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How do creative professionals who are paid to think outside the box express themselves? At Corey McPherson Nash, we do it inside the box—a shallow, glass-topped, wooden box, to be exact.
14 years ago we resuscitated the quaint craft of shadow-box making and turned it into a company ritual. The rules are simple: Don't go outside the box, and don't put anything living inside the box. But the object is ambitious: to provide a hands-on tutorial in Corey McPherson Nash's organizational culture. "Our basic operating principle is to define broad goals, supply a little structure, and then give people the freedom to do creative work."
With the shadow boxes, that principle has produced wildly diverse visions. Among the completed boxes: a vivid frightscape, complete with a crank for animating dancing-devil cutouts; a meditation on "what it could have been," featuring a loose marble and a list of design possibilities; and Tom Corey's own taxonomy of "bad seeds."
The Ryssby Church is located on North 63rd Street in Boulder County near Nelson Road, west of Longmont, Colorado. It was built from dressed field stone to serve the Swedish Families that worked the lands out here. They must have had a great affinity for all the rocks they found in the soil out west of town. Just like back home. Those same families continue to worship here and maintain the church and cemetery over all the decades. In accordance with the Elders' lifestyles, the church has a quite austere interior. The Swede Lakes stand unseen in the background to the right.
Eddie and I passed this up the other day when the sky did not warrant but Eddie revisited it later when the skies cooperated for a few minutes. December 26th proved to be a purely Colorado day and Eddie rolled me out just as the skies were burning off to some artistic cloud structures. We were scouting for shots under this sky. After all, we can't let days like this pass us by!
Eddie was stuck over at his venue but I chased, then crawled (like a reptile) across the ground until the clouds aligned. I think this shot integrates the rays from the clouds, without contrails for some reason, as the shadows of the surrounding trees rise to meet them. We were about to lose the low, stark light that created these shadows. At the same time Eddie was whining about pruning the branches. I'll bring my WoodZig for him next time so he'll shut up. I, myself, on the other hand, am seldom that formal with branches. Subsequent shots allowed this particular cloud structure to steeple. other opportunities, we still had time left to evaluate Ryssby Church. I noticed how the skies accentuated the first shot of the Steeple and church entrance itself so I waited again until the clouds reassembled behind the cross at another spot. This is served up as two RAW, one transparent Alpha Channel, layers. Eddie has posted another. Heh,heh. Now he is whining about his auto-focus, which I turn off. We'll see if his powder is dry? It may be he will have to learn something about Genuine Fractals to save his butt.
Even in this dry autumn that is stretching nearly into January, we puttered the back roads with the windows open. The colors that are left are the usual late autumn low sunlight colors as befit Colorado. Isabella Bird commented on the sere seasonal colors in the Longmont area when she visited in the Nineteenth Century.
Done in Ai, Finalized in Photoshop.
Nyxara Virellith is the immortal Empress of Ashen Thorn, an ancient realm long consumed by shadow and silence. Once a seer of starlight, she was twisted by betrayal and bound to the underworld through a blood pact with a dying god. Her beauty remains untouched by time, but her soul is veiled in vengeance.
Crowned with a chaotic tangle of obsidian horns — each one grown from her own wrath — she wears the Skull of Silence, a relic said to whisper the last words of those she has condemned. Her amber eyes burn like molten gold, seething with ancient fire and eternal knowledge. Black arcane markings branch across her face like cursed vines, a manifestation of the thorns she commands — both literal and magical.
Her gown, woven from the silk of nether-spiders and embroidered with veins of stardust and sorrow, billows like smoke around her. Candles forever follow in her wake, burning in her name without wick or wax — lit by pure fear.
Nyxara does not speak often. When she does, the dead listen.
Shadow on the grass of public art sculpture "Act" by William King. For more info on the artist see williamkingsculpture.net/
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this is an old photo that I took of Violet when she was about 4 months old :) it's a fave pic of mine
We have had lots of clouds and rain. Few chances for outdoor shadows and didn't try indoor shadows.
ODC
Shadow or Shadowed
Polina poses against the wall in a orient styled dress. The shadows are making the patterns very unique and lively.
I was photographing some shadows on the wall (as you do) and this guy stopped to watch - so I shot his shadow too......
Thinking of shadows today for the daily shoot, I tried this new look ... with thick lips and winky eyes with the help of some leaves. I am wearing a scarfe, hence the neck goitre ...
Taken with iPhone3GS..
An infrared shadow-selfie down at the Pinnacles, Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
Only in Portland can you see both the Winter and Summer shadows of a tree at the same time. In the example above the deathly dark bare Winter shadow of the right foreground tree is cast across the center of the building behind it, while it's more colorful Summer shadow - shifted by the sun's more northernly location in the sky in Summer - appears to the right of the Winter shadow. Can you guess where in Portland these seasonal shadows can be seen? The Full Seasonal Shadow Experience. i4s271
The shadows (detail) by Andrey Zakirzyanov
oil on canvas
150x130 cm
2002
My animations & videoart here - www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F07F0FC9A199F76B
No real action just me scrambling around looking for an abstract! It's a floor light standing in the shadow!
Flickr Lounge - Weekly Theme (Week 42) ~ Abstract ....
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