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Taken with the cellphone while printing…flash makes that orange on the bottom look a little redder than in real life. But the color is lush and intense!
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Round 2 of firepit stuff.
We dug out the grass around the pit to prepare for laying gravel.
I also started to bring plants in towards the pit to make it feel a little more cozy. Hoping to have it all finished next summer!
One of 4 woodcut prints in our new "THE FOUR ELEMENTS" woodcut set!
Still available on pre-order intro deal through today (Nov. 29th)! www.tugboatprintshop.com/woodcut_elements.htm
Christmas in July at many a campground this past week-end. At Blue Haven in New York there was a festive mood. Kids had a good time as well as the adults. And the weather threatened but stayed away.
The third day of our hike from Wamena toward the Yalimo territory of the Yali people was a relatively shorter walk, probably our easiest day. We set up camp at lunchtime by the side of the river where there was a small hut that our cooks could use. The afternoon promised to be rainy and the guide did not believe that we would be able to reach a safe, level place for our tents further up the mountain before rain came. We therefore put up tents in the vicinity of the hut. Our crew extended the shelter of the hut by stretching out their tarpaulin. As the afternoon wore on, our group was joined by a couple of dozen Dani and Yali en route from Wamena's market to the Yalimo.
Our crew dug a cooking pit and built a fire to heat rocks that were then placed in the pit together with our food - potatoes, yams, raw ferns and other greens.
Here is a shot of the new flagstone patio with a new firepit. The firepit is fully lined with firebrick with a custom laid floor. We installed a gas starter through the floor for easy lighting. The outside is stoned with Fieldstone stack and capped with flagstone. The homeowners look forward to sitting around a fire and listening to the nearby water feature. See photos in my photostream of the waterfeature that is also in this backyard.
When we moved into this house, there was a nice patio in the backyard. Unfortunately, it was poorly built and after a couple of years was sagging and full of weeds. I decided to rebuild it and doing so was a huge amount of work. I dug a pit, filled it with gravel, tamped that down, added weedcloth, then fine sand on top of that, then finally the pavers. I reused the pavers from the old patio but changed the design from a red patio with a white edge to a more random pattern. I like to tell people that the stones represent numbers and that there is a binary coded message written into the patio. I designed this firepit to be built into the patio. It is a very simple contruction featuring two angle iron frames that hold the side stones and prevent them from collapsing.
When the patio was finished, I built this stone wall on two sides of it to replace the junk wood panels that were holding up the raised plant beds. It is the perfect height to sit on. Whoever had built these beds had buried the remnants of an old shed within it along with a whole lot of garbage. It was a very unpleasant surprise.
Carved from single stone. Boulder is approximately 60 inches long and 18 inches high. Bowl is 35 inches in diameter
Experimental multiexposure of a firepit.
A stack of eight (or so) photos from different angles of a firepit I used for smoke photos few days ago.
There is something magical in these abstract nature multiexposures. Though still much to learn about this technique. These photos also need quite a lot editing in PS/LRC to get some forms and shapes clearly defined. That is, texture and clarity adjustments are essential.
I like especially how the opposing background views overlap here, the forest side and the lake side.
Anyone else experimenting with multiexposure photography?