I have recently become a big fan of edited photography. Not that I didn't like it before, but let's say that I've "re-discovered" it. It's often very hard (for me at least, I don't know about you other photographers out there) to get the right picture. The picture that I wanted to take. I all the time end up taking a picture that is not quite what I set out to take.
It can be very annoying, and oddly satisfying at the same time. When the end picture is not as good as I'd hoped, I am obviously disappointed. But other times, when the result is better than I had hoped, I am satisfied, happy.
Let me show you.
The above picture is not exactly what I had in mind when I decided to take the picture. Because of natural interferences, it often is not. In this one, I would have liked less trees, and more of the person (my cousin, Tara). What I should have done was take the picture in a field, so that I could get a reflection of Tara against the sky. More sunlight would have been nice, too, but unfortunately the day was actually quite cloudy. It poured rain after I took the shot. I had to work with what I had.
Ah well, the trying conditions of being a photographer. Sometimes, the world just doesn't want you to take the picture.
But I did it anyway.
Here's a poem/song I wrote. I wrote the music for the first part, and just recently finished the lyrics. Enjoy!
“Lolli, please talk to me,
Don’t tell me it’s a dream”,
He says to me as he runs his hands,
Up and down my close-shaved knee,
He talks to me, he pulls my hair,
Then slips one on the cheek,
“Mr. Vivaldi,
Please try and understand,
This isn’t how I planned this out,
So let’s take two steps back”
Who’s that standing at the bar,
With the pink-umbrella drink,
You don’t want to mess with her they say,
Cause her dad owns the company,
She’s on my mind, she’s in my head,
She keeps on botherin’ me,
“Hey, where’re ya goin’?
The party’s just begun”,
“Must be home by 12,” she says,
“And it’s already 10 past 1”
Now she’s walking out the door,
With her pride slung on her back,
If anyone’s got looks that kill,
I’d put my life on Black,
She knows her way around her men,
That’s much too much for me,
“It’s time I’d be runnin’,
I’ve got places to go,
Thanks so much, you’ve been awfully kind,
But these things come in rows, so,
Please my dear, sweet Juliette,
Don’t take up all my time,
I have a place I’ve got to go,
It’s far away from here,
I turn my back, she looks at me,
I’ll cringe as I walk away,
I had a good thing goin’,
But I threw it all away,
To chase a dream I met one night,
Is it worth it, I don’t know.
The reason some of it is written with Quotation marks is because the "narrator" changes throughout the song, from male to female. The girl in the song is called Lolli McPheonix. It's a weird name, but funny story behind it (kind of). I was sitting with a bunch of my friends, eating at a restaurant, when two people started speaking at once, and then suddenly stopped to let the other one finish. When they spoke, what I heard was Lolli McPheoinx. So that's how I came up with the name.
I wrote this because I was planning on writing an album (it's still in the works, somewhat) and the album was going to have a story-line to it. Basically, it was to deal with human emotions, and tell the story of 2 people who meet and fall in love. Lolli is one of these people. There's more to it than that, but I won't give it all away just yet, partially because I haven't written too much else.
I don't yet have a name for the male character (but I have thought of some other cool female names). I get a big kick out of creating names. I don't know why. Particularly girl's names. Couldn't tell you why.
But if anyone has an idea for a male name, I'd love to hear it.
Posted by
Danny Pen
5:35 PM
Hullo again! This time from Bangkok, Thailand. Just flew in last night from Baltimore, MD. I was staying with my cousins there, and it was just so much fun. This picture is of my cousin, Tara Macdonald.
I like this picture, because it's kind of unfinished. She has the hugest grin on her face, with her arm outstretched, but you can't see what else is going on. Which leaves a lot to your own personal interpretation.
I'd like to say that I came up with this "idea" myself, but I actually did not. A photographer who I found out about a year ago on a website called www.weeklyshot.org (great site, if you have time, check it out) took a picture like this. The website has weekly themes, and photographers around the world interpret these themes in different ways. The theme for this particular picture was called "one half". Justin Gaynor took a similar picture, and it was form here that I drew my inspiration for this one.
So, Mr Gaynor, I thank you sincerely
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