Photography
Photography is very much about what you choose to put inside the frame – but also, every bit about what you choose to leave outside.
And then, how you choose to present that information – raw and unfiltered, or edited to create something quite beyond what the lens saw.
Collections of me: Music + pictures 4 : alt-J ~ Hunger of the Pine
Music + pictures {or even more simply, "music pictures"} is a collection of beautiful from around the interwebs while I'm on holidays for January - at the beach, camping, with my family. Have a fab New Year, and I'll be back on the 1st February. {p.s. I've just joined...
Photography : Amy Giese
Amy Giese : Glitch and Digital Photography I always love me a bit of well-constructed glitch (which is kind of a contradiction in terms I know, but do you know what I mean?). At its purest, glitch is a machine-driven, random alteration of sound and/or visuals - mostly...
Photography + Craft : Clemens Wirth
Clemens Wirth swears he's not a wizard despite his red hair. But I have my doubts when I look at his miniature moving dioramas and think about what has actually gone into making them. I think they're incredible. An Austrian filmmaker and artist living...
Photography : Matthew Ling
Matthew Ling loves a good illusion. When he was 8, he was given a disposable camera by his dad to take on a school trip to France. "I saw a postcard of the city I was in but shot from the air. I thought if I took a photograph of the postcard I could trick my folks...
Photography : Beata Czyzowska Young
Beata Czyzowska Young has a message for young photographers. "Expensive camera and expensive equipment is not gonna make you an artist... some of my most popular and most rewarded photos have been taken with a simple point and shoot camera. "The thing is, when you're...
The crafted object : Sandra Bowkett {ceramic}
Sandra Bowkett is one of those artists that the more you find out about them, the more in awe you are of them. Sandra is a ceramicist living in pristine woodland near Tallarook in central Victoria with her partner, producing cups and bowls in porcelain...
Photography : Blackcurrant Photography {Kell Rowe}
"I can spend an hour in a square metre of garden bed. I feel so driven to capture the tiny things that others ignore, it's almost a fear... what if nobody else ever photographs that plant? I have to make its life have been appreciated, if only for a moment." ...
Photography : Pamela Pianezza
Pamela Pianezza dreams about pictures. The pictures she's done and could have done better, the pictures she couldn’t do, because she didn't have her camera, and pictures that obsess her so much that at some point she knows she'll have to go back to that place and try...
Photography : Baptiste Riethmann {TheDarkSideOfTheRoom}
Baptiste Riethmann is a Swiss-born, French-speaking photographer who has travelled the world and is currently living in Mexico City. There, he runs a small coffee shop and cafe, where occasionally he exhibits his collected images on the walls. And he admits he's...
Photography : Caryn Drexl
Caryn Drexl has two lives. During the day, she describes herself like this : "While my images might tend to create a specific image of the type of person I might be, I'm actually pretty bubbly and light-hearted. Goofy even. I'm always trying to make people laugh."...
Photography : PhotoGrunt
Steve Raley's first camera was given to him at around age 2 or 3, but it wasn't an encouraging experience. "I was given what was supposedly a “toy” camera but it was actually a working model. It was taken away from me shortly after I received it because I kept taking...
Photography : Kim Hayes
Inspired by light first and foremost, the images of Kim Hayes are dramatic and beautiful. Strong compositions with graceful lines evoke a sense of peace and expansive space. Landscape and travel photography are her first loves, but it is her day job as a...
The thoughtful photography of Jessica Reiss
Since Jessica Reiss started getting serious about her photography, she has been taken aback by the response. "I honestly never expected to sell anything! My shop has been open for a little under a year now. I have 100 sales, have had my work on several different...
Photography : Carol Fletcher
Carol Fletcher has a vague childhood memory of someone trying to show her how to use a Twin Lens camera. She couldn't understand why, when you look down into the box to focus, that you had to angle the camera to the right in order to get more of the scene on the left....
Photography : R Alexander Trejo
He's been snapping images since he was a teen, but decided to train as an architect. It was only after substantial encouragement from his photographer-wife that Philadelphia-based R Alexander Trejo started taking his photography more seriously. His compositions...
Photography : KaleidoscopePhoto
KaleidoscopePhoto - california retro hotel Kaleidoscope is such a fabulous word, isn't it!? And it perfectly describes the neon-bright, carnival-inspired images of Leah from KaleidoscopePhoto. Saturated hot pinks and yellows predominate, and combined...
Photography : John Shepherd
John Shepherd grew up with Life magazine in the house. "Sometime in high school, I saw depression era (1930s) Farm Securities Adm. photos in a museum. I somehow recognized that the compositions were beautiful but the people and their belongings were fascinating but...
this. magazine ~ celebrating two years of tractorgirl
this. magazine YES! Next month marks the two year anniversary for this blog. It has been SUCH wonderful fun to scour the interwebs for the visually stunning AND be rewarded with such great stories from the artists as well. That's why I've decided to...
Photography : Margaux Kent – TheBlackSpotBooks
Margaux Kent is a free soul, open to many things : journeys by boat, adventures in foreign lands, investigating the abandoned buildings of others, and the sea. It seems she travels through life with one eye roving the past for lost treasures, the other seeking out...
Photography : Kathryn Hooper {Dallape Chant}
Bleached by sun, stripped to core elements, Kathryn Hooper's photography is a testament to her understanding of the beauty inherent in the harshness of rural landscape. Standing solo or clustered in groups with a skin like patchwork, these sheds face the...
Light and butterflies : the photography of Audrey Simper
Audrey Simper's images inhabit another world of wings and sea, of light and butterflies. Dropping her studies of Architecture in favour of starting a photography business was an enormous step, but absolutely worth it. "My cousin, Madeline Irene, got me into...
Photography : Manu Jobst {StaticMovement}
Manu Jobst is a visual artist and dancer that works in many mediums. Chameleon-like, she changes her materials and output to suit the vision - but there is still a core view on life that ties all of it together. Born in Germany, with a German...
Photography : IonAnthosPhotography
Flowers whisper secrets only the mist can hear. Quietness is at the heart of Jolanta Zychlinska's photographs. Devoid of distractions, her minimalist images allow us to contemplate each form and texture, and always a sense of depth. There...
Photography : Alison Pouliot ~ fungi
I am SO happy to be able to welcome back my dear, dear friend Alison Pouliot, who just also happens to be a fabulous photographer. I've already featured her work here before, way back when this blog started. Alison trained in ecology and science, and this has...
Photography : Jane Linders
Jane Linders is fascinated with the slick shapes of Airstreams, old shopfronts and the oddities along the highways across America. She loves exploring alternative photographic processes, such as High Dymanic Range (HDR), polaroid transfers and infrared. What...
Photography : Bialakura
Little textured details that nobody notices. Shapes and colours and textures. Did I mention textures? Bialakura's images are ripe with texture - crisp and soft, smooth and flaky, organic, hard, sharp and prickly; they invite you to touch. ...
Small biz : Lix Hewett – fresh biz {starting a new venture}
Welcome to a very brand spanking new section in tractorgirl, called Small Biz (check the menu item at the top there!). In this space I am intending to share all the excellent small biz advice I have come across, as well as lots of how-tos, gained over the many...
Milestones!
***UPDATE: Winner is announced below!*** As some of you might know, I hit a big milestone on my Facebook page - 1000 likers!! I'm a bit in awe that there are so many of you that like my work. All of what you see over there are things that I've made...
Photography : Susie Loucks – wildlife photographer
I first came across the extraordinary photography of Susie Loucks a while ago, when I was looking for images of seabirds. These are images of wild animals, in motion. To capture such an image means an immense amount of time and patience are...
Colouring my day : White Chalk
I hope you've been enjoying this musical interlude, while I've been concentrating on other things for a short while. This is the last in the series featuring music + colour, I'll be back on Monday. Julie x * White Chalk : PJ Harvey I could not leave...