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theilr's photostream
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It's important to take bad pictures.
-- Diane Arbus
I photograph to see what things look like photographed.
-- Garry Winograd
One can look at seeing; one can not hear hearing.
-- Marcel Duchamp, 1934
Art has to be something that makes you scratch your head.
-- Ed Ruscha
It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.
-- Danny Lyon, April 2009, in NYT interview
Always easy to snap the shutter, never easy to get an image.
-- Abe Frajndlich, in an essay on Photographing photographers
My Favorite Artistic Advice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZAxLqJkzA&feature=player_em...
A photograph is an amazing thing. How incredible to capture something that travels 186,000 miles per second. How astonishing to stop time. I believe it is important to keep a sense of wonder about the whole process, because it takes the edge off of the disappointment when your shot turns out blurry and overexposed -- or worse: tack sharp, brightly colored, and just like a thousand other pictures you've already seen before.
In keeping with this point of view, I have very strict ethical principles when it comes to digital manipulation of photographs, and those principles can be summed up in two words: anything goes. (and it goes better with the gimp) Now I don't think you should alter a picture and then lie about it, and so I want to warn anybody who looks at my pictures that they very well could have been manipulated. In some cases it is obvious, and that's the whole point of the picture. In other cases, I actually tried to cover my tracks, and this is arguably dishonest. But it is meant to be dishonest in the way that fiction is dishonest: you know it's not really real, but you like it better if it is realistic.
Excuse me if it sounds like I have a philosophy of photography; I don't mean to. I am impressed and intrigued by all kinds of pictures, and if I ever tried to put my finger on why (especially: why this image but not that one), then any set of rules I might devise would be definitively contradicted by the briefest flickr tour.
Thank you for including my photostream in your tour.
I'm Male and Taken.
-- theilr
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Groups (50)
- ~~fence friday~~(the original) 18,768 photos, 3,151 members
- Trash Talk Tuesday - Closed until next week! 868 photos, 119 members
- Flags Of Imaginary Countries 4,473 photos, 263 members
- Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED IF AF-S VR Micro Lens 7,233 photos, 2,566 members
- astrometry 21,998 photos, 3,364 members
- MACRO MONDAYS (please check weekly theme) 36,409 photos, 3,737 members
- The Gondola Project 1,194 photos, 143 members
- Hugin Users Group 9,213 photos, 1,146 members
- abstract/surreal/strange795 44,588 photos, 1,927 members
- Golden Square 10,493 photos, 543 members
- Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 47,611 photos, 5,231 members
- Alternative Views 73,239 photos, 3,374 members
- SIMPLE. 35,035 photos, 1,397 members
- 50 ways to sink your sorrow 41 photos, 44 members
- Macro Household (no insects, flowers) 15,686 photos, 2,530 members
- Out Of Bounds (OOB) Creations 12,897 photos, 2,848 members
- Flickr Challenge Group! 17,833 photos, 4,920 members
- Beauty and Calamity - Post 1/Comment at least 1 1,420 photos, 241 members
- all but one 12,604 photos, 1,591 members
- 500x500 217,551 photos, 6,120 members
- Bokeh Wednesday 56,458 photos, 3,056 members
- Beauty in Winter 15,311 photos, 1,548 members
- tree trunks 1,619 photos, 208 members
- Diagonal Love Affair 19,330 photos, 1,574 members
- Extraordinarily Ordinary(No animal, people or nature shots) 41,244 photos, 2,266 members
- Experimentation 139,380 photos, 11,114 members
- Dogs! Dogs! Dogs! 655,389 photos, 81,583 members
- Wallpapers (1024x768 minimum) 66,607 photos, 8,109 members
- Open Source Photography (OSP) 35,539 photos, 3,215 members
- COM-minimal (post 1, COM-ment 2) 23,257 photos, 2,214 members
- Textures 109,666 photos, 7,808 members
- Urban Minimalism - 3 Images per day 52,183 photos, 4,412 members
- Diptychs - two is better than one! 110,432 photos, 20,627 members
- Flowers on Black 11,985 photos, 1,061 members
- YourBestMinimalShot (P1+C1) ! 27,974 photos, 3,704 members
- looking up 7,770 photos, 391 members
- Mundane Details 105,011 photos, 5,202 members
- Color and Colors 890,624 photos, 34,589 members
- Bibble users 4,967 photos, 376 members
- ANGLES, ANGLES, ANGLES 81,930 photos, 3,310 members
- Minimalist art 49,447 photos, 3,936 members
- Everything about Zebra,Stripes and Geometry (Add 1 / Comment 1 ) 24,150 photos, 3,831 members
- A lot of ..........(!!! changes. Please read the rules!) 7,639 photos, 634 members
- background: sky 51,838 photos, 2,494 members
- silhouette 227,208 photos, 30,908 members
- Six Word Story 24,701 photos, 3,220 members
- shadows 140,882 photos, 17,574 members
- Lines&Curves - Post 1: Comment 1 129,690 photos, 11,948 members
- Power Lines 20,468 photos, 3,830 members
- Closer and Closer Macro Photography 899,092 photos, 65,467 members
Testimonials (3)
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*Furball* says:
"..a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, to paraphrase a quote from Winston Churchill describes theilr's unique perspective of reality fueled through his calculating imagination and wit. I vividly remember a few years back, coming across his intriguing and creative images that for the most part evaded or were overlooked by the rest of us. What I'm referring to is subject matter that is just beneath our noses, macros to be exact. His work showed me, you need not be a globetrotter to find that elusive image, when it's in arm's reach, so to speak.
However as much as macro's are his forte, he does expand outside the boundaries of his niche in exploring other possibilities that are also original and profound. Once in awhile he does take an ordinary (gasp!) looking photo to remind us, it doesn't have be always spectacular.
Finally let me say, I've been most inspired of his images and have unashamedly lifted an idea or two to grace my own work.
So I invite viewers of all stripes, to explore to theilr's unique and varied visions that will delight, puzzle and send you off in a wild ride.
I believe I'm finished now :0)"9th December, 2010
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herspiral says:
"Theilr's stream is a visit into an altered world - sometimes naturally occuring (he has an eye for the deranged, goofy and miraculously odd appearances of this universe) but also often photoshopped - from the simple alterations that resemble what we think we call reality, to the more complex and clearly altered photographs, which have made me seriously rethink (though not yet renage) my "purist photoshop-less" ways.
Hip hip hooray for Theilr!"18th August, 2008
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Foot Slogger says:
"I love theilr's quirky sense of humour. His photos aren't bad either :o) . But what impresses me most is the intelligent and thoughtful comments he makes on my photos. It always gives me a boost to know he's taken the trouble to really LOOK."
8th May, 2008
- Joined:
- July 2006