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 (45)
decie
excellent capture almost every thing is like my grans but for the spinning wheel. and the room was longer and a bigger table and and lol
flora-crassella
very nice room! great photo!
sharky_
The treasures we keep within. Aloha
BorisB
An impressive scene!!
timtripp
superb image!
Enlightened
I have similar memories of my grandmother, the velvet table cloth that also doubled up as a card table, tea pot complete with cozy, the black stove lol yes and the same chairs! Wonderful photograph.
lyron
wonderful room. Excellent shot!!
adrie
Fantastic photoshot my friend, excellent done.
evensteven
Very nice! Great lighting.
carlx
Wonderful Victorian room!!! Excellent peaceful presentation, my friend!!!
3x3
lovely capture with a great nostalgic feeling my friend x f!
bmac62
Great nostalgic detail. I've never seen a cast iron stove inserted in a fireplace before. Must have made perfect sense at the time. We got huge, heavy cast iron woor/coal burning stoves but they were free standing in a kitchen area like an electric range today.
flavia49
excellent capture!
Octaganoid
Very quaint. This reminds me of my great aunties house which i have very vague memories of from when i was about 4. It was full of old fashioned clutter.
CavalierLady
Utterly charming scene, with arrangements and details that have a definitely British flavor. Everyone that left this room must have been smiling with their own personal memories!
kgb224
Stunning capture my friend.
jeroni
Wonderful and very creative work
MedTran39
Super!
delaorden_ojeda
Hi Dan ! nice to be here and see this superb image, this is a fantastic place and for sure make you remenber good times, excelent composition and superb light, great scene !
dragonmuse
Nice way to share your memories :)
MrsLubner
My grandmother did not have a spinning wheel. She might have paid to have wool spun for her but she did not spin. But she had much of this in her home too. But her home was a bit roomier. The table cloth and china is very much the same. My grandfather did not appear very warm and comforting to children and she was a bit stiff herself. Out of the 26 grandkids, I was the only one ever brave enough to walk up to my grandfather while he watched Meet the Press on Sunday TV and invite myself into his lap. I knew better than to make a sound but as long as I would not squirm or make a noise, I was allowed to sit with him during his TV show. The other cousins were terrified of him. He looked much like a stern Winston Churchill, wore his suit until bedtime and smoked aromatic cuban cigars. Now, see? See how much memory this beautiful shot has brought back to me? I admire, not only your incredible talent for taking a quality shot like this, but also the way you can see things so well and know they are just right.
Sea_Dog
Wonderful, warm feeling. Great work
babuci
The cahirs so inviting, wonderful capture and so warm atmosphere.
kansas
Oh how cozy and sentimental. Reminds me of my great Aunt who always made tea for us kids when we visited.
schonee
What a wonderful cozy place to be. I Love it!
npauling
This certainly brings back great memories of tea at my grandmothers. Lovely capture.
RodolfoCiminelli
Fantastic work my friend....!!!! Splendid combination of lights.....!!!
Chipka
This is superb and wonderfully intimate! Great work. I can't say that I'm a fan of the Victorian Era...my moral sense is distinctly non-Victorian, but the whole look of the era, the visual richness of it is something I do enjoy and you've captured that so crisply and perfectly. I love the quality and color of the light and the way it dances off of various surfaces, interacting with them rather than just laying there. fantastic work.
cbender
i like this one... a kind of an intimate view in someones life.... well done !
artaddict2
I felt the same walking around these rooms when me and Jeff visited this place, brought back many memories of my grandma who lived in a little stone cottage Ingleton Yorkshire. Charming image Danny, nice work!