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 (41)
wildfire2003
Wonderfully done! Has a horror feel and a surrealistic feel at the same time. I have a strong desire to warn her :0
Kropot
Yeah, drop youre masks, lovely work, excellent maskwork, needs a closer and ever closer study and them, wow.
98Bones
Nice mysterious image, well clouded! Oh, those masks.... Good work!
gunsan
Frightening and beautiful at the same time,that's a powerful combination.
Tedz
I like this...as I twitch nervously...has a macabre feel...that's what I like. Muuuuuah!
jstsittinghere
amazing image so powerful! excellent composition , outstanding work, vote
j-art
wow - scary - mysterious - and most impressive work - i love it - excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
borsy
Excellent artwork, Danny!!! Just enough information to let our minds create a story!!!
Tommy3D
Totally excellent artwork, Danny!! I don't have a clue how you achieved this effect--you always amaze me my friend!! A vote, Sir!!!
ascrazy
wow, Danny!! mysterious artimage, absolutely super effect, outstanding artwork!!! vote
YohannR
You got my vote... Excellent work... very good subject... ;)
RodolfoCiminelli
Is a job excellent and the great creativity...!! vote
SophiaDeer
Deep emotions and mystery! Beautiful work!!
RobertX
very dreamy but she looks depressed
jwdell
Fantastic!! You should indulge your dark side more often...
pjaj
Super artwork as always. Excellent job Danny!
skoeter
Outstanding piece Danny Vote
linkinpark
Very mysterious work,excellent lighting!
creanum
Strange and mystery......
vlaaitje
I think I see my own story in this one......I like the way you create your art...always very special...art for think about it....how longer you stare in it how more I can see....great work Danny......
unzy
Le masque du dhirement intieur qui laisse la porte ouverte aux dons de notre subconscients, toujours prs a se ruer sur la moindre peine de notre e. Halas, a neverending story !! A great purpose Danny ! A very deep artwork, and a great meditation subject
Varian
Very mysterious, can relate to so many things.
tallpindo
The steps fear when a natural threat appears, terror when fear is of a group and horror when the fear is institutional and of a government paste themselves on a sympathy grid of curses and expletives to the air to non-challantly chart a detailed anarchy, exploitive of the weakness shown.
Telgar
Our anguishes, our obsessions, our traumtisms, all these things which tear us are in this image . An excellent and powerful picture
korborak
Excellent work and very expressive!! Hey! Nothing to do with demons and angels... This is only what we want to be!
madame
Very powerful composition... la douleur humaine est si vaste. Most excellent artwork, Danny !
SoulEatar
Mysterious & fearful
cynlee
dark imagery... wonder what your shrink would say... really, beautifully done, wouldn't miss it for the world :]
qmont
Danny this is execellent, the dark side of your art work is bueatiful, would like to see more of it my friend........John
ShadowWind
Amazing once again, as qmont said, you can even make dark beautiful. Wonderfully done...