A great Fine Art magazine.
Something different, something interesting ...beautiful art from wonderful artists.
I was there from the beginning, so I know what I'm talking about :) Check it out, you'll love it!
Fine art Magazine is search of the Intelligent Eye
http://www.juliaannagospodarou.com/ - Welcome to my home!! :)
Finally launching my website after almost 2 months of hard work to make it and the blog look like me and express my photography credo, which is searching for excellence and perfection in the world around me and expressing it in my work. You'll be able to see my most beloved and appreciated creations here, read on the blog about them and about my photography workshops & other events, also order limited or open edition prints of any of the works you're seeing.
A HUGE thank you goes to the gorgeous +SmugMug and its extremely professional people. They are all top and I would at any moment warmly recommend both the site as well as +Ivan Makarov (you all know him), +Ann McRae (greatly helpful in finding solutions for everything) and my absolutely wonderful web designer +Joey Washburn ! Thank you all! SmugMug and you all guys ROCK!!!
Special thanks also to +Joel Tjintjelaar, a fantastic artist that I greatly admire, for the beautiful words he said on the site about my work!
I'm a bit late to share this, but I'm very proud to have made the cover and for the portfolio feature in the March Issue of iPressphoto Magazine, next to some great artists that I admire a lot.
View the magazine or download the PDF version at http://www.ipressmagazine.com/
PS. If you're trying to read the text but don't speak Polish, then better don't. Google Translate gives funny results and you can more easily read the same thing in my Bio and Artist Statement in the About section here on G+.
Enjoy and have a great weekend everyone!! :)
Athens Architectural Photography Workshop 2012 – Feature Article in Artphotofeature Fine Art Magazine http://bit.ly/XV4k33
As promised, here is the article about the Athens Architectural Photography Workshop back in November last year, published in the February Issue of Artphotofeature Magazine. You can see featured work by +Dragos Ioneanu, +Patrick Van Puymbroeck, Petros Christidis and myself and you can download the magazine from iTunes here: http://bit.ly/XV4k33.
Artphotofeature http://www.artphotofeature.com/ and the amazing people that curate it (very special thanks to +Rohit Vohra) were extremely kind to offer their help and be our sponsors at the workshop and I'm truly grateful for that. I hope that they will be with us also for the Chicago Architectural Workshop in September 5-8, a fine art architectural event that we are now working on to prepare and that will be a fantastic experience, to say the least. If you still don't know about it, I'll just mention the names of the instructors and organizers that I will be joining and it will surely be enough to get your interest high: +Joel Tjintjelaar, +Sharon Tenenbaum, +Armand Dijcks and +Daniel Portal. If you want news from us just sign up for the Keep Me Posted letter here http://bit.ly/Z04qU3 and you'll be the first to know everything about the workshop.
(catharsis = purification, renewal, reborn of the soul and spirit through art)
Metsovo, Pindus Mountains, Greece
One thing I discovered over the past few months is that I like to work in series. I like to have a subject and follow it over a period of time, trying to understand it and make a story out of it. I like to take moments and put them together in a sequence, try to find the relationships among them, to see their evolution and the way the idea I had in the beginning of the project grows in time. I was wondering these days why I don't have any architectural image to share. And the answer was somehow surprising. First (and this I already knew), I don't have enough time to concentrate as much as I wanted on an architectural subject. An architectural subject needs (in my opinion) much more commitment than a lot other subjects and a lot more than I can give it at the moment. Second, it's that my mind is very busy now with these winter-tree-scapes you keep seeing from me lately. And that for a reason: they are not only images I'm creating, they are also questions I'm trying to answer. So, what you see over the last period of time (and will probably keep seeing for a while (I have a couple more processed but waiting for the right time to be posted) are answers to questions I have and that I try to transform in images.
Maybe I will also tell you which are the questions at some point...
Some technical details:
handheld 1/80 @ f/5,6, Tamron 18-270mm f/3,5-6,3 PZD @ 60mm, ISO 100, Processing: LR4, PS CS6, SilverEfex Pro2
Small reminder & update: Chicago Architectural Workshop - the dates have slightly changed and will be September 5-8. Sign up to the newsletter so you can get the latest news about it and don't miss your spot http://bit.ly/Z04qU3 . The complete announcement about the workshop will be out soon. Stay tuned!
#BWFineArt by +Joel Tjintjelaar #MinimalMonday by +Olivier Du Tré #MonochromeMonday by +Steve Barge +Manuel Votta +Nurcan Azaz +Hans Berendsen +Jerry Johnson #PlusPhotoExtract by +Jarek Klimek #TreeTuesday by +Shannon S. Myers +Christina Lawrie
Always a big pleasure to make it to +Jarek Klimek TOP selection.
Thank you Jarek!!!
And thank you for having featured my previous photo too, couldn't share it at the time, but here's the link to it!
http://www.photoextract.com/plus-extract/2013/1/28
Happy Saturday everyone!! :)
Do you wonder what the TOP photographs published by Google+ photography enthusiasts on February 14 were?
I just landed there and set up my profile. I tried to find and connect to as many of you as I could. If I missed you or couldn't find you (I'm still a newbie there and searching), here's where I am so you can hit connect yourself.
See you there! Have a great weekend y'all!! :)
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(catharsis = purification, renewal, reborn of the soul and spirit through art)
Metsovo, Pindus Mountains, Greece
Today I'm in love !! :)
I hope you didn't forget me. :) I'm very little present at the moment, but that doesn't mean I don't like being here and I don't miss you all. It's just that I'm super busy at the moment and dealing with lots of things that need/demand my attention. Hope it's going to get better soon and that I'll have more time to come visit you all.
This is another image in my Catharsis series. Still winter images and no architecture from me and that's because I didn't have the time to seriously work on architecture. Working now on a couple of images, nothing ready yet, but they are coming soon.
Enjoy with chocolate!
...and don't forget about the super-amazing Chicago Architectural Photography Workshop that's in the making ...details here http://bit.ly/VdUx7l . Sign up for the newsletter so we keep you posted and don't plan anything else for Sept. 7-10 this year! :)
#BWFineArt by +Joel Tjintjelaar
Probably hors-concours for +Olivier Du Tré 's #MinimalMonday (sorry Olivier, told you I'm not the best in posting on certain days, but I'll try to make it for the next time :)
#MonochromeMonday by +Jerry Johnson +Manuel Votta +Steve Barge +Nurcan Azaz +Hans Berendsen #PlusPhotoExtract by +Jarek Klimek
Selected in the TOP 10 SHORTLIST at Sony World Photography Awards SWPA 2013 – Architecture Professional Category with “Like a Harp's Strings” series!! Yay!!!
This series has already won a Honorable Mention at the IPA 2012, so I should be cool about it, but I'm still at a loss for words as for this new distinction, so let me just quote the email I got from SWPA:
“Dear Julia,
Many congratulations on being selected for the top 10 professional shortlist in the Architecture category, in the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards.
Your work has been selected from 62,654 from images entered from 170 countries. This is an incredible achievement.”
Winners to be announced on April 25th. so I need some fingers crossed here!! :)
Now the hardest part is that I have to do a video of myself talking about my images, to be included in my presentation for the exhibition that will take place in London 26th April – 12th May at Somerset House London and I've never ever done a video of myself ...actually I haven't done too much DSLR video generally. Any tips?? :)
WPO site: http://bit.ly/TFfNDp
Very happy to be featured as first artist in a fantastic number of Lensa Magazine, among so many friends and artists that I highly admire. If you want to hear a few things about how I capture and process my images, I give some info about that along with my images. Hope it will be helpful for those interested. If you need to know more, just ask me! :)
You can download the magazine free from here http://www.lensamagazine.com/lensa-magazine-vol-06 and I highly recommend you to do so because it's truly a wonderful number.
(catharsis = purification, renewal, reborn of the soul and spirit through art)
Metsovo, Pindus Mountains, Greece
Second image in my Catharsis series.
Another glance over this extreme white, over a scene so pure that it makes you forget how the world looks like in reality. Standing there, in the middle of this snow storm, I had a very powerful sensation of ease and a “happy for no reason” kind of feeling. For a moment I had the impression that I don't care about anything else in the world than the scene in front of me and I'm wondering if that was produced by the scene itself or it was something that had to do more with how I interpreted and lived the moment. Any way it might have been, it was such a great feeling that I didn't want to leave that place till I ended up completely frozen (me, camera and all my filters).
...and now I should tell you about the mulled wine that I had afterwards to help me warm up, but that's for another story :)
handheld 1/125 @ f/9,0, Tamron 18-270mm f/3,5-6,3 PZD @ 18mm, ISO 100, Processing: LR4, PS CS6, SilverEfex Pro2
#BWFineArt by +Joel Tjintjelaar and of course for +Olivier Du Tré and his #MinimalMonday #MonochromeMonday by +Jerry Johnson +Steve Barge +Manuel Votta +Hans Berendsen +Nurcan Azaz #PlusPhotoExtract by +Jarek Klimek #TreeTuesday by +Shannon S. Myers +Christina Lawrie
FEATURED in the Inaugural Issue of Art Photo Feature Magaazine http://www.artphotofeature.com/ - http://bit.ly/WQP2cJ
Delighted that my work along with my “Artist Statement” are featured in the inaugural edition of the Fine Art Magazine ArtPhotoFeature. Except for a high quality magazine, ArtPhotoFeature is also the magazine that sponsored the Athens Architectural Workshop in November, the First Architectural Workshop in Athens (more here http://bit.ly/V3FBam) and they will kindly host an article about the workshop in the February number, where you will see some of the beautiful pieces of work that came out of this event, as well as have an insight into the “secrets” of the workshop itself.
The magazine is available for download from yesterday on iTunes at this link http://bit.ly/WQP2cJ, the Android version being expected very soon, I'll let you know when. Hope you'll enjoy the work exhibited (it's Top!!) and my work also ...I hope mine is top too :))
BTW, new workshop is in the making...
(catharsis = purification, renewal, reborn of the soul and spirit through art)
Metsovo, Pindus Mountains, Greece
After the “black” series ...now I'm going to the other extreme to explore white. Starting a new series, quite different from what you'd expect from me, but perfectly fit in my process of experimenting with ways to convey my ideas and feelings through my images, which is my main goal in photography, why I do it in the first place (yes, art is a selfish act for me :). And also perfectly fit with my aesthetic patterns and the way I see the world, which in a nutshell is that I'm both in love with architecture and with nature. Some parts of me resonate to the one, some other are touched by the other. This time I was fascinated by the silence and the purifying power of a snowy scene.
I believe a mountain covered in fresh snow is one of the best places to find oneself and make peace with one's past, present and future. That's why the title I gave to this series. The removal of almost all the things we normally see in a scene and that remind us about life as it is, which is what the snow does to a place, suddenly brings to surface the spirit of the place, purified of everything, showing its primordial state and this has an extremely powerful effect on our spirit and soul, purifying and liberating them. The day I went to this mountain to take the shots you will see in this series was one of the very few times that I can see snow here in Greece. So me being there at the right moment was a big joy, especially that I was trying to photograph this place under snow for a few years already, but never had the right conditions. This time it was both about planning and also about luck, so I wanted to take full advantage of it. I tried to move away from the “civilization” so I went further into the mountain till I couldn't see any other being around me and the experience of standing there, in the middle of all this untouched white, with a snowstorm that was getting quite strong from time to time to whip my face, all this I can tell you was an unbelievable gnostic experience. When you're there surrounded by nothing but white, you feel for a moment like the only human being in the whole universe. And everything seems possible then....
handheld shot 1/125 @ f/9,0, Tamron 18-270mm f/3,5-6,3 PZD @ 18mm, ISO 100, Processing: LR4, PS CS6, SilverEfex Pro2
I intended to post this yesterday for +Olivier Du Tré's #MinimalMonday but I'm not too good with posting on the right day to the right theme. Sorry Olivier, I hope I'm not too late :)
Also for #BWFineArt by +Joel Tjintjelaar #TreeTuesday by +Christina Lawrie +Shannon S. Myers #MonochromeMonday by +Manuel Votta +Nurcan Azaz +Steve Barge +Jerry Johnson +Hans Berendsen #PlusPhotoExtract by +Jarek Klimek
New Acropolis Museum, Athens – Architect Bernard Tschumi (shot during Athens Architectural Workshop, Nov 2012)
“I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”- Auguste Renoir
I've always had a strong affinity for the color black. When I was little and someone would ask us the kids what color we like I never knew what to answer because I was thinking: I like black, but black is not a color (that's what I kept hearing for years in a row) so I would every time answer something different: blue, green, orange and so on, just to say something that was considered “right”. And even now, every other color that I like and impresses me comes after black.
Black is the absence of light, they say. I say black is the hidden light, it's the absorbed mysterious light, it's a promise and a question at the same time. There is plenty of light in black, it's just not obvious, one has to discover it. It takes time, and you have to watch very carefully and be prepared to discover a secret. Black is a secret in itself ...and I'm trying to find this secret... I just hope I won't need 40 years as Renoir did :)
This image is in a way a sequel of my “whispering black” one http://bit.ly/13LK6eC and it might be the beginning of a series, of a study about the color black and the subdued light, also a question I have and that I'm trying to answer and which is how far I can go with dimming the light till I will feel I have reached the edge. It was not a conscious decision to follow this path in the beginning, it just came as a need to explore the darker zones and it came gradually, but now I have some more ideas in mind and they will probably follow this pattern in the months to come.
_271 sec. @ f/9, Nikon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 10mm, ISO100, 10+6 stops ND filters (Hoya Pro 1 Digital ND64 & B+W ND110)_
#athensarchitecturalworkshop2012 #ArchitecturalVisions by +Joel Tjintjelaar & me, #BWFineartLE by +Joel Tjintjelaar #LongExposureThursday by +Francesco Gola #MonchromeMonday by +Manuel Votta +Hans Berendsen +Jerry Johnson +Nurcan Azaz +Steve Barge #PlusPhotoExtract by +Jarek Klimek
A few BTS and other casual shots from the Athens Workshop that I held last November, to give you an idea about what we shot and how well we spent our time that weekend. Very soon you'll be able to see also some of the work that came out of this workshop in the article that our sponsors, the Fine Art Magazine Artphotofeature will publish about the workshop in their next number, in February. Stay tuned for even more about this FIRST ever Architectural Workshop in Athens and about the ones that will follow. Photographs by +Julia Anna Gospodarou & +Dragos Ioneanu
#athensarchitecturalworkshop2012
And keep also in mind that I'm running a very interesting Architectural Community together with +Joel Tjintjelaar and +Architectural Visions
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111850669440730854714
where you can see and post your best photos/ideas/articles/projects related to architecture and photography.
Also the breaking news today is that from now on whatever you post in the communities can be hidden from your wall!!!
Yay, isn't that great news?!!! Gotta love communities! :)
Like a Harp's Strings III in TOP 10 – BEST OF 500px for 2012 – Category: ABSTRACT
Very honored that my image “Like a Harp's Strings III - Rising” was chosen among the first 10 best photos for 2012 in the category “Abstract” on 500px. This is a great accomplishment for me as there are thousands of images on 500px to choose from and the quality of the work there is among the best one can find in an online gallery. And I didn't even submitted my work for this selection, actually I've just found out about it. So, I'm really happy and quite proud of this. One year ago I didn't even have an account on 500px and now this! I must say that I'm amazed myself of the impact my work had this year and I still can't believe it. I have to thank for this to a lot of inspiration I've taken from all the great artists in the photography communities and especially to +Joel Tjintjelaar who played a key role in my evolution, providing so much inspiration and help, directly and indirectly. I could never thank enough for that. I will dedicate this to him as a sign of my appreciation. Thank you Joel, you're a great artist and a great person too!
http://500px.com/photo/8350815
http://500px.com/blog/389/best-of-2012-abstract
This is my BEST OF for 2012
A few favorites from what was an amazing year for me in photography. I'm grateful for every moment and I'm looking forward for even more exciting things for next year. Thank you all for the support and inspiration, for being there to provide feedback and encouragement. I hope I won't disappoint you in 2013 either. I feel more creative than ever.
Wish you all a happy, joyful and healthy new year, full of inspiration and all the things you want in your life. And don't forget to be silly sometimes, it gives a new sense to everything :)
Yours truly.
We shouldn't be waiting for Christmas to wish beautiful things to each other, we should do that every day. But Christmas is a good occasion to do it, so I'm using it to wish you love and happiness in your life, to realize all your dreams, to be wise (I'm always wiser around Christmas, problem is it doesn't last too long :), to see the world in better colors (or in B&W, to each his own) and to be able to do tomorrow what you weren't able to do yesterday.
This is a shot I took during the Athens Architectural Workshop (more to come after Christmas) processed in LR4 & NIK SEP2. Not exactly what you're used to see from me probably, but hey, it's good to try something new from time to time and especially when the year is changing.
Temple of Poseidon – Cape Sounio, near Athens
332 sec. @ f/8, 10mm, ISO 100, 10+6 stop ND filters
#athensarchitecturalworkshop2012
#BWFineArtLE by +Joel Tjintjelaar #MonochromeMonday by +Manuel Votta +Jerry Johnson +Steve Barge +Hans Berendsen +Nurcan Azaz +Jerry Johnson #PlusPhotoExtract by +Jarek Klimek
Katehaki Pedestrian Bridge, Athens – Architect Santiago Calatrava
(best viewed large on black)
I thought I was done with this bridge, but it seems that it's like a love affair between us, every time I go there I discover something else that I hadn't seen before and that I like. So, there I was at the Athens Architectural Photography Workshop that I organized a few weeks ago and obviously one of the locations to shoot was this bridge. I didn't expect myself to take too many photos there as I wanted to focus more on the participants and what they needed, but I did take a couple of LE and one of them is this. I hadn't noticed this angle before and one of the explanations for not having seen it might be that now I shot with a wider lens than the one I used to shoot with. This is shot with my Nikon 10-24mm, while before I was shooting at 18mm the widest. Not a big difference apparently, but in reality it is a huge difference. I had tried that position before, I remember well, but it didn't click till the moment I changed the lens. So, here's a good advice in order to find new angles and get fresh ideas: change your lens ...and do a workshop :)
PS1. Hopefully tomorrow I will post a few behind the scene shots from the workshop. A bit late, I know, but life's crazy busy over here these days.
PS2. I'm glad I managed to post this before the end of the world (still a few hours left where I am). See you on the other side! :))
#athensarchitecturalworkshop2012
#ArchitecturalVisions by +Joel Tjintjelaar & me #BWFineArtLE by +Joel Tjintjelaar #PlusPhotoExtract by +Jarek Klimek #FineArtPls by +Marina Chen #LonfExposureThursday by +Francesco Gola #MonochromeMonday by +Manuel Votta +Steve Barge +Hans Berendsen +Nurcan Azaz +Jerry Johnson +HQSP Art by +Jay Gould +Syuzanna Avetisyan
I know I said I'll keep quiet with the interviews, but the thing is I can't keep quiet :)
So here's another interview with me, if you're interested to know what I think about everything photography related and even further.
I can say that I really loved writing this interview, +Andrew S Gibson's questions were really great and I'm so happy to be in such good company, Andrew interviewed the most inspiring long exposure photographers in a fantastic series of interviews. Check them out, all of them!
And expect more of them soon, the series is not over yet.
This article is part of a series of interviews with long exposure photographers to celebrate the release of my ebook Slow. You can keep track of the interviews by clicking on the Long Exposure Photogr...