Lighting year
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the art work here is for Pilgram on a story he did called The Aliens – Microstory.
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Young boy riding a huge bike and his long shadow on a sandy field, at sunset in Pagan, Myanmar (Burma) All proceeds from sales of pictures will go to the child art education project of Art in All of Us (WWW.ARTINALLOFUS.ORG)
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This was taken at Walt Disney World (Nov.2007).
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Sydney Glows as lights and fireworks reflect on Sydney Harbour / SOLD !ONE MEDIUM CANVAS PRINT TO AN UNKNOWN BUYER FROM EUROPE*
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New Years fireworks, taken as part of a series in the first few moments of 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. Luminosity Series
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Many people find a fascination with youth, beauty and the advancement of old age. As we all know looks fade and with age, there is another source / of beauty despite the wrinkles and apparent signs of aging that we all must face in what has been referred to as “the croning years.” In Western culture, there is so much emphasis on external beauty that women and men feel compelled to find surgical solutions, creams, botox, liposuction and any method possible to slow down the aging process and retain the appearance of youth. For hundreds of years we in the West have been taught to deny ourselves. “Mind over Matter” is a time-honored maxim that has merit in treating illness, but the danger is that true body wisdom or the messages we receive about our bodies must be ignored or denied. Every magazine gives us methods of ridding ourselves of undesirable pounds and the newest trends and fads for reversing the aging process. One woman born in the Netherlands and moved to the United States expressed her pain about her anorexic daughter who did not feel accepted or physically attractive unless she was frightfully thin. Her mom asked, what happened to the idea of “aging gracefully?” She felt that her elderly mother was more beautiful with age and the wrinkles on her aging face showed a wisdom and inner beauty that was absent in youth. Observing her daughter’s fierce compulsion to stop the clock and pursue anything that would mask the aging process was very painful to her mother, an immigrant to the United States who had enjoyed values that helped her deal with aging and the passage of time. She told me that the term “immigrant grief” described her inability to teach her daughter who was in her mid thirties that she was more beautiful now than ever before. Many women and men can not face aging and the general result is that the body and its functions have been relegated to the shadow side of life;regarded as dark and possibly evil. As Jung points out, “The body is a most doubtful friend because it produces things we do not like;there are too many things about the body which cannot be mentioned. The body is very often the personification of the shadow of the ego. Sometimes it forms the skeleton in the cupboard, and everybody naturally wants to get rid of such a thing.” We need our animal selves, our bone, muscle, and instinct-laden physicality to survive on this planet. One wonders why we as a culture have become so anti-body, as our very flesh were a disease against which we must wage war. Jung hoped that “we can reconcile ourselves to the mysterious truth that the spirit is the living body seen from within, and the body is the outer manifestation of the living spirit.” / For centuries many terrible cures attempted to cleanse the collective psyche or the ancient goddess worship that honored the female body as the matrix in which there were no divisions. There are many books that celebrate the return of the Goddess, to cherish the power of the feminine and to accept all the disowned parts of the psyche that lead us to illness and become pathological enough that we are forced to notice. When disowned aspects of ourselves are repressed, fear is projected onto the body in such forms as siren, enchantress, witch, hag and devouring mother. When we face our greatest fears, we also see the glimmering hope of of a new creative life. / When we accept that as we age our bodies are mortal, we can embrace our terrors and our failures and the hope for the celebrations to come, when what we have incubated emerges from the underworld. Legend and myth tell us again and again that transformation is possible. The maiden becomes the queen. The dragon becomes prince or princess. The fool becomes wise. The naive attitudes of youth change and develop. Slowly we become ourselves, free to be the keepers of memory and wisdom. We learn when to be silent and when to speak, what can be shared and what is secret. We learn to honor our bodies even as they begin to fail. We come to a visceral understanding of the cycles of change and our part in them. Ulrich Schaffer writes in his book of poems, Surprised By Light; “Again and again the miracle takes place / in the amazing transformation / in which the air turns into leaves / and the earth becomes roots, / in which the sun fills the seed to bursting / then lets it break open and sprouts, / New life breaks through / in the transformation of death. We are sustained by the surprise of the miracle, / by the change of the seasons, / and I am a link in this miraculous chain, / In me the unchangeable also changes, / and I know that I would break / the rhythm of creation / if I did not change / I would be dead to life / even as I continued to live. I am not yearning for great miracles, / but for the daily change, / the almost imperceptivle rebirth, / the insignificant miracle of growth, / which is greater than all others. “ It is a sad fact that as we approach old age, the deterioration or our bodies / seem loathsome. In fright, we run off into frantic activity, becoming too busy to think or feel as we sink deeper and deeper into a paralyzing depression. / Only rarely do we have the wisdom to honor our changes and allow their development. Most of us, unguided and untaught, flee in fear from the life that precedes our old age and death. Today in the Western world the human life span is increasing, and as it does, the need grows for a deeper wisdom that can help older persons honor rather than deny the physical and psychological relinquishing that precedes a late blooming. We are explorers of a stage of life that is different than it was for previous generations. The years of coming to age are now a new challenge and like most challenges bring the stresses of relinquishing familiar ways. Going through the changes of this time can be as exciting and as difficult as any outer journey. Those of us now coming to age are pathfinders, hopefully marking a way for others to follow.
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Edinburgh is and traditionally always has been a very exciting place to be at Christmas and New Year. If you would like to buy a card, print or poster just go to buy/preview
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Edinburgh castle at night with fairground. Edinburgh is and traditionally always has been a very exciting place to be at Christmas and New Year. Listed by Historic Scotland. If you would like to buy a card, print or poster just go to buy/preview
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it’s this time of the year again, Christmas is around. People are hectic and busy buying presents, some are relaxed and enjoy a cup of mulled wine. altogether it’s a special time of the year, with the streets being decorated and the mountains full of snow. city center Innsbruck, with the Nordkette mountains in the back..
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May the season bring you all the happiness in the world…from Zoe, Duke the Parrot, and Sunny the Lovebird ;-)
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Adelaide skyscape lights in meltdown over New Years??? Just a little play in photoshop.
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About The very first dawn of 2009. Taken at Shorncliffe, QLD. - ISO 100, f8, 1/2 sec, 10mm / - Sigma 10-20mm Lens / - Cokin P121M / - Tripod with sand in the joints Processing - HDR using Photomatix (2, 0, 2) / Unsharp mask / - Soft Light Layer Casualites - My $5 remote from DealExtreme got a little wet and no longer works! Noooo!! :)
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Done in Apophysis and GIMP and then finished by hand on wacom pen and pad. Guide thru the times of doubt, guide to the land of hope, guide to the song of the Earth. Guide to the harmony of all / A TRUE GUIDE /
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Myself. / Last day of 2008. Taken with the Point and Shoot, Canon Powershot Experimenting with bokeh textures
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ELLE / Photo best viewed large. / / / ELLE was FEATURED in the group:IN THE PINK / / / / / ELLE was FEATURED in the group:THE SCAVENGER / HUNT / / / / / Somewhat more compact than most hybrid teas, this vigorous, award-winning rose is ideal for small garden areas or large containers. This beautiful, light pink rose would be the shining star in any landscape or indoor setting! / ELLE is favored amongst most florists, and its’ buds are the perfect attraction for any corsage, bouquet, or basket. It is easily recognized for its’ soft, silky petals and beautiful blooms. This beautiful rose blooms in early spring and will last throughout summer with proper care. Excellent disease resistance and very dense, glossy green foliage make this new rose a winner in any garden! / / Pink Roses have a very rich history of meaning and symbolism. Light pink roses have come to symbolize sympathy and grace, while dark pink roses stand for admiration and appreciation/gratitude. Mauve roses mean beauty, love at first sight, and enchantment according to the Victorian Language of Flowers. / / For the the History of Pink Roses, go to ALL ABOUT PINK ROSES / / / / Photo was shot with my Canon Digital EOS 40D. / Lens used: Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
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Self-portrait (No. 1 in new series, Rootless Tree) You are as distant / as light years / as nearly gone / as a lost address / as a muffled voice / on the phone / indistinct in its absence… / a yellowed, fading photograph / curled in at the edges / but your smell / still lingers / like lilacs / on my fingers / and i sometimes see your face / reflected in passing windows…
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Featured in Children the Power of Raw Emotion – August 09 – Thank you!! Featured in All About Hearts – July 09 – A very big thank you to the hosts! Featured in Canon DSLR – June 09 – thank you so much!! Featured in The Woman Photographer – June 09 – thank you very much to the hosts! This portrait of Mila (2) was taken in the back garden. Her older sister, Perrin, ran around behind her holding a black cloth to act as a ‘backdrop’ for me. In true 2 year old style, she decided today was the day that she would NOT smile, and as for looking at the camera… you can forget it. Keeping still was also not an option. So this is the end result of a frustrating shoot, but maybe the more interesting for it. Canon 400D, natural light, pp in photoshop CS2.
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Featured in Seasonal Greeting Cards – Oct 09 / Top Ten Winner in Cards for Sale – Nov 09 / Featured in Cards for Sale – Nov 09 / / Welcome! Thanks For Stopping By And taking A Look. / All Comments and Fav’s Are Truely Appreciated. Thank You!!! / / / /
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Featured in Family Unlimited / Featured in Love For Your Children / —September 09 -- thank you very much! Mila (2) keeps sitting on the window sill to keep me company while I run on my treadmill and the light behind her is so pretty that I keep wanting to take a shot. In the end I indulged my desire to take yet another portrait of Mila, as I so often do. Now maybe I can run on my treadmill tomorrow without itching to get hold of my camera. I hope so. Camera Model Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL / Shooting Date/Time 2009/09/09 12:35:02 PM / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/80 / Av( Aperture Value ) 2.8 / ISO Speed 200
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20 years later he returned…it was the end of October…chill winds blew the last of the leaves in a wet swirl around his feet…the crisp fall day had not appeared as expected…instead the sky was leaden with the promise of rain in the near future…the road seemed longer than it did when he was a young man…the ruts were deeper now, filled with water from the previous days rain…was it always as dark as this?...it was only six o’clock and he was looking forward to tea by the fire…Maddy would always have a cake freshly baked and his mouth watered at the thought of it’s rich plummy goodness… / Only a few more turns now and he would see the house, rising above the trees, staid and comforting in it’s very chimneys, not beautiful like some, but reliable…always there…his spirits rose with excitement…surely Tom would still be there at the gate…the last he heard Tom was still going strong at 80…Tom always had a soft spot for him, despite everything…Tom was always on his side…and Maddy too of course…the old lady was another thing, but he was sure he could get round her again…he always could…he still had his good looks…no grey yet…hair still abundant…his clothes were shabby, but that was to be expected, and it would not be for long any way…tomorrow he would have enough money to buy a whole new suit…many new suits, if what he had heard was true… / He hurried on, eager now…..one last turn…the gate came into view…..the silence around him was palpable…the only sound he could hear was the far off cawing of some rooks in the wood to the left of him….the whole area was overgrown…the gate was firmly shut and barred…it was obvious no one had opened it for a long time…he stood aghast…why had he not written?...but he wanted to surprise them..truth be told he was afraid of getting an answer telling him to stay away…but it had been 20 years…surely that was long enough…and what had he done that was so bad? and hadn’t he been paying for it all this time at that god awful place? / He ran to the gate and started to shake it, trying to loosen the lock, but it held firm…the beautiful wrought iron was caked with years of rust, icy particles were already forming as the evening grew darker….he peered through the old metal lace, but there was only the insistent darkness pressing up against his face from the other side…the rooks cawed again, and suddenly he saw them in the trees above, staring mockingly down at him, as if to say “20 years too late”....by Janis Zroback Painted Negatively in Watercolour on 300lb Arches Not Paper 30×23in / Through The Gate
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This is just a simple portrait of my third daughter, Grace (6). I enjoyed the way her hair looked today. Shot in natural light, outdoors. Featured in Childhood / Feartured in ! Hairstyles ! / —November 09 -- thank you so much! Camera Model Canon EOS 500D / Shooting Date/Time 2009/11/16 01:53:04 PM / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/125 / Av( Aperture Value ) 2.8 / ISO Speed 100
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Looks like Lensbaby’s getting ready for New Year’s Eve. As is. / Canon Rebel EOS xsi / Lensbaby Composer / /
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