8 November 2009 Daily Inspiration

Hiroshi Sugimoto 's beautiful photos taken with an 8x10 camera with long exposures of around 90 minutes, the average feature film length. I love the effect of the lighting and the beauty and complexity in something so seemingly simple. See his official website HERE.

7 November 2009 Daily Inspiration

Loretta Lux, Self Portrait

From Darkness into the Light

Two beautifully light images from Loretta Lux. Her images are sublime, beyond reality and perfect in their imperfections. I hope one day to create such inspirational images!

6 November 2009 Daily Inspiration

Bill Henson's series of photos of people at the opera. I love his use of light and dark and his images are amazingly beautiful.

5 November 2009 Daily Inspiration

Found HERE under the title Gloom....beautiful work by Laura Failyau....see more HERE

4 November 2009 Daily Inspiration

The above two images are from Joyce Tenneson's series Light Warriors. I have featured her work here before but I thought these fit the theme so well and she is a beautiful photographer.

3 November 2009 Daily Inspiration

Today I have chosen two portraits by Sally Mann that use light and dark beautifully.

2 November 2009 Daily Inspiration

Welcome to the improved Amelie and Atticus Photography and Craft Challenge

We have changed the guidelines a bit to make it easier and more open for you to contribute images. There will be one word/theme per month and you can upload as many photos or photos of craft projects as you like!!!!

I hope this will inspire you to have a play and get involved!! I will also announce the prize earlier on in the month!

For Novembers theme I have chosen

'Light in the Darkness'

in response to this you can choose to interpret it in any way. For me I was inspired by the Canon Photo5 competition and my work for the brief 'Practically Black'. I loved the way the image below turned out and it has inspired me to explore more themes within this style. I decided to add the light to the darkness to open it up and give a wider range for the images!

This is another image I love from the same photo shoot but it wasn't dark enough for the brief....I have added it to the Flickr Group....

I hope you have fun with this theme and the relaxing feeling of having a month to play with as few or many photos and projects as you like!!

Head over to Flickr and see what has already been loaded!

1 November 2009 Daily Inspiration

Welcome to NOVEMBER. The happiest month of the whole year!! Mostly because it is my birthday month so I am a little bias.....but I do love it!! To me it is fresh and full of possibilities....so I am using this fresh start to recreate the rules of the challenge to open it up to a wider audience and make it easier to contribute!! But more details will be revealed in the next post!

For today's inspiration I have my entries for the Canon Photo5 Competition!! I actually did it and I am very proud of myself as I wasn't sure if I would make it across the line. Loading them onto the Canon site last night was painful and didn't work so I was very sad but today they announced an extension on the deadline due to the traffic on their website! Thankfully I have been able to load them up today YAH....wish me luck!!!

Portraiture Brief - Molly

Splat Brief - Water Fight

Practically Black Brief - The Girls in the Creek

Close Up Brief - Hundreds and Thousands

Bokeh Brief - Ballerina Bokeh

31 October 2009 Daily Inspiration

Halloween Highlights

Delayed with good cause....look at these little treats!!

She-Ra Princess of Power

Emily the Strange and She-ra 'I have the power'

The best angle I could find of the costume!

Hailie the Winner of Best Costume 2009

Molly as the Devil invoking a storm

Hailie, Molly, Presley (as the Black Knight - his own creation) and Kiah (as Warewolf Michael Jackson)

Kiah (as Warewolf Michael Jackson) and Presley (as the Black Knight - his own creation)

The Scary Gang!!

Congratulations iMish

The votes are in and counted!

Thanks to the 19 people who voted

and

congratulations to the winner iMish!

You are a great contributor!

I will email you your prize on Monday and you can go shopping!!

Also please check out the post HERE about changes to the challenge....Please Please Please comment!!! Pretty please with sugar on top!!

30 October 2009 Daily Inspiration

Halloween Treats

Today's inspiration comes from the many treats I have found online for Halloween....prepare yourself for the visual feast!

Beautiful Belle and Boo Halloween Prints

Bats by Heather Bailey

Beautiful Fall House by Jessica Jane

Find These Scary Creatures at Shorties in Newtown

Softies and Wrapped Up Mummies seen in the Excellent Halloween Round Up at LMNOP

29 October 2009 Daily Inspiration

Getting closer to Halloween a lot of blogs have been posting brilliant arts and crafts and costume ideas! I have loved checking them all out and as we are in no-mans land for the weekend I thought I would base the inspirations on the theme of Halloween.

We are heading to Cooma this weekend for a party with all the kids who love to dress up on a daily basis so Halloween will be no different. If we had the clothes my dream costumes for this year would be to go as Claus, Violet and Sunny from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. To have the wardrobe from the film would be a dream!! Sadly this has not come true yet so this Halloween we will be going as Emily The Strange, She-Ra and Rambo....a motley crew....stay tuned for the photos!

Our Halloween Inspiration

Amelie and Atticus Photography and Craft Challenge Restructure?

Only 2 more hours to vote!! Very exciting...get in there if you haven't already!

Now on a sad note I have been putting off announcing the prize for October as there have been no uploads to the Flickr set besides my own....sob sob.....they are very sad to be so lonely and have no friends.....so sadly for October there will be no prize UNLESS the Flickr group is inundated with photos that have been hiding out on people's photostreams and computers!!

In light of this I have been thinking about restructuring the challenge to make it more user friendly and invite more additions to the group so that we can be inspired by each others work and get excited about photography!

So I am looking for feedback from everyone out there!!

The question is....what would it take for you to participate?

1. One theme a month as opposed to weekly

2. One photo to be submitted weekly or monthly

3. More awesome prizes

4. More loosly based themes (portraiture, light etc.)

5. No themes just a place for people to show new work and discuss

6. Links from my blog to yours when you showcase new work

7. Ditching the craft aspect

8. Increasing the craft aspect

All your comments would be truly appreciated as I want this to suit most people, be fun and not demanding and grow in size! Even if you are just a watcher please let me know what you would like to see more of!

You can comment anonymously if you please!!

Thanks in advance!! Love you work!!

PS Reminder to anyone joining in the Canon Photo5 Competition entries close on Sunday night (1 November) midnight!! I gotta get to shooting!

It just feels wrong to have a post without pictures so here is a sneak preview of the back of a current super secret project I am undertaking....shhh....don't tell anyone!