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Model: Jillian
Styliing: Photographer
Lighting: Profoto 600R with soft box camera left. Black cloth backdrop. NikonD800E with 85m lens. Converted to black and white with NIK Silver Efex Pro.
This picture nearly took itself. A classic example of me stumbling onto the perfect place and time. In my mind's eye, this looked like a big game hunter's den with the stuffed animals standing in for taxidermy heads of lions and bears. I asked the carny to hold up one of the pop guns to complete the effect.
...has its thorns.
Did you ever wonder why? I do. They don't seem to protect the rose from any harm, disease, or predation: I have one rose bush in my front yard that the deer regularly devour; its thorns certainly didn't provide a means of protection to keep its blooms from being eaten.
My roses in my back yard have been beleaguered this year: various diseases that roses are prone to; the occasional Japanese Beetle attack; and katydids who found the blooms to be especially succulent dining this season. The roses' thorns allayed none of this. Their distressingly razor-sharp protuberances seem to offer very little protection against aphids, too.
No, the only thing that a rose's thorns seem to offer protection against is us, and it's not a very real protection because we pretty much have our way with them, pruning them, cutting their blooms for display...
It seems to me that more than anything that the thorns are there to cause us pain in our enjoyment of the rose's beauty, and I wonder why that's so? Is it some type of metaphor for life, some mysterious lesson to learn?...
The blossoming of the cherry trees is a magical moment. The tradition of contemplating the cherry blossom, Sakura, is considered as a metaphor for life by the Japanese, beautiful and radiant but also fleeting.
"Two separate drops, pushed by the wind, merged into one for a moment and divided agin - each carrying with it a part of the other. Simply by that momentary touching, neither was what it had been before. As each one went on to touch other raindrops, it shared not only itself, and what it had gleaned from another. I saw this metaphor many years ago and it is one of my most vivid memories. I realised then that we never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace. Our state of being matters to those around us, so we need to become conscious of what we unintentionally share so we can learn to share with intention". Peggy Tabor Millin in "Mary's Way".
Parallel Migrations
One of the latest public art installations is at the Lake Smith / Lake Lawson Natural Area.
Anne Dushanko Dobek is the artist in residence at Lake Lawson/Lake Smith Natural Area where she created her Eco Public Art Installation, "Parallel Migrations XXV" beginning August 13 with an unveiling on August 24th.
“Parallel Migrations” is Dobek’s decades-long series of global installations in which she uses silkscreened images of the Monarch butterfly as a symbol of survival in the face of perilous journeys.
“In ‘Parallel Migrations’ I use my signature image of the Monarch butterfly to address issues of global migrations. The Monarch butterfly in all its permutations becomes a metaphor for the millions of people crossing global borders in search of survival, sanctuary and safety,” said Dobek.
Virginia Beach’s Eco Public Art residencies are designed to inform and highlight Virginia Beach’s natural spaces. Through open calls for proposals, artists in this field are invited to participate in residencies to create site-responsive works of art using natural materials. They are encouraged to engage the public in artist talks and live demonstrations. Last year’s first Eco Public Art residency brought Benjamin Heller to create “Terrapin Basin” at Pleasure House Point Natural Area.
The Lake Lawson/Lake Smith Natural Area is a 42-acre preserve with more than 12,000 feet of shoreline located in the Bayside Borough of Virginia Beach at the corner of Shell Road and Northampton Blvd. The area is a popular fishing destination.
Photography by Craig McClure
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We always try to live to these standards set to us by media: be skinny, with flawless skin, tall, with always perfect hair... Which is all not true in the real life. No one is perfect in the real life and we shouldn't be!
Thinking of this, I decided to start a series of conceptual photos: "A metaphor of me", showing the stereotypes I've always been following. I hope that doing this, will help me to understand better why I have always been doing that and why I should stop =)
Seriously, do women really NEED breasts, big like that and even bigger?? =)
Macro Mondays - "Metaphors"
Mixed Metaphor – Apple of my Broken Heart
The two metaphors here are ‘apple of my heart’ and ‘broken heart’. Thanks to darkwood67 and Muffet for the use of their textures. I used this texture by darkwood67 and this texture by Muffet.