053: Gin - A Step-By-Step Guide

Gin - A Step-By-Step Guide, originally uploaded by gingerpig2000.

Cocktails!

I did not want this ending up looking like an advert, nor like something from a night out with the lads. Drinking is a process, and I wanted to use a set of five images to try and show the whole process.

One of the problems of using an automatic camera is that it makes its own decisions on colour of the image, so the backgrounds of the two images to the left are different, even though they are the same background - with the green bottle and you get a yellow background, without and it went pink.

048: Temperate Horseface

Temperate Horseface, originally uploaded by gingerpig2000.

Horseface

I had never heard of making your face resemble that of a horse, I assume it is a cultural thing. Anyway, since I used text yesterday as part of the image, I thought I would do something similar today, except this time I chose a proverb for the basis. Out came the bottles again, anybody would think I am an alcoholic judging by the number of times I use them as props.

I tried to use a gap between the water and the drinks bottles and split the text so that it looks like each piece of text goes with separate parts of the image. Bending my head and the long slope down my arm seems to help as well (the slow fall into alcoholism). I even chose the sweatshirt as something horsey colour.

A number of my photos, including this one, does not seem to fit the pattern of masculine-feminine, although the ones that do not seem to fit are intended to contain some humour. This has been an unconscious choice, I think something within me has waited a long time for expression.

040: Drinking the Sky

Drinking the Sky, originally uploaded by gingerpig2000.

Sky


After a week in Manhattan we escaped for the day to visit Bear Mountain, and since we were taken there by car I still have no clear idea where it is, except somewhere near West Point, presumably on the Hudson River. There were so many photo opportunities, but little time as we did not want to bore our host.

I like the way that the clouds swoop down towards the right, the water bottle kind of following the line. This was not intentional, or at least not intentionally so. However, our brains absorb more information that we are consciously aware of, it mainly feeds us with information that it thinks we believe is important. Getting beyond this internal filter is important if you want to see what is really there rather than our subconscious mind's opinion. Art training often involves a lot of training in this area, but you can teach yourself by taking the time to think about why things are the way they are instead of accepting what other people would like you to believe.