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I absolutely love photography. If I had hundreds of dollars to spend, I'd run out and get myself a DSLR and happily spend my days taking pictures of everything and anything. Hell, if I had even more money to blow, I'd spend it on classes and reference books and shiny paper and other fun photo stuff.
But the sad truth is that I have a Samsung POS point and shoot. Any good photos I've taken with it are completely accidental. For every decent shot, there are easily two hundred crappy ones. So instead I must turn to others to find inspiration photography. Luckily, this is a fairly easy thing to do in today's internet-based world.
DEVIANTART.com
One of my favorite sites. I check it every day. It's a free site where anyone can post art of their own making. Sure if you dug around deep enough, you'd find some of my own drawings and photography, but don't expect me to own up to them. I mainly go on the site because I'm watching other artists and I like to see what new things they've posted. DeviantART lets you ‘fave’ each work and I've accumulated quite a large favorites list over the years, but there are definitely certain artists I love.
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Laura Makabresku - deviantart, blog
Dimitri Caceaune - deviantart
Nelleke Pieters - deviantart
Even though I create my stories with words, I find visual media to be the most inspirational, whethere it's photography, illustration or film. When I write, I definitely see the movie of my story playing in head, so much so that sometimes I feel more like a director than an author. For the most part, I try not to bog down my writing with the visual details of the story. I don't like long, meaty paragraphs describing every single aspect of a setting or a character's visual appearance. I do, however, sometimes get these little images in my head that I just have to describe.
I know one of the things I need to work on in my writing is subtle description. Little words here and there that create the image organically, rather than forcefully. Show, don't tell, right?
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