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Gouache on paper
9.5 x 8.5 inches, 2010
This piece + other studies will be on display in Miami, with What It Is @ Verge, Dec 2nd thru Dec 5th. Catalina Hotel, rm 112. wot-it-is.com
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."
- Jane Austen
*HoNe$t* Always.. ----> Busy Busy Busy !
Marcelin Brun
Paris chez Firmin Didot Pères et Fils
Rue Jacob, n°24
in-12
Première édition
1825
Bigmore et Wyman says:
"This little work, [first] published and printed by the firm of Didot Pere et fils, is a practical typographical manual, treating every branch of composition and press work. It is quite a gem from a typographic point of view. Firmin Didot superintended the printing, and the book possesses the singular feature of not containing one divided word throughout."
I should probably give some context to this image and the Golden Spiral hairline that is superimposed on it.
Composition is a constant refrain in my photographic work. I've taken classes in it, read alot about it and indeed teach composition for photographers as well.
I've been mentally visualizing formal compositional geometries on the viewfinder for several years and it has become a habit whenever I pick up a camera. Nevertheless, it's often a surprise when I look at an image in the processing phase to see just how strongly those forms are embedded.
This shot is a good example of that mental process. When I took this shot I was concerned with getting the area of highest contrast in the picture, the bowsprit, somewhere near one of the golden section line intersections. I was also concerned that the angle of the steel work on the bowsprit point up towards the upper right corner of the frame. I took about 3 shots of this scene, varying the exposure a bit each time but altering the view point only a tiny bit in each. In the end, I wound up selecting this particular image as the best of the batch.
As the hairline on the image shows, the bowsprit fitting is located nearly perfectly on the origin of the golden spiral. Similarly, the curve of the hull of the boat follows the outward track of the spiral as well. As t turns out the diagonals of the bowsprit fitting point directly to the corner fairly precisely. The combination of the golden spiral and diagonal elements working with the forms of the boat in the image give the image, at least to me, a sense of proportion and of completeness.
For those that are interested in the processing, the above image is a screen shot from Lightroom 3, with a slight neutral gradient applied to the sky, as well as corrections for lens distortion, a little noise reduction and a little sharpening. In my normal workflow, this image, with this amount of processing, would then be exported into Photoshop 5 for additional color work (using Nik Viveza), converted to black (using Nik Silver Efx 2) and then toned, with a final pass of sharpening and watermarked. You can see the result of that workflow in the final image.
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The standard resistor of the 1950s to early 1970s. Make from a ceramic tube filled with a mixture of carbon and filler materials (the "composition"). Lack of a tolerance band means they're +/- 20%.
Direction: Front, Upwards
Quantity: Lots (Natural light)
Quality: Harsh
Day: Morning
Large scale
Narrow DOF
(public domain, screen capture video from the V3 web camera on the southern rim of Kilauea Volcano's summit caldera)
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Mt. Kilauea is the world’s most active volcano. It sits atop the Hawaii Hotspot in the central Pacific Ocean and had a decades-long eruption from 1983 to 2018. Eruptive activity started up again in December 2020 and continued into 2025. Kilauea lavas are basaltic in composition, but the physical appearance of Kilauea’s output varies. Many of Kilauea’s eruptions occurred along its East Rift Zone, a fracture system extending ~eastward from the summit vent area. Seen here is lava erupting at the summit of Kilauea Volcano from 4:15 to 4:16 PM, local time, on 9 November 2025. This is the end of "episode 36", which started at 11:15 AM. "Episode 1" of the current eruption series started on 23 December 2024.
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Info. from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) & United States Geological Survey (USGS):
Episode 36 of the ongoing Halemaumau eruption ended abruptly at 4:16 PM Hawaii Standard Time on November 9 after just under 5 hours of continuous fountaining.
The north vent stopped erupting at approximately 3:38 PM Hawaii Standard Time. The south vent dropped from 1000 to 500 feet (300-150 meters) around 3:48 PM Hawaii Standard Time and held steady for a while. The south vent slowly declined and eventually stopped erupting at approximately 4:16 PM Hawaii Standard Time, marking the end of the episode. South vent fountains reached heights of about 1,200 feet (360 meters) and north vent fountains reached heights of about 750 feet (230 meters). The episode 36 fountains lasted for just over 5 hours and produced an estimated 10-11 million cubic yards (8-9 million cubic meters) of lava. The combined average eruption rate was over 650 cubic yards per second (500 cubic meters per second) from the dual fountains, which is the highest effusion rate recorded during this eruption. Lava flows from the fountains covered about 60-80% of the floor of Halemaumau crater.
Volcanic gas emissions have greatly decreased. Lava flows from this episode on the floor of Halemaumau within the southern part of Kaluapele (Kilauea caldera) may continue to exhibit slow movement or incandescence as they cool and solidify over the coming days.
The Uekahuna tiltmeter recorded just over 23 microradians of deflationary tilt during this episode, following the beginning of fountaining at 11:19 AM this morning. The end of the eruption was coincident with a flattening of summit tilt and a decrease in seismic tremor intensity. Past episodes have been followed by rapid inflationary tilt, and we expect that change to occur soon.
Most episodes of Halemaumau lava fountaining since the eruption started on December 23, 2024, have continued for around a day or less and have been separated by pauses in eruptive activity lasting generally at least several days.
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Locality: Halemaumau Crater, southwestern corner of Kilauea Crater (Kilauea Caldera), southeastern Hawaii, central Pacific Basin
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Sadly it's not fully finished and I will not be able to finish it, because it was made in a school lesson and every new lesson is a new start for a new painting.
Compositionally Challenged week 33 is Liquid and anything liquid will do.
I don't care about the lawn going brown and crispy as long as the flowers get plenty to drink.
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Omiros Georgiadis
1969, mixed media.
Gallery, Society for Macedonian Studies.
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Όμηρος Γεωργιάδης
1969, μικτή τεχνική.
Πινακοθήκη Εταιρίας Μακεδονικών Σπουδών.
Composition 2.90
Gouache on paper
9.5 x 8.5 inches, 2011
Framed
Tom Burtonwood is a Chicago based artist who creates systems based geometric paintings, reliefs, sculpture and digital art works. This set contains currently available pieces from the "Color Studies / Composition 2" series. Please email tburtonwood@gmail.com for more information.
In July 2011 I published a book documenting all 100 Color Studies. For further information about the book please click this link: tomburtonwood.com/color-study-book/
To see more images of my other works please visit my website tomburtonwood.com .