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The Challenge

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The point of this challenge is to test and improve your skill as an artist.

...I found it long ago on :iconeldrianne:'s journal, but had no time before to take part in it myself. Now, since I draw much more often lately (what does *not* actually mean I have more free time...), I decided to have a shot at it, finally :)
It will take me ages to complete it, but... well, it may be funny ;)


The rules

1. Make 100 pics each pic having a theme listed below. Each picture should have ONE and only ONE theme to it, for it to count.
2. No time limit so have fun
3. Pictures should be of own artistic ability. You may not edit photos, or break any other rules set out in the Da etiquette policy. Your pictures can be anything from sketches and doodles to great master pieces. Just have fun with it.
4. The list below is to be placed somewhere in your journal for others to see that:
A) You are in the challenge
B) What you have completed
5. make sure to update this list and check off what is done and make a link to the pic
6. In the comments for your art work note if it is part of the list and what ONE theme it is.

THE LIST:
1. Introduction
2. Love - aville.deviantart.com/art/comf…
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity  - aville.deviantart.com/art/sein…
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning - aville.deviantart.com/art/Door…
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes - aville.deviantart.com/art/Stri…
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice - aville.deviantart.com/art/What…
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation
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I was asked a few times - not only on dA - WHY exactly I take photos.

Honestly, I see no particular reason to do that.

But I have a few - quite important - quotations, which may include answer... and, last but not least, they can describe my opinion about photography in general.


"There was a French poet who claimed that photography is a poorhouse for unsuccessful painters."

"I'm just a routine tourist, satisfied with my fate, I'm going through my life with my camera, which is just a pretext for me to feel myself alive, as once, in these old days, when all people had carried their shadows upon their feet."

"You know, I'd still photograph, even if I had no film in my camera".

"I'd like to write a story or to make a film about a Templar and his killed friends, about an enamoured samurai, about Russian earl, who drinks like a dragon and plays in games of chance in Monte Carlo, and then he becomes a doorman in Le Grand Vélfour - but I have no talent. So, I'm just looking. I'm taking photos."



These quotes describes my opinion about photography - and, perhaps, they show why actually do I take photos myself.
I'd like to write a great story, perhaps a fantasy one - but I have no skills and no ideas to do so. I'd like to paint a picture - but I'm not good enough in painting or drawing. I'd like to write a poem... but everything was written long ago, someone has painted something I wanted to paint...

So I just take photos. Sometimes I delete them just after taking - but sometimes they are better, sometimes they are even quite good - and then I can submit them here or simply keep them in my photo album, knowing that there is a little piece of art I managed to create on my own... something that allows me to express (and understand) myself, a little bit at least... maybe?

I photograph, because I can feel, that I really live. Because I cannot live without my camera now. I'm looking at the world around me through the lenses of my camera.

It's just me.

And I'm getting more and more despaired because I have NO TIME to photograph lately. At all.



To all my friends, watchers and visitors, who have photos in their galleries - do not be miffed because of this journal entry. It wasn't intended to offend anyone. You're great artist, despite of my opinions.

Maybe I'm just a bit bitter right now...

Quotations are from Arturo Pérez-Reverte's "The Painter of Battles" ("Batalista" in Polish).
It's my translation, 'cause I haven't got neither Spanish nor English version of this book. Perhaps it isn't good at all. Sorry for it.





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