Alice's Adventures in Mushroomland
When I was a child, I grew up listening to my maternal grandmother reading faerie tales to me from a big (at least from a child's perspective) green leather bound volume of Grimm's Faerie Tales with fine gilding and marbled edges. However, that wasn’t the only volume she read from. She also introduced me to the wonderful characters created by Lewis Carroll through “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass” which she had in an omnibus edition from the 1920s in grey vellum with all the characters’ names written in ever reducing squares and font as a border to the title.
It is from these stories that I have taken my inspiration for the theme for “Looking Close… on Friday!” for October 13th, which is “mushrooms”. If you have ever read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, or seen one of the multitude of television and film adaptations, you will be familiar with the caterpillar who sat on a mushroom smoking a hookah who told Alice that eating one side of the mushroom would make her taller and one side would make her smaller. You would also know that the whole reason Alice first went to Wonderland was by following the White Rabbit, who was late for the Queen of Hearts croquet party, down a rabbit hole. The amalgam of these two things led to this pairing of macro photos. Alice and the White Rabbit are both miniatures who live inside a small jar terrarium that I was given as a Christmas gift by a dear friend some years ago, whilst the mushrooms with their luscious shiny red tops are hand painted polystyrene examples that I picked up from a craft shop. The woodland setting is a small patch of my garden where the clivias are. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile!
I would like to acknowledge and thank my Flickr Friend Red Stilletto www.flickr.com/photos/thevixen/ for inspiring me to use the pairing of two images and the application of a wide white frame. Both of these design elements she uses to create great impact with her own images.
Alice's Adventures in Mushroomland
When I was a child, I grew up listening to my maternal grandmother reading faerie tales to me from a big (at least from a child's perspective) green leather bound volume of Grimm's Faerie Tales with fine gilding and marbled edges. However, that wasn’t the only volume she read from. She also introduced me to the wonderful characters created by Lewis Carroll through “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass” which she had in an omnibus edition from the 1920s in grey vellum with all the characters’ names written in ever reducing squares and font as a border to the title.
It is from these stories that I have taken my inspiration for the theme for “Looking Close… on Friday!” for October 13th, which is “mushrooms”. If you have ever read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, or seen one of the multitude of television and film adaptations, you will be familiar with the caterpillar who sat on a mushroom smoking a hookah who told Alice that eating one side of the mushroom would make her taller and one side would make her smaller. You would also know that the whole reason Alice first went to Wonderland was by following the White Rabbit, who was late for the Queen of Hearts croquet party, down a rabbit hole. The amalgam of these two things led to this pairing of macro photos. Alice and the White Rabbit are both miniatures who live inside a small jar terrarium that I was given as a Christmas gift by a dear friend some years ago, whilst the mushrooms with their luscious shiny red tops are hand painted polystyrene examples that I picked up from a craft shop. The woodland setting is a small patch of my garden where the clivias are. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile!
I would like to acknowledge and thank my Flickr Friend Red Stilletto www.flickr.com/photos/thevixen/ for inspiring me to use the pairing of two images and the application of a wide white frame. Both of these design elements she uses to create great impact with her own images.