Posts Tagged ‘beauty’
beautifully rocky roads
Posted in Inspiration, On the Road, tagged beauty, colors, Inspiration, journeys, paths, Photography, rocks on April 4, 2014| 3 Comments »
sunset, like a wildfire
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, colors, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, sunset, textures, urban landscape on April 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, as the sun was setting, I decided to focus on the earth instead of the sky.
Between the angle of the light and the new color upon the budding bush outside my window, the branches did seem to have fiery glow.
That glow became a little less fiery after I stopped photographing the curtain as well.
But whether bark or cloth, it was all a beautiful sight in the fading sunlight.
david’s charge to solomon
Posted in Inspiration, tagged angels, art, beauty, bible stories, Copley Square, David, Edward Burne-Jones, Inspiration, licensing, muses, Photography, Pre-Raphaelite, retail, Solomon, stained glass windows, Trinity Church, William Morris on April 2, 2014| 1 Comment »
Detail from David’s Charge to Solomon Stained Glass Window, Trinity Church in Copley Square, by Burne-Jones and William Morris
Returning to the Trinity Church Book Shop are items with a detail I photographed from David’s Charge to Solomon, a stained glass window located in the church’s baptistry. The magnificent window was designed by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones and executed by William Morris Studios in 1882. These “four angels” are located in the upper left corner of the window. There they look down upon David, near the end of his days, as he instructs his son Solomon in how to move forward in life as a man and as a leader of his people.
Items currently available are magnets, mugs and postcards. Coming soon are totes and t-shirts. Visit the Shop to view these and many more lovely and thought provoking spiritual items at 206 Clarendon Street, Boston, in the heart of Copley Square. Shipping is possible. For more Book Shop information, click here. And to see additional details from the window David’s Charge to Solomon, please check out images 25-32 here. Better yet, if you’re in the area, take one of the excellent guided tours so that you can see the window firsthand. 😉
unfocused clarity, in a series
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, colors, creativity, imagination, Inspiration, light, Photography on March 20, 2014| 1 Comment »
I’m sure my mother would be appalled at how dusty I allow my windows to remain. Yet occasionally when I glimpse the morning, afternoon or evening light striking the chalky surfaces, what I see is a strange beauty.
And when such a sighting occurs … which is probably far too often … I try to capture something of what I see. I move fast and don’t think about camera settings, and so sometimes my camera is unfocused.
Or I purposefully try to zoom in ways that I know my little camera really can’t do but I do it anyway because I suspect I might see something really cool on the camera display. And I do.
What I see on the camera display will sometimes … not always, but sometimes … make me smile or make me wonder. No specific words will come to mind, just a sensibility that can sometimes be hard to explain. Those feelings are all the motivation I need to keep shooting for just a bit longer.
in the hallway, in morning light
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, home, indoor gardening, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, plants, rocks on March 19, 2014| 3 Comments »
the black bird
Posted in Branches, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, bird, Branches, Inspiration, landscape, nature, Photography, trees on March 15, 2014| 6 Comments »
more petals have fallen …
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, botanicals, colors, flowers, Inspiration, nature, petals, Photography, tulips on March 13, 2014| 3 Comments »
and so I hold them up to the light …
and let them spill upon the table.
Quite beautiful but I am glad that some petals remain upon the stem.
hot off the press: branches
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, art, beauty, books, Branches, Inspiration, landscape, nature, New England, Photography, trees on March 12, 2014| 3 Comments »
When I wrote the photo essay Branching Thoughts at the end of last year for Creativity-Portal.com I made some promises that I actually wasn’t sure I was going to keep, about being disciplined and stop putting off until tomorrow what I could conceivably do today. I love trees. I’ve always written about trees and once I picked up a camera I began photographing them, especially the branches. I’ve finally put together a big book of branches, a 108-page collection of images taken across Massachusetts. It is available as a soft cover book or PDF for $8.95. Click on any of the images below to check it out.
Branches Cover by Cynthia Staples
there are some pinkish petals in the house
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, flowers, Inspiration, nature, Photography, pink, pink tulips, tulips on March 12, 2014| 4 Comments »
Picked up a small bouquet of pink tulips on sale at the grocery store.
They are slowly opening up.
like a candle burning bright
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, flowers, imagination, Inspiration, nature, perspective, Photography, tulips on March 11, 2014| 4 Comments »
During the photo shoot for the white series, a petal became dislodged. And what an unexpected treat.
Words + Images 