Current Residence: Spuyten Duyvil, Riverdale, Bronx, New York -- as of midJune 2013: Formerly Silicon Valley. That photograph of me is from about 1980.
About 4½ hours ago, while I was fast asleep, a dA note was sent to me:
Hi -ScottEllington
from GrudgingHeron8 (https://www.deviantart.com/grudgingheron8)
to ScottEllington (https://www.deviantart.com/scottellington)
Hey ScottEllington! Our deviantart team chose YOU for a $100 gift card (yay!) from post Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest. Go here: deviantusers.online
P.S: If you do not collect within 24 hrs we will give it to another user. Have fun!
GrudgingHeron8 also followed me.
(As if that makes an iota of sense.)
And here's the only "Mirror, mirror...":
I left no comment, just a fave.
The smell of bullshit and whimsy mixed to the extent that I entered GrudgingHeron8's first profile message,
I conflated a few things that may or may not be separate phenomena.
My primary interest is in the advancement of the art and craft of photography.
Lower than that desire is the increase of my understanding of the art and craft of photography.
For reasons I don't understand, almost all photographs of "people and portraits" here and in sites like dA are surprisingly similar
They're shot at or near eye level with the subject.
The subject is a single, idle caucasian female stuck at the center of the frame (not unlike a pinned butterfly specimen).
I've noticed these subjects are almost never actually doing anything. Instances of dancing ar