by Rebecca Cornwell | Apr 21, 2013 | Sunday Blues Edit
Rebecca: Its been a while since my last sunday selection. I think not intentionally but my life has been slightly chaotic. I haven’t had the chance to really spend the time with images in my tag that I like. Last week Izzy and I ran a ‘blooms’ theme. It was there that I stumbled upon the work of Gary Blum. Wow is all I can say. He had 3 images posted. Each one spectacular. Love doesn’t come easily to me but there is no question that Gary’s blooms had me. The stunning quality of his posts sent me straight to his feed. All of it wonderful. I have a renewed excitement for seeking out new work thanks to Gary.
Take a moment and check out Gary on IG at @garyedwardblum and keep your eyes open for the unexpected everywhere!
Gary: I started IG back in November. As a fine artist, my intention was to post images of my studio, works in progress, etc. But as I began to discover apps and the amazing community of creative people, my focus became very, well, unfocused. With my love of photography and a background in graphic design, coupled with the discovery of apps, it led me to become obsessed with editing images. Because my paintings have an established style and focus, I found it very freeing to be able to post varying styles and approaches(as you’ll note in my feed) on IG.
My process is rather simple. In general, I don’t start with any premeditated ideas or plans, except to make a pleasing image. Of course I have inherent compositional and technical thoughts running through my head when I take pictures. This image was one of many “flower” pics I take obsessively. I did feel that I wanted detail(it was so delicate) and contrast, which is why I composed the shot close up with a dark background. I took maybe five different angles. After that, I brought one into Snapseed/PhotoForge and just started playing around. I accidentally hit “tilt-shift” in Snapseed and loved how the focus accentuated the detail, so I did it like 5 times. I shot a new texture I wanted to try, etc. I like to let process and accidents happen…they’re way more creative than me. 🙂 I’m never married to anything. It’s the same way I work with my paintings. Start with a sketch, then be open to chance. Sometimes I’ll purposely screw something up so I have to “fix” it. In this way, I’m building history into the work without it looking forced.
by Rebecca Cornwell | Mar 17, 2013 | Sunday Blues Edit
Galveston, Texas
Rebecca: This is the thing I learned today: sometimes not a lot of words need to go with an image. Tori, my fellow Texan, just said it best. She loves the mystery of this place, Galveston, and she takes pictures and that isn’t going to change. We are drawn to what compels us, mystery, beauty, light, darkness. For all of us we shoot it…for most of us, that’s not likely to change. Simply and beautifully.
Tori: This place (Galveston, Texas) never seems to lose its mystery for me. There’s a sad history to every building, street, and piece of land. It’s been my favorite place to take photos since I’ve been taking photos, and that’s not likely to change soon.
See Tori’s work on Instagram: @89greenmantle
by Rebecca Cornwell | Mar 10, 2013 | Sunday Blues Edit
Etretat Cliffs
Rebecca: This week I invite you to explore the feed of another blueser. Bart @slangenbai, is artist who finds sunday’s to be blue. I’m amazed by this phenomenon. What is it about Sundays that makes so many of us melancholy and why are so many creatives blue on Sunday? I’ve written about this for Juxt before, but I continue to see it in action each week in my tag. I get pleasure from finding so many of us coming together each week.
Even if you don’t have the blues on Sunday, I strongly recommends Bart’s feed. You can find him on IG @slangenbai.
Bart: My name is Bart Slangen and I live in Belgium, in a historical city called Ghent. Don’t really like labels but I am a painter (maybe you can see that in my layered photography?). I grew up in a quite artistic family, my dad is a painter and he was head of an art school. My mother was a dance teacher.
I used to do a lot of analog photography but since the digital revolution my lovely camera’s are eating dust, I regret that and it’s gonna change … Photography is very important to my artistic work. Before the ‘iPhone-era’ I always carried a little compact in my pocket and. My view is always in “cadrage” J.
For my job (art rental) I am on the road a lot, that of course explains my road-paintings-photography.
I started ‘gramming’ about a year ago (I think). Ever since IG is becoming an obsession.
When I first saw the “sundaybluesedit” tag, I tought: “yeah, that says it all” … I am a happy married man with 2 great kids but (since I was a child) I have a thing for everything that’s melancholic, dark and moody. In music and art. Those things control my life. A photo is only a good one when it fits the ‘this could be the cover for an album’-definition. Therefore you can see a lot of ‘soundtrack-locations’ in my pix.
This particular photo was taken on a trip along the French coastline of Normandy. A place called Etretat. I used to go there with my parents when I was just a little boy back in the seventies. Now we go there with our kids. The chalk cliffs are really impressive. These days it’s getting more and more a tourist place but still, it’s very beautiful. Claude Monet made a lot of paintings on that spot. Google it sometime …
The IG-community opened new things for me, I am not such a big talker and expresser of feelings. I used to communicate my moods by my paintings, my photography was always a tool like a brush or paint, that has changed a lot lately. And I thank people like Izzy, Rebecca and all my new IG-friends (you know who you are) for making this universal, ‘borderless’ platform so wonderful.
I Hope you enjoy my stuff and I love getting feedback ! It is good to be here !!
by Rebecca Cornwell | Mar 3, 2013 | Sunday Blues Edit
Rebecca: This week Izzy and I chose this elegant image by Marcus @___backwords. Although I don’t know Marcus, his images make me stop and look for a long time. I try to decipher what I’m seeing. The photos are layered and require me to really slow down to find all the magic that lays with in its edges. Inspired by music, Marcus shows us his beautiful world through photography. Like me he hates Sundays because of the sadness that comes with it. He is a true Sunday Blueser.
You can find Marcus on Instagram at @___backwords. Happy Sunday.
Marcus: Hi, I am Marcus and I am jewelry designer.
I don’t know when I first started loving photography. I guess I always have. I grew up in a very artistic environment, starting with my great-grandfather being a painter and my grandmother (she grew me up) designing clothes for the affluent of her time, artists, politicians and musicians. And there you have my true passion: music. it rules my world. Everything I do involves music, I am always with my I-pod playing. I live in my own make -believe world. Music being the primary inspiration.
And I hate Sundays..they always give me the blues. So when I came across the #sundaybluesedit tag I thought this is it. this is either gonna destroy me, eat me up,. or inspire me. To be frank many images there have hit bone in their way, but most inspired me!
I like moody pictures. My aim is to make ones that evoke feelings to the viewer, preferably in a good way.Something that they can connect to, or draw a memory upon seeing it.
When I started Instagram I immediately started expressing my feelings through my pics. And boy it has been a horrible year for me. I am a very introvert person so I guess its my way of telling my story, how I feel. To cast my demons away. And I hope you dont mind.
Every pic I post is somehow connected with a song. My captions are lyrics of this song and its title is depicted with typography on the image. This one is Caregiver by Memoryhouse. Usually its the first song that comes on my mind upon seeing the pic, while sometimes I try to create an image that has to do with a song i have in mind, usually its the first. Nature being my second biggest inspiration. I would love to try streetphotography at some point but i am not yet comfortable enough shooting in the street.
I could spend my days carrying my i-pod and my i-phone and camera and just shoot. But I guess real life requires my attention to pay the bills. And my friends. And I love the way mobile photography has changed the way I see things. So much inspiration by using this platform, IG. I have also met some wonderful people all over the world with which I am on constant communication, exchanging ideas, feelings and ordinary stuff. This world is a great place and i am happy to be part of it. And i am elated, honoured and indebted to be featured by Rebecca and Izzy and Juxt. I can’t thank them enough for noticing my blues and include me among such great talent . Or for their brilliant tag, a true and devoted fan. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
by Rebecca Cornwell | Feb 24, 2013 | Sunday Blues Edit
Rebecca: I can’t remember when I first started to notice Wen’s @kauffy images, but I do remember that all of a sudden I saw them everywhere and I was in love. Wen’s world is magic. It’s pale, it’s glittery, it’s peaceful. I never tire of her beautiful blue-eyed children, her sparkling landscapes or the glowing glimpses into her days. On this chilly Sunday…I invite you into @kauffy’s world.
Wen: When I stumbled upon Sunday Blues Edit I was completely awed and a little intimidated by the incredible images I saw. I was moved by Rebecca’s reasons for creating the hashtag. It was so clever and brave. Even though I felt vulnerable posting those first images, it was exciting and I found myself hooked on the hashtag.
I don’t really know what will inspire me; it’s simply how life presents itself. There are those fleeting moments I see and I just need to capture them. It’s somehow profound attempting to catch and preserve a little bit of the impermanence of it all. When I look back on my gallery in Instagram, I have stitched together this random collection of which I’m strangely proud. There is no particular editing style, only stretches of time where I’m experimenting with something. If I had the time, I know I would spend a lot my day using my iphone camera and editing, but alas, I have a grown-up life full of other responsibilities and interests that require my attention.
What I adore about mobile photography is that it has allowed me to express myself artistically without completely neglecting all that I love tending to. Real life can be a challenge with it’s repetition, and stressors. It’s a place where there is little time to immerse oneself in art. So by discovering this mobile photography community I am able to create and share art as often or as little as I like, and it gives me something to look forward to and learn from. Whether it’s for #sundaybluesedit or just on my own, It has surprisingly given me a creative outlet in a way I would never have imagined having come from using an slr/dslr. Mobile allows me to make images easily without fancy expensive equipment and I am able share what I see and interact with people all over the world in a way that I can’t with my other camera. I never tire of looking at the stream of fantastic images on my feed, and I look forward to those perfectly elusive, well-crafted comments I receive from the people that stop by my gallery.
I am honored to be featured by Rebecca & Izzy for #sundaybluesedit and Juxt and want to thank them for establishing a platform that validates and brings attention to mobile photographers.
My name is Wen
IG handle is @kauffy
