blue day... river of dreams river of tears by Juilee Pryor
another infrared image from the vaults that has been gently coloured to give it the emotional tone it needs. I shot this image and the ones that follow in the days after my father died. They were all taken while I wandered along the river Torrens in Adelaide near where he lived. This particular stretch of the river is particularly beautiful and was a place he loved to go walking with his cameras. So then this image is about memory and loss and also about redemption through beauty.
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Beautiful soft colour tones and texture, it really does look like a beautiful, peaceful place to take a stroll.
thanks Jennifer… yes it’s like it’s just begging you to lie down in the soft dense vegetation and dream a while…. like Alice in Underland…. being able to walk along here was what kept me sane at the time and now it’s kind of how I remember those couple of days of really intensity…. all soft and blue
– Juilee Pryor
Splendid work!
thanks Denis…..:)
– Juilee Pryor
It speaks of all those things juilee – beautiful
thanks Helene…. sometimes in memory it’s the colours and smells and things like that that serve as triggers later on down the track…. it’s over four years ago and only now can I find the distance I need to work through the photo’s I took at the time
– Juilee Pryor
this is really beautiful.
thanks sticky…. it’s almost not real… just the breath and echo of memory on a blue day…. just like the photo
– Juilee Pryor
beautiful juilee
xXx
thanks amanda…. ’priciate that
– Juilee Pryor
What a gorgeous tribute!
thanks darlin…. I found this pack of negs almost hidden the other day and have been scanning them…. and it’s like he is here with me while I do it…. looking over my shoulder talking softly about lighting and lenses and suchlike…. a gentle shot for a gentle man
– Juilee Pryor
very very beautiful work with great poignancy…
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thanks dinghy… funny thing about memory is that you just never know quite know when it’s going to strike or what will set it off…. but this little group of images is all about him…. bittersweet but still beautiful in their own way
– Juilee Pryor
Love this beautiful tone.
thanks Helen… it’s a solid grey day outside my window today yet it’s just perfect to have a little bit of blue memory… sad for the loss and yet so grateful for the gift of sight he pass on to me….. cheers darlin
– Juilee Pryor
Beautiful work created by the love for your father …………. I have a relation in Adelaide !
hello jomash and thanks…. yes love outlasts all things… it lives in memory and dreams and colours our very being…. thanks for looking….:)
– Juilee Pryor
very cool shot – love the treatment and the emotion
hello gorgeous…. it is a very cool day today really like the first day of serious winter…. all I have wanted to do all day is curl up and dream little dreams…. and all the work I’ve done today has been blue…. blue as soft dreamy dreams of memory and loss…. can’t really explain it
– Juilee Pryor