If you haven't checked out "Soaring Through the World in Pictures" that Heather started, you should. Photos from people around the world on weekly themes, by professionals and amateurs alike. It's fun, and gets you thinking about all sorts of subjects. Check it out; join us!
This week's theme is Simplicity. I spent quite a bit of time thinking about what that means to me personally, or in my photographs. Believe me, I came up with all sorts of photos that, to me, portrayed simplicity. Then I started THINKING....always an uh oh.
I thought of this one:
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Yeah, looks simple, right? But then I start thinking about what made that silt so deceiving; cracked and dry on the surface, but muck less than a centimeter underneath. The grass looks like simplicity, but it started a whole conversation with myself about the origins of the earth, and what it takes to make a simple seed grow somewhere, and photosynthesis, and chlorophyll, and all of a sudden it didn't seem so simple. At all.
Anyway, I love the idea of simple, and living simply. But just like trying to find a "simple" photograph, it's not so easy to live that way.
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Oh, don't I know it and here I am called "Simply Heather" :)
This is awesome, Lisa. I do the same thing, you and I would be a pair - probably exhaust one another with our thoughts, but they would be so similar, I imagine :)
A friend that I'd love to have some down time with, just to rest and appreciate...you are.
What a great photo!
Really cool. I feel like I could touch the surface.
I appreciate your sentiments on this one. Nothing I posted on was simple if you analyse it so I cheated and just used a simple version of whatever the theme I was photographing was: a piece of pottery or whatever. There is nothing in life which is simple if you dig below the surface, is there. It's a relative term.
WONDERFUL!
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