DariaGrippo
Profile
I am quirky and crazy, sort of impulsive. I am HIGHLY influenced by music for my photos. There is a playlist in my head 24/7. My favorite band is Finch and if I hadn’t listened to them I dont think my photos would be what they are today.
I have been a photographer since I was 19 years old, I started off with portrait photography, moved to landscape photography and currently I do portraits as my main source of income.
It started as just a hobby, just a little class I took. Shortly after I got a job in a studio…. while it didn’t teach me much technical, it did help with my creativity and brought me out of my shell. After only 8 months of being there I was promoted to assistant manager.
It took me forever to purchase a DSLR, I almost bought a Rebel XTi in 2007 but the day before I was going to buy it I had major financial issues pop up. I almost bailed out on the DSLR I own now but I’m glad I didn’t and it was something I should have done years ago since I already knew how operate a camera in manual (or did, I forgot over the years and I had to relearn) But it isn’t really the camera, its the photographer!
I have been featured in the groups POSTED: No Trespassing and Abandoned Asylums
Groups
DariaGrippo hosts Abandoned Items and is a member of # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE , ! Abandoned Asylums & Hospitals !, ! $$☻Get Art Promoted☺$$ !, ! 100% !, "Old Things - 3 per Day", "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), * New Jersey Scenery, ** Super Macro Photography (Two Per Day ), ***♂♥♥QUORN♥♥♀, *Focus and Lighting*, Abandoned Dark Creepy, Accentuate The Eyes, After Dark, All About New York State < *LOCATION* & 2 Per Day >, All About Your Best Work, All Animals Great And Small., All Castles Around The World, Amateur Photographers' Association, Amazing Graves, Anger Management, Architectural Photography, Architecture and cityscapes, Artistic Feminine Photography, Artrageous RB Artists - Self Portrait Gallery, BARNS & Old Grist Mills and Covered Bridges from around the World!, Berries, Fruits & Seeds - 3/day, Birth and Maternity, Budget Photography, Cards: Animals and pets (2/day - NO WRITING), Castle Magic, Color Me a Rainbow (Current Color: BLACK [No FLowers]), Construction and Demolished, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Dark artists, dark art, Deepest Darkest Fears, Depth Of Field (2 images per day) - Read Group Rules Please, Dilapidated Buildings, Dirty pretty things., DSLR Users Only - 1/24 - Camera & Lens In Description Please., Eerie Lighting, Enabled Art, Entrances (Archways and Doorways), Fabulous Flowers, Falling Leaves, Farms and Countryside, FEATURED ONLY, Film Photography, For the Love of Cats , 1 image a day , For The Love Of Jesus , Friends of RedBubble, Fungilicious, Georgia - The Peach State (unique locations in GA only), HDR Photography (3 Photos per 24hr-day), HORRORAMA, Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), Jersey City, Just Lines, Just Pure Nature., Light In The Darkness, Lost in Space [75% Negative Space], Macabre (aka Horror) PHOTOGRAPHY (PhotoManipulation Discouraged), Mans Best Friend's (Dogs only), model beginnings., Models, Models with a difference (photoshop images welcome), Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Moody, Dark, Evocative (no nudes), Nature's Reclamation, Night Photography, Nine Inch Nails Fans & Art, Old & Rusty, Our K9 Friend 1 image a day (Dogs only), Passionate About Vintage, Paws n Claws <3 per day><Domestic cats & dogs only>, PENTAX , Personal Meaning Photography, Pets Are Us ~ 2 per day, Photographers self portrait, Pinup, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Point and Shooters, PostCard Style (Describe your image please) Limit 2 per day), POSTED: No Trespassing, Prisons, Gaols, Jails, Asylums, Iron Bars & Court Houses, Reflections in Building Windows 2 per day, Retro Conglomerate, Ruins, Ancient and Derelict Buildings, Rustic, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits - 2 Per 24 Hours, Self as Other, Shades of Grey, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, Sports Photography, STAINED GLASS ART, Stairs and Staircases, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, TABLES AND CHAIRS, Take Me Higher (Dynamic Range), The 100 - 499 Viewings group, The 500 to 5000 Viewings Group, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, The FENCE group, the love of Eerie and enchanting artwork, The Red Barn, The Scavenger Hunt, The Woman Photographer **7 Submissions a week only please**, Timelapse/Long Exposure Photography, Toilets and Bathroom Group. , Travel and Adventure, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, TUNNEL VISION (photography only), Unconventional Artistry - 3 per day, Unique Buildings Of The World, Unwanted , Abandoned & Saved Through Preservation., Urban Exploration, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Vintage and Gorgeous, Waterfall Photography, Wedding Inspiration Group, What A Shot , Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, and roadways, Who Needs Color For Beauty? - Black & White Art At Its Best, Windows and Doors, Woman Appreciation and You're Accepted.
Journal Entries
New Camera
Posted 10 days ago, 1 comment so far.
Support Artists -- Buy greeting cards HERE not from big corporations!!!
Posted 5 months ago.
So... I have a broken foot...
Posted 5 months ago.
Art
Writing
Vilified Realities
I hate how unfair life is / Sometimes, I just wanna die / I hate how horribly you treat me / Sometimes, I just wanna cry / I love how beautiful life is / It makes my soul evolve / I love how the littl…
Mystical Undertow
You’ve taken me under to your world before / I clung to you, so afraid you’d leave / I put my trust in you not to let got of me / Hold me tight through these dark waters… / You were …
Reflection
I prayed things would be better / My prayers weren’t answered. / What was returned to me / Was more difficulties. I stopped praying. / I stopped staring at the stars in the sky. / I gazed dow…
Actions and Decisions
Starving for love / Pleading for death / Dying for recognition / Screaming for silence / Crying for him / Cutting for sanity / Kissing his lips / Dreaming in pale shades / Shivering in fear / Loving i…
Envoked
“Awake, away with me / For a taste of Eternity’s embrace” / For I was his angel / With a beautiful face / This our night. / In his arms, / We took a magnificent flight / This midnigh…
Demon
Snarling at me violently / Glaring at me / Taunting me with his grin / Haunting me because of my simple sin / Tantalizing visions incessantly repeating / Howling my name / Judgment day has come for m…
