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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
Things are getting a bit hot for St George!
A play with layers in Photoshop on a wet day.
George and the Dragon were photographed today, then combined with a landscape from the Forest of Dean in 2017, and a bonfire in 2018.
Treasure Hunt 46: Lego
FCB's 52 Week Challenge: Make a Conposite in Photoshop (Week 5)
A pedal strike on a rock hidden by grass caused an exploration of the mechanics of flight. I picked myself off, measured how far I flew (around 6m), cleared the grass off the rock and went for two more laps of the red trail at Haldon Forest. Realising I hadn't got a photo of the relative positions of rock and bike when landing, I recreated it on the second lap. I suspect I was more in the trail as I wasn't aware of a near miss on the marker post!
A day at Amberley Chalkpits Museum with their Steampunk weekend.
Greg Chapman is a Steampunk juggler. Here he juggles with two knives and a homemade device with two rat-traps.
Trying out the Lensbaby Sweet 50 for some portrait work...
Treasure Hunt Monthly Project 11: November Lensbaby Image
A 4+ mile walk from and to the Black Horse in Nuthurst. Lovely snack lunch before going home to watch the F1 Highlights.
Also works for the camera club Challenge 2019 for March, Landscape with a Structure...
A bike ride from Whiteways near Arundel. Several circuits of The Denture, arriving from the angled track, we went right several times, but the last time we were going left!
An enjoyable ride, finding one new section of singletrack to play on.
Treasure Hunt 62: Signpost
Up to London Stadium for Muse. What a show! Although far up in the stands on my own, I managed to have great fun, dancing with those around me, and singing to my heart's content!
A walk along the coast towards Swanage from Dancing Ledge. The light on the sea was captivating.
We also saw a bird of prey: will add to comments, ID please. It was sort of hovering into the wind, pigeon sized or larger.
I have been thrown sideways by the news that my aunt, who I travelled to Norway with just over a month ago, died suddenly yesterday. She was 3 weeks away from her 90th birthday, and has had an eventful life, but it seems too soon.
She was a wickedly mischievous person, and we had such fun on the Trollfjord, despite both of us going down with colds.
Some mementoes from Mary's years in Thailand...
Went to buy some tulips, and they had half a bunch with a few broken stemmed ones. I got the lot for half price, and promptly used the broken ones for a dreamy shot in a vase from Clovelly last year.
A bike ride from Walking Bottom car park in Peaslake.
My first 365 in 2013 had a Treasure Hunt topic iof X Marks the Spot, and I didn't manage to get this idea then. I have a feeling I have made a similar shot previously, but this one has given itself a star as well!
Treasure Hunt 40: Intersection
After a long day travelling home, all I could think of was Norway "So long and thanks for all the fish"
My little dolphin hadn't travelled with me, although his Orca friend had. Photographed in front of the screen with an image of the hot tub on the ship's deck.
Treasure Hunt 58: Quote.
Arrived with just enough time for a swim, and found a group of people hanging around in the car park. They had evacuated, and we all waited for 10 minutes while the fire brigade arrived and checked whether there was a fire or not. As we were allowed in soon after, I guess there wasn't. Quick snap as I went in for a slightly shorter swim.
Working on Complementary Colours for a camera club session, found a tutorial suggesting a banana on a purple plate, or change the colours. Couldn't resist that challenge, so here you have a banana on a white dish. Colour changes made in both LR and PS, but I preferred the LR version, so here it is...
For Macro Mondays, the challenge was to point the camera directly upwards. I racked my brains to think of an idea, then the cat came and sat on my HP print/scan/copier. This obviously reminded me subconsciously of when she managed to press the scan button. The idea didn't come at once, but the next morning I had the thought that I could sit her on a piece of glass in an empty frame (I'd also recently watched a YouTube video with ideas for portrait photography using glass...).
Going for a safer option, I sat her on a table, with the glass propped between it and a convenient window seat of the same height, with the camera underneath.
Irresistible force then met immovable object, and we had a few 'discussions' over paw placemen; several instances of the glass dropping on the macro lens; cat hairs everywhere, and I mean everywhere!
I finally got two frames shot, using live view, remote tethering, a cable release, and a firm grip on the cat's paw, but not too firm as she argues even more then...
Wow. The end of the MAAP group is here. My life has been enriched by this new art medium and more so by the many friends I have made specifically in this group.
I remember the first subject was "wind". I didn't know what to expect and was thrilled beyond words with the first submission by La Legra Negra (Joseandrés Guijarro). A palm tree with its fronds being gracefully bent by the wind. Jaw dropper. Benjamin Rabe (at that time his Flickr name was nonuts) with the bunny drifting across the sky, Susan Murtaugh's scene of leaves being whipped up in a frenzy, and Blu.Yanaka (where oh where is he?) with his line drawing of a solo figure walking against the wind. I still remember those without even looking back. It wasn't just the art that made everything so wonderful... it was also the possibilities...
Thanks everyone.
We came across more colour than I anticipated at Aberglasney House and Gardens today because there was a wedding being held here . This is one of the guests - it bemused me to watch him pace back and fore knocking back his glass of bubbly, checking his phone whilst at the same time pacifying a baby in the pram. Possibly 'bemused' is the incorrect word in this instance....
Its been one of those days with lots of bit and pieces going on. While washing the car, I realised that it needed a new rear wiper blade. Got this to show the guy in the car parts Aladdin's cave in case it was needed. It probably wasn't, but confirmed that I had the right one...
A one shot kinda day...
Dave is reducing his hours for a week or two, so we took off on Friday afternoon for a bike ride in the Surrey Hills. We did some new trails, which I found when I was walking last Sunday. Lance (my e-mtb) is fixed and going well.
This interesting bench at the top of Reynards Hill has a quote from John Wedgewood Clarke:
The woods of the Weald
wander beneath their many names,
gates and fences as nothing
to what cannot be owned
up here, the earth raw from unspeakable needs
to view our journey in this ancient moment's gaze
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 quick grab as the robin was flirting on the fence between us and next door, near the kitchen door...
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Looking out into the garden, I saw four deer, although didn't manage to catch all four together. These are probably escapees from nearby Parham Park. Photographed through glass to avoid spooking them too much, although the one on the left coming back up had stotted away a bit earlier. They were feeling a bit wary, and the front one was walking slowly like a dressage horse!
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.