I act like them.
I speak like them.
I hang like them.
But I’ll never be one of them. …
Scratchpad is now live. The purpose of Scratchpad is to have a space where I can completely disregard the idea of polish and take a more anarchic approach to art, thumbing my nose at any rules I wish to ignore. I have needed somewhere I can test out new ideas and be free to make something terrible. You should never expect anything here to be refined. It is, and always will be, a messy space.
You were on your way. You were taking the path to get you there. But the road was suddenly closed. And now you have to take another way. You thought you had time. That you would have time to get there. But now all you have is time. Time to accept uncertainty.
Spot removal. Frequency separation. Gaussian blur. So many tools, so many imperfections to remove. Transforming slightly or substantially the person’s face at the photographer’s discretion, yielding a person both like and unlike the one photographed. This, the photograph tells us implicitly, is the person. This is what they look like—or rather how we would prefer … Read more In Ideal Beauty
What I like about this image is how the lines are so delicate and curled. They remind me of the illustrations of the flagella of bacteria from my college microbiology class. The lines are reaching inward in a brief pause, perhaps, before they snap back into action.
It is late and I am looking through some of my earliest photographs. The ones I made with my first camera, a weather resistant point-and-shoot digital camera made by Olympus. Most of them are blurry or dark or strangely colored. I see some early attempts at art and some obvious experimentation. Slowly the impression is … Read more A Postcard from the Past
It is time for a change. The Liquid Roses hasn’t had a new blog post since September and little to no activity on social media from around the same time, but there are a few reasons for that. For one, college. My college photography degree has been where most of my time has gone recently (apart from my becoming-more-and-more-unhealthy consumptive relationship with social media and the Web–but I am trying to fight that as much as possible). Another reason is that the Liquid Roses took a backseat to developing a new website for my P.R. Ramer brand, the brand under which I intend to do most of my professional photography. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, I came to the realization after I created my P.R. Ramer brand that the Liquid Roses’s original role had been largely supplanted.
I will be honest. I came close to not posting today. The original material that I was working on for today’s post is far from complete despite the time that I have worked on it. What was meant for today will simply have to be rescheduled. While I can live with that, there is something … Read more A Little Frayed
I have not often practiced approaching a stranger to take a photograph when I wanted to get close. Like for so many other people, I find it uncomfortable. Not because I am embarrassed, but rather because it feels so direct with no way for the either party to subtly recede from the confrontation. There is … Read more 50 Hour Slam 2019, Part Two: Never Seen Anything Like It
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