Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
I love it when people provide SLurls for their photos because it helps me with the is it Life or is it Second Life quandaries. Who “One Light-Second Per Day” is may be a mystery, but there is no doubt that this person has a great talent revealed in their small, emergent photostream. I love this photo that has a light leak overlay added to give it the feeling of sun damage. Without the light leak, it is a memento of seeing a penny farthing bicycle while club-crawling at 1 a.m. With the damage, it incorporates the idea of a quick Polaroid snap tossed on the dash as you drive home the next day. It incorporates not only the memory of the bike, but the heat of the sun on your car as you drive home from sightseeing.
The photographer seems to set the WindLight to a time of day, inspired perhaps by Monet's Rouen Cathedral paintings. Perhaps someday One Second may come back and shoot the same picture at another time, perhaps not. However, giving us the time and place can allow us to go there and see what they saw when they saw it for ourselves. In its “9 a.m.”, the sunrise is so bright these two men are in silhouette and the sea disappears into the sunshine.
The land meets the sea at a third from the bottom. The man on the left is just a hair left of a third from the left and the other man is dead center. Even though it’s early morning, for some reason this picture makes me think of a book cover, perhaps for one of those sad stories of love thwarted by feuding families or even a mystery. Despite the brightness of the sun we cannot see, there is something melancholic and even eerie about this photo.
“Welcome Home” reminds me of a still life painting. The colors are rich and deep umbers and siennas. The Rule of Thirds is employed vertically and horizontally with the shadow, the door, and the philodendron. There is a texture overlay that makes it even more painterly. It’s just wonderful.
There are only twenty photos in One light-second per day’s photostream and each one is exquisite.
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