Posts Tagged ‘blue’
playing the blues
Posted in Inspiration, tagged blue, colors, Inspiration, Photography, porcelain, silk on October 29, 2018| 3 Comments »
blue
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, blue, flowers, gardening, Inspiration, nature, nature photography, Photography on September 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »
how I deal with writer’s block
Posted in Inspiration, tagged abstract, blue, colors, fun, glass, Inspiration, Photography, writer's block on November 4, 2016| 1 Comment »
I slowly move away from the computer. I find my camera and then begin to meander about the house looking for … looking for anything to photograph. Yesterday I settled on a large blue goblet picked up at an antique store for $3.
I photograph without purpose until purpose finds me. In this case I began to focus on the beautiful irregularities in the glass. Did doing so solve the writer’s block?
Not sure. Time will tell. But it was a good moment, to lose myself in the blue.
blue water
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, blue, carnation, colors, flower, Inspiration, Photography, water on August 25, 2016| 2 Comments »
A random find in the grocery store. A few stems of carnations dyed blue. Once home, spritzed with some water and left to open in the sun.
in search of noontide blue
Posted in Inspiration, tagged blue, colors, Inspiration, Phillips Brooks, poetry, sonnets, truth on August 22, 2016| 3 Comments »
There was an American man named Phillips Brooks who traveled abroad to Europe, and as he traveled he wrote in his notebooks, and in one of those notebooks, as he traveled in Germany, he wrote the following sonnet. Since reading it, I have wanted to seek out what he refers to as noontide blue.
The heaven of Truth lies deep and broad and still
And while I gaze into it, lo, I see
Some human thought, instinct with human will,
Gather from out its deep serenity.
Awhile it hovers, changes, glows, and fades,
Then rolls away; and where it used to be
Naught but the heaven of Truth from which it rose
Looks down upon me deep and broad and free.
So have I seen, shaped in the noontide blue,
A floating cloud attain to gradual birth,
And then absorbed in that from which it grew
Leave only the great Sky which domes the earth.
What are men’s systems, thoughts, and high debates
But clouds which Truth creates and uncreates?
— Phillips Brooks, 1882
light through the white willow
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged blue, Boston Public Garden, Inspiration, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape on May 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
playing the blues
Posted in Inspiration, tagged abstract, blue, colors, Inspiration, oil painting, Photography, play on March 28, 2016| 1 Comment »
Even though I don’t know technically how to oil paint that doesn’t prevent me from occasionally picking up a brush and playing with the hues.
And what do I produce? Usually a mess.
Or in this case what I call my little yellow bird in a blue jacket.
😉
branches in the arboretum
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Arnold Arboretum, beauty, blue, Branches, colors, Inspiration, Photography, trees, urban landscape on March 21, 2016| 1 Comment »
mystic river blues
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, blue, colors, Inspiration, Mystic River, nature, Photography, urban landscape on March 19, 2016| 1 Comment »
the bluest eye
Posted in Inspiration, tagged animals, blue, cats, colors, felines, Inspiration, kittens, nature, Photography on November 29, 2015| 3 Comments »
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