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pecunium ([personal profile] pecunium) wrote2009-03-08 12:35 pm
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Follow up on the Brass Ring

My proposal, (Great Britain on foot, Bridle Path and Barge) is doing well, esp. for just one day's worth of listing.

If I understand what they want, it needs more. I feel guilty (well no, I feel like a beggar, which is different). They want someone who will be read, who can provide something which will have a following. So I'm actually asking for a little more than just a vote.

So if you could follow this link:



and, vote (if you've not already), and leave a comment. Give a suggestion, tell me what you'd like to read about, see pictures of.

When they say, "name your dream", this is one of mine. Toad and his gyspy wagon. The time on the canal.... following the mule. That was what I flashed on. The Wind in the Willows was one of the shaping books of my youth. When I was a kid in Ohio we had a wood behind the house, about four acres. That's a fair chunk of tangled deadfall and mysterious nooks and crannies. It was where I set Badger's House in my mind's eye (there was a patch of fallen branches which was covered in leaves and twigs and snow in the winter. Beneath it was a small bit of dark dryness. The wood-rats Ratty scared off with his brace of pistols and cudgel could have lived in it).

Those are some of the things I would love to catch.

And the morning light, Otter's, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn", which I've always tied into Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" (why yes, my mind is a strange clutter of bizarre free association).

I've got the chops to do the trip. Now I need evidence to show there are people who want to share it with me.

Thanks.

[identity profile] commodorified.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but I only say these things because you take (http://soul-diaspora.livejournal.com/46638.html) beautiful (http://soul-diaspora.livejournal.com/46591.html) bird (http://soul-diaspora.livejournal.com/46272.html) pictures (http://soul-diaspora.livejournal.com/41789.html).

[identity profile] soul-diaspora.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you :-)

I didn't mean to put myself down so much as to say that the composition in some of pecunium's pictures took my breath away. They reminded me of where I'm trying to go. See...every now and then as I'm walking along photographing pretty birds, I find some odd unexpected bit of beauty--a heap of snow, sunlight on a puddle, whatever--and try to capture it. I always fail. I don't know why. When I get home and look at the picture, it sucks, and my brain says, "duh, of course it sucks, it was just a puddle/heap of snow!"
But I know my brain is wrong.

[identity profile] commodorified.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
You should see some of the stuff he doesn't consider fit to post. :-)

Seriously, it'll come, if you keep doing it.

[identity profile] pecunium.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
It's practice. The camera is a harsh mistress. With paint, all things are possible. With "film" there are compromises. Depth of Field, angle of view, color, angle of lens (it affects perspective).

Whats inside the square of the veiwfinder is not what comes out on the paper. As with music, the ability to take the scribbles on the page, and translate them to something else takes skill (which you have, trust me), practice, and some empathy for the medium.

You have the talent, the rest will come.

[identity profile] soul-diaspora.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I really appreciate the encouragement.