Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category
a recent rose gold sky
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, Uncategorized, tagged beauty, colors, Inspiration, nature, Photography, sky, sunset, urban landscape on January 12, 2017| 2 Comments »
coming soon
Posted in Inspiration, Uncategorized, tagged art, beauty, Inspiration, Photography, religious art, stained glass windows on January 11, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Coming soon I will share words and images from my brief journey inside St. Paul Church in Cambridge, MA. These are photos of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist.
details from transfiguration
Posted in Inspiration, Uncategorized, tagged architectural tours, art, beauty, design, Henry Holiday, Inspiration, Photography, religious art, stained glass windows, transfiguration on January 11, 2017| 3 Comments »
Three years ago on this blog, I wrote about Henry Holiday’s depiction of the Transfiguration in the stained glass window located at Trinity Church in the City of Boston. At the time I was particularly interested in the position of the hands in his window though my research revealed to me that he was especially noted for his execution of drapery.
With a new lens and new perspective I’ve been revisiting the window, and I begin to understand what I read about his work with cloth in glass.
These images are from the top of the window. What’s amazing to me is that much of this detail you cannot see with the naked eye.
And yet the whole of what you see from the ground is quite stunning.
Read an earlier post here: https://wordsandimagesbycynthia.com/2013/10/07/holidays-tranfiguration/
View the window for yourself at Trinity Church: http://trinitychurchboston.org/art-and-architecture
and in the sky …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Arnold Arboretum, beauty, Emerald Necklace, Inspiration, moon, nature, Photography, trees on January 9, 2017| 1 Comment »
in the waters at the arboretum
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Arnold Arboretum, beauty, Emerald Necklace, Inspiration, landscape, nature, Photography, water on January 9, 2017| 1 Comment »
not quite sunrise
Posted in Inspiration, tagged beauty, ice, Inspiration, light, Photography, windows, winter on January 8, 2017| 4 Comments »
The icy patterns that form on the inside of the windows in the old house where I live. The first time this season. Now it feels like winter. 🙂
in copley square near sunset
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, clouds, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, sky, sunset on January 6, 2017| 1 Comment »
I asked a certain physicist to help me understand what happened in the sky near sunset in Copley Square. We discussed the interplay of light and shadow. How the sun below the horizon was illuminating the clouds from below. How the sharp line in the sky might result from shadows cast by something on the horizon. Then of course there were the clouds at different altitudes. Shorter wavelength blue light scattered out. Longer wavelength red light left behind. In the end all we could agree upon was that it was beautiful.
The sun set today in Boston at 4:27 pm.
near sunset
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Inspiration, nature, Photography, sunset, trees on January 5, 2017| 4 Comments »
winter patterns
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Lynn Woods Reservation, nature, patterns, Photography, urban landscape, water on January 5, 2017| 3 Comments »
During a brisk walk through the Lynn Woods Reservation: http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/citydepartments_lynnwoods.shtml
an uncommon beauty
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, birds, fowl, Inspiration, nature, wild turkey on January 2, 2017| 1 Comment »
A fine figure strutting with its flock in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Words + Images 