Grief… Green Version Added

• jessthespringer

  Participant

  January 11, 2009 at 11:54 am

  This was shot a couple of weeks before Christmas, a total accident, I didn’t plan to take anything like this, but liked it when I saw it and found myself comming back to it quite a bit.

  Just something about it… My dad passed away at Christmas (21 years ago) and ever since then it’s never been the same, for my mum especially.
  I know Christmas is like this for a lot of people. Dark and lonely and this just seemed to have that.

  I added a texture layer to it, and for some reason, song lyrics on my flickr. I kinda think I would like it better without both.

  (the song lyrics have nothing to do with how I felt about my dad, was just something I found myself listening to a bit around that time)

  If you have any thoughts, I’d like to hear them… Thoughts on the picture that is.

  
  jb7

  Participant

  January 11, 2009 at 1:52 pm

  Well that’s a bit fabulous looking-

  I can see how you arrived at your interpretation of this picture based on those sad events-
  but there are other ways you can look at this picture-

  Terror, panic, confinement are some of the other things you could read into it-

  The colour and composition is great-
  and well recognized as such, even after finding it unexpectedly-

  The borders- well, they’re a bit expensive when I use them, but they seem to work well here-
  though if they weren’t there, would the picture lose so much?

  I’m not sure what the texture layer is, so I can’t comment on that-
  and I’m almost afraid to look at those lyrics-
  not that the picture needs it anyway-

  I wonder if the emotions you mention could be attributed primarily to your choice of colours?
  I wonder what it would look like in greens and yellows…

  Good one, well caught-

  j
  jessthespringer

  Participant

  January 11, 2009 at 2:28 pm

  Well thank you very much Joseph-

  Yeah, I get the terror and panic too, but it really was the grief that stood out to me.

  Can’t really take much credit for the composition, was totally an accident, but I did crop into it quite a bit.

  The borders?
  Texture layer- Yeah, think it would be ok without it.

  I really wish I hadn’t done the lyrics thing, bit tacky – like someones profile I read on flickr the other week, said he like to shoot ‘verbs’ and not ‘nouns’!

  I wondered about that colour thing too, and the emotions, I have no idea about that kind of thing. Colour therapy.

  I might try a version in yellow and green, without the texture.
  Just for you :wink:
  jessthespringer

  Participant

  January 12, 2009 at 11:08 am

  Ok j, there you go, in green and yellow. Not so sure I like it, very depressing I think.

  

  This is the texture layer I used, made by flickr member leschick I can see now where it helped in the top right corner, stopped it from becoming blown out.

  

  Sinead.