15 JANUARY 2008

Hi! And welcome to Tiruma's Journal!

Sorry for the long entry. It's just an update since last time because I won't be updating for another 1-2-2.5 months probably.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Well, sorry about the mini-photography dump ne. I had some old photos that I wanted to get up on here that I liked so I just did it today. I'm practising much more of my photography nowadays. I'll be in France from November - January so I should be graced with some great opportunities to take as many photos as possible.

I'm trying to get more meaningful and more professional photography into my gallery but unlike a lot, I don't want to edit anything on them. I'm avid on being a natural photography, but it seems that it's hardly possible to get anywhere on dA with just the nude photograph. It seems that you have to blur, darken, contrast, highlight, semi-expose and watermark it before you make 10K pageviews even.

I'd love to have my photography known one day. I love photography and I hope people appreciate the uneditted flats that I produce. I'm working hard to show people the true world that we live in and what we've made and what we've preserved. I hope people realise that.

Carpe Diem.

We don't do enough of it in going out and discovering the world, so here I am, trying to give you that with my journeys that I'll be undertaking in my life. I'm still a teenager so I'm yet to travel to the ends of the earth. But by being here, doing what I am, I hope I can give you the best.

STILL LIFE DRAWING

I'm working on a new project. I'm working on the perspective side of things just for improvement. There's a picture that I found lying around the house of a rather interesting piece; it's a very perspective weary piece with lots of aspect that one must take care of. It contains things like a hand holding a rather large nail of some sort, a wooden case/box, an oddly shaped bottle, a round pot with fabric of some sort over it with a bottle beneath it and what not. It's a beautiful piece and I'm hoping to replicate it perfectly when I finish this piece.

My scanner's broken at the moment, otherwise I'd post my other works. I've got three that I've done these holidays and I'll post them up some time. They took me a total of about 35 hours in total. One of them took me 20 hours because I had to erase most of it because the light sourcing was totally wrong and it had to be absolutely perfect. I know, I'm a slow worker, but I'm really happy with it now. When my scanner's back up, I'll show you. I took a new approach to it so hopefully you'll be happy when I get it up! It's got a lot more contrasted toning so you might be happy considering it's my problem with drawing >__>

LATIN CAMP

"My goodness, how time passes." She said. Tiruma wiped her forehead as she walked down the stairs. It was four o'clock in the afternoon and it was just peeking upon 27C on this particularly partially cloudy rainy day. "I can't believe I just manage to sit through that and still have a clean mind!"
She looked to the girl beside her. Her eyes had glazed over and she was rubbing her ear. "Wha?"
"Well, firstly, I stumbled the sentence 'beautiful well-fucked body, drenched in sweat and immaculate charm', then I learnt how to conjugate the work mentulla in one of Martial's works, only to discover what it meant later. Then we watched some DVD that expressed the theory that this particular bedroom in an old Roman house was the one where one of the Roman consuls had an amazing orgy!" Tiruma burst out. Her face was red with annoyance. The air was sour around her as she stormed down the stairs before Catherine, her arms flung up in the air angrily. "It's utterly charming, is it not?" She was scarily sarcastic in her tone.
Catherine nodded with a particular yawn. "I'll probably agree with you on that one." She shrugged. "It's not a topic we'd usually cover."
" Of course it wouldn't be blidding covered in class!"Tiruma exploded as she shielded her eyes automatically from the sun upon her pale skin as she stepped into the mild sunlight.
"It's almost an X-rated text! If anything, Martial or Catullus would probably describe what sex felt like if it wasn't sick enough to be published!"
"Well... that's what they call... Latin Camp..."

It's true. I go to Latin Camp. It's oh-so-poshly-freaky. It's an amazing experience to go, yes. I've met some awesome people, yes. I've learnt a lot, yes. And I learnt how the hell they describe how one gets fucked and bullshitted in Rome too. It's all an enlightening thought, ne? Unfortunately, I love Latin too much to pass these passages. Did you know Pompeii was a city entirely run by prostitutes? Lol, well, now you do. Anyhow...

SIGNING OUT

Anyhow, that's enough chatter for now. Enjoy my photography for now and hopefully I'll have my photography as well as my drawings up some time soon. Have an awesome life!

Tiruma