There's no artistic talent in my family, nada, zip. The rest of my family they look at me like I am nuts when I pick up a paint brush, my digital pad, a camera. Whether it's sewing up a new couture style dress for a Barbie or standing outside trying to catch some interesting fading light behind a bike neighbor's porch I'm always doing something "artsy fartsy" as they often say. The composition part not so hard, the technical execution, that's the harder part for me, always has been. I can "see" things artistically, creatively, no problem, but getting what's in the head into a design, drawing, or photograph that's a lot harder for me and I tend to get very frustrated actually when I have a good idea of what I want and I just can't quite get it to manifest physically. Camera makes it a bit easier than paint, but still, sometimes it just doesn't translate well for me and that's hard.
This photo I took earlier this year is a prime example of me seeing something I didn't quite get into the picture. It's not totally horrible but it could be far better. I think you kind of get what I was seeing, maybe? But this nowhere near what I actually "saw" when I looked over there at the light just then. It was all dark shadows and golden light. It was almost like an old Victorian shadow portrait on aging paper. I've been playing with it for a while and I'm just not quite happy with it, probably never will be, I guess.
Originally posted by bobD 
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