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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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- Lines 彡Curves 彡and Shadows NO PEOPLE FLOWERS AND LANDSCAPES 36,759 photos, 2,783 members
- Creative Tabletop Photography 174,824 photos, 15,372 members
- Fenced Friday 19,054 photos, 1,902 members
- Trash Talk Tuesday - Closed til next Tuesday! Needed! Parting Sh 1,001 photos, 125 members
- Flags Of Imaginary Countries 4,810 photos, 268 members
- Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED IF AF-S VR Micro Lens 7,079 photos, 2,653 members
- astrometry 25,432 photos, 3,674 members
- MACRO MONDAYS (please check weekly theme) 38,732 photos, 3,887 members
- The Gondola Project 1,248 photos, 145 members
- Hugin Users Group 9,750 photos, 1,209 members
- abstract/surreal/strange795 47,612 photos, 1,974 members
- Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 51,818 photos, 5,595 members
- Alternative Views 77,509 photos, 3,453 members
- SIMPLE. 35,900 photos, 1,411 members
- Macro Household (no insects, flowers) 16,032 photos, 2,558 members
- Out Of Bounds (OOB) Creations 13,224 photos, 2,890 members
- Flickr Challenge Group! 18,379 photos, 5,029 members
- Beauty and Calamity - Post 1/Comment at least 1 1,440 photos, 243 members
- all but one 12,662 photos, 1,608 members
- 500x500 235,547 photos, 6,522 members
- Diagonal Love Affair 20,092 photos, 1,584 members
- Extraordinarily Ordinary(No animal, people or nature shots) 42,262 photos, 2,270 members
- Experimentation 138,491 photos, 11,096 members
- Dogs! Dogs! Dogs! 689,968 photos, 84,700 members
- Wallpapers (1024x768 minimum) 69,013 photos, 8,163 members
- COM-minimal (post 1, COM-ment 2) 23,648 photos, 2,234 members
- Textures 110,210 photos, 7,855 members
- Diptychs - two is better than one! 113,549 photos, 20,952 members
- Mundane Details 108,437 photos, 5,232 members
- Bibble users 5,154 photos, 374 members
- ANGLES, ANGLES, ANGLES 86,090 photos, 3,356 members
- Minimalist art 51,366 photos, 4,031 members
- Everything about Zebra,Stripes and Geometry (Add 1 / Comment 1 ) 24,707 photos, 3,830 members
- A lot of ..........(!!! changes. Please read the rules!) 7,877 photos, 638 members
- background: sky 52,050 photos, 2,511 members
- silhouette 237,473 photos, 31,642 members
- Six Word Story 25,655 photos, 3,255 members
- shadows 147,916 photos, 18,004 members
- Lines&Curves - Post 1: Comment 1 135,846 photos, 12,240 members
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- Closer and Closer Macro Photography 924,681 photos, 67,101 members
- Natural Macros 151,104 photos, 6,927 members
- Black & White in Colour 531 photos, 64 members
- Quality Abstracts 8,823 photos, 7,078 members
- Selective & Conceptual DoF 16,555 photos, 1,543 members
- Mirror | rorriM 3,099 photos, 546 members
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- textures and patterns 60,309 photos, 3,791 members
- Commonplace Beauty (*Post 1 - Comment 2*) 16,747 photos, 1,785 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