Sami Serola (inactive)'s photos

...can be an intellectual or spiritual enlightenment. But it may cast a shadow.

During last week I saw hearts all around the town: www.ipernity.com/tag/serola/keyword/20286 Next week we will travel further away to see the sea, and hopefully "catch some really big fishes" =)

...can be useful when there's nothing else to shoot. For The Sunday Challenge this week's challenge was to shoot a "photography prop box". However, I don't have such stuff for several reasons: 1) Everyone and everything are stars in my pictures =D 2) I don't often arrange anything but shoot things as they are. 3) I try to find a new subject or at least the point of view for every day, and therefore everything that would look as a prop in my shots would no longer fit into any box =P But then I remembered an old DFAS series of mine, photographed in 2010. During that year I participated into a "365 group" where the task was to take and post one picture per every day during one year. In that group then someone introduced the concept of "Desperate For A Shot" (DFAS). Pretty soon the acronym DFAS became a smallish meme among the people who had been members of that 365 group at that time. As far as I can remember, the very first DFAS shot was an image of some mask, and was titled as "desperate for a shot monster". And from there I got the idea to illustrate my "DFAS monsters" and make a series out of them. So, in 2010 I was still very inexperienced photographer, often running out of ideas. Therefore I actually did quite many arrangements and settings at that time. And then it also of course means the "secondary items" on my shots are more or less "props". On this picture you can find some notes to show how I used the contents of this tool box, as a main subjects on my DFAS series, but also as a prop to arrange the stage.

Picture taken in 2010 Desperate For A Shot (DFAS) is a situation how someone at defunct My Opera community once described it when having troubles to come up with a decent daily 365 project shot. Shortened into DFAS this became as a smallish meme among group of people who are devoted to take and publish at least one shot per each day.

Picture taken in 2010 Desperate For A Shot (DFAS) is a situation how someone at defunct My Opera community once described it when having troubles to come up with a decent daily 365 project shot. Shortened into DFAS this became as a smallish meme among group of people who are devoted to take and publish at least one shot per each day.

Picture taken in 2010 Desperate For A Shot (DFAS) is a situation how someone at defunct My Opera community once described it when having troubles to come up with a decent daily 365 project shot. Shortened into DFAS this became as a smallish meme among group of people who are devoted to take and publish at least one shot per each day.

Picture taken in 2010 Desperate For A Shot (DFAS) is a situation how someone at defunct My Opera community once described it when having troubles to come up with a decent daily 365 project shot. Shortened into DFAS this became as a smallish meme among group of people who are devoted to take and publish at least one shot per each day.

Picture taken in 2010 Desperate For A Shot (DFAS) is a situation how someone at defunct My Opera community once described it when having troubles to come up with a decent daily 365 project shot. Shortened into DFAS this became as a smallish meme among group of people who are devoted to take and publish at least one shot per each day.