Two of my favorite phrases that help me get through some days. 😉
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let go and go with the flow
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged animals, Charles River, colors, ducks, Inspiration, life, nature, Photography, reflection, water on October 10, 2014| 5 Comments »
african violets
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged african violets, beauty, colors, flowers, house plants, Inspiration, nature, Photography on October 9, 2014| 2 Comments »
My herbs aren’t doing so well, but the African Violets in their little nook in the kitchen … wow! 😉
of the images submitted for consideration …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, Photography Exhibits, tagged African American artists, art, Charles River, Inspiration, nature, photographic images, Photography, Riverside Gallery on October 9, 2014| 7 Comments »
… it was this photo of sunlit branches by the Charles River that was selected by the jurors. 😉 A framed print will be appearing in the Riverside Gallery’s 3rd Annual Juried exhibit, “African American Artists – Passion for a Lifetime – 2014”. I hope if you’re in the area you’ll drop by the opening reception on Sunday, October 26th, 3-5 PM. I’ve seen some of the other selected works and it is a beautiful and stunning mix of media and themes. The show will run through January 2015.
Other artists in this show include:
- Karen Eutemey – mixed media & watercolor images, to influence viewers’ way of looking at the world
- Pam Goncalves – printmaking and mixed media with textures, found objects, clay, fiber
- Cedric Harper – paint on wood with manipulation of language symbols and dreams, on totems & panels
- Derrick Jackson – photographic images from western national parks of wild western solitude
- Charles Janey – black & white photography of urban subjects and settings
- Catherine Joseph – fused glass with a color and design orientation, focused on manipulation & composition
- John Keys – photography revealing the wonder and spectacle of beauty in seemingly ordinary moments
- Annette McCarty – drawing & painting with a figurative focus and an eclectic composition technique
- Camille Musser – acrylic & oil painting focusing on Caribbean people, landscape, and issues
- Jamal Thorne – visualizations of the African American male experience in contemporary social culture
- Marquette Welch – photography & voices making a space for inner city youth to speak and be heard
- Taryn Wells – graphite drawings exploring the place of a multiracial individual in the world of racial identity
light on the floor
Posted in Inspiration, tagged architecture, art, Cathedral of the Holy Cross, churches, colors, design, Inspiration, perspective, Photography, stained glass, stained glass windows on October 8, 2014| 3 Comments »
Stained glass reflected on the stone floor at Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston’s South End. The actual stained glass windows I may post in the future.
the story in and of the glass
Posted in Inspiration, tagged architecture, art, biblical stories, churches, colors, creativity, design, Inspiration, National Historic Landmark, Photography, stained glass windows, storytelling, Tiffany on October 8, 2014| 3 Comments »
One of the reasons that I have come to love photographing stained glass windows is story. There’s the story of the building in which the window is placed. There’s the story of the people who commissioned the creation of the window. There’s the story that the artist and his or her team is asked to express in paint and layers of glass, and their artistic interpretation of that story. And then there’s the completed window and what story it actually conveys to each individual viewer across the generations.
These are details from the windows at Church of the Convenant, located on Newbury Street in Boston’s Back Bay. It is a National Historic Landmark built 1865-1867. Then, in the late 1890s, the sanctuary was completely redecorated by Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company.
It is still an active parish and they have put together a wealth of information detailing the story of the parish, the Gothic architecture of the building, and its Tiffany decoration.
There is an online tour of the windows and interior via this link. But, of course, if you’re in the area, definitely take the self-guided tour still available. The walking map provides interesting descriptions of the three Tiffany designers’ interpretations of the biblical stories they were to represent in glass.
And of the photographs I took during my most recent walking tour, following is an image that did not work out and yet I could not make myself delete it. So, I suppose such an action is part of the story of me.
More information available: http://www.cotcbos.org/
a new week and new works available
Posted in Inspiration, tagged architecture, art, church, colors, holiday cards, Inspiration, letter writing, Photography, Postcards, stained glass windows, stationery on October 6, 2014| 3 Comments »
autumn reflections in long pond
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, autumn, hiking, Inspiration, landscape, light, Long Pond, Middlesex Fells Reservation, nature, outdoors, Photography, reflections, water on October 6, 2014| 7 Comments »
just sunlight on a wall
Posted in Inspiration, tagged abstract, caustics, Inspiration, light, patterns, Photography on October 5, 2014| 2 Comments »
I was talking with my brother on the phone this morning. Since the two of us have been known to converse for quite a while, I found myself a chair. It’s the chair where I normally look through the rippled glass window …
but this morning my eyes rested upon a neighboring wall where sunlight played.
The show didn’t last for long, just long enough, and here are a few scenes from the drama.
just three leaves
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged colors, Inspiration, landscape, leaves, nature, Photography, three, trio on October 2, 2014| 1 Comment »
details from the new jerusalem window by john la farge, 1884
Posted in Inspiration, tagged architecture, art, churches, colors, design, George Nixon Black, Ieposolyma, Inspiration, John La Farge, New Jerusalem, Photography, stained glass windows, tours on October 1, 2014| 1 Comment »
You’ll find Ieposolyma-The New Jerusalem in an area known as the north transept of Trinity Church in Copley Square. It is an upper level window that rests beside another John La Farge masterpiece, The Resurrection (1902). The New Jerusalem was completed and installed eight years earlier in 1884.
As described by scholar James L. Yarnall in his biographical study of John La Farge, this window depicts “the vision of the New Jerusalem described in the book of Revelation. The design fused Byzantine architecture and Mannerist figures from Correggio with a dazzling array of jeweled opalescent glasses.”
If you’re in Boston, see firsthand how the sunlight shines through all of this magnificent glass — this window apparently contains every kind of glass La Farge ever used including pressed jewels, confetti glass, and opalescent glass. Tour information available here.
I tend to focus on the pieces that make up the whole, but if you search online you’ll find some photographs of the whole window, like this one.
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