I decided recently that given all the money I am saving by not traveling it would be OK to buy myself flowers once in awhile. One of my photography gurus put me on to a website called Farm Girl Flowers which is out of California and overnights the flowers right to your doorstep. So this month’s bouquet was sunflowers which, unfortunately I did not get around to photographing until it was almost too late. On this one I went for a dark and moody look using a preset that took it in the right direction and then added a texture to darken the edges even more. Shot with the R mirrorless and one of the lensbabies, maybe Velvet 56. I keep forgetting to photograph the lens before I swap it in so I know what I was using as the lensbabies do not show up in the meta data.
Today’s quote is from Julia Cameron from her day book called The Artist’s Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living. I have taken the liberty to substitute the word art for her original word writing but you can swap it back if you prefer writing.
What if [art] were approached like white-water rafting? Something to try just for the fact of having tried it, for the spills and chills of having gone through the rapids of the creative process. What if we allowed ourselves to be amateurs (from the Latin verb amare, “to love”).