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Leonard Choice
Australia
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Sitting, waiting for the others in a church in Northern Rwanda, my eyes wandered, taking in the room. To tell the truth I was tired and bored and in need of a day off. Over the other side of the room sat this young man, alone. I’m not sure what he was doing there. Waiting for his Mother maybe? I wondered, should I take a shot? If he saw me it could be really uncomfortable. I mean I was really close and I couldn’t pretend I was photographing anyone else. Anyway I thought, ‘I’ll sneak a shot in.’ So, I raised the camera and started to muck around with the shot. And then he looked up. I cringed behind the lens and just sat there, frozen. He didn’t divert his gaze. For several seconds we stared at each other me on one side of the camera, him on the other. Finally I pressed the shutter. His expression remained exactly the same. I lowered the camera and returned his stare, this time with no mechanical device between us. It sounds corny but something travelled between us. An absolute realisation that we were right there, in the same place at the same time. He didn’t dismiss me or put me down. He stood right on the same level. It was unique.
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Ornamental Garden Rivington.
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This shot is one of my favourites because it tells such a story. In the forground is a wallet being held by one of my colleagues Bart. He is buying the basket being held by the Rwandan woman in the middle of the shot. All eyes are on the transaction. This represents life and death in Africa as much as any other portrait. It is positive, but you can also feel the tension, the need, the hope. All proceeds to charity. I might even buy this myself. – Dog photography – Africa photography / - Beach photography - Black & white photography – Dog photography – Africa photography / - Beach photography - Monotone photography
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This shot is taken in the north of Rwanda near the DR Congo border. It showcases the absurd beauty of this broken land. Known as the land of one thousand hills Rwanda is bursting at the seams. This shots is part of the ‘world’s most expensive card’ promotion initiated by John Robb. It has raised close to $700 AUD so far.
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40×50 cm canvas on board, oil colours. the tridimensional particularity it’s not easy to see… but it surely has one. I asure you… / and a touchable one, too. thank you for looking and comments.
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I was in northern Rwanda in April 2007 as a volunteer with an aid group and we had stopped to talk with people at a local church. The town was Rhuengeri, it sits close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and has the unfortunate reputation as having been home to a number of those who perpetrated the horrific genocide of 1994. / The atmosphere in Rwanda is one of pervading ‘brokeness.’ Millions of orphans live side by side with those who tortured and massacred their families 14 few, short years ago. Millions more suffer the newer enemy – HIV Aids and countless others wander ghost like in a state it seems of perpetual shock, haunted by the past and overwhelmed by the concept of a future. / This was April. The official month of mourning. When people publicly face what privately never leaves them. / I was sitting on a step tired and desperate for fresh air when I looked into the crowd that inevitably gathered wherever we were. / This woman, is by my guess perhaps 30 and she is as are most, dirt poor. / I was absolutely transfixed by her and her child. / She seemed to me to sum up so much of what I saw. / Love and desperation and yes, compassion. / Her breast is bone dry and cracked and yet she tries to feed her baby. Perhaps it is the hope inherent in the action which feeds her. / At the same time, she looks totally preoccupied by her struggle for survival. / What is she thinking as she gazes into the middle ground? / My thought is, ‘where is the next meal.’ Where will she get it from? How will she share it? And upon finishing it, where will she find the next one? / I was overwhelmed by seeing the reality of those who live literally from hour to hour, day after exhausting day. / It confronted me then. / It continues to confront me now. / – Dog photography – Africa photography / - Beach photography - Black & white photography – Dog photography – Africa photography / - Beach photography - Monotone photography
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Taken at Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo in April.
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This is for Darrell Moseley’s / Flower Power Screensaver2 Project…...A frog finds some shelter from the Spring rain shower in the Moonflower blossom…...........Edited with / PhotoImpact11. / / Sold in an 8X10 Matted, Framed Print from my private stock purchased for the Happy Valley Stawberry Festival, Anderson California on 05/23/09 Sold as a poster on 09/13/09 here on Redbubble / purchased by Barbara Ellen Sold in the form of Greeting Cards (2) at the ArtSmart 2009 fine art show at the Mount Shasta Mall in Redding, California on 10/17/09 / ____ / Copyright protected and registered :MCN: C0116-A6AA1-A7CE4 / Please respect copyrights All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. © Joyce Dickens: Using my images for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action.
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Life is a labyrinth in which we take the bad direction before learning to walk. / Cyril Connolly. Nothing is more tragic than to meet a man out of breath, lost in the labyrinth of the life. / Martin Luther King. Woman is the first labyrinth of the man. / Jacques Attali.
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*model/ concept: Art laugh because it’s funny, and cry because it’s so pitifully true, guys… the fact remains that even if you’re a talented design/ art/ photography student, the size of your income may not always be quite so proportionate to the size of your skill. (of course, if you throw in a heavy dose of prayer and ambition, THEN the equation changes…) special thanks to Art for coming up with the idea for this photo, and just being ballsy enough to do this at a freeway exit, where I’m sure drivers were more than a little weirded out by what they saw oh, and by the way… do you guys remember the good ol’ days when we thought $2.87 for a gallon of gas was expensive? we were young, naive and innocent then… fun fact: this photo is nearly two years old! I took this back in late 2006 when I didn’t even have my dSLR yet! I normally don’t go back that far when searching for past photos that are worthy of being tweaked in the lab, but this one was special :)
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I still watch her video as it reminds me who I really am.. Here is a bit about this amazing Doctor/woman and her website below. / / Jill Bolte Taylor: Neuroanatomist Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened—and has become a powerful voice for brain recovery. / Why you should listen to her: One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness … Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the “Singin’ Scientist.” “How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I’ve gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career.” Jill Bolte Taylor
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An image that came to me when I thought about the kind of written work many people define as being called, ‘Hate Poetry’. I prefer to call this type of writing, ‘Therapeutic Writing’ or ‘Venting’. I don’t ‘hate’ anyone when I write something that expresses anger or disgust about an issue or a type of behaviour, I never hate the person themselves, I don’t even really ‘hate’ the behaviour or ‘incident’ that is being described, I’m simply responding to it with an emotion of some description at the time. Generally within an hour of completing a piece of writing, I’m feeling a sense of release and am fine again. The word ‘Hate’ is such a strong word, and people are apt to use it far too lightly and flippantly, similar to the way that the strength and power, of the emotion called ‘Love’, can be weakened and diluted, when it the word itself is either spoken or written too frequently and carelessly. The words ‘Love’ and ‘Hate’ in themselves are strange words, for they infer feelings that are extremely slanted towards either protecting or destroying someone or something. We protect those we are supposed to love, and we destroy those we are supposed to hate. Truth be known, I don’t think I’m capable of feeling such extremes of either emotion, I think I spend way too much of my life hovering around the perimeter of things, looking in, imitating the ways in which I’m supposed to think and feel about everything that’s going on… Mmm… This description has turned into quite some muse, considering all that really triggered it, was a comment I made to another person whereby I said, “You know, if I didn’t pick up a pen and write about it, it’s possible I’d pick up a gun and shoot someone.” But in having said that, I don’t feel this way because I hate anyone, but more because I just want something to STOP or go away, so I write it out of my system. I’m writing more softer stuff lately, than I’ve ever written before in my Life… There was a time when all of my writing used to sound angry, depressing and dark, it seems to be changing form and style lately… I’m not sure why… As yet I’m still considering whether or not I ‘Love’ this shift in my style of writing, or whether, in fact, I actually ‘Hate’ it. I guess more than anything, I simply prefer to flow where ever the current mood carries me to, and despite the common viewpoint of many people, I don’t believe that all emotions are capable of being controlled or contained… Nor maybe whether they even should be.
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This is my entry into Melbourne’s digital fringe festival… Photostock by fetishfaerie and mjranum (deviantart)
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Pro Life Stock: All Stock Found On Deviant Art.com Model: Voivodess-Stock / Ultra Sound: CharmedCuervo / Textures: bashcorpo, amptone-stock and parablev Private images included. I am not bashing either of the political parties. / This is to inform other pro-lifer’s that our tax dollars / are going to abortions, once again… I am taking a bold move and disagreeing / with the newly elected president. I am aware / that he is loved through out all countries and / this site, keep in mind we all will disagree / at one time or another with his decisions. If abortion is a personal choice and I do not / force my choices upon them, why should their / opinions be forced upon me? If it is a personal / choice why is my money being taken from me / to fund such a personal “procedure”? Another Man’s Trash Ash Sivils © 2007-2009 No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or / build upon this work in any shape way or form unless you / gain a waiver from me, not a representative. You may not / import, export, print, redistribute or claim as your personal / work. You may not sell this art or assign right to others, all / images are copyrighted please respect those rights.
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Pro Choice
by raaeBeen thinking about doing this one for a while since moving to a pretty conservative neighborhood, which sports numerous anti abortion billboards and such.
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Model – Desirae No matter what is happening in our lives, we always have the opportunity to make a conscious decision about what happens to us next. The defining moments in my life can be counted on my fingers… finishing school… choosing my career path… not giving up on getting the love of my life to say ‘yes’... the birth of each of my beautiful children… each moment is a precious blip in my time line that I am grateful for experiencing. I sometime wonder what would have happened if I chose not to make the decisions in my life I have and while I’m certainly not immune to making the occasional bad decision I certainly can’t complain… I’m living the life I’ve chosen for myself and that’s all I can ask for. I have always wanted to do ‘something’ with this image of Desirae but at the time of taking it my skills simply didn’t match the final image in my head… when I pressed the button on my camera this is pretty close to what I saw and I’m happy to settle for that… for the moment anyway.
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This is a geeky 80’s design created for the Earth Hour Challenge. / / If you understand it then it means you’re old enough to be a fair contributor to the world energy problem and an equal part of the solution. / / But what is the solution? / / Well it’s clear to me that not just one but a whole range of newer, greener, renewable energy sources will save the day and I believe that people like you and me should be given the option to choose between them on our power bill. Whether they be nuclear, solar, geo-thermal, nano tubes and so on. / / Freedom of choice is what we want. Which is in fact a lyric from that crazy 80’s pop rock band, Devo. / / The red things are the hats Devo alway wear which they call “Energy Domes”, claiming they can actually harvest energy from your own head. / / Now that’s a solution I’d really like to see. / / *This is my first attempt at using Adobe Illustrator so all comments and critiques are very welcome. / / / / /
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If I could sum this up in one perfect word, it would be Ragadellic. Don’t you think? I guess one of my guilty pleasures are Chuck T’s. You just can’t get a more perfect shoe. This is the Converse Generation as they say. / Everyone takes photos of Allstars, I know, but they are a good subject, so why not? This is my first attempt of a Converse shot, and I think I did pretty well. Featured in: / Challenge Weekly Challenge 1 / Rising Star / Moody, Dark, Evocative / Young Enthusiasts / Photography 101 / 60’s Glory Nikon D90 18-105mm /
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The Choice / Love should never be a choice. While man attempts to recreate his universe through science, emulating God, or the First creation; at the core, each of us struggles with daily choices that seem to eclipse the math and science pulsing through a network of logic. Are choices of the heart logical or divinely inspired, impetuous or practical, or do these rather define constraints of the mind? Should the heart always win over the thought process, or does one inform the other? By our divine nature, women have a choice, to follow our heart, head, will, or spirit. Wrong or right, we exercise it. I’m listening… listening to the dreams. Digital Fine Art, influenced by the Romantic and Arts and Crafts styles. F.A. Moore, June 17, 2009. Special thanks to stock providers: Gillian, LinzStock, Katanaz-Stock, B-SquaredStock, and mariastock, and to art in the public domain from which I referenced the muses. Features 2009-09-23 The Choice in The Divine Feminine Suggestions: great notecard to a lover At some point, I will paint this; and the description will be separated from the piece. It would please me, then, if when men viewed this, they though the “Choice” was theirs! Wouldn’t this be typical of human nature and especially (saying this from the woman’s perspective) typical of men. / But for now, the description stays, definitive as it is, of my thoroughly female viewpoint. BEST VIEWED LARGE! DETAIL All detail views are 100% size. Male and Female are clickable, for wider views. / Male face detail ^ (click to see wider view of face, hair, background) / Female face detail ^ (click to see wider view of face, hair, background) / Wall detail (bas relief of my “life collage”) ^
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Choice II is for those who love the light side of the spectrum. It takes on such a different feeling than the much darker original, The Choice / Love should never be a choice. While man attempts to recreate his universe through science, emulating God; at the core, each of us struggles with daily choices that eclipse logic. Are choices of the heart logical or divinely inspired, impetuous or practical, or do these rather define constraints of the mind? Should the heart always win over thought process, or does one inform the other? By our divine nature, women have a choice, to follow our heart, head, will, or spirit. Wrong or right, we exercise it. I’m listening… listening to the dreams. Digital Fine Art, influenced by the Romantic “Pre-Raphaelite” and Arts and Crafts styles. F.A. Moore, June 17, 2009. Special thanks to stock providers: Gillian, LinzStock, Katanaz-Stock, B-SquaredStock, and mariastock, and to art in the public domain from which I referenced the muses. FEATURES 2009-10-25 The Choice-II in Dimensions 2009-07-17 The Choice-II in Southern United States Artists 2009-07-05 The Choice-II in Impressionist Art 2009-06-26 The Choice-II in PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY 2009-06-20 Choice-II in The Divine Feminine / Suggestions: great note card to a lover BEST VIEWED LARGE! / Greeting Card ^ / Mounted print ^ / Framed print ^ / PLEASE SEE ALSO / See The Choice, a much darker, romantic piece for detail views.
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Thirteen years ago I tragically lost my greatest friend….. and subsequently almost lost myself. / But somehow; after a very long time; I made a choice….. to live. / I’ve never regretted my decision. - best viewed large / SP – canon 1000D Featured – Unconventional Artistry – July 2009 Featured – Artrageous RB Artists – Self Portrait Gallery – July 2009 Featured – ImageWriting – July 2009
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Featured on RB’s Featured Art & Photography Section Featured on PixElations – The Art of Photoshop —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- Girl / Frame / Forest / Background
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One life I desired One life I desire / Desired I am from childhood / When sky over me hated / And forecasted storms mood Fire flamed somewhere / Foamed under the surface / It glowed inwardly / But nevertheless fade out Then came windgust / Took me with himself / So soaked the ash / New fame ignited then One recent fire inside me / It blinks, the blaze / Just right now in front / A photo is taken in my sister’s yard 2009 summer time.
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