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Aftermath…

17 Sunday Feb 2013

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Storm

Winter storm Nemo is just getting started at 7:30 on a Friday evening in New England.

A winter storm in New England… a Nor’easter as well, with its spiraling bands of snow overhead and gale winds whipping the tides… sigh. An all too familiar set of circumstances here. We deal… that’s what we do. It’s inconvenient at best, a true pain if the power is out for any substantial length of time… but for once, in the case of Nemo, we all seemed more than ready for the work it takes to move it all out of the way so life could go one… just go on for goodness sake. We endure…
it’s what we do. Afterwards… it’s a different world for those of us who like to look really, really close.

Even before it's over...

Even before it’s over…

The garden doesn’t see to mind the new white blanket.

Shadows and light in the aftermath of the storm...

Shadows and light in the aftermath of the storm…

... play tricks on the eye and mind.

… play tricks on the eye and mind.

And familiar things in the world look different… look like other things even… a man sitting watching birds, or a graphic ocean wave from a Japanese woodblock print.

A red-tail hawk on my kitchen window.

A red-tail hawk on my kitchen window.

Storm surge in miniature in the corner of the window.

Storm surge in miniature in a frosted corner.

The Accidental Artist

08 Monday Oct 2012

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The Rusty’s Truck Series

My friend Rusty comes over and hunts out in the woods… during bow season in the fall. When he’s not doing that… or hanging out at the local village store/coffee shop/post office in our little town with the other “guys in pick-up trucks”… he’s up on somebody’s roof. Rusty is an excellent roofer and his truck can be seen in all the best driveways around town.

Strange Sun

Strange Sun – Rusty’s truck series

A few weeks ago, his truck was parked in our driveway… along with a few others as we got some house and yard projects taken care of. Rusty was here putting up staging on the roof for our local house painter. His truck and all his ‘roofin’ stuff was parked under my studio window. I stood staring down at years and years worth of worn wood and metal and paint and welding and rust, and grunge and… well, I just had to record some of all that amazing beauty that was right under my nose… literally!!

Untitled 1

Untitled 1 – Rusty’s truck series

After some friendly teasing about about my taking pictures of his creative welding techniques and a few examples of what I was capturing from the back of the camera preview screen… he was pointing out areas that might be good subjects for a shot. Soon, both he and the house painter were directing my efforts, offering drop cloths and paint buckets as possible subjects.

So… even my friend Rusty is an artist and he doesn’t know it! I hope he enjoys the gallery of images from the “Rusty’s Truck” series.

Carib Sunset ~ Rusty's truck series

Carib Sunset – Rusty’s truck series

Surfs Edge – Rusty’s truck series

Untitled 2

Untitled 2 – Rusty’s truck series

Deep View

Deep View – Rusty’s truck series

A-B-N

A-B-N – Rusty’s truck series

Playing with fire…

18 Monday Jun 2012

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Volcano 1

Volcano 1

In my ongoing and seemingly endless project of organizing my files, finding a way to work off the network that my husband and I both use… and do a little editing along the way when something interesting pops up in the files… I found a collection that I didn’t know I had! What a nice surprise. And… an odd subject as well which, makes them even more attractive to me. :) Volcanos!!!

I do realize that the hidden picture… or Accidental Image isn’t the most exciting of subjects… but, most people do identify with the phenomenon of seeing something that is an accidental occurrence… and recognizing it’s existence. The most common is perhaps the clouds that look like rabbits or profiles of people, angles or fish shapes. Just how common is it? Well, I host a group on the Redbubble site which is all about these hidden pictures and the membership has reached 800+ and there are are 16,300 images in the group collection!! Come visit the group and click on the “Gallery” in the menu to scroll through the image thumbnails. Click on any thumbnail to go to that images page.

So, here is my little collection of smokin’ mountains of molten whatever from the center of the earth… distant views with smoke spewing in metal, concrete, asphalt and a peeling paint diagram of magma tubes as plain as day. I hope I find some more!

Volcano 2

Volcano 2

Volcano 3

Volcano 3

Volcano 4

Volcano 4

Volcano 5 Magma flow

Volcano 5 Magma flow

The distraction of ‘found art’.

11 Monday Jun 2012

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In the act of fixing a chewed piece of woodwork (aren’t puppies wonderful!!) and after applying the necessary wood filler and sculpting an edge with handy pallet knives… and the necessary sanding, etc… I finally opened the almost empty gallon of white interior latex paint to finish the job. But, my progress ground to a complete halt with the discovery of a whirlwind of winter weather on the walls of the inside of the can of paint and the round lids as well. These kinds of images have become an obsession… I’ll make my husband wait at a gas station while I capture the peeling an crackling paint on the side of a rusting dumpster. But… this is the first time I’d been delayed by the fresh paint itself dried into wintery shapes and textures in the can it came in!! I share them with you…

A can of winter in the middle of June…

Whiteout

Whiteout

Lasting impression

Lasting impression

What we don't see

What we don’t see

Perceptions

Seasonal cold

Seasonal cold

Through glass eyes

18 Friday May 2012

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Cerulean World

Cerulean World

Recently, in the Facebook pages where my art school friends have found each other 40 years after we left school… the discussion (which is always spirited and interesting with very different views) has turned to the art/craft of glass… and specifically the work of Dale Chihuly. A few have weighed in with differing opinions on whether or not they like the work, the artist, the media attention, the color and style, etc. The discussion got me thinking about the glass I’ve photographed and how attracted I am to it’s properties of light and reflection… color and suspended movement. It’s endlessly varied… a wonderful medium for artists with the skill and patience to work with it. A quick review of some of my collection of images resulted in a small collection of glass works… only one of which is the work of Mr. Chihuly. (Do you know which one?)

Untitled glass 4

Untitled glass 4

Untitled glass 2

Untitled glass 2

Untitled Glass 1

Untitled Glass 1

Untitled glass 6
Untitled glass 6

Untitled glass 7
Untitled glass 7

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Hidden hearts

14 Wednesday Mar 2012

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Editing the latest group of photos from St Martin… the hidden hearts have surfaced… some I see at the time the images were captured and some afterwards, viewing the thumbnails of the files in my image processing workflow. I have many of them from everywhere I’ve traveled. There’s a large file of them tucked away amid the files of other various hidden images… (a special catagory of photography close to my heart.) But, for now… here is a small gallery of hidden hearts found on the recent trip… and a few from a trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (home town!) that I made recently. They are present everywhere and to find one… all you have to do is… look for them. Try it and let me know what you find…

More true love

09 Friday Mar 2012

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Hidden hearts

Hidden hearts

Now see… this is what I mean about true love… they find me everywhere. I think hearts are the most common shape that I find in just about every kind of surface and texture that I see. These were underfoot in the tile floor of this lovely house that I’ve been able to call home for the last two weeks. We’ve been coming to St Martin for the last 10 years… renting different houses and loving the different cultures here… Caribbean, Dutch, French… all sorts of folks make this place their home… and home away from home. It’s starting to feel like home to me, too…

 

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True love

09 Friday Mar 2012

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Regardless of how many vacation snaps I capture… or more arty landscapes, seascapes or still life compositions documenting a vacation trip. I always seem to have a much larger proportion of closeups of my true love… peeling paint! I’m drawn to it like a magnet… composing and adjusting for the correct DOF, focus and lighting. Add rust, scratches, plant parts, textures, rocks, tile, stone, concrete, wood and other surfaces too numerous to mention to the mix and you have a very full camera and vacation pictures that are a tad confusing to anyone casually looking at my files. My husband is used to me searching out the nearest dumpsters when were visiting some exotic local. Hey, exotic place = exotic grunge (theoretically)! For me… that’s where they keep the… ART!

Abstract peel

Abstract peel

 

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