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Its nearing the time of year when the Heather starts to bloom carpeting the hillsides with a blaze of colour.
She stood where the sea kissed the fading light, a quiet silhouette against the golden sky. The waves whispered stories around her feet, soft and endless, like time gently folding into itself.
There was a stillness in her presence — not empty, but full. Full of wonder, of quiet strength, of the kind of beauty that doesn't need to be spoken. Nature adored her, framing her in its finest hues, holding her in the last embrace of day.
And in that moment, she wasn’t just watching the sunset — she was the promise that tomorrow would rise just as beautifully.
We braved the heat for a walk at Meadowlark Gardens yesterday. Grabbed just the one shot of this lovely Eastern Swallowtail before it took flight.
From my archives, I shot this last September and had ignored it ever since. The same shoot yielded another image that I posted to Flickr at the time.
My intention was to capture the late dusk atmosphere and today, with a little tweaking in post, I think I nailed it.
The clouds are illuminated by the spilled lights of the cities of Los Alamos and Española.
Scenery at Senjojiki. The "Senjojiki Cirque" is a semi-circular basin carved by glacial action, in the Central Alps of Japan.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
105mm; 1/125 sec; f/8; ISO 500
Canada geese fuzzy babies at Brookside Gardens. There was a guy in full camo, complete with cape over his head and camera - massive lens attached - taking pics of them. I felt decidedly underdressed and under equipped ha
Another shot from my visit to the rose garden in a nearby park,
I took advantage of the low afternoon sun while working with the flowers and I was pleased with the results.
I was pleasantly surprised at how nicely this Tamron zoom lens rendered the out of focus background.
From last summer. Monsoon clouds had drifted over the Valley of the Gods and poured some scattered showers on to the landscape. Fortunately I didn't get wet but it made for some interesting light as the storms moved on.
Sitting here at home, going through my backlog of images with cold temperatures outside, I'm again longing for summer.
Patrick Neu is an artisan at heart. For many years, he has worked at Europe’s oldest crystal factory, 1586 Saint Louis, located in Alsace, a region that excels in refined crafts. His free work focuses on fragility and impermanence. He consciously chooses ephemeral materials and thus manages to create art that is technically stunning, but aesthetically remains sober and understated. For this biennial, work has been selected that gives a surprisingly fresh twist to Christian iconography, without losing sight of its deep layers.
Source: www.h3hbiennale.nl/en/kunstenaars/patrick-neu/
Meesterwerken uit de westerse kunstgeschiedenis zijn met behulp van rook accuraat nageschilderd op kabinetkasten en kristalglazen. Schilderijen van onder meer Jeroen Bosch, Hans Holbein de Jonge, Dirk Bouts en Peter Paul Rubens zijn teruggebracht tot kleine afbeeldingen, uitgekrast in een laagje roet. Deze transparante schilderingen wachten als enigma’s om ontcijferd te worden. Wie er geen oog voor heeft, ziet smerige glazen en kasten die een poetsbeurt nodig hebben, zoals wel vaker opmerkelijke dingen aan de aandacht ontsnappen wanneer je oppervlakkig leeft.
Ontdek in het roet Christus in zijn graf, de Judaskus, Maria Magdalena, de kruisafname en schilderingen over de dolende, hedonistische mens zoekend naar vertier in wereldse genoegens en lichamelijk plezier. Rook is een betekenisvol ‘materiaal’. In de bijbel is het bijvoorbeeld een symbool met uiteenlopende betekenissen, zoals transformatie, zuivering en de aanwezigheid van God. Ook wordt het geassocieerd met offers. Met deze serie werpt Patrick Neu nieuw licht op het Vanitasgenre, kunstwerken die herinneren aan onze sterfelijkheid. Net als het leven kan een roetschildering met één vingerbeweging uitgewist worden. De term ‘vanitas’ vindt zijn oorsprong in de Bijbel, waar het Hebreeuwse woord staat voor ‘rook of damp’ en werd gebruikt om de zinloosheid van aardse zaken aan te duiden. In het Latijn betekent het ‘ijdelheid en leegheid’. Patrick Neu: ‘On est là que du passage, on est fragile mais on oublie’ (We zijn hier slechts passanten, we zijn kwetsbaar maar we vergeten dat).
Bron: www.h3hbiennale.nl/kunstenaars/patrick-neu/
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Happy Fence Friday
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From my archives, March 2022!
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No sleigh needed. Echo and Teddy loved their snow day, even though it was just a few inches deep. As soon as they came inside they were begging to go out again - all day long.
He came up to our door where we stayed, rested there and posed for some shots and ..... we went back to this place in September but he was nowhere to be seen..... when I look at his eyes I feel an emptiness in me.
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Fog is a common occurrence in many parts of the world, but not here. This was the first day this year that my land was in a cloud. I took this on Dec 30. So naturally I dressed warm and headed out into the forest where I live to look for subjects.
This view is about a 100 feet from my house. I refuse to cut down this this dead tree because I've used it many times as a foreground for all kinds of shots, from Milky Way images to fog.
Vintage Nikkor H-C 85mm f 1:1.8.
A short hike by a nearby creek yielded this image. I wasn't actually there to photograph this kind of stuff, I went there to capture flow patterns in the water close up. But it turned out I still have a lot to learn shooting that. In the end I shot something that I feel comfortable with: Out of focus highlights or bokeh balls. If you look closely, you might discern the swirl pattern that this lens produces.
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During our holiday in 2023 we loved to sit down under this tree, next to our little caravan!
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I took this image in early July, when a break in the monsoon pattern gave me a clear night.
I refrained from using my usual light painting technique, it made this two shot panorama easier to do.
Instead, I incorporated the the light coming from the porch of my other house to give some definition to the foreground
The light that is illuminating the sky on the right side is light pollution from one of the outlying neighborhoods of Santa Fe. Every year it seems to get worse.
But I thought a silhouetted tree against the brighter part of the sky worked well in this circumstance.
It is my aim to preserve and convey the feeling of night time in my images, the stillness and the wonderment that I experience under the stars.
Which is another way of saying: It's so awesome to be under the night sky, dude!
Teddy and Echo weren’t all that interested in posing for the camera, not when it was interrupting their beach walk!
Half Dome is a quartz monzonite batholith at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California. One side is a sheer face while the other three sides are smooth and round, making it appear like a dome cut in half. It stands at nearly 8,800 feet above sea level and is composed of quartz monzonite, an igneous rock that solidified several thousand feet within the Earth. At its core are the remains of a magma chamber that cooled slowly and crystallized beneath the Earth's surface. The solidified magma chamber was then exposed and cut in half by erosion, therefore leading to the geographic name Half Dome. (Wikipedia)
i had some visitors today.
A mixed flock of Robins and Cedar Waxwings came by and gorged themselves on the cedar berries right by my house. I couldn't resist and took out the camera and fired away..