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Let me hold you down by your throat while I pour out affections on you on my terms. Not that Mr. Grigsby minded (see below). From the archives.
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A recently born baby hippo with its mother in the zoo.
This is the last photograph from the series of zoo photographs.
"Aami jakhan Boro hote cheyechi, Tumi Nari hote bolecho....
Aami jakhan akash chnute cheyechi, Tumi Nijer sikor khujnte sikhiacho...
Jakhan Aami Nam korte cheyechi, Tumi Manush hote bolecho...
Aami jakhan sikol vnege ucchol hote cheyechi, Tumi swapno ke valobaste sikhiacho ...
Tumi.... tomar jonno ami jibon ke nijer moto kore khujte sikhechi....... "
Hunger: Do You Know The Facts?
It is estimated that one billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. That's roughly 100 times as many as those who actually die from these causes each year.
About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five.
Famine and wars cause about 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be the ones you hear about most often. The majority of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition. Families facing extreme poverty are simply unable to get enough food to eat.
Love for pets and animals is a heavenly thing. That love makes the world beautiful.
Photo was taken in Thimphu, Bhutan.
Queensland museum of modern art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Patricia PICCININI
Curious affection
24 mar 2018 – 5 aug 2018
/ Bunka Gakuen / Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
// 叡智と慈愛 / 文化学園 / 渋谷区代々木
旧前田邸で一週間繋ぐつもりだったけど、
和館の方が工事中で断念して新宿へ戻った(^^;)
I love really be able to see the amazing colors of the Green Heron! These youngsters will be gone soon, but I have enjoyed every moment I have been able to spend watching them!
One Valentine's Day, a past sweetheart had our song, "At Last", put on a CD done by 12 different artists. So sweet.
N is for no, no, no.
Unnatural Affections
One Pride Day in Toronto, I noticed a guy taking a million pictures of all the scandalous perverts, but pulling faces to clearly communicate his disapproval. Of course I had to photograph his performance. The moment he noticed, he rushed up and demanded I stop. I dedicate this to him and hope he found some kind of redemption in his collection of dirty, dirty pictures.
So, for your consideration, a set of illustrations taken from an encyclopaedic catalogue of human sexual diversity, chosen to poke at the way we run together moralizing with evidence-based medicine to produce ideas about what's healthy and what's criminal. Experts dissect and evaluate and problematize, religions vilify - and tourists walk around with cameras taking pictures and going EWWWWW!
This series is showing at garner narrative gallery www.garnernarrative.com in Louisville, KY, opening Friday April 6 (6-9 pm) and running through May 25, 2018.
What's so pathological about them? - Why interpretations off course!
I love the eerie "melting" sensation of a bustling metropolitan in it's utmost mayhem. It's like you are high, but without being intoxicated on meth, alcohol or psychedelic rock. Old Dhaka and it's convoluted streets can have that strange effect on you...as if the boundaries all around are closing in. Sort of like "Chaos Theory", with lots of chaos, but little or no theoretical implications.
Riveting!
Taken in Shakhari Bazaar, Old Dhaka. A father/kidnapper is seen storming through the narrow alleyway clinching onto his daughter's/ransom's hands.
Joan Armatrading - Love And Affection
For those of you who have it, for those of you who need it.... this is for you.
#ABFAV_2love
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I love photographing horses, not the easiest to do, there are standards, but with the help of the breeders it usually becomes a very pleasant and exciting experience.
Here was a fortuitous moment, and as a photographer, yes you have to focus on the main subject and there is MUCH to think about and concentrate on, but as a creative you stay aware of what is going on around you, and these 'off' images often become my favourite shots...
One of the horses I had photographed was taken back, so this was one of those 'in-between' moments...
This is the mother in the family that breeds horses, tough and yet rewarding.
They witness the birth and tend to the foals with love and yet when they lose one, they are quite stoic about it...
Another, slightly older foal quickly came for it's share of affection. No matter human or animal, we all enjoy love!
Such tenderness, closeness, emotion, just HAD to be captured.
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Entry #2
Hindu Marriage Poem
You have become mine forever.
Yes, we have become partners.
I have become yours.
Hereafter, I cannot live without you.
Do not live without me.
Let us share the joys.
We are word and meaning, unite.
You are thought and I am sound.
May the nights be honey-sweet for us.
May the mornings be honey-sweet for us.
May the plants be honey-sweet for us.
May the earth be honey-sweet for us.
Pink paeony ICM. No, really. It is (where’s your imagination?) ;)
Well, what do you do when you have loads of these wobbly camera shots? Come to that, what do you do for Sliders Sunday?
I was going to do you a painterly tractor, but it was rather a good tractor (though I say it myself) and I didn’t want to rush it. Also, I feel a bit guilty sometimes posting a painterly rendition to Sliders Sunday because the group is intended to be about overprocessing.
So I was ambling through the back catalogue and found this ICM taken in June which is part of a big collection of failures and not so failures. They’re all so abstract that I hesitate to publish some of them, even in the better ones.
But what happens if you Sliders them? Quite a lot it seems. There were some very interesting results from this one because of the strong sense of movement and depth (it’s a twist ICM of the centre of the flower).
Herewith four variants. The first is a Color Efex smash-up with solarisation and bicolour filters (etc…). The rest are Topaz Studio versions. I avoided painterly versions though there were some good possibilities there too. I like the monochrome version (which I’ll post for my 100x on Motion, as well as the fiery furnace. What about you?
I’ll post a link to the in-camera version so you can admire my dirty sensor. (I have cleaned it now ;) ).
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x :)
Fireworks in Abstract - Abstract photo experiments taken at the 2015 Vancouver Celebration of Light fireworks.
Unnatural Affections
One Pride Day in Toronto, I noticed a guy taking a million pictures of all the scandalous perverts, but pulling faces to clearly communicate his disapproval. Of course I had to photograph his performance. The moment he noticed, he rushed up and demanded I stop. I dedicate this to him and hope he found some kind of redemption in his collection of dirty, dirty pictures.
So, for your consideration, a set of illustrations taken from an encyclopaedic catalogue of human sexual diversity, chosen to poke at the way we run together moralizing with evidence-based medicine to produce ideas about what's healthy and what's criminal. Experts dissect and evaluate and problematize, religions vilify - and tourists walk around with cameras taking pictures and going EWWWWW!
This series is showing at garner narrative gallery www.garnernarrative.com in Louisville, KY, opening Friday April 6 (6-9 pm) and running through May 25, 2018.
Tristan Taormino autographed a condom for me, as well as a copy of one of her books, Down and Dirty Sex Secrets when I attended a great talk given by her on Friday night.
She is an award-winning author, editor, columnist, feminist pornographer, and sex educator. Last week was Sexual Health Week on the UW-Madison campus and this was the final event of many.
She had a lot of thoughtful things to say about sexuality. I think most valuable for everyone is her list of "The Keys to Sexual Empowerment":
* KNOWLEDGE (comprehensive sex ed throughout our lives)
* SELF PLEASURE (knowing our bodies, practicing self pleasure)
* PERMISSION (to be sexual, to explore, to discover our own sexual identities)
* PROTECTION (practicing physical and emotional safety in sex)
* COMMUNICATION (talking about our likes/dislikes, our needs, our challenges)
* AUTHENTICITY (being true to ourselves and our sexual desires)
* FULFILMENT & SATISFACTION (seeking and finding pleasure however we define it)
I also must mention here that I attended a recent seminar dinner at the Knapp House for which Madison's own Ellen Barnard of A Woman's Touch gave the evening's talk. She is another engaging and life-affirming speaker on the topic of sexuality.
It was quite a week of sexy talks...and that's why my cheeks are all flush now!