okay, since the 365 day challenge is obviously a miserable failure and no one ever reads this (quite literally, I'm writing to thin air here), I had a bright idea of making yet another blog.  How ingenious.

But, it makes sense this time.  A lot more sense than this one.  Tomorrow, I shall unveil the project through facebook, and I'm just going to turn this blog into a normal one, though I really don't have much time to write (or update 2~3 blogs at once), I'll try again. 

365 Day Challenge Day 27 - Escalator

Some people like to take spectacular pictures of spectacular places.  I don't.  To me, a picture of an amazing place will pretty much look amazing regardless of the photographer; it will take a novice or someone real special to screw it up.  I'm sure most landscape photographers are horribly offended by what I just said, though they don't need to be.  All I'm saying is that I'm oblivious to all the intricate details that make up a good landscape photo because I'm ignorant, and I'm ignorant because I don't care for landscapes.

When someone becomes infatuated with something, all the little details can mean the world to them.  For the rest of the non-infatuated population - we just don't get it. 

In fact, I have tremendous respect for landscape photographers.  It's just that I don't really experience any catharsis from looking at say, Ansel Adams's work.  But whenever I look at Steve McCurry's or Alex Webb's photos, I often put my hands no my head in despair and think to myself, "why can't I take pictures that are half as good?" 

So what kind of photographs am I into? 

My favorite type of photography is one that portrays humanness. One that triggers a deep feeling within us precisely because we are human beings.  These pictures don't necessarily have to be of starving children taken in Africa, but in a developed country, the opportunities are more scarce I think.

My next favorite type is one that sees situations and things in a different perspective.  What most people see as a banal moment, I can sometimes point out something interesting, by changing the perspective or focusing on a certain detail. 

Yes, I like pictures like this one.  Nothing too special, but I like it a lot. 

365 Day Challenge Day 26 - Lidija

One of the reasons why I stopped doing the 365 Day challenge was because it took too long to resize the photos to 800 pixels.  Bigger pictures tend to be more flattering and even the x-large picture setting on blogspot annoys me quite a bit because it's not large enough.  And to resize the pictures everyday... it's just too annoying, although I can just take gazillion pictures and resize them all at once in lightroom.  But what would be the point of the 365 day challenge if I'm going to take 365 photos in one day?

 

Anyways, here's a picture of one of the most beautiful persons I know - just objectively speaking from a photographer whose job is to study faces.  I have no idea why she is not a model, especially when she's tall enough to be one. 

*Now that I look at it, it's not TOO bad.  I'll just do this and hope I will continue with the challenge.