aafke said:

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    this one reminds me of a spider. .. but with less eyes. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    edited May 2014
    That's the beauty of any form of art, people can interpret it and give it meaning in so many different ways...

    Here is an other pic... called springtime on a graveyard...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    edited June 2014
    Well, I like to take pics of humans, in every form... I don't post pics of living humans on this site because of their privacy, but in this case I make an exception ;) ...

    I took these ones in the Catacombes of a huge city in Europe...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    edited May 2014
    Decay when live goes on...
    Springtime on a graveyard...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    edited May 2014
    An other one from that same Graveyard

    Looking out from the grave...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    Well... these pictures aren't of a building in decay, but I like them anyway... so lets put them up here, and see if you can guess from with famous European building they are... If you think you know it please let me know... Lets start with one...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    And the second one...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    Last one...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    I love the catacombs pictures...they fit your subject matter so perfectly and yet bring such a different dynamic to it all at the same time...very good addition. They're almost too tragic to bare...I love it!
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  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    WhisperinHands said:

    I love the catacombs pictures...they fit your subject matter so perfectly and yet bring such a different dynamic to it all at the same time...very good addition. They're almost too tragic to bare...I love it!

    Well, thank you for your kind words... I thought so too, about fitting to the subject matter... Here's an other one... I wonder how this persons life came to an end...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    edited June 2014
    This one probable is one of the best out of this serie... Fragile Life...

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    Taking these pictures I wandered what lives these people have led and why they died...
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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    Well, ... time for an other graveyard pic...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    edited June 2014
    Broken glass, birds fly...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    Dried-up rose in a grave...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    edited June 2014
    Fresh flowers by an old grave...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • Aafke
    Aafke Posts: 1,219
    Once a proud grave... Now a rusty cage with broken glass...I know in this stage i find it more interesting...

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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee

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