Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Richie MacLeod (Richie Kimono) shoots landscapes that are pure and unfiltered such as this picture from yesterday, “Soul2Soul Rocks 5th Sept 2023_001.” I love this picture because it looks so happy and full of adventure. That car is purring along the road, easily bypassing the tree branch that fell there, probably downed by high winds that have abated. The family is off for the last long weekend of summer.
Normally, you would place a vehicle moving left on the right side of the picture, leading your eyes in, but in this case, he’s telling a story. They have safely passed the fallen branch and can move one and out of the frame. If he placed them on the right side moving into the frame, he would either cover up the drama, or moving back, show them driving toward the branch and a possible accident. It would not be as happy and carefree.
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I love "Nordshore 28th Aug 2023_005." Look at that cloud formation! It looks like a Viking longboat about to land on top of that house. Perhaps it’s one of the Furies mid-attack.
The clouds in Second Life shift and move and shape and reshape all for our lovely, pretty pictures, but I haven’t spent much time cloud-watching to see what images can be seen in the clouds. How often to SL clouds come together to make something like this?
It’s amazing that he captured this pic right at that moment. In terms of composition, it would be a great pic anyway, what with the beach’s line leading us upward echoed by the boat and the marvelous triangulation of the beach, the path, and the rocks.
"Salt Water Sim 29th Nov 2022" appeals to me with its simplicity, though it’s possible he spent more time on it than his other photos. The sky is so richly textured and with the heavy rain could have been added in post-processing. I love how atmospheric this is. I went to check out the sim, but it’s either gone or off-line.
Richie MacLeod undersells his photography skills, simply noting he enjoys photography and is pleased that he’s better at it than when he joined SL back in 2009. A lot of people think their pictures are lesser because they don’t photoshop them for four hours, but I like the more naturalistic photos. They reveal the photographer’s eye more than the graphic artist’s artistry.
Both are valuable expressions of Second Life, but I kind of think the person who’s spending their time snapping pics as they navigate the grid are having more fun. I may be wrong.
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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.
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