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Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
Terrible overnight rain and flooding in my area that I wasn't sure I'd get out today but during a dry patch, I nipped around to the lane near my home. Neighbours always leave their pumpkins in the woods for wildlife to nibble at and I spotted this one that must have been washed into the stream. I was afraid to go much further because the lane itself had newly formed streams running through it.
Dave decorated the house with our prayer flags, bought in Kathmandu in 2016!
The calm before the storm. 26 people including ourselves, with no easy access from house to garden due to unfinished work and a lost backdoor key.
This is the only way round the house to the back garden. Luckily the weather was kind to us, glad it wasn't on Sunday!
I've been invited to rather a glitzy dinner next week as a guest in my own rights, but also as the photographer of the event. People who know me know that this kind of dresswear is so not me which led to a bit of a dilemma as to what to wear anyway. In the end I opted for this kimono jacket which I can whip off as soon as I need to with a plain sleeveless top and black velvet trousers - not even going there about the footwear ;-)
So on a dark and drab day in Winter, we headed to the darkest and drabbest of places known as Taibach , Port Talbot . The name Taibach itself lends itself to many a crude joke because its English translation is literally ‘Little Houses’ or to be polite, ‘the loos’ .
From the web :- “Up until a few weeks ago Richmond Terrace was just like any other suburban street in South Wales.
It is home to a few houses and garages, next to the busy A48 running through Port Talbot. The nondescript area, less than a mile from the vast Port Talbot steelworks, was unknown to most.
But just a few days before Christmas, the street was appearing in newspapers across the world from New York to Japan after an artwork by the world renowned Banksy appeared on a garage wall. The graffiti shows a child with open arms playing in what appears to be snow, but the other side of the wall reveals it is ash from a rubbish bin on fire.
In the frenzy that followed, thousands descended on the small street, the owner of the garage went without sleep for two days, a "drunk halfwit" tried to damage the graffiti and the local council had to hire workers to deal with the crowds”
Read more about it here……………….
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/truth-behind-port-t...
Closer shots in comments.
I hoped to spend this wet day checking out my dad's slides using a projector and screen.
It started out O.K. then the slide projector jammed completely. When Dave got home he offered to do a Repair Shop job for me, and got it working after a few hours.
This was taken earlier in the day, and features Roy, who you met on his 90th birthday back in April at the front, followed by my brother, Roy's three daughters and my sister nearer the camera. My mum brings up the rear, carrying you-know-who at just over a year old.
We had many happy shared holidays, generally West Wittering at Easter, and often the Helford River area in Cornwall in summer.
I can't really claim to remember this one in particular, but the pattern stayed the same, with silly games, beach cricket, long jump competitions, building impossible sandcastles, lunches by the beach hut with the children sitting around an old sun-lounger as a table...
Life was so much simpler then.
Treasure Hunt 48: Memories
I should have taken the time to talk with her and gotten her name. I would have loved to been able to include this shot in my 100 Strangers project. I've got to keep trying to remember that. I'm always kicking myself afterward!
Two days until the three-day weekend! Gotta come up with some fun plans!
(Oh,and I seem to be "title challenged" lately, so I am open to suggestion!)
One out of a bunch of daffs from Tesco.
PS just to add that I won't be around much to comment nor upload tomorrow, so have a good weekend everyone :-)
Camera club coffee morning at Denman's Garden saw the Lensbaby come out again.
Treasure Hunt Monthly Project 06: June Lensbaby image
Our Pebbles seems to think that this is her place while we are eating our dinner, despite us politely pointing out ther error of her ways.
As she is 17 and completely deaf, perhaps we haven't been firm enough!
Detail of the installation
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
I'd prepared an indoor shot for today's POTD because I had no intention of going out in today's high winds. However by lunchtime, I was sick and tired of Flickr's outages that I took myself off to the Botanic Gardens, Singleton, Swansea. After taking numerous shots of the colourful tulip beds, I turned my attention to a spot of 'bird whispering'. This was what greeted me - a squirrel ( one of approx 8) waiting for a peanut or twenty.
I received a few Disney Inventor Awards last year for my work on Disney Infinity. I've been meaning to photograph them for a while but I put it off because they are a pain in the butt to shoot;) It doesn't get much worse than combining high index glass with partial sand blasting, engraved lettering, black marble backing and base, and a magnified glass top. It made for a frustrating shoot.
Into my heart's night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day.
~ Rubaiyat of Rumi
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen
I woke up this morning with no voice and the mother of sore throats, so had to pull out of a meeting in Bridgend followed by a visit to see the Diplodocus at The National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. This old dinosaur instead raided the batch of home made Welsh Cakes that I cooked on the weekend and put in the freezer destined for Huw's final MS Society Board Meeting in London, next Thursday. I'd better add that I left more than enough in the freezer.
A lovely walk fromj Byworth, through Petworth, and down this sunken lane that was once the main turnpike between Chichester and Petworth.
Morning spent in the garden. This is one of the weeds I didn't dig up...
It looks like a tiny version of cow parsley, with flowers starting out a deeper pink, and fading to white. Perhaps not a weed?
Edit: Upright hedge parsley: Torilis japonica.
The Photowalk I had planned just happened to be on the hottest day of the year so far! Luckily most of the time we were in the shade, and six participants survived the experience.
The title is the name I'd given the walk, so I was amused to find these on top of a high wall in the Causeway.
My research paid off, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, having lunch together at Bill's in the Town Hall afterwards.
Josh finishes off the cleaning up after completing the plastering of the tricky angled sections.
Thanks to Graham for the recommendation!
A frustrating morning, so I flounced off to have a short walk from Chantry Post. I'd hoped for mist in the valleys, instead it was thicker on top, with visibility down to around 50m.
Another busy day.
I had seen a single eye like this when researching for Macro Mondays Pareidolia theme, but already had an idea for that.
A new marble bought for the occasion, but one eye didn't fit with my preferred title, so a quick flip in PS, and we have "Blue Eyes".
Humble apologies for the earworm, it is vying for attention with the Welsh anthem heard just now at the beginning of Wales-Australia in the RWC...
Sat and watched the waves at Dancing Ledge for ages. I have *slightly* tweaked the colours, as that was what my eyes could see in the water.
Camera club coffee morning at the Black Rabbit. Yet again, the willow branches captivated me. I felt enclosed by them, and decided to have a play. Starting with a double exposure (blended in PS as the 200D doesn't seem to have this facility), I then duplicated and flipped it to create a pattern image.
Double exposure in my photostream...
I had an image ready for the POTD, but the full moon rose over Eurovision, and I went out to photograph it during the interval. Came back in time to see Madonna perform, wish I hadn't bothered!
From www.space.com:
"The full moon of May, also called the Flower Moon, will occur on May 18, at 5:11 p.m. EDT (2111 GMT). This full moon will also be a "Blue Moon" by one definition of the term — an extra full moon in a season."
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
A wander around Brighton before helping out with a My Brighton & Hove mentoring session.
Kym and her friends were having fun!
Probably just a bit too late, but managed to get out and look at the frost in the garden, again using the Lensbaby Sweet 50.