inspiration: ambiguity
| About... ...the Site What can I say about Inspiration: Ambiguity? Consider the World... Everything has its own opposite: from the most common like light/darkness to the more complexes like matter/anti-matter. Also, the ambiguity of everything that surrounds us is enormous. Can you really say something about an object or describe it without distorting its image, without affecting its own reality? In "The Critique of Judgment", Immanuel Kant makes the point (extremely valid in my humble opinion) that something is a different reality depending on the eyes of the beholder. Now take this into the world of photography: What I see in anything is probably going to be quite different from what you see. Put a camera in between and innumerous variables drop into this equation. Want to make it more complex? The final product, after the shot, is going to be different for me than for you. And this is the beauty in the ambiguity of the world. I'm different from you, you're different from me. Everything that I capture with my camera will bring different emotions in me and you... The final objective, the utopia of the art of photography, it's an impossibility: To arrest in one image the true reality and still make it real for everyone that sees it, deep in one's self. As for words, what can be more ambiguous? Nothing in words is "as is". Try describing something that I've never seen and the chances are that if I'm describing that same thing to someone else the final "picture" will be astonishing different from the reality. But of course let's go back up a bit and you'll end up with the question "What is reality?" From this point on, you are entering my own reality. My goal is simple and yet incredibly complex. Can I make my reality be yours without wrecking its beauty? Can I make you feel what I've felt when I looked at something and captured it, be it through my camera or through a page with words? I don't believe I can. And I'm unsure if that is what I want. Better to let the ambiguity play it's role... What can you find inside this pages then? Oh, this one is simple... You can find myself... # On a more personal note, and for a bit of history, I'll let you know that photography was a big passion of mine some years ago. But, alas, time and work made a dent and this passion, like any other which is not fed, started to fade until it was almost gone. But this pilot flame never went out and now, time is even less and work is even more, but I rediscovered it and the commitment with this site is just another way of feeding this flame and letting it burn as much as it will. I hope you are on that side of your screen looking at it and thinking that it's worth it... but in the end I guess it's my call to make that decision.
...the Author Is it really relevant to you who writes this things? Can't you enjoy what I've made available for you without knowing more about me? My advice for the most curious of you? Read what I write, see into the photos I make, and you'll be seeing myself. All the other information is irrelevant.
...Functionality Keeping a site functional is something that, if you have never tried, might seem quite trivial. Just write a bit here and there, post it and it's done. Do you allow me to tell you that you are wrong? There is much more... much much more to it, and I'm just learning how to walk in those sands. From SEO (search engine optimization) to php programming, the path is long and wide, and the majority of the time I spend in here is doing those things. I had a lot of help: the themes from Words: irrational, Light: delirious and also the guestbook script were programmed by someone else (credited on the respective sites) although suffered some heavy tweaking from me. To those people I can only say thank you, You have done a beautiful job.
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...my Gear Just a tiny little list of what I'm packing...
CAMERAS LENSES SIGMA AF 100-300mm f4.5-6.7 Pentax Mount SIGMA AF 70-300mm f4-5-6 DG APO MACRO
ACCESSORIES TAMRAC Adventure Messenger 3 (red version) ...Prints - Prints, prints and more prints... Is there any photograph that you like so much that you'd love to have it in print? Are you a publisher and you'd like to have one of them in digital format for your stock photos collection? Send me an email (ambiguity at tzplanet dot com)and I'll get back to you ASAP with a quote.
...Final Words Now that you know a bit more about the site you are visiting, about my little space in the information world, and, why not, a bit more about myself, it's time to go out there and explore all the things I'm sharing with you... but wait, before you go, if there is anything at all that you'd like to comment about (good things, bad things, rant your head off, rant MY head off, or simply stating that you visited) please leave your mark in my guestbook. Thanks for coming... Sincere regards, A Marques
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