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19-NOV-2005	:-D

f*rk ***

EXPLANATION: Well, I thought that this might qualify as minimal & stripped down. As a sucker for some "coolness" I got the sun out of the sky and made the shadow...why minimal? Well for me and my photos this is much more minimal than I normally take...I guess you might say negative space is prevalent...but I also felt that the lone fork...was the simplest form of utensil...but what do I know...

In retrospect, the shadow is what may take this from true minimalism to something representational...

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
1/800s f/2.8 at 24.0mm iso100 hide exif

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Date/Time	19-Nov-2005 08:05:40
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Canon DSLR Challenge		22-Nov-2005 04:10
Very striking image, I really like the composition and the color. --Melanie (mlynn)

Guest		20-Nov-2005 02:13
Here is what I could find: http://www.saulgallery.com/raff/raff.html http://www.flickr.com/groups/secret_minimalists/pool/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/minimalism/pool/33642498@N00/ I try to just interpret the ideas I wrote about before... Grant

Canon DSLR Challenge		20-Nov-2005 01:21
Grant... Thanks! That's Interesting....do you have any "big names" off the cuff you might recommend....my initial search had lead to Weston....I wonder if there is some looseness in the term minimalist/minimalism...as in it is really quite hard to fully define...but the essence of true minimalism is to take almost everything away... I like the link you posted below....but find that I really need to see more representations to get a better idea....I'm really not a minimalist....in writing or in art or at work....by the end of this challenge though I hope to have at least 1 or two real minimalist photos in here! Cheers. :-D

Guest		20-Nov-2005 01:17
David, I don't really see that he is a minimalist photographer. He has simple compositions but they certainly aren't minimalist. They are very representational. Grant

Canon DSLR Challenge		20-Nov-2005 01:09
Ok.... So, I've worked a bit on the image...redid a bunch of things including the post-proc in photoshop and decided to jettison the text on the photo. I may take down all my images if I can get something more along the theme...but for now this is what I got :-)! Grant...appreciate the comment on minimalism....how does Edward Weston fit into the definition? He is a minimalist photographer, but seems to not have the same manifestation as many...but as I said, am only beginning my journey...do you know of any weston images you'd say "ah...there is minimalism at its best"? Cheers, :-D

Canon DSLR Challenge		19-Nov-2005 23:16
I really like your image :-D I just don't care for the writing ON the image(*) Very creative. Markjay

Guest		19-Nov-2005 20:33
these are much closer to minimalism: http://flickr.com/photos/shoegazer/sets/622615/

Guest		19-Nov-2005 20:32
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Canon DSLR Challenge		19-Nov-2005 20:18
So, Grant, how many of the entries qualify as minimalist, then? -- Victor

Guest		19-Nov-2005 14:26
I like this image but it isn't minimalism. Minimalism - A twentieth century art movement and style stressing the idea of reducing a work of art to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines and textures. No attempt is made to represent or symbolize any other object or experience. It is sometimes called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, and rejective art. Though never a self-proclaimed movement, Minimalism refers to painting or sculpture made with an extreme economy of means and reduced to the essentials of geometric abstraction. Minimalist art is generally characterized by precise, hard-edged, unitary geometric forms; rigid planes of color—usually cool hues or commercially mixed colors, or sometimes just a single color; nonhierarchical, mathematically regular compositions, often based on a grid; the reduction to pure self-referential form, emptied of all external references; and an anonymous surface appearance, without any gestural inflection. In Minimal art what is important is the phenomenological basis of the viewer’s experience, how he or she perceives the internal relationships among the parts of the work and of the parts to the whole, as in the gestalt aspect of Morris’s sculpture.

Canon DSLR Challenge		19-Nov-2005 14:25
Very arty shot! My first thought was to tidy up the b/g, but the more I look at it, I think it works. I like the color and composition, but f*rk makes it a bit busy for the topic. (Of course, I love shots like this......they show a lot of imagination in processing.) BTW, they say less is more in minimalism. Sounds easy, but there's a fine line between "what is" and "what isn't," IMO. shu

Canon DSLR Challenge		19-Nov-2005 13:54
Ser. I decided to borrow your titling approach for this shot... Others...does the texture in the b/g work for you? I used a slightly used cardboard as the b/g as it added some texturing and non-uniform color... What comments do we have for this and the previous shot....am new to minimalism... Cheers, :-D