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"Lure/Wave, Grand Rapids (Lure/Forest)"
ArtPrize 2010, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Beili Liu, Third Place = $50,000
Inspired by the ancient Chinese legend of the red thread "when children are born, invisible red threads connect them to the ones whom they are fated to be with. Over the years of their lives they come closer and eventually find each other, overcoming the distance between, and cultural and social divides. A disk may be connected to another, as a “couple”, and each pair is made from a single thread. Every coil is pierced in the center by a sewing needle."
Click here for newspaper article
I have been contacted by Beili Liu, the installation artist who made Lure/Wave, requesting that people who took images of her artwork, copyright their images (I typically copyright my images but this image was entered in the ArtPrize 2010 Flicker Contest and one of the guidelines of the contest was to have an Attribution Creative Commons License). Please be aware that the license on this image has been changed to copyrighted per her request. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact me.
In the last few weeks I have spent so many days and hours immersed in children's portraits and group shots, candid expose shots of life within a classroom, band rehearsals for the school play, musicians playing, children performing and capturing it all for various different people and reasons, that it was nice to take those two lens' off the camera and pop the macro lens on and take simple, unplanned, shots of some threads left over from sewing lying beside me on the table as images downloaded onto the computer.
For me, today, it's nice to just look at something simple, not worry about exactly how in focus - or out of focus - a shot is and whether I've got the hair just right for that chid, or the essence of caterpillars walking across a stage.
Today simple and stark is just what I need.
Today, unprocessed is what I need. Straight out of camera.
Photo : My Westie : Bobby.
He decided to dress as a fairy .LOL!!!
I hope you like the little video I did.
HUgs,1Westie and Master Bobby .xxxx
Link to June thread 2025.
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The toughest part of getting this shot was getting the thread between the two sides of the opening in the needle!
Mum brought 80 million serger thread cones for me. She claims to have picked only the colours she won't use out of her stash. Conveniently for me, they're some of my faves.
This is simply a threaded water/sewer pipe that is sticking up in a ditch. I probably should have found a way to clean off the dirt but by the time I could have done that, I would have lost the light that attracted me in the first place.
Rather warm this morning but slightly damp so for OK for exhaust. A revitalised 73156 approaches the A6 road bridge with the first train of the day.
I got sick of having to look in boxes for my embroidery threads so I decided to re-vamp my postcard wall and have them on permanent display for easy selection.
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Explore - May 26, 2009 #434
Fotografia também é parte do meu trabalho.
Photography is also part of my job.
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floss or thread or cotton? i love it when things have so many names.
cleaning at the moment. not just this room. lots of things that make it feel like life cleaning, you know? probably spring induced. which is just fine by me.
09.04.08
blogged here.
I love embroidery threads. This is not a collage of my personal stash - I think I have more. Hopeless. June 29014
a mere fraction of my threads...most are hidden away in a drawer of the card catalog.
needlework picture is by the grandmother of my good friend from georgia, holly.
Short video tutorial on how to make a 7 wrap thread crochet bullion stitch.
I find that three things help me in making bullion stitches:
#1: I make sure the wraps are evenly side by side against my crochet hook, snuggled together.
#2: When I yarn over, I yarn over at least 1/2 inch away from the wraps and then I pull the thread through the wraps. (the extra thread that you skip winds up in the middle of the bullion stitch)
#3: I hold the wraps gently but firmly in place with my left hand as I pull the thread and crochet hook through the middle of the bullion stitch.
.. of merino wool and silken steel...
.. of simple rows back and forth...
entwined
[Threads of delicate merino wool and silk wrapped steel in vintage gold, entwined to form patterns of texture, light and transparency.
Threads interconnecting as unstructured stitches come together to create a soft metallic wrap.
Threads pulled through loops in a hazy, simplistic ritual that has soothed and calmed the mind, body and soul.
Threads of luminous magic.]
Shop floor of the factory in Itajaí, Santa Catarina that manufactures clothing for my son's growing beachwear business, Santacosta.
Thick threads hanging from the frayed edge of upholstery fabrics in the workshop.
A big thank you to Sam from St Morris Upholsterers who let me wander freely around his workshop and shop taking these photos. See also their Facebook page St Morris Klassik.
Got a change to visit one factory last night and saw these beautiful thread line up .these are natural silk threads
An image I took for a challenge "Inanimate Macro". I was pretty pleased with the final result, considering I don't have an actual macro lens.
The EXIF data is somewhat deceiving, as there was a reversed 50mm 1.8 in front of the mounted lens. This gives the macro ability and only provides a very shallow DOF. I might try this one again one day with focus stacking to get a better DOF.
Strobist Info:
- 580 EX II camera right. Shot into an umbrella from about 2 ft. away.
- Triggered with 7D in camera