Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category
and then there’s black and white (tulips)
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, art, black and white, flowers, Inspiration, nature, Photography, tulips on February 28, 2012| 2 Comments »
Bits of Color in the World
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, colors, Inspiration, light, musings, Photography on February 28, 2012| 3 Comments »
I almost feel like there’s a story in this image, of the sun shining through flowers, like a red orb rising.
Homage to O’Keeffe
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged art, bones, Georgia O'Keeffe, Inspiration, nature, Photography, roses, shells, tulips on February 26, 2012| 5 Comments »
The Tulip Shell
Rose Bones
To view some of O’Keeffe’s natural and still life forms, the inspiration behind these photographs, you might begin with The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
Okay, back to the flowers …
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, flowers, Inspiration, nature, Photography, tulips on February 21, 2012| 7 Comments »
Despite my pronouncement that I might be done with tulips, a dear friend surprised me with some. I took that as a sign that this photographic journey is to continue for a while longer. 😉
Warning: Reading the Bones
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged bones, deer, Inspiration, nature, Photography, skeleton on February 21, 2012| 3 Comments »
I found it as I walked around the small area that I sum up as “the parking lot,” a landscape composed of a parking lot in an office park surrounded by mounds of man-made green. When I first saw it upon the hill — a bit of white, bowl-shaped — I thought it simply litter. Perhaps a discarded jug of milk or even bleach. If you knew where to look you can actually see it in the above picture. I kept ignoring it. But as I walked around snapping photos of trees and leaves and rocks and brightly lit currents in the muddy stream, the light kept striking that white upon the hill. And finally my curiosity was piqued.
Old bones bleached white by time.
From the teeth, an herbivore, probably a white-tailed deer.
Carried in by a coyote? Unsurfaced by recent storms?
Most impressive to me are the patterns upon the skull.
Like rivers winding across the earth.
Just an unexpected find that makes one pause and wonder.
Swirls and Curls … at the Parking Lot
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Inspiration, landscape, nature, Photography, water, Woburn on February 19, 2012| 4 Comments »
Random Pics Around the House
Posted in Inspiration, tagged art, color, Inspiration, life, Photography on February 17, 2012| 3 Comments »
The Angel in the Living Room
The Pear in the Kitchen
Lace in the Bedroom
His Cookbook in the Light
New Tulips in the House
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged color, flowers, Inspiration, musings, nature, Photography, pink, tulips, white on February 16, 2012| 4 Comments »
Four days ago, when I entered the flower shop, one goal was to find white tulips to photograph. I finally selected a bouquet that looked mostly white with just a few petals here and there laced with pink. I figured that was okay.
But as the tulips sat in the kitchen window bathed in sunlight, more and more pink appeared across all of the flowery surfaces.
At first I was a bit chagrined. You see, my last experience with pink tulips had been fun but I really had been trying to photograph something different. Luckily, one of my mottoes in this life is “go with the flow.” 😉
Today, I noticed that the tulips had more fully opened revealing once more that interior beauty.
I really don’t have a flower budget, so I am not sure how many more bouquets of non-pink tulips I will try to buy. But I’ll ponder that challenge later. Right now, I’ll just enjoy the tulips that are present.
More Fun With Paper …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged art, collage, colors, Inspiration, nature, paper crafts, Photography on February 14, 2012| 7 Comments »
Art Repurposed … Beautifully
Posted in Guest Contributor, Inspiration, tagged art, cranes, culture, Japan, nature, origami, paper, Photography, storytelling on February 12, 2012| 3 Comments »
For a while, if you visit The Shop at Trinity Church in Copley Square, Boston, and wander over to the children’s section, you will see an array of paper cranes dangling from the ceiling…
… like a wave of birds in flight …
… colors bright and warm …
… shadows cast upon the ceiling in the wavering lights.
The birds were made by Anulfo Baez, a guest contributor on this site before. Upon learning that Shop staff were contemplating a new window display involving birds, he donated his origami creations. Several hundred in number, he had originally intended to make 1,000. Do you know the lore surrounding One Thousand Cranes?
Even if you do know, read Anulfo’s story, One Thousand Paper Cranes for Japan. While he did not reach his original goal, I think what he did create will bring a bit of brightness and joy into the life of anyone who has the opportunity to see his art repurposed.
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