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How to make shots like these:
*) Leaving work early to find pink Q-tips
*) Searching in at least three shops for them (where are all those pink q-tips if you need them?!)
*) Heading for photography class
*) Coming home at 10pm
*) Carrying home a 30kg package (with your brand new studio lights)
*) Trying to set up those studio lights (feeling as dumb as never before doing it)
*) Eating some chocolate to calm down
*) Trying to to set up the studio lights again, this time correctly
*) Searching for some beer because you don't have any more chocolate
*) Arranging 100 Q-tips on your table (quite challenging when its midnight already and you drank some beer)
*) Swearing as loud as you can (your neighbours need to know about that f.... q-tips that fell off the f.... table)
*) Drinking more beer
*) Making some shots standing in your pyjamas on your dining table
*) Trying to edit some pictures in the middle of the night
*) Going to bed at 1.30am
*) Beeing terribly late for work the next day
*) Hoping that this counts for this week's pretty pink Tuesday theme (geometric pink)
Once again orange tips were the most common butterfly I saw and I still can not stop photographing them. I am however only uploading one of several shots I liked - all of males.
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Thank you, dear friends, for your support, and for your faves and kind comments, very much appreciated - deaR♥‿♥
Skokie, Illinois. Fabulous sculpture outside the most mundane business strip in the world. There's a sculpture park nearby; maybe this one is in for repair.
Orange Tip Butterfly. Rushey Common.
Having finally given up on days of chasing them up and down the rides, this chap settles beside me and patiently waits for me to rummage the camera out of the rucksack.
Think there might be a moral there somewhere.
Happy Friday's Flower Power.
Featured in www.flickr.com/explore/ for May 6, 2005.
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Artist's Statement
My work is an attempt to give voice to inner psychological and/or spiritual states of being. What is of primary importance to me is that the figures contain particular aspects of humanity which they can mirror back to the viewer. It's the vulnerability of Humanity I am after. That is one reason for choosing very old or very young subjects. They both can portray innocence as well as extreme complexity.
Often they seem best portrayed as dolls. This can remove them one step from being so literal yet still allow the psychological weight. Perhaps that is something not noticed immediately yet allows the viewer easier access. To myself I can muse about the viewers engagement with them as dolls however It is the felt response I am after in every case.
AEC Mercury tractor unit VBY365M showing off its fantastic York tipping trailer. Thanks very much to the owner Steve Barber for demonstrating it to us.
This Nottingham registered 1964 Foden tipper was spotted at Merton Concrete Boundary Road Colliers Wood London in 1979.
Tidy Tips Flower. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A spring tidy tips flower.
This photographs takes me back just a few months to this past April, when a wetter-than-normal winter produced a spectacular wildflower bloom all over California. The state's late-winter and spring transition is always special, but in these wet years it can astound. Places that are dry and brown most of the year are magically transformed — with fields of lush grasses and wildflowers everywhere.
In early April we made a weeklong trip to some of these typically dry areas to photograph the brief display. We spent a couple of days in the hills located roughly between the coast and the Central Valley. As we headed east, into increasingly drier climates, we stopped at one remarkable valley carpeted with wildflowers, the place where I made this photograph.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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