Painting with Photos: Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge, 2016, Week 9

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Sometimes when I have a photograph I really can’t use, either because of the subject or the aesthetics, I Just play around with the editing tools.  In this case, I came up with two abstract paintings gleaned from the plume and the gills of a roosterfish that a fisherman had left lying on the beach.

(Click on the first photo to enlarge all photos, then click on arrows to see all.)

http://ceenphotography.com/2016/02/28/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-9/

20 thoughts on “Painting with Photos: Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge, 2016, Week 9”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I don’t do anything very difficult, Cally–just use the tools on my Mac Photos. It can be time-consuming just because it is kind of addictive! I am always most happy to have been any part of inspiring someone else to be creative.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I know. Can you believe the color of those gills? The fisherman removed them to kill the fish quickly… something the other fishermen don’t seem to do. I hate seeing them lie gasping on the beach.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Yes… the overall theme was a bit gruesome, but sometimes I feel that to take a gruesome part of life and instill some beauty into it somehow equals the Indian ceremony where they would thank the animal and give some small sacrifice to recompense it for its life. No, I’m not Indian, but I think we all create our own small ceremonies to cope with life.

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      1. Olga's avatarOlga

        I totally agree that your photos did show respect for the subject matter and their inherent beauty. I guess that I shouldn’t have used the word ‘gruesome.’

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          No, I understand why you did. It was gruesome while I was watching him rip the gills from the fish. I felt gruesome exploiting the situation and thought of journalists who sit and record a violent act rather than trying to stop it, but if I’d ripped the fish from his hands and thrown it back in the ocean, I would have been the one carried away in shackles. (Well, a bit of hyperbole there.) I understand that everything on earth kills something to eat. It is just the cruelty of letting something gasp for air that I can’t stand. So, I honored that thing in this particular fisherman that made him do the kind act.

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