hornet3d posted at 6:18 AM Tue, 30 May 2023 - #4466716

JanusJsenwark posted at 8:33 AM Mon, 29 May 2023 - #4466660

hborre posted at 8:10 AM Mon, 29 May 2023 - #4466658

What was your intention for the Sun/ball prop?  

I can not describe it. A picture has to trigger a certain feeling in me. Only then am I satisfied. That didn't trigger my picture in me and I was in doubt about posting it here. I'm trying to bring something back to life that I carry with me in my memories. And memories are largely made up of feelings. These can be old photos of the family or an image that has been burned into your brain. I lost all my family photos to the loveletter virus many years ago. There were hundreds... To this day, I'm still annoyed that I didn't backup my digital photos. Now it's too late and i'm trying not to forget these pictures. And sometimes I reconstruct certain impressions with Poser, or at least I try... It can't replace what I've lost, but it helps me to keep the memory alive.

For me one of the biggest disadvantages with computer based art and digital photography is that so much can be lost in such a small amount of time.  The story of lost photographs and videos is one I have heard of countless times but I still feel desperately sorry each time I hear the story.  Data loss is one of my biggest fears so my back ups are multiple, back up USB drives, NAS transfers and Cloud storage is the bare minimum for me and for the data that is extra important I add multiple M disks stored at at least two locations.  The backups cover family and holiday videos and photographs, any of my computer art that I feel is worth saving, if anything, and all of my music.  I guess my worse fear is that some of the formats such as .JPG and .PNG might cease to exist but I guess at my age when they do I will be well past caring.

True, I lost 2 harddrives full of Photographs. I am not ashamed to say that I literally cried my eyes out. Photos are a part of your live, when they are lost, you feel like you lost a part of your live. 

I had 20 years ago a fire in my House. Caused by a silly neighbour kid who trhrow his burning cigarette in my celar window where I had my laundry. All my childhood pictures, my parent pictures and from my brother, go up in flame. Never felt more miserable. 

La vie est éternelle. L'amour est immortel.

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius,