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Stella Kalaw's avatar

Beauty is everywhere isn’t it, Sydney? even when the lens is thrown out of focus. I love what you’re seeing here. Somehow, it boils down to the essentials: light and color. Thank you for sharing!

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Yes, happily it’s always waiting to be noticed in new ways! So true, you begin by trying to capture this one subject well, but over time you get drawn into all these ways that light and color live in the world around us…New ways of seeing - is that part of what inspires collage for you, new ways of seeing connections in visual elements?

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Stella Kalaw's avatar

Yes! I’m drawn to collage because it frees my mind to make these visual connections. And somehow, thinking this way also influences the way I make pictures. I haven’t done any of my own photo montages for a long time but everything is connected and I know each practice informs the other.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Right! And seeing in new ways, making different connections, carries into everyday life, and that filters back into art. I’m often grateful for how much more I notice, now. People will obliviously breeze right by things I think are jaw-dropping-amazing. But then I notice something new for the first time and realize how much I still overlook, how much more there always is to notice!😂

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Michela Griffith's avatar

I found my way here via your images of frost. My vision has shifted through the medium of water to a place where the feel of an image determines its look, and to something that more closely resembles my uncorrected vision. So you are very much speaking a language I relate to.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

That’s so wonderful to hear, I’m so glad to meet you here! Isn’t there just so much more to this simple act we call “seeing”?! Lovely to think that water draws near to what you see, looking forward seeing more at Flow :)

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Michela Griffith's avatar

I’m looking forward to sharing and swapping moments with you Sydney

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Roselle Angwin's avatar

This is truly beautiful, Sydney - your poetic words and the combined images are sublime. '...what would happen if I took this moment in nature and reduced it down to just light?' X

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you so much! I hope it's a fun and interesting way for all of us to see just a little bit more in our world :)

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Neil Barker's avatar

Excellent collection of images - especially like the side-by-side comparison of the wave photos. That centre image of the wave is intense.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thanks so much, and thanks for restacking!

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Warmly Brewed Thoughts's avatar

Looking at these photos it’s like they have a magnetic pull, urging you to look a little closer. What a lovely read 🥰

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you, I'm so glad they draw you in!

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Dave Karpowicz's avatar

Sydney, Your views on light, what we see, what we don’t see are extremely interesting and revealing. I appreciate your work. D

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thanks, so glad you enjoyed it!

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you! That's one of my favorites, too :)

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