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This was taken at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley, Minnesota. Popular Photography named this as on of the top five zoo’s for photography. I agree. Please View Larger
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Dancing In The Dawn Author: Enivea Standing on top of a hill, a cold wind blowing in our faces. / Standing in the pale dawn light while we wait patiently for the sun to rise. / Standing in the centre of a ‘fairy’ ring of mushrooms. / Standing with a friend who had never before stood and watched the sun rise. / Standing with my dog, who thought the humans so strange. There is much to commend those / Who break a habit of a lifetime / And rise to the challenge / To experience / A moment / Fully. There is something very special / To witness another in that moment / And to feel their wonder as they experience / That which has held humans in wonder over eons. / There is something very special / To witness an event that happens every day / Yet happens only once. The sun has risen. / It’s light casts long shadows / And we play with the shadows, / Dancing in the fairy ring of mushrooms / On top of a hill, with a cold wind blowing. / Pastel painting on colourfix paper
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Add Ushna Sardar to your watchlist Title: hallucination Colour of my dream / eyes.. / Hallucinations start to fade / there are many dreams / but there’s no sound / I can feel the wind / Underneath my feet / colours are floating in outer space / Do you dream in colour? / I can see the colour of my dream / I want to know.. / the colour of the sky / I want to deal with the hallucination / can you steal the hallucination? / how many colours sky have? / how I can deal with the hallucination? / earth’s face was drained of colour / I’ll draw a earth and you can colour it in / can you paint a vivid picture of life in the world—. / the dream was a mass of colour / what can be the colour of this world? / what the colour is earth’s skin? power / freedom / sovereignty / authority / I’m standing at the top looking down / Breathe / hallucinations start to fade / some phantom illnesses / phantom profits / phantom loss / phantom success / phantom failure / phantom of progress / phantom of collapse / phantom ideologies / phantom ethics / I’m out of touch with reality / so I refuse to face reality / the harsh realities of life / the political situation / wars / racism / economic and political issues / economic growth / the current economic climate / trade / industries and development of wealth / economical barrier / starting blocks / I found that we had been blocked in. / There are million barrier between heart and mind / crash barrier / many countries suffering with poverty / hunger drove them to steal / how many gave up the struggle in despair / the misery of life in sink estates / authority seem to be out of touch with the real world / the growth of violent crime is a very real problem / there’s no real possibility of them changing their minds / It seemed, there was no real barrier between reality and fantasy in their mind / Outwardly I seemed confident but in reality I felt extremely nervous / so many voice around me / how I can deal with the hallucination? / so many colours / what do I do? / I want to cover world with paint / how can I steal the hallucination? I Wished, i can hear and feel all that colours are thinking / what colour it should be? / White? / red? / yellow? / green? / or black? / the colour of skin / and all the discrimination on the ground of race, colour and religion—. / White.. / the achromatic color of maximum lightness / it reflects nearly all light of all visible wavelengths / completely honest and morally good / the world where everyone having very left-wing political opinions— / We hope to be able to bring the warring factions to the negotiating table to try to end all conflicts / cause white is the colour that depicts love and peace / Wrap the world in the white colour then / ‘Wrap yourself in that.’— / cover world with white / Go to the end of the line! / hallucinations may start to fade / I want to you steal the hallucination before it fades / so we can say that discrimination was finally at an end. / no one black or brown discriminate in a predominantly white world / so cover it with white / I searched desperately for something to say / something drove me further than I had realized / nothing could be further from the truth / I took the new direction to further / am i so alive in my skin? / so are we alive? / my voice sank to a whisper / when I’ve been thinking of this world! / Go to the end of the line! / wrap the world / cover it with paint / ‘Wrap yourself in that.’— / love / peace / and / Harmony.. / these all depict the colours of white!
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Some of my favorite inspirational and thought-provoking quotes from my favorite authors, peacemakers and wisdom teachers to accompany photographs from the past, present and future.
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Plain and simple, Question Authority. It’s your duty to engage in Civil Disobedience.
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Barack Obama – Change for America, for the World, for All of Us – The Audacity of Hope On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated John McCain and became the first African American to be elected President of the United States. In his victory speech, delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Grant Park in Chicago, Illonois, Obama proclaimed that “change has come to America.” Born in Hawaii, Obama will be the first U.S. President born outside the contiguous United States. He also will be fifth youngest President at the date of accession and the second since Lincoln whose primary political base is Illinois. This portrait illustrates and epitomizes the audacity of hope. President Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20, 2009. Selected information courtesy of Wikipedia. Original Oil Portait On Canvas By Zhao, Ze, Guangzhou, China
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©2007-2008 Aimee Stewart, Foxfires – please see my CC Terms of Use before considering using this image for any personal or commercial use http://foxfires.deviantart.com/journal/15905899/ / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- (Updating this to coincide with my latest piece, ‘Treasure Hunt’ http://foxfires.deviantart.com/art/Treasure-Hunt-72963802 ) “I have fallen in love a thousand times in my lifetime. / All which have been with books…” / —Unknown “The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts…” / -Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) / / “A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us…” / -W. H. Auden (1907-1973) “Read in order to live…” / —Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) “Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books…” / —Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) —-—-—-—-—— Many thanks to the following stock artists: / Main books: sxc.hu http://www.sxc.hu/photo/480945 / All other books: :iconmerely-anger: / Model: :iconfoggystock: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34608301/ / candlestick: :iconLunaNYXstock: / cat: :iconALP-Stock: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40487196/
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©2007-2008 Aimee Stewart, Foxfires – please see my CC Terms of Use before considering using this image for any personal or commercial use http://foxfires.deviantart.com/journal/6266450/ / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- “When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.” – Charles Dickens “Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.” ~Judah Ibn Tibbon “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.” / William Styron “A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way” / Caroline Gordon All stock credits can found HERE – click to view My other picture in this series, called Ex Libris, can be found here: /
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Hand holding a burning scroll. Photo based illustration.
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MamaMia! Striking mammatus clouds rolled into my area, riding on the backside of a severe thunderstorm. Shortly after their arrival, a cold front was ushered in / to my area in Ashland, Kentucky on March 04, 2008.
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Pastel on sanded Colourfix paper (burgundy) – 35m x 50cm On a day in Northern Victoria when the temperature is predicted to reach 40 degrees and a Total Fire Ban is in place, we are all extremely grateful for the volunteers of the Country Fire Authority! After fires devastated this area about 5 years ago, I went out with a group of these volunteers during their ‘mopping up’ operations, and this is one of the paintings that resulted. The fire came within a few metres of my chook pen!!! I was home alone and had to put our ‘fire plan’ into operation (a long story and a long day)! I have never been so terrified in my life! Consequently, days like today make me very nervous! Since I posted this work the fire that devastated Northern Victoria on the 7th February occurred. I have since been selling cards of this work in the Shire of Mitchell (where I live and where the first fire started) and donating the proceeds to the CFA. This work was featured in the groups ‘Mature Men’ and ‘Rural Around the Globe’ – Jan 2009 / Featured in the Buyers Club group – July 2009 / Featured in Colours of the Rainbow (Yellow) – Oct 2009
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The Comics Code Authority was created to appease public and political prosecution. It’s regulations limited comic book writers and artists creativity for over 25 years. It’s stamp was placed on every Comic Book cover for all that time. It’s affects helped retard public opinion of comics which still has echoes to this day. The Code was a by-product of the anti-commie crusades of the 1950’s and partly due to the works a popular psychologist named Wertham. His book “Seduction of the Innocent” claimed that comic books would cause their readers to become criminals and sociopaths. In fairness, the code was created to protect. However it restricted beyond it’s aims. In comparison, if the equivalent of the comics code authority was continued in cinema; then films such as “Apocalypse Now” and “Psycho” would never have been made. After 25 years of outside censorship the comics industry is mostly free to be responsible for itself. It’s nicer nowadays. I can read a comic on the train without people assuming that I have a learning disability… I think you should be able to dream free as long as you don’t hurt anyone doing it. I reworked the original logo for my own comic which sits outside that code. It started as one of my student works and finished as what you see today.
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“I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” Hunter S. Thompson (American Journalist and Author, 1937-2005)
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watercolour 18” x 24” (46cm x 61 cm) on Arches cold press paper Charlie Wilkins (Canadian author of a dozen books) sits with a coffee at The Madhouse (a restaurant in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada). We met for the first time in many years, having been classmates and friends in high school in Cornwall Ontario in the sixties! / It was a great reunion in a great setting!
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Lighting The Head Shot
by John Hooton“If God had intended photographers to use more than one key light, he would have made more suns.” Just about every single shot includi…
“If God had intended photographers to use more than one key light, he would have made more suns.” Just about every single shot including the food and still life shots in my portfolio was made with one light. One light in the right place. You won’t need any more except possibly to light a background. In this case make sure that they light the background, and do not spill back on to the subject. Use barn doors or large black sheets of card if necessary. Very early in my career I learnt that light bounces around all over the place in a white studio. This is unwanted light. When I worked for top food photographers and fashion photographers like Barry Lategan, we actually blacked out the studio with drapes or black screens. Great for glassware too. I ordered funeral drapes to cover an entire studio when I was asked to light a “Finish” (the dishwasher stuff) TV commercial in Milan. The essential shot was of a glass. How do you get a glass to look sparkling clean? Answer, outline it in black, make it totally transparent and have one clean reflection of light on it. How do you do that? Black out the studio; this creates the black edges which are the walls reflecting in the edges of the glass. Use one ‘window’ type light. In this instance I used a 6×4 sheet of opaque white Perspex and stuck some halogen floods behind it. Result – one clean reflection of soft light, no glass to be seen, just the black outline of one. It looks as clean as a whistle because the glass is invisible! The actor doing the demo in the commercial looked good too, with a similar lighting quality to that in my stills. The cameramen were two old hacks from Rome who scoffed in bemused wonderment at this 22 year old kid who had made the studio look set for a funeral. The drapes were all that the three funeral companies could provide. However, the results were crystal, the client was thrilled, I was a hero for a day, and I got more work from the production company who shot the ad. This lighting style was often copied after that, and is still the basis of many British commercials today. So where were we? Yes one light. One light in the right place. At John Cowan’s studio, I persuaded John to have the entire walls of the studio painted black to which he agreed. Why black? So that the light does not bounce all over the room filling in shadows where you want shadows. To start with black and then paint with light gives you much more control over your lighting. It makes you the master of it. It gives you the contrast you want without having to print on grade 4 paper, thus allowing more detail in mid tones. I painted my studio in Milan black, and would do the same today. It gives you a quality that is sharp and precise. OK so where does the One Light go? More or less above your own head and slightly above the subject. This will slim the face by putting the cheekbones in shadow if the model is facing you head on. Take a look at the head shots in my portfolio and look where the shadows are. Then figure out where the light is. Above the camera, maybe slightly to one side. This should be the side the model faces if the shot is three quarters on or the shoulders are three quarters on. When you have set up, always use a tripod to establish your camera position and then adjust the light until it is exactly where you want it. Don’t run around the model with your camera in hand. It may look good in the movies, but it will look crap in your contacts, with no consistent lighting whatsoever. Just one more thing, what sort of light you may ask? The light should be intense but soft, so a single umbrella is fine, a soft box is fine, and a bowl light is excellent. This is where the flash head is reflected into a shallow bowl and the head is shielded. If the bowl is then opaqued by a thin sheet of plastic, you will get the same quality as some of the Vogue photographers. It is a very flattering light. You can tell when it has been used by top photographers. You will see the circular highlight with a black center reflected in the model’s eyes. OK folks so that’s how I light head shots (and many of the top guys I have assisted). Give it a whirl and see if you can take some shots that stun you, the girl you are shooting, and the horse I rode in on. ‘til next time – John
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stock credits / longstock.deviantart.com / chulii-stock.deviantart.com / iconelenadudina.deviantart.com / bean-stock.deviantart.com / the rest my own textures and paint… *I love Elizabeth Barrett Browning so I wanted to make something in her honor.. :) I’m sure a lot of you know one of her most famous poems: “How Do I Love Thee?” >> Elizabeth Barrett Browning << How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. / I love thee to the level of every day’s / Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. / I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; / I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. / I love with a passion put to use / In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. / I love thee with a love I seemed to lose / With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath, / Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, / I shall but love thee better after death. This image has been digitally watermarked and if stolen or used without my consent, can be tracked online. / ©Claudia McKinney – Phatpuppy Art
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oil on canvas / Book writer Neil Strauss
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I had the most delightful pleasure of being able to take a portrait of the most gorgeous and talented Bell last night. She was so kind as to let me into her home, but not only that, help me drag in all my equipment and then let me rearrange her lounge room, and all of it done with a big smile, good humor and the offer of a glass of red wine. Which of course I took with great delight. Thank you so much sweetheart for allowing me to invade your space. I only hope I did your beauty and light justice with my humble photography…. xxx
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Made for my daughter, Catie, who is writing a book called, “The Ladybug Children”. :) Original can be found here: http://supermalade-stock.deviantart.com/art/Eleanor-n-Ladybird-001-STOCK-93126834
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Think for yourself / Question authority Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, / terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in / this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the / religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by / giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their / view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and / learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; / chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself. Think for yourself. / Question authority.
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GREAT MEN & WOMEN Pen and Ink Drawing Original Available A5- Black Matt- £ 30 + P+P My homage to Poe in a Graphic Novel style / Inspired by his work The Raven A Verse from The Raven…. / Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, / In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; / Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; / But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door / Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door / Perched, and sat, and nothing more
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Detail….. / Pen and Ink Drawing My homage to Edgar Allen Poe on a Tee / A Special request
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