Date Joined: 8 August 2002 Hello My name is Daniel O'Byrne, ÂÂ
The belief that a good photograph is the result of a good camera places the importance upon the equipment rather than upon the photographer. It emphasizes the machine rather than the man, the tool rather than the artist, the technology rather than the artistic intent. It is as if Monet had been told that the reason why his paintings were so beautiful was because he had such good paintbrushes. Or as if Paul Bocuse’s culinary excellence was explained away by his use of superlative pots and pans. Or again if Yo-Yo Ma had been informed that his Stradivarius was solely responsible for the stunning quality of his music.ÂÂ
One can be inspired and have an idea, be very creative in making this idea into a work of art, have developed the required level of craftsmanship, without the outcome of one’s efforts being motivated by the desire to follow a vision for one’s entire body of work. Vision is an overriding envelope that encompasses both inspiration and creativity. It is a blanket that covers the entire artist’s work, a blanket that often comes later in the life of an artist, after one has perfected one’s art and moved beyond the commonplace outcome that most artists have to go through. For this reason I placed vision as the third step of this process. I placed it there not because it comes necessarily at the end of the process but because in life it is often something that artists discover later on.
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Certainly, a master needs a masterful instrument, be it a camera, paintbrushes, pots and pans or a violin, as in my examples, or other tool, since this list can be expanded to include many other professions. But to say that the quality of the art is caused solely by the quality of the instrument is to miss the point altogether about the importance of the artist. It is missing the point about the human factor, about the man or the woman that actually made use of this instrument. After all, art is made by artists and not by tools. Tools are inanimate objects that need someone to set them in motion. And to set a tool in motion so that art is created through the use of this tool, an artist is needed.
I am now retired from working as a Mental Health professional having worked in the Royal Air Force and National Health Service, giving me more time to persue my photography and artwork. I am a Semi Professional Photoghrapher. Here you will find a collection of my photographs and a selection of Digital Art, Traditional Painting and Sketches that I have also used the digital medium to enhance. Please feel free to pass on any comments. My Camera Gear
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Comments (29)
marybelgium
fantastique !
1010
What a cool play with photos, awesome results! Happy New Year!
sharky_
Interesting creation and job. Like it! Aloha
vlaaitje
glad you tried this again.....excellent creation..well done !!
romanceworks
This is a wildly surreal and creative image. Interesting info about the tilt that causes our seasons. Seems the 'tiilts' in life are always what cause the drama and poetry.:o) CC
BorisB
Excellent work !! GORGEOUS!
Sekadhar
Fantastic work! Excellent done!*****!
MedTran39
WOW - this is truly awesome!
zoren
magnifique!!
tizjezzme
What a work of art .. awesome creation here!
kansas
Oh my!!! This is a fantastic and mind boggling composition. My compliments.
Punaguy
Hey great idea here Dan, looks very commercial....pro work! Aloha~
tallpindo
It also determines if a solar collector will work. Amazingly, there is as much sunlight at 60 degrees as there is at the tropics when the sun is shining. It's cloud cover that makes the difference in total sunlight hitting the ground. You just tip your array to subtend the same area. Do I seem to be contradictingdanob? I don't think so. I'm just adding what I experimented with after the ancients went to sleep.
RodolfoCiminelli
Fantastic and wonderful creation Daniel....!!!!
Valerie-Ducom
Wowwww, so impressiv work and excellent composition color and texture !!! Excellent !!!
GOLDILOCKSUK
Wow! Very professional it looks like something you would see on TV superb! Cathy xoxoxo
nathalie06
Other style, and fantastic vision of two worlds in the same time... Really beautiful Danny, futurist place. I was asking me about the climate modification some hours ago. I've seen a report about the Polar Bears... who will die because of the reheating of the planet, and can't find anything to eat. It's terrible.... 40% of the Artic has disapeared in 20 years !!! In how many time the rest of the ice will resist ? All that really make me angry, we are all responsable of that, but too many persons don't want to change anything in they way of life. Crazy world ! what will we let to the children ? Oupsssssss sorry, it's not the time, and the place for that. It's your composition who make me think to that.
Hugs my friend
sittingblue
an excellent composition... I like the tech and time warp feeling I get from this one. very cool.
iaacf
Very nice play with different photos.. well I suppose that is what I look at now..anyway its impressive.
gunsan
What a fantastic creation, make me think of an enormous wind organ
erlandpil
And again a good work erland
amberlite
so very creative, a bit sci-fi and scientific, thought-provoking and mysterious the world is indeed pretty amazing :)
tommorules
I did a double-take when I saw this as I thought it must be one of Ges's uploads. It's a stunner, no idea how you did it but I'm glad you did! If I remember my astronomy correctly it was a massive planetary impact that caused the tilt in the axis, possibly the one that resulted in the moon being formed. What a boring place to live this would be without that catastrophic prehistorical event! No seasons, no tides....
Littlejock
Super impressive composition and great textures and colours on it..Beautiful work
idiot_sphinx
Truly beautiful work on this image !! A wonderful explaination of the changing cause and effects . I like the effects that you personally added. !!~PERFECT~!!
lilmissfrightmare
very creative and different! love it, one of the layers reminds me of those diagrams of the earths magnetic field :)
Fidelity2
B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. 5+.
maggiemai
ooooh... I really like this very much! I found I must look back at it several times while reading your story that you added. :-) Very creative and original... excellent work Dan!! :-) Hope you had a Happy New Year and a wonderful Christmas.
jlmattson
Been away for way to long but had to come back to check out what you've been doing and....... Wow! Again I am impressed with your work. Awesome Image. maybe it is time I start creating Digital Art again..... Been side tracked with Music for quite awhile but miss doing my Art. You always have been one of my Favorites here at RO. Take Care...... Jim aka eX1 at FUNENDER.com