It comes to you as no surprise that I spend a fair amount of time looking through Flickr streams. Last year, on one of those late nights, a photograph stopped me in my tracks. It expressed a feeling of serenity, and if you have ever tried snapping any kind of picture in SL you know [...]
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Photography
It is no secret that one of the privileges of writing is that I get a chance to not only write about fashion and life style, but also to meet creative and inspiring artists. One of my recent gems was a chat and photo shoot with the talented Cala Rossini. One thing I have noticed [...]
Welcome to another installation of Meet SL Photographer series. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Cade Nansen, a young photographer with aspirations of becoming a plastic surgeon. He has a sunny and relaxed disposition, which is nothing like his darker (and on occasion eerie) pictures. As with all of our interviewed [...]
If you have been following our Meet SL Photographer series, you know that I spend a fair amount of time looking at Flickr streams of various photographers. A long time ago, a picture in a stream caught my attention. At the time, I was drawn to the hair style that was featured because it looked [...]
“My works evolve on their own, I will have a vague idea to what I am going to create, but as I work it takes on a life of its own and almost creates itself”. ~ Neeks I first met Neeks Karu at a Christmas party for an art gallery I worked for last year. [...]
March 17 2011. At eight in the morning I have an appointment with Betty Tureaud. I know her like one and half year now and her work amazes me increasingly. Since I came to Second Life she has probably been the best example of finding new ways to express yourself and how to create truly [...]
If your SLife crosses paths with photography, in any shape or form, then you know the name Julie Hastings. And if you don’t, I suggest you start this very moment. I remember when her name made me pay attention: I had heard her name around and would occasionally browse her Flickr stream too; however, one day I [...]
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Fashion,
Models,
Photography
Welcome to the third installation of our Meet SL Photographer series. This series started as a simple idea of writing an article to introduce a few photographers whose works I liked. As I started looking around and spending endless hours on Flickr, I discovered various artistic approaches to post-processing of SL pictures. As a result, [...]
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Avatars with Style,
Photography
—The Basics—Shape, Skin, Hair: QUESTION: How would you describe your Skin, Shape and Hair? For example – is it a reflection of who you are in RL? Does it portray an image of who you want to be? Is it fantasy? ANSWER: Casual, simple, nothing extreme, and with a little bit of extra. My skin [...]
Petal Fairlock is a RL photographer whose artistic voice is expressed through images taken from nature with a Holga camera, which she describes as, “a wonderful plastic camera with very little technology, allowing me to focus more on my composition and connection with the natural world.” Her images are not only taken without high-tech gadgetry, [...]