Brooke Shaden Photography

Brooke Shaden : Creating new worlds through images. This week I received an email from a most beautiful soul, asking if I would write about the topic of how to find inspiration when life is getting you down. I’m extremely empathetic and I take on others pain and joy very easily, and after reading her email, I cried for her. And if I can offer any words of advice that might be even 1% useful, well, that is how to contribute to our community. The first thing that I think needs to be clarified about artistry or inspiration or even passion is that it does not have to be who we are. Have you ever felt that way? If you need to grieve, grieve. That said, there is always a time to get back up and do what you love doing. How do I know if I am ready to jump back into finding inspiration and being motivated? If I can take a step back from my life and clearly see the bad that has happened, and insert good thoughts to combat that, I take that as a sign that I am ready to create again. I believe that anyone who seeks inspiration will find it.

Carl Kleiner fleurs installations Chanel / No 5 - Ylang ylang, neroli, lemon, iris, vanilla, sandalwood and amber. Collaboration w. ANDREW STELLITANO April 2010 A day of sketching in cafes and restaurants. It's so chilly here, our group of Whidbey Sketchers preferred to sketch indoors. I'm getting cabin fever and am looking forward to warmer weather for some garden sketching. Sketchers sketching at Useless Bay Coffee Co. in langley. We migrated to Prima Bistro for lunch. We migrated, once again, to La Casita for cocktails. In this sketch, my goal was to try to convey a sense of light from the lanterns.

Marcus BRANDAO Gilbert Garcin Shaun Kardinal I am so happy to have discovered the collage and embroidery work of Shaun Kardinal. He also takes tons of photos. The Downside of Art Going Viral West Point photographs by Kristine Potter in her Greenpoint studio, 2010 (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) I first encountered Kristine Potter‘s work in her studio in Greenpoint in 2010. I remember her West Point series, known as The Grey Line, which consisted of large black and white images of cadets at the military academy. She came across as protective of the images and allowed me to photograph them only obliquely, and from a slight distance. The above photo conveys a great deal about the work and its scale. These stark images are not your typical über-masculine meditations on future soldiers, but they blur subject and background, often feeling like the men — they are all male — disappear into the landscape. Kristine Potter (photo courtesy the artist) Potter, who still lives and works in Brooklyn, comes from a family of military men, so the project was very personal. Then, last week, Buzzfeed writer Gabriel H. Nevertheless, people react when an article gets “censored.” “Jeeze.

A hurricane thundercloud! Jean Louis Bec Nu Expo - nuexpo.com - portail de la photo de nu (MODELES PHOTO ET PHOTOGRAPHES DE NU) - Entretiens et portfolios de photographes et modèles de charme - Galerie de photos nu Jarrett Murphy Landscape Photography - nuit, lumière annette marnat 75 photos by 75 photographers As 2011 comes to a close I want to thank you all once again for continuing to support Booooooom! I am amazed that even after four years the site continues to grow at a rapid pace. 45,000 good looking people now follow Booooooom on Twitter, and our Facebook family has grown to over 74,000! I’m also starting something new in 2012 called the Secret Email Club but I’ll tell you more about it in the new year. A huge high-five to everyone who participated in any of our projects this year. Last year I posted 75 photos by 75 photographers (2010). Here are 75 photos by 75 photographers that I came across in 2011. I thought this first image was especially relevant to ringing in the New Year! 75 photos by 75 photographers (found in 2011) Nom Pourflickr Swampy Lisa Wassmann Vincent Glielmi Ilze Vanaga Pascal Fellonneau Ida Nordung Clemens Fantur Jennilee Marigomen Jonathan Levitt Chris Wiley Monika Höfler Carson Fisk-Vittori Jesse Marlow Kerstin zu Pan Sarah Hermans Barbara Crane Ingeborg Klarenberg Marina Richter

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