Balboa Park is a park with character. Museums, gardens, entertainers, music, arts and crafts -- you name it, something is always going on each day. On one fine "May Gray" day, I specifically went to the Spanish Village in Balboa Park to check out the "Mudfest". At first thought, you are probably thinking, "Oh, people getting dirty, rolling around in mud". Well, not quite. It was an event held where potters, both inexperienced and experienced, could get their hands dirty with clay to create forms and shapes from their imagination. What an incredible idea? What better way to entice people to enjoy the world of ceramics by getting them to play with clay. It was an amazing sight. I spent the first part of the morning, watching various potters throw in the wheel. I even checked out several studios and was awed by the amazing ceramic items. Ideas poured into my mind and I found myself lost in the studio, giving my utmost attention to each ceramic piece. I realized how many creative artists are out there and how far I need to go. If anything, it has given me more motivation.
The last part of the evening was spent taking pictured of orchids in the botanical garden.
Here are some of my favorite pictures. Enjoy!!!
Update:
So I have been looking at these pictures and I am realizing that I am not particularly feeling it anymore. Why? It feels like I have added "make-up" to these pictures. These sets of pictures were the first to go through the Lightroom presets. I had downloaded several and was testing them out. At the time I did it, I felt like they made sense, but now that I look at it more, I feel like these pictures are losing its essence, its simplicity. Something just does not feel right. While the composition is there, I am not too thrilled with the post-processing and the end-result. Call me old fashion, but I like the minimal touching to photos. I like the natural end-result. Maybe I will take this as my challenge to re-do these pictures and see how they show up the second time around - they way I would do it without presets, with no make-up on, the "el-natural" way. What do you think?
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