An early morning view of the Glasshouse Mountains. Pentax *ist DL , Sigma 18-200mm DC lens @ 26mm. Aperture priority f/14, 0.3s, ISO 200, spot metering, 2.00eV. Photo taken in RAW processed in ACDSee Pro.
Surrealism. In the course of every day life one is always confronted with having to make a choice about something. For every choice one makes, one must be prepared to pay the consequence. Adam and Eve had a choice. You can always think what the consequence may be in the land of Bryce. / © Dave Moilanen 2007
This wonderful oak tree is located in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains in Southern California. All the original limbs have been broken off by the snow loads of winter storms. The present limbs were regrown over the years. Photo taken during a blowing snowstorm.
Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
oil on canvas Heather Rivet nominated this piece for the “Pay it forward” group. Thanks Heather! Her comment was ” because it is outstanding work…original in concept..and the detail is amazing. http://www.redbubble.com/people/cheekers
I actually drew quite a few years ago. It is of course, Based on Michelangelo Buonarroti’s “The Creation of Adam” from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. There is no doubt in my mind that if the man were alive today and saw this, he would scream at me in a language I don’t understand while using cuss words appropriate to his period, then possibly call me a heretic and damn me to an eternity in hell. I thought it was funny though.
Another collaboration with the fabulous Mel Brackstone http://www.redbubble.com/people/melbrackstone Ive run out of name the picture ideas!
Resources: NaivetyStock and sxc.hu
I keep searching for a sign / That you are waiting for us / So many times have I looked twice / A face that I thought was yours / I am always looking Your time in this life was so short / Never has something affected me so / I try to move on / I will never forget you / You are always in my prayers / We will never forget you Our captain / Our heart / 10 years has passed / It still breaks my heart / But I will never forget you I carry it with me / A burden / My cross / I carry it for you / I always will Could it get less heavy? / Only time will tell / But 10 years has passed / I miss you mate / I will never forget you Yes, I saw it / It’s always been there / I didn’t miss it / We will meet again / In the after life 21.08.98 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— The famous Dog Rocks is in Batesford near Geelong, VIC. Canon 40D w/ EF-S 10-22mm / ISO: 100 / Aperture: f/22 / Shutter: 1/2 sec Thank you to the anonymous person who purchased a framed print / Thank you to Adams parents who purchased a framed print / Thank you to the anonymous person who purchased a canvas print Dog Rocks Calendar
Kootenay River, (National Park) B. C., Canada.
Photo of the S.S. Dicky at Dicky Beach Caloundra Queensland Australia. Taken with a Pentax *ist DL with a Sigma 18-200mm lens at 75mm. f32 6s ISO 200 spot metering, graduated neutral density filter. Full moon rising coinciding with the sunset.
Lt. General Wade’s Bridge at Aberfeldy in the Breadalbane region of Highland Perthshire (Breadalbane means “Highland Scotland” in Gaelic). Shot taken on Saturday 20th December 08 in the middle of our winter. Designed by William Adam, Scotland’s best architect. The total cost was £3,596 or, in today’s terms, over £1m. ”... a freestone bridge over the Tay, of five arches, nearly 400ft. in length, the middle arch 60 feet wide, the starlings of oak and the piers and landbreasts founded on piles shod with iron….” (House of Commons Journal, 7th February 1734). The bridge was first opened to traffic at the end of October 1733. Wade regarded it the greatest of his considerable achievements in road-making. In 9 years he had personally supervised the construction of over 250 miles of military roads in the Highlands – the first engineered roads in Britain since Roman times. lt is now the only one of Wade’s 35 major bridges to remain in use as a public highway. Built for 18th century wheeled carriages, it survives to the 21st century as a great memorial to a great roadbuilding engineer. Wade’s Bridge is a Category A listed structure of historic importance (HB Number 20861) under the care of Historic Scotland. The River Tay, Scotland longest river, meanders across Scotland from Loch Tay before flowing out to sea at the Firth of Tay. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at: Highland Scotland. Featured in : HDR Photography : 21 Apr 09 / Sold a Matted Print on 21st May 09 / Featured in : Heritage Listed and Other Trusts Sites World Wide : 22 Aug 09 /
model: adam / (featured in the group-featuring the shadows photography and strictly human faces)
. i’ll give you the most delicious kiss / i need you to be addicted to me / and i will be your eve… . o3.2o.2oo9 / charcoal on pastel paper / digital .
Original Oils on Canvas using the wet on wet technique made famous by the late Great Bob Ross.One of the Most popular images I have ever painted,and I have lost count of the amount of cards I have sold of this piece. / Enjoy.(Bob-Ross-Technique)
Canon EOS 30D/Canon EF 24-105 L f4 Winner of the Twilight…the book… Challenge in “The Woman Photographer” group. Winner of the Mirror Mirror on the Wall…Who is the Fairest one of All? Challenge in the “First Things” group. Winner of the Twilight Challenge in the “First Things” group. Placed in Top 10 of the Flaming Red Challenge in the “The Woman Photographer” group. Placed in Top 10 of the Food for Thought: June Avatar Challenge in the “Food for Thought” group. Placed in Top 10 of the SEDUCTIVE Challenge in the “ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL” group. Placed in Top 10 of the An Apple A day… Challenge in the “First Things” group. Placed in Top 10 of the Be The First Challenge in the “Made By Nature” group.
18” x 24” Oil on Canvas.The perfection of a gorgeous Sapphire Blue with the reflections in the water.Sold(Bob-Ross-Technique)
Fine art black and white print – available matted or framed.
A rather old painting maybe 16 years old and re done ,originally had Adam next to Eve but I painted him out recently as you can do with art ….. / Acrylic on canvas 96×101 /
I often feel the call of a wooded area, this place just made me want to drop everything and start walking deeper in.
What a night, the most amazing fireworks display I have ever seen in my life. I don’t usually go WOW!!!! OMG!!! at fireworks displays, but this was all that. I also learnt when there is an amazing amount of explosions going off all at once, it’s very difficult to photograph! most of my shots are just a white mess :) To even get these shots, I had to camp in this position for 8 hours, I got there about 4pm, right on sunset. Even at this point in time, I didn’t have many choises of front row positions. happy with my spot, I put my stand up, and stood there watching the preping of the eye for the big show. I’m sure many of you have already done this, but standing there in one spot, with very little entertainment is a very hard thing to do. In the end though, I’m so glad I did…. Enjoy :) London Eye, New Years Day, 2010. London, England. Canon 5D Mk II, 16mm. Available large and definately best viewed large!
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