AT HOME WITH BOOKS
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Our Daily Challenge 2-8 November: Bookcase/Bookshelf.
I found it very much trickier than I thought to make an interesting image.
I have hundreds of books which are mainly arranged by subject and size, so the choices are manifold
And of course its all flash indoors at the moment, which I HATE!
There is a slightly more creative one of a different shelf here www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/the-garden-in-winter/2651784
My somewhat more primitive and untidy contribution. Actually, significant contributions from the rest of the family as well.
For Macro Mondays Group
Subject: In A Line
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These are Buddhist prayer flags that are strung across my bookshelf. Each flag presents a symbol and one word of the Sanskrit mantra 'Om mani padme hum'.
Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer), Om Mani Padme Hum, out loud or silently to oneself, invokes the embodiment of compassion. Viewing the written form of the mantra is said to have the same effect -- it is often carved into stones and placed where people can see them.
What I mostly wanted as a child was a new book to read on the Christmas holidays. I think the longing must have run in our family, as these volumes belonged to my great Aunts Blanche & Lilly from the early 1900s. Back in the days of no media entertainment and no music unless you made it yourself, these books must have been treasures to them.
I think I promised somebody to show closeup of the bookshelf. So, if it was you, see, I do keep my promises. Even if I can't remember who it was to >_<
I really must do something about the books in my house. This is a photo of the top three shelves of a bookcase in my living room. It's a pretty random mixture of things. I've read some of these books but most are unread. Of them, a few will be read in the future and a couple might be re-read. But most will never be read, or even opened, by me. I really must do something about it.
(The cone is a megaphone I got when the Tour de France came to England in 2007)
Blogged: www.twomoreseconds.com/2011/04/bookshelf-quilt-modern-rel...
One of my friends in my bookclub is moving to Australia so we wanted to give her something to remind her of our group of friends here. A bookshelf mini quilt seemed perfect for someone we've been reading books with for the past 4 years. :]
Obviously these aren't all my books. Several of them belong to Grace, including the copy of Charlotte's Web. Mine was paperback. Some of my older books are on this shelf, like Emily Post's Etiquette and First Steps in Cooking. I picked them both up at antique stores.
I also picked up those Shel Silverstein books at the thrift store. Thing is, I totally forgot I already had a copy of A Light In the Attic. My first copy is just out of range of the photo, to the right of the Heinlein book.
To make this shot I used the traditional photographic method of zooming out during the slow exposure. The falling digital photography book was added in Photoshop later at the point of focus. This is really just an exercise in technique and colour. You must decide if it works as an image. Something to do on a cold winter afternoon.
My collection of Observer's books, from my Mum, & Beatrix Potter, from my own childhood
#augustbreak2014 #bookshelf #books #vintage #reading #vscocam
This is my manga collection - I used to collect them like cRazY....and then Flickr user ihave3fish showed me the wonderful world of KAWAII - and I have been hooked ever since!
Misc, Foreign, Computer 'stories', Technical Computer stuff, MAKE
Falling Up
The Lorax
Spanish Pocket Dictionary
Japan (The Story of a Nation)
Sushi
The Book of Tea
Steve Jobs: Thinks Different
Fire in The Valley (The Making of The Personal Computer)
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
Apple Confidential 2.0
PHP 2nd Edition
Learning XML
Visualizing Data
Javascript Pocket Reference
CSS Pocket Reference
XSLT
Just For Fun
Nightwork
The Art of Deception
The Art of Intrusion
Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias
Internet Cryptography
Make: Magazine, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 08, 10, 11, 12, 13 (WHERE IS 02?!)
Craft: 03
Feltron Annual Report 2007 (On top of everything)
A sample of some of the books on my bookshelf. Some are actually mine, and of those I've even read a few!
All of my books, excluding my sci-fi paperbacks and a few others. You can see most (if not all) of the titles in the full size view