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I am dipping into the archives and reprocessing an older image. This is possibly one of my favorite shots I happened to get lucky enough to capture. My wife and I had recently moved to Madison and my parents told me about a botanical garden not that far from where we were living. I ventured to this garden and fell in love with all the great stuff there is to shoot.
This shot comes from my second trip. It had been raining all morning but the precipitation broke right around lunch. I grabbed my camera and wondered off for a bit of post downpour shooting. While I was waiting for some people to move along so I could shoot a different scene, I decided to snag a few shots of these Lilly Pads in a pond. It just so by happens that at that same moment the clouds were just moving passed the sun. Fire off ten shots, or so, in rapid succession and call it a day.
Yes, I wish I could say I fully planned this like a crazy awesome photography, but I was just in the right place at the right time.
Enjoy!
A statue of children playing hide and seek, outside the southern entrance to the Gǔlóudàjiē (鼓楼大街) subway station on line 2. (dsc02603)
Trunks hide away from prying eyes.
Taken with IR / full spectrum modified Pentax K7, Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f/2.0 SL-II and Hoya R72 Filter.
We left a section of the front lawn under a few trees uncut and the kids had a great time on Saturday playing hide and seek.
We had elephants walk right in front of the hide so close you could reach out and touch them. This is most awesome experience. This hide is operated by C4 photo safaris in Mashatu game reserve.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by Valentine & Sons Ltd. of Dundee and London. The artwork was by Rene Cloke. The card, which was printed in Great Britain, has a divided back.
Rene Cloke
Rene Mable Neighbor Cloke, who was born on the 4th. October 1904, was a British illustrator and watercolourist best known for her prolific output of artwork for children's books and greetings cards.
Her work often displayed a whimsical quality, with frequent subjects being flora and fauna, pixies, fairies, sprites, and elves.
Rene Cloke's Life and Career
Rene was born in Plymouth, England. She was the older sister of concert pianist Olive Cloke. Their father was a bank manager.
Rene never trained formally as an artist, and was largely self taught. She began her career as an illustrator in the 1920's with the publishers W. R. Chambers.
Her first work of note was as the artist for The Radiant Way children's book series. She continued to illustrate children's books for the next seven decades, working for most major publishers in the United Kingdom.
Some of the books she illustrated include:
-- Alice in Wonderland
-- Red Riding Hood Goes to the Teddy-Bear's Picnic
-- Joy Bells
-- Little Boy Blue's Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales
-- Little Folk’s First Book
-- Enid Blyton’s Everyday Book series
-- My Best Book of Enid Blyton Stories
-- Woodland Tales.
Rene also illustrated several religious books for children. She worked for many years as an artist for Medici Cards, designing more than 100 greeting cards for them.
Rene in WWII and After
During World War II, Cloke worked as a tracer for the War Office, producing maps of enemy camps and installations from photographs made by the Royal Air Force.
After the war, she settled in Wimbledon VIllage where she resided with her sister. A shy person, she avoided being the centre of attention or engaging with the public, preferring to remain anonymous and unacknowledged in her work.
Rene never married, and died in Wimbledon on the 1st. October 1995, three days shy of her 91st. birthday.
In 2013–2014 Cloke's work was included in the exhibition "Grimm Girls: Picturing the Princess" at The Otter Gallery at the University of Chichester.