Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Sophie D takes pics of herself and her travels around Second Life. She’s new-to-me, someone I discovered today while searching for pictures of trees. Portland’s Friends of Trees celebrated planting its millionth tree this Sunday which led me to wonder about tree planting in Second Life. Of course, it’s much easier to plant a tree in SL, no messy digging, watering, pruning, and hoping it survives. Plop, and there it is! All grown up.
While searching for trees I found a lot of pics by Sophie, in fact if anyone deserves to be the SL Virtual Forest Ranger, it is Sophie. This is her most recent picture and it just happens to be a tree. In general, framing the main element toward the center is a mistake, particularly if it’s asymmetrical, but she accounts for that with the leading lines that draw our eyes, making this a successful picture.
For more of Sophie’s trees, click here:
This tree seems to float on an island in the air. It makes me think of all sorts of qualities. On the one hand it seems very tranquil and pacific, but then there’s something eerie, too. They may sound contradictory, but that’s how it strikes me. It’s beautiful, but as I said, eerie. And not just because of the graves.
This is probably my favorite of her pictures. There’s such wildness. It’s also my favorite time of day, morning before the sun has burned off the fog. I love forests. I explored most of the forest behind my parents’ house, walking the deer trails through the woods. There is something very comforting about forests.
Sophie D takes pics of much more than trees and you should check her out. I love that she loves trees. She must, She really does have a penchant for taking pictures of them. There were many more I could have chosen.
All images copyright Sophie D
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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.)
Cajsa Lilliehook is a seventeen 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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