What I like about this image is how the lines are so delicate and curled. They remind me of the illustrations of the flagella of bacteria from my college microbiology class. The lines are reaching inward in a brief pause, perhaps, before they snap back into action.
It is time for a change. The Liquid Roses hasn’t had a new blog post since September and little to no activity on social media from around the same time, but there are a few reasons for that. For one, college. My college photography degree has been where most of my time has gone recently (apart from my becoming-more-and-more-unhealthy consumptive relationship with social media and the Web–but I am trying to fight that as much as possible). Another reason is that the Liquid Roses took a backseat to developing a new website for my P.R. Ramer brand, the brand under which I intend to do most of my professional photography. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, I came to the realization after I created my P.R. Ramer brand that the Liquid Roses’s original role had been largely supplanted.
In the last year, I have come to see that openmindedness and tolerance for others’ opinions is nonexistent (or nearly so) among my family, both among those who are close and even more so among those who are of my extended family. The derision, condescension, and hostility is so great when taken together as a whole that I am left to question myself, to question whether I am similarly affected.
I feel like I am being shot out of a cannon. The second and final year of my college photography degree has begun, and I feel overwhelmed by the business class (Photo 200). The first year of the program focused on learning technical skills for photography, and although I knew that the second year would weigh heavily on business and learning how to be a professional photographer, I did not expect to so immediately determine what my career in photography should be.
There is sound from the neighboring room. There is sound and it’s an instrument being strummed. And there is a voice singing. There is a voice, and it’s singing in a tongue I don’t know. It’s singing a song and it’s soothing to me. It’s soothing and it’s swaddling my … Continue reading
If you ever have the sweet joy of arguing with me on some topic, whether in person or online, you may find that I will argue strongly against you, perhaps even aggressively. Furthermore, should I give you the impression that I think you are foolish or ignorant, just know that unless I say so explicitly (which I think seldom happens), I am just arguing against your argument. I am not saying anything about you.
This evening/early morning I updated the theme of this blog to a simpler two-color theme. I feel that the new look fits my style more than the previous one did. For one, I am happy the header image displays in a way I like versus the previous theme. Although the copyright license that I use for this website has not changed, the legal information has been put in a separate page called Legal. Another change I have made is there now is a list of categories and a tag cloud at the bottom of the page.