⚝ inspiration ⚝

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this is our inspiration page, for our own art. it could also be viewed as a repository of our "best" images, although its worth pointing out that that isn't the criteria the images are added here!

We spend a lot of time exploring personal webpages for artistic inpiration, and it is amazing. we also ask people on social media to share things for inspiration, and we thought we could also make our own page to share inspiring images, photos here.

Our photography webpages mostly focus on communicating and exploring certain artistic ideas, and different limitations to work around and navigate. and that is so cool! as a result, though, we do intentionally limit ourselves to what images we can and should display, in order to try and have clarity and focus a lot on the textual aspect.

The way we want to use this page is that, when we find an old image we made, we can put it on here, in like a gallery, and with other images. and then, when uploaded, we want to be able to see the images together easily, and in various, diverse contexts. we find in visual arts, changing the framing or presentation of sometihng can be just as exciting and inspiring as a whole new thing. for exmaple, different user interface colour, or navigation, or sorting.

the limitation of only sharing images we find inspiration is helpful for us, since that helps us only upload pictures that we want to , which signifcantly reduces internal stress.

Some of our inspiring photographs have art embedded in them, and unfortunately that means we cant upload them here!

or, we probably legally could, cuz its primarily our own photograph, but i don't think that is very fair to the other artists at the same time. it's not something we're comfortable doing.

also, we are embedding image descriptions into the file metadata themselves, and so there is a good chance this page may not have working alt text until we figure out a good way to copy the internal image description to work as alt text.

a lot of how we wish to design and optimise this page invovles making it dynamic and accessible to use, which may involve programming. We'll get there when we get there.

create multiple layouts, meant to show pictures as well as possible on various screen sizes, with different ways of laying it out (vertical horziotnal for example)
randomise layout either by a time interval (daily? weekly?) or on reload, including different css and colour schemes and organisation
tag images with various specific and vague tags, maybe weighted by importance, so that we can then in the future randomly have it choose to display certain tag groups together, like, "orange", would group a lot of maybe sunsets, maybe like "edgy" to communicate vibe, "train" for subject, etc.. and then mix and match these sortings together and make it so some layouts still look random.
maybe sort things at large by general subheadings like "location" or "date", to provide some document structure and to add storytelling. having some structure could be important (as with cateogry sorting with weighted rng) cuz it could make page more engaging rather than just appear like a random image gallery
redesign how we handle exif tags
let people click on images and have it display custom page that shows exif info along with the image itself
resize some to find most important part of image; show full size on click

photos

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very large new zealand wood pigeon sagging on a branch with green and iridescent purple feathers

a group of people walking to a train station in a white out

little shag sitting on a statue in the middle of a water body

a white blanket of snow behind some trees during a nice golden and purple hour

photograph looking outside a golden window with plants in the foreground and blurry skyscrapers and thick trees in the background. only part of the plants are lit, and they fall into darkness quickly

magnficant tui bird on a plant with necturing flowers, very high saturation.

railway and railway signal bridge in a snowstorm

degraded image with desaturation and minor hue shiftin g with dinnering and grain of a penisula harbour featuring a sandbar and rolling hills on either side.

potograph of setting sun next to mountain

bus labeled kemure sitting in front of mountains

high contrast 45 degree image of a train station in front of mountains but the mountains sans the bases are hidden behind a huge wall of fog.

photograph of a dark train platform with trains on either side. heavily tinted green

heavily vignetting and soft lit golden picture overlooking railtracks

tall grass rim lit by sun speckled with highlights

bright pink flowers in front of a bright blue sky

night sky with interior of milky way visible, muchh brighter than surroundings.

orange tinted image of a cat laying in a bed with light gently nestling them through curtains

orange fallen leaves next to a stone wall

tree branches at night with three stadium lights behind it

someone's hand balancing over a railway track in the forest

maple leaves partially backlit by a streetlamp

portrait of a tricertops plushie and kererū being held by white hands with pink nail paint.

stadium in in front of orange sunset with quiant walking area and railway in front of the stadium.

yellowing photograph of a steep incline leading into shapr fog

moody photograph of a old looking bus in a snowstorm at night. the sky is purple, and there is a skyline of building behind it. its headlights cut through the snow and illuminate the constant streaks.