I went hiking at the Eno River State Park again this morning. This time we went through a different entrance, so I got to see a part of the park I've never seen before.
It's so refreshing. Early morn the air is so clean and invigorating. Below is a photo I took (one of many, the rest I'll be putting up soon) that reminded me of an art piece I saw at the Nasher Museum. The work in the Nasher is a photo of a huge tree, with many branches that fork into more branches that go on---"fractal"-ing out. But the stunning part of the work is the photo is hung on the wall upside down! I was really captivated by that piece, since it motivated a new perception of the tree, a point of view one normally would not see, and thus, also made me try to look at life from different viewpoints. Here, I am looking at roots from a tree, but with the leaves scattered about it's almost an image of a tree! Nature IS beautiful.
The invention of photography was brilliant. To find out more read here. Niepce's actually not the only one as several inventors were working on the idea at the same time. That website just happens to be the first to pop up on google heh and also because he worked with Daguerre, who of course is the inventor of the daguerreotype. It's an interesting site!
With photos we can capture souls and emotions and life itself. A picture speaks a thousand words. Here is Betina's website. I still remember debating with her on what's better, digital or manual. I was a big time digital buff, and she of course being the artistic one, said only a manual camera could have all the functions to best capture the essences of a moment. Also like the artist in her, only with a manual can one fully understand the process of getting the picture, the control of shutter, aperture, focus. But digital is just so convenient, and new technology is cool! You don't have laser guided focus systems on a manual camera! So we had a competition to see who could produce better pictures. Naturally the girl always wins. But, in the end she did buy a digital. I don't know though whether a digital or manual was used to take these. It's been a while...too bad things never worked out.
Anyways, moving on from the past. After hiking, we were starved, so I had a filling vege-omelet breakfast at IHOP, the International House of Pancakes...today is my vegetarian day, an absolutely no meat at all day. I like to do that once or twice a week to clean the pipes as they say.
It's so refreshing. Early morn the air is so clean and invigorating. Below is a photo I took (one of many, the rest I'll be putting up soon) that reminded me of an art piece I saw at the Nasher Museum. The work in the Nasher is a photo of a huge tree, with many branches that fork into more branches that go on---"fractal"-ing out. But the stunning part of the work is the photo is hung on the wall upside down! I was really captivated by that piece, since it motivated a new perception of the tree, a point of view one normally would not see, and thus, also made me try to look at life from different viewpoints. Here, I am looking at roots from a tree, but with the leaves scattered about it's almost an image of a tree! Nature IS beautiful.
The invention of photography was brilliant. To find out more read here. Niepce's actually not the only one as several inventors were working on the idea at the same time. That website just happens to be the first to pop up on google heh and also because he worked with Daguerre, who of course is the inventor of the daguerreotype. It's an interesting site!
With photos we can capture souls and emotions and life itself. A picture speaks a thousand words. Here is Betina's website. I still remember debating with her on what's better, digital or manual. I was a big time digital buff, and she of course being the artistic one, said only a manual camera could have all the functions to best capture the essences of a moment. Also like the artist in her, only with a manual can one fully understand the process of getting the picture, the control of shutter, aperture, focus. But digital is just so convenient, and new technology is cool! You don't have laser guided focus systems on a manual camera! So we had a competition to see who could produce better pictures. Naturally the girl always wins. But, in the end she did buy a digital. I don't know though whether a digital or manual was used to take these. It's been a while...too bad things never worked out.
Anyways, moving on from the past. After hiking, we were starved, so I had a filling vege-omelet breakfast at IHOP, the International House of Pancakes...today is my vegetarian day, an absolutely no meat at all day. I like to do that once or twice a week to clean the pipes as they say.
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