Bedtime Story
...at grandma's cabin in the northern New Mexican mountains,
...at grandma's cabin in the northern New Mexican mountains,
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Sep, 2014Views
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Zenith Award
Creative Winter Award
Staff Winter Selection 2015
Superb Composition
Outstanding Creativity
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Absolute Masterpiece
Superior Skill
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myaggie2
September 08, 2014
Thank you for the awards. This is the ONLY successful still life I've ever done and I'm so honored you have enjoyed it. The book of course has a story behind it, as most pictures do!
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Location
In my cabin living room in New Mexico.Time
Early eveningLighting
I didn't use a flash, just the soft evening light coming in the window beside the book.Equipment
Canon 5DInspiration
Bedtime Story (the story behind The Velveteen Rabbit) I made sure I repeatedly read these pages to my children and to every adult I’ve met along my path who I thought would “understand.” It amazes me that such wisdom was distributed through a children's book written almost 90 years ago, and it’s not even required reading in our schools. But I’ll allow a few pages from the book to elaborate. After reading them I believe you’ll understand. “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”Editing
Yes, applied the Orton technique to finish.In my camera bag
Singh filters, tripod, battery extenderFeedback
Experiment. I had never taken an indoor picture without a flash before this still life. Experimenting sometimes leads to a whole new style for photographers.
