Fibro-Anger Management

Being sick for the last two days, I have been cooped up, locked down and building pent up energy. So how does someone like me control and more importantly vent this pent up angst in controlled and healthy way? Have a friend who wants to experiment with a camera and some lights.

My friend Nathan Smith of Smith Fine Art invited me over to his studio to play; and boy did we ever play! Using a is studio lighting (a ring flash, SB-900 and a studio strobe) we had some creative lighting fun. Nathan provided me these copies of the work to process while he processes the same images using this style of porcessing. He did promise to zombify at least one of the images of me. All in all we simply has fun. He stood behind the camera, I made faces through the ring light and we made adjustments to the lighting and experimented to our heart’s content. Like I said… it was fun. Thanks for inviting me over Nathan. I know you were laughing throughout the process, but sometimes it sounded a little like nervous laughter, so I hope I didn’t scare you too much. I was really having fun.

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The results were not only stress relieving, but fun to boot. I am an artist that works in the photography medium as well as many other mediums, as many of you may know, so doing something creative was very therapeutic. Give it  a try some time. Even when you are feeling your worst, you may find some relief from the pain, exhaustion, depression and boredom associated with Fibromyalgia.

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