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This is a park I had been to many times and this particular day was looking like any other day. I wasn't seeing anything new to photograph. But then I saw the sprinklers. This wasn't new, but they created something different. I took shots of them like they were models on a fashion catwalk. I took all the pics in color as I always do but converted a few of them to b&w. (Cascade Locks area DSC_8553.jpg)
Tom and I met my mom and sisters in Michigan's famous "Christmas Town" (Frankenmuth) for the holidays last weekend.
This (and more) was featured in a blog post! I'd love it if you took a look at the whole set.
Luisa Romeo, "The Styx, A Stereo Window".
Oil on linen
161 x 161 cms
There's just something about that hand pointing at Luisa Romeo's painting. It reminds me of Michelangelo's hand of God, but that's as far as I go with that comparison. Perhaps I was thinking of the mythical underworld and the Styx that needed to be crossed once life in this plane ends.
But the reality is more mundane. There is indeed a Styx River in southern Tasmania. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_River_(Tasmania) And this painting reminds us of the old stereoscope slides from the past. Please do enlarge this photo and see the detail in her brushwork. I love the way she has captured the tannin rich waters, the result of button grass throughout much of Tasmania.
From the Catalogue:
"The preliminary drawings and photographic documentation were gathered where only a hundred metres away were scenes of major destruction and decimation of land through heavy handed forestry activities. The roads that were travelled to reach this sublime space, are the very same road networks that were established to cart away our very lifeline of existence. We have to consider the possibility these stereoscopes captured in oil and pigment will be the only way to view these landscapes in coming decades, assuming even they survive the wanton expansion of the human race. A reminder of what we could preserve from being mindful of the destruction caused by our collective narrow focus on fiscal gain prioritised over the earth's bounty of natural resources and beauty. What are we collectively losing from this practice of narrow focus financial gain?"
Plenty to debate there. I suspect the camera will have a bigger say than the brush, but that's a photographer's point of view.
A scene from the dress rehearsal of 'The Fairy's Kiss' at the Theatre Royal, which is one half of 'Stravinsky' by Scottish Ballet.
Mia Thompson is the dancer in red.
'Stravinsky' opens in Glasgow tomorrow, before touring to Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness. Details are here; www.scottishballet.co.uk/event/autumn-2017
Mating Common Darters (Sympetrum striolatum). LRWT Cossington Meadows Nature Reserve, Leicestershire.
It's a shame they couldn't have picked somewhere with a better backdrop!
Must admit spring into summer makes me feel like a child in a sweet shop! So many flowers to chose from. This poppy still had the sepal cover attached which is always fun I find.
Thanks for stopping
A week later and i made another trip to Bushy Park, ( Trip 6 ) in London. The Rut was showing signs of happening, although a bit low key.
This Common Mallard was making a Splash as it took a Water bath on the boating pond.
Image best viewed in "lights out" L key.
How are you charging into the new week? Full speed ahead and making a splash? When it comes to wildlife photography, we live up to our name - always trying to capture the best ACTION!
Grey Heron, getting out of the water after an unsuccessful fishing dive at Etherow Country Park.
Another shot of it having a good shake in the comment below.
[RP Pic] "Crossing into Idaho without much in the way of trouble. Things are still pretty wild out here, but I haven't seen any Infected yet or had much trouble with thugs. Lotsa dry bones alongside the old highways though, a testament to the fact that while civilization may be making a come-back; it hasn't reached here just yet."
This large cement tank is our water supply at our beach shack. There was a green mark on the cement where someone had cleaned their paint brush when we bought the place. I thought that I would cover the mark with a mosaic. What a big job that turned out to be, but it is now completed. The grandkids did the rock and shell section for the sand and if you look carefully just to the right of the two pipes there is a tiny glass bottle with a message in it that has "washed up on the beach". The mosaic was done with tiles, glass, beads and a couple of ceramic fish!!
1564AD, Watnedalth Tam, Near Borrowdale, Lake District, England. Shepherds use graphite sticks to mark their sheep.
A few years before this an enormous deposit of graphite has been discovered near the Seathwaite hamlet. This particular deposit of graphite is extremely pure and solid. It is found to be easy to saw into sticks and at first is covered in string and animal skin.
From this discovery pencils as we now know are developed and the pencil industry is born in nearby Keswick. This was and remains the only deposit of graphite ever found in this solid form.
Spent the past week taking the grader into the hills driving high on top of the ranges, making tracks.
... sticks have been rubbed ... now the sparks are being used to ignite the straw. Damaraland, Namibia
Making a rare appearance, Thunderbird 'Lady Penelope' was turned out for today's Bescot UES to Toton North Yard trip.
All material copyright Jack Taylor.
Actual sky - not black and white
An amazing sky afternoon where the sky changed dramatically every 5-15 minutes. Starting with dull, soft grays to a basic sunny sky with clouds then back to grays. It began to build more interest, then this scene, which was followed by rain with wind shaking the car, then dramatic layers of smoky dark gray on top blending down to lighter grays and white and blue, followed by an amazing blue with all sorts of cloud shapes. And then it more or less repeated this cycle but this interesting curtain effect was unique to the day's events.
...20 minutes earlier
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The light on this looks slightly surreal, but just a couple of minutes before the arrival of this train the setting sun had dipped below the bank of cloud, the end of a weather front, and bathed the top of the station buildings in golden light, which is just still visible on the station tower and one chimney top, but with much foreground shadow. Very quickly though, the lighting was quickly more balanced for the composition, but the sky was still quite dramatic as DB Cargo 60059 'Swinden Dalesman' appeared and was throttled up through the station with a clear road ahead, disturbing the early evening peace of Lincoln City; the 17:13 Lindsey Oil Refinery to Kingsbury Oil Sidings on Thursday 21st September 2017.
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