Mystery sky
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The Hurlers is the name of a group of three stone circles on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England. Legend has it that each of the standing stones was once a man, petrified for eternity for playing the Celtic game of hurling on the sabbath!
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The next in my ‘taking me home’ series of Infrared photographs taken while on a journey to Antarctica. One of the charactaristics of IR film is that sometimes, just sometimes it will capture something that just can’t be seen by the naked eye. It is this quality that I so love it for. It lets me think I can peer beyond the veil so to speak. To record things that really shouldn’t perhaps be visible to us mere mortals. These scribbles in the sky over the fantastically etched top of a little iceberg is one of those photo’s. Apart from minor cleaning up in PS this image is as it is on the negative. And the sky was perfectly clear and bright blue with not a cloud in sight. My particular research area has to do with Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his doomed 2nd expeditition to the South Pole in the early 19th C. On the occasion of the Midwinter Dinner at the base camp in1911 there was an extraordinary Auroral display which all the men went outside to watch and which moved Scott immensely. I am going to put in some lines from his journal from that occasion and it is these words of Scott’s that for me contexulize this little photograph of mine: “There is infinite suggestion in this phenomenon, and in that lies its charm; the suggestion of life, form, colour, and movement never less that evanescent, mysterious – no reality. It is the language of mystic signs and portents- the inspiration of the gods-wholly spiritual – divine signalling. Might not the inhabitants of some other world (Mars) controlling mighty forces thus surround our globe with fiery symbols, a golden writing which we have not the key to decipher?” Who is man and what his place, / Anxious asks the heart perplex, / In the recklessness of space, / Worlds with worlds thus intermixt, / What is he, this atom creature, / In the infinitude of nature?*
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done in photoshop / eyes drawn with mouse using the burn and dodge tools, / clouds have some layering, and airbrushing / overtop of photograph i took of the clouds. / 2008. thankyou for taking the time to view my art and (hopefully) comment… / please have a look at my other artwork… / hope you enjoy! :) /
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Ok chaps this image is a deviation from the IR images I’m trying to put up but….. not being one to back away from a challege …....:) / This was shot while flying over Antarctica one NYE a long time ago…. 1999 to be exact and its a very poor quality shot having had no love and having langished at the bottom of a very large box of similarly unloved negatives for nearly a decade but I’m not putting it up for its beauty but rather to help fill in gaps with two other IR shots I’ve recently posted. These shots Midnight over Antarctica and Zeus over Antarctica Both these IR shots are somewhat of a mystery to me…. well Zeus over Antarctica certainly is… I just can’t quite work it out. Anyway some fella’s who shan’t be named don’t think I wouldn’t know a coronal arc from my backside so here you go fella’s. This shot was taken maybe a minute before I took the IR shots and bearing in mind that I am not an expert on atmospheric phenomena but rather an artist facinated by the odd and occasionally divinely inspiring play of light that turns up in my images …. particually when I use Infrared film…..I’m going to maintain that this is a circle not a parabolic arc and its a coronal arc around the sun…. which the plane I’m in is about to fly through…. But I’ll take feedback for sure…. and sorry again about the poor state of the image…. with more time it would be sparkly but I want to get this up….... cheers chaps…...:)
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This is the next image in my series of uploads from the Neverland Collection of Infrared landscape photographs. I was walking around Sydney Park one morning after some earlier rumbling electical storm type activity in the skys and as I strolled up a small low hill, I took a series of shots of this curious little bit of light. It was not static and seemed to dance and move and change shape as I moved towards it. I got about three shots of it in a row and then finally it formed itself into a largish circular shape and then disappeared as quickly and quietly as it had appeared. I have no idea what it actually is or how it manifested before me but the magical and mysterious quality of this little dancing light has fascinated me ever since. The conjunction of light and the landscape in these Neverland photographs allude to the conjunction between the literal and the metaphoric. These photographs are poetic representation of another world just out of sight. There is a sense of the spritiual landscape that exists within and beyond the physical landscape within them that refers to my understanding that the land devoid of all but light being like poetry and presenting itself as exquisitely coherent and powerful and mysterious. This photograph was shot with Kodak Highspeed Infrared film and processed in D-76. It was then scanned as a tiff file at 3600dpi and converted to a Jpeg in Photoshop. It has had some very minor adjustments made to it in regard to contrast adjustments but apart from that it is exactly as it appears on the negative.
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Ok Ok I know I said yesterday’s upload was the last of the big/little daniland IR landscapes….. but …... but I’ve had some interesting feedback on this series so I thought I’d put up another one…. maybe even two. The amazingly beautiful and talented Ange who is a very high level photoshop lecturer commented on a particular digital/analouge montage that I had posted ages and ages ago called starry valley five and in responding to her I realized that the source photo for that image was in fact one of the daniland images. So I thought I’d post the original image along side the digital montage so you all could see the difference in the two pictures. At the time of making the starry valley series I was convinced that the original negatives for the daniland series were too degraded to make convicing photographic works but my post production skills have improved somewhat and to be honest I’ve been pretty pleased with the response from so many people to them. So just for the hell of it here’s the original daniland shot taken in very low light at the end of a magnificent day in the Hunter Valley and you guys can compare it to the digital montage and decide for yourselves which you prefer.
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well its june and its wet and there are not many leaves on some of my trees and it’s making me feel a bit blue…. so here is another wintery sky in my big back yard…...
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A moonrise over two colored houses in Magdalen islands.
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The next photograph in the current body of work I’m uploading. Shot with Kodak High Speed Infrared film at the old brewery site that was being demolished for a new up scale housing development some years ago.
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Magic night with brighting stars on the sky. Shot taken in August 2008 on Bracciano Lake, Italy.
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This image is the prototype for a new body of work I’m developing for exhibition at Parliment House later in the year. The thing is that the wall where the works will be hung are dark port wine coloured. So I’m thinking the black and white prints in a white matt and black frame are going to look really sombre against the background so I’ve been fooling about with a little colour with these dreamy Infrared landscapes. There will be maybe six or even eight of them all about 20×24 inches then the framing so they will be a decent size when finished….. anyway my question is…. does this muted colour add to the image or detract? should I just stick to the B/W?
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“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” – Rachel Carson This is a photograph from a 1991 trip to Arizona, camping out above the donkey-run town of Oatman. Played with in Photoshop7. Been photographing old photos pre-digital…memories that make me smile ;) / /
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Another paired IR landscape for an upcoming show. possibly. I’‘ll make four pairs in all but most likely will only produce two pairs for the exhibition. The first one was this one and the second pair was this one So I’m still fooling about with the final selection and will observe and take note of what people think here…..
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On Zazzle / On DeviantART The Mystery of balloons is that noone knows who let it go, what it’s seen or where it wanders next. Of course, it could be that the jester fell off but perhaps he let it go, or maybe it hasn’t reached him yet… ArtRage 2.5 and graphics tablet
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Tomb Jedburgh Abbey Scotland / / /
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Elephant Train / —-—-—-—- What a Wondrous World! —-—-—-—-
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A Maori Legend: Hine-pokohu was known as the Sky Mist Woman. She had a sister Mine-Wai, The rain (specifically the rain when it falls in foggy weather) who dwelt with her in the sky. Sky Mist woman fell in love with a mortal man and at Night, she decended to earth to vist her lover in secrecy. At dawn, her sister would call out to warn them that daylight was coming and they must return home least anyone suspect. Sky Mist Woman and her sister would return to the sky untill usk fell and they had dominion over the earth. Sky Mist Woman warned her lover never to tell anyone of their trysts, but he did. Betrayed and Weeping tears of sorrow she never returned to him. He searched and searched the valleys and mountains for her, untill he died. After his death he became the rainbow that accompanies the mist, joined for enternity. Resources: / Model by Marcus j. Ranum / BackGround is from Frozen Star Ro Mist was created using cloud Brushes from JavierZhX / and the / Mist 101 tutorial from miskis which was a source of wonderful information. Majority of image was painted by me in Photoshop CS3. Another Goddess, this time Celtic, can be found here Birth of the Morrigan / All artworks contained herein have been created in Photoshop CS3 or Photographed, by Adara Rosalie, and are all original artworks. / My gallery is Copyright © 2008-2009 Adara Rosalie. All rights reserved. My work may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way without my written permission.
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Louisiana landscapes tend to be rather quiet compared to many of the places I’ve visited. But there is a subtle beauty here that sometimes shows up without warning. I hope I captured some of that with this acrylic painting.
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sunlight dappling in the old swamp, Florida 2007 / + Orton effect
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I had fun making it rain crimson leaves… From my pencil drawing Forty Seventh Fall / / its adaptation, Forty Seventh Fall and the Crimson Leaves / (Try it out in different colors. When you go dark, parts of the sky pop.) / AND, at Zazzle I designed a matching mug /
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photomanipulation of several sources together….pictures of clouds,stars,moon,lightning and the house was put together and the bird was manipulated as if it is flying in photoshop…and color effects were applied in photoshop at the end… Moon stock photo lightning source used background source used
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Skye, Hebrides, Scotland / /
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the skyscape was a straight up shot of these awry clouds shapes, it was gloomy & overcast. if only i could’ve captured that amazing sky a little more effectively. reqiuem for a dream – two towers remix....music that i think is applicable & seems to work well
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“The Tarn” is part of the “Weekend in the Country” series, but because I want each work to stand on it’s own, this is painted very differently..sepia tones on fabric… / A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier….our four friends have come to an impasse in their journey to another friend for Christmas…trapped by weather in a bothy on a mountain, they have no idea where to go or how to reach help…when we left them they were about to discuss what they should do next…to read the previous chapters and view the other paintings in the series, go HERE Watercolour, coloured pencil, and gouache on Raw Cotton..
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