What is this? I don’t know… Depends on how you see it or your mood. For me, it assumes the shape of a strange armoured monk staring at a chaotic space portal, thus the reason of the title. I was playing with the colours this time, trying to get strange stuff. I think I achieved that objective!
sunset somewhere in the universe
Been in the south of Tassie for four days shooting stills for a client. Me the Creative Director with Andrew the Art Director and Garth the professional photographer. We had to climb down a 100 metre cliff face, normally out of bounds but opened to us by the kind lighthouse keeper. Was a seriously hairy climb! But it led us to an untouched, pristine and rarely shot location (which will remain our secret :). This is a photo I took whilst Garth and Andrew sat on a rocky outcrop waiting for the light to be perfect. – Dog photography – Africa photography / - Beach photography - Black & white photography – Dog photography – Africa photography / - Beach photography - Monotone photography
Colorful digital painting by Alejandro Silveira.
Colorful digital painting by Alejandro Silveira. / Legends series. / Big version.
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been posting infrared images taken from a trip I took recently to the Antarctic Penisula. This small body of work was loosely called the ‘Taking me Home” series. In this body of work I have been trying to share how I felt to be there and what it meant to me and how I felt about finding my self there. The Infrared images and the titles of them refer in some way to a completion of a journey but it occures to me that if I don’t post the images from the point of were my fascination/obsession with this magical land of light and ice began then I can’t really expect people to really come to a point of understanding my own connectedness with the place. So I’m going to go back nine years to where it all began. In 1999 I had just completed my first masters degree in photo-media and was feeling pretty chuffed. As a reward my favourite uncle gifted me with a flight over Antarctica. Qantas do these wonderful New Years Eve luxury flights and he invited me to be his guest. Now lets be straight…. he’s not rich and neither am I. But he is a fantastic jazz muso who’s trio had the gig of providing the entertainment onboard and who all got to take a guest as part payment….. He’d done this a few years running and had taken his wife and the following year his daughter and then finally it was my turn… Woopee….. I flew cargo class with the band over Antarctica…. wonderful stuff and it was really a great adventure.. I, however had now idea how this trip was to impact on my future direction. I’ve been working with Infrared film for many years and truly love it so when I knew for sure I was going I gathered up a whole gaggle of cameras to take with me including my special infrared only SLR. This image I have posted is pretty much what I expected from my flight…. its shot around midnight high up in the sky from the window of the plane and shows the striated layers of the atmosphere and the tops of mighty mountain ranges coming up through the heavy cloud cover that was obsuring a clear view of the continent…..because of this heavy cloud the pilots of the plane kept turning and arcing around in the skys to find a good spot for us to view from….but we passengers were having a great time and the bar was open and flowing so we didn’t really think about it…. and remember this is what I imagined I shoot…. nothing more and nothing less. The next image I will post however has haunted and facinated me ever since that time and it is the peculiar and inexplicable nature of this one particular image that has led to my specific and unrelenting quest to find out what ever I can about the nature of light at the Poles…. Antarctica in particular…. it has shaped and determined my journey through life since I shot it all those years ago…I still haven’t worked it out and it still facinates me…. But that’s the next photograph and it will be the beginning of the journey back to the magical mysterious land of ice and light that tempers my very being. That journey will include a number of landscape and the light images also taken with Infrared film that I call the ‘The Neverland Collection” So bear with me this little trip will take a week or so to come to the point but today right now I’m going to start with this reasonably unremarkable image of the continent of Antarctica taken a mile up in sky at midnight on a New Years Eve nine years ago…. it’s the begin of a remarkable journey inward that I have taken and that I feel I would like share with you all…....
“I am the half sister of the Great king Arthur Pendragon. History claims I am a witch. In truth…I have the blood of the faerie running thick in my veins. I am not an evil witch, but a priestess of the Goddess. Merlin took Arthur right after he was born, to have him raised somewhere else. We did not grow up together he and I. I was brought to Avalon at a rather young age to become a priestess. After Arthur was acknowledged as the successor to the throne, he had to pass a test. As a maiden-priestess I was chosen to sleep with the Stag King (which was Arthur that night). During this night our son Mordred was conceived. This was the begining of the end of the Knights of the Round Table and the downfall of Arthur’s Kindom.” Lady Morgaine
A pretty Autumn sunlit scene at Mt Wilson Blue Mountains NSW Australia.
This is a commission for a good friend of mine. She is very much into angels and wanted one from me. I felt this was perfect for her, as, like a lot of us, she sometimes needs a spell of light and colour cast on her :) / Derwent and Prismacolor pencils and white gouache. A4 2008 Sold Has been featured in ‘Coloured Pencil Art’ group
S. Boston, MA
Dance to the melody of Light and Love through out your journey in this eternal expanse of beauty…. / Peace Always, / Leah ♥
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
magic tricks. in camera, not digital of course.
A magical sunset glow lights up the smile of an old friend. Model: Barbara Location: Rainbow Valley, Central Australia. Date: February 2005. [Creative Effects: NONE]
I’m not quite sure what I think of this yet…
Fractal artwork created with Apophysis. Designer: Thea Walstra / CanDuCreations / /
Look what else I pulled out of the hat….it’s a pink/purple/blue cone flower! Ooooh La la! I sincerely you enjoy the character found in this piece of my magical design creations. I stepped outside the box on this one! Whoa! I hope my contagious spirit of peace & happiness catches up to you. Thanks so much for viewing my artwork! Smiles Leilani
Isn’t she gorgeous? I should hope so she took about 17-21 hours to do. :) Xai-
Here she is, completed… I used to dream of being able to create an image like this, for me this is more than just a drawing, digital painting, this is more than just a mere unicorn, this is manifesting dreams, creating magical moments….my only hope is that I can touch others, that others can take the time to get lost in a moment of enchantment….Let Blessings Be… / Peace Always, / ♥ Leah Marie Jaarveth ♥ *original pencil piece, redone and compiled in PhotoShop
Pleasanton, CA
‘Imagination creates our Lives’ / Gwenolye 3D created with Vue 6 Studio Pro Featured in Digital Artists United Dec 14 2009 / Thank you!
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