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Pathway to the Suwa Shrine in Nagasaki
The Suwa Shrine was built in 1614 and the pathway up to the shrine has 277 steps.
This week, I was told that my infant son now has a condition in his left eye that is causing him to go blind. This...a week after we found out he is going deaf. How does a mother even begin to process this? For me...I create, I breathe, then I try to move forward.
After we got the diagnosis, I gave myself over to my art for a short time to try to bring myself back to center.
This mandala was inspired by Stephanie Smith (aka Biffy Beans), her work sometimes says for me, what my own mind cannot express. I used a color palette that show the overwhelming chaos I am feeling, edging it with calm and stability...the place I am trying to get to.
The mandala is the anchor, floating and spinning, but holding to the center. It is order from chaos, a simple stop along my pathway to healing.
Canon 5D Mark 111
Canon 24-70 F2.8L USM
ISO 200
27mm
F7.1
Exposure 6 mins
Lee Filters -
1.2 Soft & Big Stopper
Pathway at Palm Beach
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
Henry David Thoreau
I don't normally photograph the works of art when I visit museums and I rarely engage with them beyond looking at them briefly and walking away. I have never engaged with an artwork as long or intensely as I have with John Safer's sculpture, Pathway, at the entrance to the Dayton Art Institute. Pathway is an immense stainless steel cork-screw of a sculpture that pays tribute to Dayton aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. The day was beautiful and the reflections of the sky, the grass and the buildings in the sculpture were entrancing. I didn't have a wide-angle lens, so had to "settle" for photographing "slices" of the piece. In processing the photos, I was struck by the abstract shapes that linked earth and sky in the piece. Here are three of my "slices" of Mr. Safer's sculpture. It feels a bit as if he purposely designed it with an open invitation for us to collaborate with him.
Once we arrived in the Barossa Valley we took a walk down the road to the Langmeil Winery. After a tasting at Langmeil winery we took this pathway along a stream to Peter Lehmann Winery, September 3, 2013, Australia.
The land on which Langmeil Winery now stands was purchased by a 36 year old German blacksmith, Christian Auricht. He and his family arrived in South Australia in 1838 after emigrating from eastern-central Europe (Silesia) to escape religious persecution.
Christian immediately established a smithy, began farming and, in the years that followed, built a bakery, a cobbler's shop, a butcher's shop and the first well, which became the trading centre of the village.
The main roadway to Kapunda and Burra, important copper mining towns, passed by the village and many travellers stopped to water their horses and gather provisions before continuing their journeys.
Christian planted his first acre of vines on the estate. The variety was Shiraz and the vines are still producing fruit today. Auricht's old vineyard is the source of Langmeil Winery's single vineyard Shiraz. This rare wine commemorates the pioneering spirit of the first settlers and, because of their willingness to endure so much hardship for the right to keep their faith, it has been named The Freedo
The first winery on the property was established in 1932 by Theodor Hanisch. Theodor was the youngest son of Eleonore Auricht, the second daughter of Christian Auricht.
The winery operated under the Paradale label. Later it was managed by Theodor's son, Arthur (pictured right). Theodor died in 1968 and Arthur died just a year later in 1969.
After Arthur Hanisch's death in 1969, the family sought to sell the property. In 1972 Bernkastel wines purchased the winery and operated under their own label.
The eighties were hard years for the wine industry. Export sales amounted to less than 20% of total Australian production and the industry was faced with a never-ending over-supply of grapes. The South Australian Government introduced a vine pull programme whereby growers were paid to remove unwanted vines.
Both growers and winery were affected and Bernkastel Wines went into liquidation in 1988. Bought at a liquidation sale, the new owners did not operate the crushing facility but did use the cellar door to sell off stock. The doors closed in August 1993 and the property lay idle until it was purchased by the current owners in 1996.
The property was purchased in 1996 by three local mates whose families have lived in the Barossa Valley for several generations: Richard Lindner, Carl Lindner and Chris Bitter. They restored the remaining old buildings and the village well and beautified the gardens. As a tribute to the early pioneers, the new owners refurbished the old winery and named it Langmeil, after the original village.
In addition, some of Christian Auricht's original vines still remained, a small patch of 1840s Shiraz, albeit neglected. The most important task was to rescue them. After several months of tender loving care, The Freedom vineyard was successfully revived. The vines are dry grown and hand picked. After careful gardening, Langmeil's first vintage was harvested in 1997.
For More Info: www.langmeilwinery.com.au/
My challenge from coollessons2004 was as below.
1) I've always loved the moody images of Mariann Nikolaisen
www.flickr.com/photos/manikol/
Therefore, create a moody image in her style.
I took a long look at Mariann's photostream and picked on a number of characteristics that I could see and then - rather than copy - tried to apply them to my own style. They were - leading lines, black and white and a wintry feel.
I've taken a number and this at the moment is my choice. It's taken me a while to get round to this as I have not been that well - so I don't know if I'll have time to have another go. If I do I'll add something else to the group.
The Link Pathway between Picton and Havelock. Always good to get off the road, but we missed some sections as missed a few bits where the trail starts and then saw the end of the trail going back onto the road.
Pathway Collection
There are so many variety of life style in the world ,and this theme could satisfy my numerous fashion flavor .From the alley to Fifth avenue or silent to noise.Its like endless journey to discover all the posibilities on the pathway in this big big world ....
It starts from here to explore all the posibilities. Join me?!
Model - Nadja R
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155th Street W & W Avenue D-15, Fairmont, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, CA, 4/2/2017 - 4/4/2017
Linhof Master Technika 2000 camera, 90mm Nikkor-SW f/8 lens, Fujicolor Pro 160S film, 3 exposures, 103 megapixels
In spring of 2017, I made several visits to Southern California’s Antelope Valley to photograph the blossoming wildflowers. Following the previous winter's heavy rains during an extended drought, California was enjoying a rare super bloom! I discovered this lovely view looking west from Broad Canyon at the north foot of Fairmont Butte and was able to photograph the scene at sunset. A meadow of tiny yellow daisies known as goldfields (Lasthenia glabrata) formed a pathway through the sagebrush toward the setting sun. The orange flowers are California poppies (Eschscholzia californica), also known as copa de oro (cup of gold). Liebre Mountain is in the distance at far left. Frazier Mountain is just left of the sun, and Tecuya Mountain is just right of the sun.