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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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- Trash Talk Tuesday - We are open! 864 photos, 121 members
- Flags Of Imaginary Countries 4,472 photos, 263 members
- Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED IF AF-S VR Micro Lens 7,233 photos, 2,565 members
- astrometry 21,872 photos, 3,354 members
- MACRO MONDAYS (please check weekly theme) 36,498 photos, 3,733 members
- The Gondola Project 1,194 photos, 143 members
- Hugin Users Group 9,202 photos, 1,146 members
- abstract/surreal/strange795 44,544 photos, 1,928 members
- Golden Square 10,478 photos, 544 members
- Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 47,479 photos, 5,223 members
- Alternative Views 73,103 photos, 3,372 members
- SIMPLE. 35,021 photos, 1,397 members
- 50 ways to sink your sorrow 41 photos, 44 members
- Macro Household (no insects, flowers) 15,671 photos, 2,527 members
- Out Of Bounds (OOB) Creations 12,886 photos, 2,846 members
- Flickr Challenge Group! 17,809 photos, 4,912 members
- Beauty and Calamity - Post 1/Comment at least 1 1,421 photos, 241 members
- all but one 12,609 photos, 1,592 members
- 500x500 216,939 photos, 6,110 members
- Bokeh Wednesday 56,466 photos, 3,056 members
- Beauty in Winter 15,212 photos, 1,533 members
- tree trunks 1,617 photos, 208 members
- Diagonal Love Affair 19,297 photos, 1,574 members
- Extraordinarily Ordinary(No animal, people or nature shots) 41,257 photos, 2,264 members
- Experimentation 139,388 photos, 11,117 members
- Dogs! Dogs! Dogs! 654,524 photos, 81,490 members
- Wallpapers (1024x768 minimum) 66,575 photos, 8,107 members
- Open Source Photography (OSP) 35,510 photos, 3,214 members
- COM-minimal (post 1, COM-ment 2) 23,266 photos, 2,214 members
- Textures 109,593 photos, 7,807 members
- Urban Minimalism - 3 Images per day 52,104 photos, 4,407 members
- Diptychs - two is better than one! 110,341 photos, 20,612 members
- Flowers on Black 11,976 photos, 1,061 members
- YourBestMinimalShot (P1+C1) ! 27,947 photos, 3,702 members
- looking up 7,767 photos, 391 members
- Mundane Details 104,934 photos, 5,203 members
- Color and Colors 888,840 photos, 34,557 members
- Bibble users 4,964 photos, 375 members
- ANGLES, ANGLES, ANGLES 81,763 photos, 3,308 members
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- Everything about Zebra,Stripes and Geometry (Add 1 / Comment 1 ) 24,132 photos, 3,832 members
- A lot of ..........(!!! changes. Please read the rules!) 7,603 photos, 634 members
- background: sky 51,820 photos, 2,494 members
- silhouette 226,905 photos, 30,887 members
- Six Word Story 24,675 photos, 3,220 members
- shadows 140,656 photos, 17,561 members
- Lines&Curves - Post 1: Comment 1 129,613 photos, 11,940 members
- Power Lines 20,455 photos, 3,827 members
- Closer and Closer Macro Photography 898,681 photos, 65,435 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