by Hélène Céré

The Collective’s last Coffee House, with guest speaker Sean George, not only got me thinking about how I look at landscapes and nature, but also at art.

 I have been stuck for a while, not finding inspiration, or maybe trying just too hard to work myself into a style.

I decided to listen to what my surroundings are telling me.  So, I got my camera out and went for a walk at Cooper’s Marsh.  The day was bright and sunny.  I walked around admiring all of the beautiful nature around me.  There was so much to see, to capture, and to feel.  

As I took pictures, I realized that I was just framing them the old same way.  I was getting my usual landscape pictures, nice but not much more.  The snapshots were not delivering the complexity and richness of what I was seeing. Then I decided to take a few shots differently.  What a surprise when I got back home and reviewed them.  I found two that spoke to me in a strong way and I am sharing these here with you. 

This first one is looking through the opening of one of the lookouts.

The other, I wanted to take a shot straight down.  Then I saw my feet in the viewer and thought: let’s take it anyway I can always crop it later.  I think cropping it would have been a mistake!

[Ed. We agree! Grand to have feedback on our speaker series, thank you Hélène! So many ways to open our experiences and creativity.]

Don’t be shy, share your creative activities! Send JPG image(s) to cagac.ca@gmail.com with up to 100 words per image describing some or all of what moved you to spend time thinking about and producing . . . something! Share how/if creativity affects (controls?) your life. Please include title & media for each image.

Writers – we want to hear from you! Send poetry, lyrics, an excerpt. Try to include an image of some sort because that’s the media world we live in. 

Everyone, share informative, inspiring Show & Tell demonstrating the creative mind.