Art Through Editing

The charming gentleman in the above picture is my friend Dave who drove out to visit (all the way from Chicago).

Last night I tried a trick that I learned from James at Atomicdust. He would often have his digital SLR with him and would randomly take pictures without looking at the LCD or through the viewfinder. He wouldn't frame the shots at all but would just literally point and shoot. He had a lot of awful pictures to sort through later but oftentimes there would be that *one*stellar*totally*unplanned*sporadic shot that was beautiful. So I shot about a hundred shots last night while Meg, Dave and I drank on the porch heckling the drunken "sparkle" girls. (Yes, the shots got increasingly worse as the alcohol had its effect...) And while I don't think anything I shot was really stellar, I now have a lot of oddly framed shots that I wouldn't have taken if I'd had the chance to think about it. And that feels sort of freeing. Art through editing. I suppose a lot of different artists work this way.