October 17, 2015

Self Portrait as a Tree

Self Portrait as a Tree (2011-2015)
Ashley Lily Scarlett

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October 17, 2015 - 4:06 am mukul chand

Wonderful post.

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- November 25, 2015 - 12:05 pm Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  Thank you, Mukul.
  
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October 17, 2015 - 4:35 am sheldonk2014

Love how you did this
I take it was in the car
Just great

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- October 17, 2015 - 9:56 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  Thanks very much, Sheldon; I was on a bus. 🙂
  
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October 17, 2015 - 7:33 am Jordan Dodd

Ashley, when you are taking photos, do you often take high quality photos and then crop out a part you like to come up with these compositions??

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- October 17, 2015 - 12:51 pm Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  I used to try to frame shots exactly as I wanted them when I had a SLR camera many years ago. I guess that’s good practice and film was expensive. But now . . . often I do crop but try not to too much for the sake of resolution. I crop a lot for my project with Richard, in order to find a suitable response to his previous image. Actually, I cropped this very image to a square to fit the format for that blog.
  
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  - October 18, 2015 - 1:11 am Jordan Dodd
    
    Hmm yeah I got a pocket cam with a viewfinder especially so I can frame shots the way I want. It cost a pretty penny for a pocket cam but the viewfinder is so worth it!
    
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    - October 20, 2015 - 12:29 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
      
      I’m looking forward to seeing some of your photos. I take it you’ll post some on ‘Epileptic Moondancer’?
      
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October 17, 2015 - 3:35 pm johnnycrabcakes

Love this, Ash–
love the tones, the textures, the composition.
Love it.

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- October 18, 2015 - 9:31 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  Thank you, Johnny. It’s long been a favourite of mine.
  
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October 17, 2015 - 3:39 pm elmediat

branching out in self expression –
turns a new leaf
as the bus changes lanes.

Excellent composition. 🙂

BTW Just posted Displacing self on Implied Spaces. 😀

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- October 18, 2015 - 9:30 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  🙂
  
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October 17, 2015 - 5:30 pm TK.Kim photos et maux insensés

Brillant…. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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- October 18, 2015 - 9:32 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  Thank you, Kim! 😀
  
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October 18, 2015 - 4:07 am mrsdaffodil

Beautifully expressive.

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- October 20, 2015 - 12:24 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  Thank you so much. It’s always nice when someone likes one of my personal favourites. 🙂
  
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October 18, 2015 - 5:41 am odilonvert

beautiful indeed

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- October 20, 2015 - 12:25 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  Jennifer, thank you. It’s one of my favourites and has been for about four years. 🙂
  
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October 19, 2015 - 8:25 am Richard Guest

Oh, it’s gorgeous in it’s full incarnation!

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- October 19, 2015 - 10:39 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  Yes, I prefer this version to the cropped one. I’m finding it very intetesting, this cropping to a square format for BSAG. Some things plainly don’t work but I find the opposite, too. Sometimes I much prefer the square. I love our blog, Richard. It’s so good for me!
  
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  - October 19, 2015 - 11:59 pm Richard Guest
    
    Yes, me too! Particularly like the way it’s going at the moment.
    
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    - October 20, 2015 - 12:23 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
      
      Yes, indeed. 🙂
      
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October 20, 2015 - 8:11 am Sean Jeating

Sentinel. . . .

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- October 20, 2015 - 9:06 am Ashley Lily Scarlett
  
  What a good memory you have. 🙂
  
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