By the Dozen {a by-weekly series of musings and inspiration}
Jul 20, 2010
There are a lot of changes and growth in store for EW Couture Collection blog/website. You can expect it to happen gradually over the next several months.
The blog continues to be the place to stop by if you want to check on the latest EW Couture Collection free template download release, or participate in the monthly photography themed giveaways, and you are not on the mailing list.
But it will also be much more than that. As a part of a new series of articles, posts will go up a regular basis. That is - on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Always with musings and inspiration by the dozen. And at times by the baker's dozen :)
There are probably going to be no Thursday "By the Dozen" posts during the giveaway weeks (first week of each month) - for the next couple of months, at least.
Tuesdays will be the days I will be highlighting inspiring artwork and artists. I am at the beginning of my journey in photography and I would say that in one way or another other artists' work (photographers in particular) have had and continue to have a huge impact on who I'm becoming and being shaped into as an artist.
I am positive that every one of you can name one or more artists that you would call your inspiration, doesn't matter where you are at as a photographer. Staying inspired is I believe, food for the soul, it is what keeps us pushing our creative boundaries and grow instead of becoming stagnant.
We have to have a certain talent, we have to have the seeing eye and be our own learners, as Imogen Cunningham said, but we are all influenced a little by something or somebody.
Thursdays' 'By the Dozen' posts will appeal, more or less, to a mix of the creative and business side of well... the photography business - musings, thoughts and tips on marketing, pricing, balancing life and business, finding your artistic voice, photographing children, newborns, seniors, nonprofit work, post processing and many other subjects you'll find of interest to you.
And since I have no claim to be an expert or a seasoned photographer who's been through the ins and outs of the business, you'll be introduced to guest photographers who have the experience and from whom you can learn a lot, while I'll share my thoughts on subjects I have valuable info to share about.
While I believe these articles will be great food for thought, I hope they will spark interesting and valuable discussions, and you'll walk away enlightened or with the satisfaction of sharing something valuable that helped another fellow photographer.
So, since it is Tuesday and to kick off the series, here is a 'baker's dozen' - a collection of images that I consider defining in my shaping on what I like, what visually makes my heart sing. And maybe it is not as much these particular images that are at the corner stone of who I am am and I am becoming as an artist, but the photographers behind them and the visual lessons that stuck with me from each of them.
Whenever I think of these artists, these are some of the images that come to mind immediately.
Who (or what) had an influence on your 'seeing eye' or continues to influence you to grow into who you are today as an artist?
{to view the images in their original context please click on the links below}
1. Sweet girl..., 2. Untitled, 3. Untitled, 4. Red Leaf Studios, 5. Untitled, 6. Ms. M, 7. her. reflected., 8. yahoo spring!, 9. Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated that we can conceive. , 10. IMG_4364, 11. "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.", 12. lemonhead, 13. Elsie
Reader Comments (2)
awwwwwww, thank you. I do love that image!
I am sure you hear this over and over again, but you truly are such an inspiration and it is a delight to look at the art you create MB - pure eye candy :).