I always want to be there for the people I care about, but I can’t help but feel like my hands are tied and I can’t fix anything and I’m drowning in my own misery. It’s almost as if everything is chosen for me, like fate or destiny, and it drags me down and I…
Day 6 Sooo.. day 6 was interesting. I had an idea that I was super excited about, but then it turned out to be one of those things that are better in theory. I was so frustrated that it wasn’t working – I watched a YouTube tutorial on how to create stars and galaxies on…
Wohoo! 1/3 of the way through. I’m liking this challenge. My brain goes like “nooo I can’t think of anything to create today” and I go like “oh yes you can”. Then we fight some more but in the end, I win. Today’s theme was breaking, and the challenge was to use something shattered. I…
Today’s theme was endings, and the challenge was to use a door. I didn’t get to work on today’s theme until about 8pm (Friday’s family day), and the whole day I was kinda freaking out about not knowing what to do. I wanted to come up with a brilliant concept, but I think I stressed…
Day’s two theme was emotion, and the challenge was to not show any faces. When I was brainstorming last night, I was drawn to words like grief, loss, death. So I decided to have a stream of consciousness exercise; writing nonstop for 2 minutes (might have been longer), without stopping to think or edit. The…
Lately, I’ve been so in love with shooting portraits. Which might be a little strange, considering that with my conceptual work I tend to hide faces. I separate the two because I’ve always felt like with conceptual images it should be about the story, not what the person looks like. I almost have two different…
I’ve been experimenting with different editing techniques for the last two images for the 52 week project, and it’s been a lot of fun. I’ve always been scared of trying photoshop things to make them bigger or smaller than they actually are. I’ve only done it once and I always felt like I got lucky…
Sometimes I create images that suck, and that’s OK. I’m falling behind on the 52 Week Project, I’m not gonna sit here and make up excuses though cause all there is to it is bad time management. But because I fall behind, I rush to create something.. which ends up kinda awful. The last two themes for…
What was I thinking choosing “dawn” as a theme? I’ll tell you what I was thinking: my mind is totally blanking out, that means I MUST choose it! I’ll challenge myself! Yeah.. not the best idea haha. I couldn’t think of what to do and when I did, I did not have time to edit…
Amani AlShaali 