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George Bernard Shaw wrote "life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage ~ it can be delightful".
The next time you think your pants are falling down around your ankles, ponder upon the delightful things of life.
"STILL-LIFE
A painting in which the subject matter is an arrangement of objects - fruit, flowers, tableware, pottery, and so forth - brought together for their pleasing contrasts of shape, color, and texture. Dutch still-life painters delighted in the play and contrast of transparent and reflective surfaces: the finely wrought metal of the ewer, the representation of smooth glass, the weave of the linen drapery, the dry crumbly texture of the bread, and the wet, shiny insides of the open pomegranate. At first glance, this still life implies an absence of human presence. But a closer look reveals just the opposite. The torn bread, half empty glass of wine, sliced fruit, and overturned glass allude to human intervention, as if these lavish delicacies were abruptly left on the table.
The term derives from the Dutch 'stilleven', which became current from about 1650 as a collective name for this type of subject matter. Still life painting flourished in Holland in the 1600s. A great interest in botany arose toward the end of the 1500s, when collectors of herbs and plants were spending fortunes on their gardens; their desire for portraits of their prized possessions fueled the popularity of flower painting. Later on, Dutch still-lives were eagerly taken up by French painters and collectors and came to decorate the most fashionable French salons."
Quote from essentialvermeer.20m.com
Oh, love, don’t let me go
Won’t you take me where the street lights glow
I can hear it coming
I can hear the silent sound
Now my feet won’t touch the ground
Another eastward view from beneath the 赤岳 (Akadake) peak. Zoom in for details of civilization: houses, bridges, roads, electric lines, e.t.c..
Copper tree of life on viking chain; rondelles and tear drops are the birthstone of husband, wife and 2 daughters.
It's been a LONG time since i've uploaded any type of self portrait. I decided to set one up on my recent trip to Montana. With a little help from fellow photog Jaki and my camera... I set my pose and chose the back drop. Then, I dialed in my camera settings and gave it to Jaki to shoot. Travel is one of my passions. So I truly believe in this motto from Life Magazine, which was also used in the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". Having a camera and being a photographer is a passport to explore our world. And life is too short to spend it in the same dull routine every day. Get out there... see the world, meet people, see what few others get the chance to see. Fill your luggage with airline ticket stubs, fill your passport with stamps, fill your hard drive with photo memories and your walls with framed prints. Live....
seen in botswana, near maun while we filled up our water tanks. i love this spirit and voice in this photograph ...
Still Life Still played a supporting set for Wild Beasts at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on 02/28.
Still-life image - played with to give it a 'lost in the attic' look...maybe!
A couple of texture layes and the edges messed with!
Best viewed on black!
Oh where to begin…
Well it has been some time since my last serious post, and whilst I do drop in from time to time to see how you all are in the flickrverse, I rarely leave any trace of my being here, and yet I often mean to let you know I have peeped into your visions, so perhaps the time is now…
At first glance this seems an innocuous shot…taken with a new camera of my old camera, with my even older one behind…the new camera will not replace the new camera, but this photo has been taken using a tablet enabled computer, giving a vision of the older that I never dreamed possible…
Now this shot may seem pretty simple, a camera on a cluttered work space…if only you had a wider view…and it seems, to me, to encapsulate so much…
The Canon 5D in the foreground represents an incredible amount to me personally, the transition from hobby photographer to professional photographer (can’t believe I let myself say that), the purchase of a tool that was directed at achieving a goal, my first full frame experience, a huge step along a road that seemed untraversable…
Behind sits the 10-20mm lens of the Canon 7D, my first tentative step into my new life, a camera that represented so much to me when I bought it, but is increasingly being shunted aside in my life as I use the other gear more…a camera that a mate really wanted me to buy as it represented a step away from a “past” an into a “new”…a mate that without whom this photo would never have been possible…
And behind to the left is the father’s day present my son gave me…the lopsided desk tidy with the holes that a pen will never fit in…with a fluted Perspex wave design that a million monkeys working a million years could never reproduce…beautiful for its utter uselessness.
Under the 5D sits the registration papers for my car…which I am trying to work out if I can afford to re-register again…a car that I bought with my ex after my first child was born (she is about to turn 17), a car that I have nursed through so much, that has nursed me through so much, the both of us held together with duct tape and staples…
And behind again is the pile of paperwork that sits gathering dust…the incomplete tax return, unpaid bills, child immunisation forms, unsigned legal documents and records of a life that could have been lived better…
And behind again is the window of the home Ihave built with a supportive and loving partner, one who sees all of the above, yet is still there beside me when I wake up in the morning…
....where will it end.
and the soundtrack to it all - www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5k5Bg0L07w