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Some texture work of this wonderful p[lace on earth.
Rated the most beautiful place on earth by TV programs.
Have a great day and excellent week-end, everyone
out there in "Flicker World, where ever you are.
God Bless.
Thanks for all the comments and the invites, as they are certainly appreciated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ohnTKsaI4 - Eric Reed Trio, "I Should Care"
To tell you the truth, I cannot tell the difference between a plant we like and a weed. I'd like to believe there is meaningful difference - a biological or environmental one - besides "we simply don't like it or the way it looks." That would be shallow, wouldn't it? Quite human, but quite shallow nonetheless.
So, I don't know what this plant is, other than I found it visually interesting to me as I was shooting in the Natural Area behind my Office one afternoon. Admittedly though, simply being interesting doesn't guarantee that an image will get very much attention from me. I've many, many (yes, too many) such images that are simply languishing in folders on my hard drive; mainly forgotten through no fault of their own.
In the case of this image it just happened to pop up as I was doing some organizing work on folders after I saw one of the latest works of Jill, aka Borealnz - www.flickr.com/photos/borealnz/ - on flickr.
Jill's work lingers in my mind (consciously and subconsciously) and I've been a fan of hers since I first found her five or more years ago. She is a co-founder of Flypaper Textures, designs exquisite textures, and was an important early influence on me moving into the texture family, the way I approach texture use, and thus being where I am artistically today.
I so greatly adore her style (and that of others), and have wished to emulate it from day one, but I never could. But her use of high key imagery, light use of multiple textures in one image, and pastel-ish color palette, and what I call, "floating, off center compositions" still thrill me and make me go, "Ooo, I wanna' do that." Borrowing from each other by seeking genuine inspiration from each other, is one way we grow in so many ways in life.
So, having just seen Jill's work, and finding this image by accident, I said, "Hum, let's try to do a Jill today." (I speak like that to myself, "let's do a Jill, a Jamie [Heiden] - www.flickr.com/photos/jamieheiden/, or a Distressed Jewell - www.flickr.com/photos/jewellofdistressed/, today.") I found the "Ovid Banished" texture more or less by accident from my flypaper textures folder ( and a big folder that is - I think I have most of their textures), and here it is.
www.flickr.com/photos/bossbob50/8272730964/sizes/l/in/pho... - viewed large
Music: I've been on an Eric Reed kick as of late. He's a young jazz-piano guy and I'm kinda' catching up on his sound and how it has develped over the last 15 years, so I added that to this image as well.
There is, I feel, much exquisite partnership glowing continuously between improvisation and exploration in jazz and art (and, yes, in living too). I try to bring those feelings for improvisation and exploration to bear on my art and writing and yes, to my fishing too. I feel I am more successful at doing so than not.
Texture - "Ovid Banished," Flypaper Textures - flypapertextures.com/
Monday, July 11:
Worldwide Photowalk--Macro Textures Theme
"Macro Mondays" "Texture"
.Texture of a self-made acryl-painting.
Macro Monday's Theme: Decay
This was a white lily ... now shriveled, and placed on a window sill with peeling paint.
Textures from les brumes (189) www.flickr.com/photos/lesbrumes/3728614631/in/set-7215761... , Chasing Dreams/Summertime www.chasingdreamsphotography.blogspot.com/ , and Fly Edges (42) flypapertextures.blogspot.com/.
My new favorite scarf. The updated Flickr app for iPhone is pretty sweet, complete with processing tools and a free 3 month pro account to boot. I've obviously been away too long, but I'm back!
273/365 Work with textures
♪ Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward ♫
An October Astonishment
by Garth Gilchrist
1999
When I touched the yellow maple leaves
They entered me
Without my knowing
This morning after I'd picked them
I had their gold sweetness
In my veins
It was after holding them in my hands
Upon my skin
In the slant light dewy morning
Plunging my nose deep in amongst them
Wet and cold, snuffling
The autumn scent
Suffused into air and me
My eyes fixed on their open hands
Veined like mine
My fingers traced their fingers
Crimson stems in my palms
Conduits through which shape
And substance entered --
Mapleness
Only vaguely I sensed
Some ephemeral
Sap entering me
This morning, after
In my own bed I woke
Bathed full and swimming in yellow light
That hovers in and around
Smooth maple branches in late October
On crisp mornings
I'd fondled the seeds, too,
Fuzzy winged pods
Full of imperceptible roots
Bark and limbs
A million invisible leaves
I'd given handfuls to the waiting children
They went twirling
Whirling through the sky
Eager, alive with mapleness
Maybe for this
I woke that morning
Wholly content, pierced through
Astounded in my bed, wrapped
In the warm light
Of maples
(...)
Textures with my gratitude to Florabella and
Lenabem: Free texture - 38 Thank you so much Anna !!
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Texture courtesy of Lenabem-Anna www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/
www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/4953119279/in/set-7215...
Textures from TinaSea (Cream Linen) www.flickr.com/photos/tinasea/3833609267/in/set-721576217..., les brumes (texture/033) www.flickr.com/photos/lesbrumes/3341445230/in/set-7215761..., and Flypaper Textures (Marie Antoinette) flypapertextures.blogspot.com/.
My first try with a texture... don't know about the subject and the lighting...
I've used my wide angle sigma 10-20mm lens for this shot ...I don't have a macro one...not yet :P
hey there,
happy friday! my oh my......another week... gone...
happy to report the weather has improved here...the sun is shining bright.....
and I am trusting winter will not last forever. :)
We're giving a freebie texture away at Shutter Sisters today... come say hi... and share your fav textured photo with us. :)
I'm back from a couple weeks of little time for creativity & playing with a new texture I've been working on - not quite where I want it, but close.
texture courtesy of Kerstin Frank www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/
Het Markiezenhof www.markiezenhof.nl/