August 31, 2012 – Figments of a DuTchess

This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by Strauss Louw.

Free Spirit. I chose this as the topic for this week’s photo challenge as it lends itself to so many possibilities for subject matter and composition. I work exclusively with film and believe this element is quite important concerning a theme such as the free spirit, as it allows for more experimentation and creative exploration due to how film reacts differently to light than a digital sensor would. To capture this idea of the free spirit, I would suggest breaking some rules. Sometimes it is necessary to overexpose a frame slightly and point the lens to the sun for a bit of glare to capture that sense of a different, free, moving reality.

And I had just a photo like that:

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But I want to share one more image with you. On the next photo, the little girl appears to be surreal, not entirely of this world. Perhaps she dropped in from another dimension…

spirit child, run free

stir light echoes of laughter

where wild flowers grow