I drove to the beach on a bright and sunny day. It was warm enough to lower my car windows. I zig-zagged through the grand Malibu Canyon, it sounds perfect, right? I came around a corner and was hit with sunlight filtered through fog. It was so beautiful I wished I had a place to [...]
I know it is rather obvious and unavoidable to run into so many end-of-the-year-recaps, but I fall into that category of people who just can’t help themselves. I will probably recap my year every year until I die in some sort of blog-type-thing, or maybe just in my head in years to come. Either way…one [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", 2011 recap, behind the scenes, dark art, new year, photographer, surreal photography, whimsical photographyI went away last weekend to visit the Salton Sea, a little known AMAZING place southeast of Los Angeles. The sea is dying, and the fish that were carried there from the Colorado River died and can now be found in the form of bones on the beaches. Abandoned buildings abound and the entire area [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", adventure, behind the scenes, brooke shaden, inspiration, photographer, positivity, road trip, salton sea, sand dunes, self portraits, surrealismThe things we can do with $5 and a little imagination are plentiful. The things we can do with so little are incredible. The things we can make out of nothing astound. We call ourselves creatives, and sometimes our actions show that more than others. I got to thinking about what makes me tick, the [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", baby powder, behind the scenes, blue, brooke shaden, brooke shaden photography, cloud, dark art, dust, earth, field, jumping, making something out of nothing, photographs, positivity, reborn, surrealism, warrior, whimsicalEvery Thanksgiving I write a list of reasons why I am thankful. That list is always impossibly long and getting longer each year. My family, my friends, my career, where I live, my cats…it is an obvious list, that is certain, but of course it means something to me. Everyone who celebrates the Thanksgiving holiday [...]
Tagged "fine art photography", bird, brooke shaden, decisions, flightless, nest, positivity, reflection, Thanksgiving, YOU1. I am as good as dead without being able to find passion in life. Creating art is to constantly find passion and suspend it in time, always there to come back to, always a reminder of all that is fulfilling. 2. Sometimes I wonder if I will remember the little moments that made [...]
Whether you are the type of person who gets comments like this, leaves comments like this, or both, there is something to be learned from examining the sentence “I wish you would ________”. Especially in the photography world where people are sharing photos on a daily basis, that statement tends to come up a lot. [...]
“Create what you want art to be, not what you have been told art is.” It happens at a young age. Our earliest memories begin the foundation of what we think of as “art”. Our first teachers, our surroundings, our experiences; they all go in to forming our opinion of what art is. School starts [...]
I held a contest this past month on my Facebook page that invited anyone and everyone to submit up to 3 entries within the theme “Fairy Tales”. The entries were inspiring to say the least, as well as unique, and, in every way, a fairy tale in their own right. I loved seeing the diversity [...]
You know how in every contest someone says that the competition was fierce? Well I seriously, 100% mean it! I have mulled over these submissions for countless hours, and I can honestly say that the level of talent, commitment, imagination, and surrealism plastered all over the discussion page of the contest was staggering. I have [...]