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The town of Petworth was virtually deserted when visiting recently - this beautiful courtyard captured my imagination. It resonated for me as my metaphor for 2020.
Enticing beautiful plants and the glimpse of an open door to pass through - neither attainable because of the locked grilled gate.
The beach on Honeymoon Island is very rocky in many spots. Is that allegory or metaphor? I can never remember.
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There is a metaphor in here, somewhere. :-)
Chiavenna (Lombard: Ciavèna, Latin: Clavenna, Italian: Chiavenna, German: Cläven or Kleven, Romansh: Clavenna) is a city (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Milan and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Sondrio. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,263 and an area of 11.1 kilometres (6.9 mi).[1]
The municipality of Chiavenna contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Campedello, Loreto, Pianazzola, and San Carlo.
Chiavenna borders the following municipalities: Mese, Piuro, Prata Camportaccio, San Giacomo Filippo.
Chiavenna, the Roman Clavenna, was a town of Rhaetia, on the Italian side of the Alps, about 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the head of the Lacus Larius (modern Lake Como), at the foot of the Valle Spluga which leads up to the Splügen Pass. The Itineraries demonstrate that the pass was frequented in ancient times; as well as another, which separated from it at Clavenna, and led by a more circuitous route over to Curia (modern Chur), where it rejoined the preceding road. (Itin. Ant. pp. 277, 278; Tab. Peut.; P. Diac. vi. 29.) It was by one or other of these passes that Stilicho crossed the Alps in midwinter, a feat celebrated by Claudian (de B. Get. 320-358). After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire the city marked the northern limit of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy. Clavenna was retaken by the Romans in the mid-6th century during the reign of Justinian and avoided capture by the Lombards until the 7th century. Clavenna probably derived some importance from its position at the junction of these two passes, as does the modern town of Chiavenna, which is the chief town of the surrounding district.
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Saw these seed pods on my walk home from work and decided to really test the limits of my iPhone 12. Love the ephemeral quality of the subject.
One of my interests as a photographer is to attempt to blur the lines between metaphor & symbol.
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your breath at my throat is a feather tickling at my soul
submitted to 100 words
61/100 words: metaphor
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur,
Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur.
In Round 16 of Get Pushed, I was paired with Bart, D_Snapper. After reviewing my photostream, Bart saw that I love photographing people, but there was no still life. Not surprising really. More on that in a moment. Bart challenged me to photograph a purposeful still life, with the stipulation that it had to contain fruit.
Bart had noted that I was first a painter, and then a photographer. I actually earned my BFA in painting and printmaking, and after traveling overseas, I pursued my MFA before putting down my paintbrushes for good. What Bart didn't realize is that like many painters of realism, I taught myself light, form, composition and more through painting still lifes. I studied the works of Chardin, Claesz, Steenwyck, Cezanne, Harnett and Peto. I meticulously set up tableaus and lit them with incadescent clamp lights, sometimes working for days on the composition and light prior to touching a brush to canvas. This is how I learned light, color, composition. This is how I learned to see.
I have not tried to do the same in photography because I have not felt the need. To me, as a painter, a still life is an exercise, a learning tool. Perhaps though, I should do this more often. Solving problems in the viewfinder prior to opening the shutter may help me with my photography.
Momento Morte' is a Latin phrase that translates as "Remember Death." It is a theme prevalent in art, particularly still life painting, from antiquity. These types of still lifes are packed full of metaphor and symbolism. The skull, obviously represents death. The light from behind the drapery is a metaphor for life after death. The egg, the promise of rebirth. Liquor and grapes often represent the bounty and joy of life on Earth. The watch, of course, represents time ticking away. Candles also represent life if lit, death if extinquished. Books often represent knowledge and enlightenment.
Still life painting of this genre were commonly known as vanitas paintings. They were warnings that a person should not be concerned about earthly possessions and wealth. Vanitas paintings were often commissioned and purchased by the wealthy as tangible examples of their awareness that they could not take their wealth with them after death. Ironically, vanitas paintings became objects of desire and a vanitas themselves.
Thank you Bart for reintroducing me to my past for an evening. I may very well, in the future, set up still lifes to photograph. It was an illuminating exercise.
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. AB800 with gridded HOBD-W camera left. Reflector camera left. AB800 with Softlighter II behind drape. Triggered by Cybersync.