{"id":1627,"date":"2012-07-24T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2012-07-24T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T13:50:15","slug":"the-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2012\/07\/24\/the-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the arts begin with a blank &mdash; a screen, a canvas, a room. All the arts, that is, except photography. Or at least photography as I have been practicing it. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing to find pretty corners around my house and life and record those. Those documentary moments are important to me, my family, others&#8230;but they remain only documentary. Now matter how much I attempt to coerce a vision through composition techniques and post-processing goodness, the images remain outside of my imagination. Less a reflection of my inner vision and more a reflection of my technical skill (or, sometimes in all honesty, lack thereof).<\/p>\n<p>There have been a few times when an image has come to my mind that I have then recreated through the lens. Too few times. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34096744@N00\/5368440998\/\" title=\"67\/365: Baby, it's cold outside! by JDMaleski, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5170\/5368440998_dc2c31c8c0_z.jpg?w=494\"   alt=\"67\/365: Baby, it's cold outside!\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The year I created this image, I was driving by this spot almost everyday. One cold January day, I &#8220;saw&#8221; a  figure walking through the snowy trees. A few days later we had snow (and a day off of school) and so I scurried over with remote in hand and brought my vision to life. <\/p>\n<p>I think this is what attracts me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowness.com\/day\/2012\/7\/5\/2263\/gregory-crewdson-beginnings\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory Crewdson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brettastic\/4907153009\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Warren<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/stylefrizz.com\/img\/kate-moss-jt-marc-jacobs-leibovitz-vogue-may.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Annie Leibovitz&#8217;s<\/a> <em>Vogue<\/em> photos, their images are clearly created out of their interior worlds. <\/p>\n<p>I picked up a copy of Twyla Tharps book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Creative-Habit-Learn-Life\/dp\/0743235274\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1343136910&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=the+creative+habit\" target=\"_blank\">The Creative Habit<\/a><\/em> at the library yesterday and I am finding it rich with ideas. Her meditation on &#8220;the white room&#8221; is what sparked these random thoughts of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the arts begin with a blank &mdash; a screen, a canvas, a room. All the arts, that is, except photography. Or at least photography as I have been practicing it. It&#8217;s one thing to find pretty corners around my house and life and record those. Those documentary moments are important to me, my family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[107,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity","category-photojournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1207_vbs_499.jpg?fit=1200%2C797&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v9Qt-qf","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}