Love 04/05 - 04/11 (Scott)

As with the other posters, I struggled to find a working definition of love to use as my inspiration. When I think of love, I think of a face and a feeling, paired together. While I can't take a picture of a feeling, I can try and express it as a beautiful merging of two entities and I think my first picture captures that. The opportunity arose during the thunderstorm when the power went out, and the candles got lit. A pair of candles set in hoops provided the scene and light for this picture, capturing a lovely warm hue. I really like love the soft glow in the forground, as the candles individual lights merge together and the once contrasting shapes of the candles - one tall and one short - even out, creating almost identical shapes.

The other part of love, the face, came to me accidentally and exposed a highly passionate "love/hate" relationship. Like loving an ugly pet, words can't express the reasons people love certain things. My house and I at times have that kind of relationship, including this weekend when Chrystelle and I were demo'ing a basement bathroom and nothing was going right. At the end of the night, just as I ripped the sink off the wall and felt like throwing it through a wall, I see this hideous face smiling up at me and I can't help but smile back at it. This is probably one of the more disgusting things I have seen, however I can't help but find it cute and loveable with the beady eyes and the crooked smile. A smile only a mother could love.

Love 04/05- 04/11 (Pere)

When I saw the theme of the week the first picture that came to mind was this one...

I love the way it came out, I love that we were together in the raft (ok not a raft but a kayak) and I love the subject ;-)

So is perfect for this week

Love 04/05- 04/11 (Mel)

I had this idea to get a picture of people in love during the weekend but Chinese couples are kind of prude and they do not enjoy public affection so I went with an inanimate object

There is a tradition in which couples buy a lock, engrave their names on them and then hang them on a special place and throw the key away. Supposedly, this will lock their love and make them stay together forever

For this one I did selective Sepia. The edges are not so well defined but for some reason I uploaded the wrong file to flickr


This one is the complete chain of locks


I thought this was a Chinese thing because I had never seen such a thing before but Google showed me that I was wrong. Apparently is a very common tradition everywhere and there is even a town in Nevada called 'Lovelock'. (More info and pictures from around the world here)

(I hope that you guys don't mind that I added my own blogger account to the site . it's just a lot more continent for me to post from my own account considering that I need to bypass the firewall)

Love 04/5 - 04/11 (Sara)

I wasn't quite sure what to do for this week's post. I wasn't sure if we could just take pictures of things that we love, or if we had to take pictures of things that mean love. Anyway, my picture is of the days where little girls pluck flower petals, asking the flower (or fate) whether the guy of their dreams loves them or not. In the end, it doesn't matter what the flower says. I already know :)