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I love photography and usually depict things pretty "as they are", but I decided to go super artistic for a change...
If you like my entry, I'd love your vote
Voting link: http://iframe.wizehive.com/voting/view/516ec858-60b8-43c8-a562-17510a20adfa/0/1271300/0
Figured I'd add this into the OP:
Back in December, a friend of mine had left his really nice Spruce-top Lanikai concert uke sitting in the main room of our house at college. I picked it up and started trying to figure out chords even though I've never played any instruments besides piano and some drums. It was oddly addicting even though I had no idea how to play so I decided over the holidays to get a relatively cheap uke and try to teach myself while home in sunny Florida far from the cold winter in Vermont where I go to school.
I actually didn't even know much about uke sizes while ordering my Kala KA-15S -- I thought my friend's Lanikai concert was a soprano and liked the size. To my surprise, when my instrument arrived it was much smaller than I expected! Instead of returning it, I did some research and found out that I was actually looking for a concert but that a soprano had its perks as well. I liked the smaller boxy sound (and dreaded the idea of waiting longer to start learning), so I kept it.
After a few months of playing my soprano, I started saving up and considering buying something solid-wood and nicer (also concert-sized) but still within my college student budget, so I settled on the ukulele in that picture -- a Kala KA-SMHC. I love it more than anything right now, but oddly enough even though I like some aspects of the concert size better, I miss the classic soprano sound.
When I got an email about the photo contest, I realized I haven't been doing as much photography as I used to given how busy I am at school, so last-minute I had an idea for a photo and submitted it hoping that maybe, by some small miracle, I'd win.
I composed the photo in such a way that one's eye is led up the sharp fretboard in an almost "beckoning" way, so the viewer might feel a little bit of what I felt the day I first picked up my friend's uke and was immediately drawn to the idea of learning how to play. I removed the "Kala" logo at the top since it seemed too distracting
The title is a little bit of a joke -- on my second History of Modern Art exam this semester we had to identify the title of a book written by the painter Kandinsky: "Concerning the ________ in Art". I had completely forgotten the real title, but I thought "The Art in Art" sounded both cryptic and ridiculous yet meaningful enough to have been written by a painter who did abstract painting. When I got back the exam and realized the real title was "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" I decided I still liked my wrong answer enough that I would need to give that title to something I create in the future. I had only a few minutes until the submission deadline and that anecdote popped into my head so I went with it
I think the first thing I'd do if I won would be giving my younger sister my old soprano and convincing her to learn how to play, because if she got even half the enjoyment that I did when I started playing, it would be successful.
If you like my entry, I'd love your vote
Voting link: http://iframe.wizehive.com/voting/view/516ec858-60b8-43c8-a562-17510a20adfa/0/1271300/0
Figured I'd add this into the OP:
Back in December, a friend of mine had left his really nice Spruce-top Lanikai concert uke sitting in the main room of our house at college. I picked it up and started trying to figure out chords even though I've never played any instruments besides piano and some drums. It was oddly addicting even though I had no idea how to play so I decided over the holidays to get a relatively cheap uke and try to teach myself while home in sunny Florida far from the cold winter in Vermont where I go to school.
I actually didn't even know much about uke sizes while ordering my Kala KA-15S -- I thought my friend's Lanikai concert was a soprano and liked the size. To my surprise, when my instrument arrived it was much smaller than I expected! Instead of returning it, I did some research and found out that I was actually looking for a concert but that a soprano had its perks as well. I liked the smaller boxy sound (and dreaded the idea of waiting longer to start learning), so I kept it.
After a few months of playing my soprano, I started saving up and considering buying something solid-wood and nicer (also concert-sized) but still within my college student budget, so I settled on the ukulele in that picture -- a Kala KA-SMHC. I love it more than anything right now, but oddly enough even though I like some aspects of the concert size better, I miss the classic soprano sound.
When I got an email about the photo contest, I realized I haven't been doing as much photography as I used to given how busy I am at school, so last-minute I had an idea for a photo and submitted it hoping that maybe, by some small miracle, I'd win.
I composed the photo in such a way that one's eye is led up the sharp fretboard in an almost "beckoning" way, so the viewer might feel a little bit of what I felt the day I first picked up my friend's uke and was immediately drawn to the idea of learning how to play. I removed the "Kala" logo at the top since it seemed too distracting
The title is a little bit of a joke -- on my second History of Modern Art exam this semester we had to identify the title of a book written by the painter Kandinsky: "Concerning the ________ in Art". I had completely forgotten the real title, but I thought "The Art in Art" sounded both cryptic and ridiculous yet meaningful enough to have been written by a painter who did abstract painting. When I got back the exam and realized the real title was "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" I decided I still liked my wrong answer enough that I would need to give that title to something I create in the future. I had only a few minutes until the submission deadline and that anecdote popped into my head so I went with it
I think the first thing I'd do if I won would be giving my younger sister my old soprano and convincing her to learn how to play, because if she got even half the enjoyment that I did when I started playing, it would be successful.
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