It's #Caturday again! I originally did this artwork with a watercolor background but I revamped it by stripping out the background and deepening the color. The art is based on a photo I took of a kitty down by the beach.
PSA: I am trying my best to write good image descriptions (alt text), but sometimes I really struggle to describe something. Especially because #FragMyBrain then has a black-out ... I am in the middle of a sentence and then I am lost for words - words that I have used just a few minutes ago. This mostly happens in English (my secondary language - with German being primary and Turkish tertiary). I then use a translation tool to find the best possible translation of a German term. So, sorry for sometimes having weird sounding texts.
But apart from that, here is my biggest problem with image descriptions: How do I describe a COLOR to a person born blind?
I think a person who lost their sight has a sense of color because they used to see them. But a person born blind? How do I do that?
This is a serious question. Really, it really bothers me because when I start writing things like "... the blossoms have pink tips ..." - I mean, what does a person born blind imagine/think what "pink" is?
Thus, my PSA: Any help on this topic, or any guideline how to describe or circumvent that in image descriptions is highly, highly appreciated. I really would not want to skip the color information because that is sometimes a very important one.
So, please 🙏 - if any of you has any suggestions, tips, ... I would be forever in your debt.
Contemporary art met our really old camera. 📷 It's next an analog photo! I took this shot at The Moco Museum in Amsterdam. If you like contemporary art, I highly recommend checking it out and visiting! ☺️
Gear:
• Zorki 4 (KMZ, 1966)
• Jupiter-8 50 mm f/2 (KMZ, 1967)
• Kodak Professional Portra 400/36
This past week I visited where I used to live. I got to watch as the sailboats lazily cruised around the harbor...such a wonderful sight on a sunny afternoon! I created this image when I got home. It's part of my series of artwork with a quilted effect. (Not a real quilt!)
These four images depicting #Mandelbrot sets date back to the early 90’s. My brother computed them back then on his #AtariST (which still exists and still works), displayed them on a friend’s color #TV and took the #Screenshots with his #DSLR#Camera. He then produced paper prints, framed them and gave them to me as a birthday present for my 25th. birthday. 👍
The images still exist in all their glory. 👍 That was a one of a kind present. 🤣 #Atari#Color
I’ve been reminded recently how much I love taking something that’s super complicated technically, and learning it so deeply myself, I finally understand how to teach it. It takes forever, but I can finally jettison everything you don’t need to worry about… and come up with just the right amount of what to say so that the subject at hand seems very obvious and simple. And you can master it fast! But gosh, it does take so much work.
I call this one and of Dreams...I've given the #landscape a quilted effect. I live close to the ocean and mountains so they're often in my #artwork - and now after, working on "quilt" artwork, I'm thinking maybe I should learn how to do the real thing.