Second Life Bird Photography is So Popular There's a Whole Flickr Group for It! Here's Some Favorites

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting

Yesterday’s post sent me off to Second Life Avians, a Flickr group devoted to our feathered friends. This was the first picture and what a picture. Taken by Susann DeCuir it is vibrant and colorful. Her description links to more information and a SLURL. [To teleport to sim, click here] I love that she shot this from above so you don’t just see the birds, but you see them as a swath of color over the landscape, almost like flowers. 

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Wow! I first thought this was accidentally added, a real bird in an SL bird group, but there is a SLURL. It was taken on Tranquility Isle and it is so real. [To teleport, click here] Second Life is getting uncanny and Mikey Barbosa has me doubting my own eyes.

 

Quinn captures the freedom of flight. I like that they black and white contrast is high enough that the sky has not a cloud in it. It creates and infinite firmament. Sure, intellectually I know that even if the sky were blue, the eagle cannot fly to the moon and beyond, but with the sky blown out like this, it feels as though he is free to fly forever. There is a solitude to this eagle as well, also a product of the endless sky and the stark, rocky mountain. Usually, the general rule is to have more of the picture in front of the subject, showing them going into the scene. Instead she shows the eagle going out of the frame. It’s effective and adds to the feeling of solitude. 

Second Life Avians (Birds) is a delightful group and, unlike many SL groups, it is carefully moderated so it remains true to its purpose, collecting pictures of birds. Too often groups become overrun by fashion photos and exhibitionistic sex pics. It’s always a pleasure to find a group that keeps out the flood-the-zone Flickr folk.

 

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Suggest images and Flickr feeds to Cajsa: Cajsa’s Choices is devoted to unique, artistic, and innovative virtual world-based images and screenshots that showcase the medium as an art form and Second Life as a creative platform. (Generally not images that fit on this Bingo card.) To recommend the best in virtual world imagery, tag the picture with #CasjaNWN or tag Cajsa Lilliehook by adding her to the photo. 

 

Cajsa Lilliehook is a sixteen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora. 

Comments

[Susann]

Thank you, i am honored that you mention my picture here.
Best regards
Susann Decuir