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1st place in the Altered by Design Group – Apples Challenge. / / Does life have a purpose? Does it have real meaning? Is life anything more than a brief span on earth, with nothing but eternity on either side of this physical existence? What Is Your Destiny?This is the question of the ages, a riddle that has challenged human beings since they came to be. Why am I here? Why do I exist? Every one us was created for a purpose, but few understand what that great purpose is. / / Sold as a Laminated Print and Matted Print / / / / / / Feedback / “It is a great pleasure owning a wonderful piece of art created by you” / / “Imber, / I love your talent. I would love to see what you see. Your gift is the most beautiful gift anyone could receive. I’m just honored to have a piece of you. Thank-you.” / / “I am brand new here, I loved the art work. I love what the apple has represented for ages and will treasure your design.” / / / MCN: C1495-E96B3-7C59E / / © Imber 2007. All photographs and artworks in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Imber. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved.
Autobiographic piece. About falling inner kingdoms. Photomanipulation and some painting.
for the 365 project
it’s easy to only focus on the sadness inherent in an old derelict building like teton. / when you know the misery in the history of a asylum, and you see / only the ruins of what it once was, you sometimes become blinded / by the macabre and morose, by thwarted hopes and unchecked corruption. / if this is all you see – in an abandoned building, in your own life, in the world around you / it’s easy to feel that perhaps it would be best to erase it all, to hide everything away / so deep that it can’t encroach upon your fleeting comforts and contentment. / but, in this place where such terrible, tragic things occurred / there is something else that resides there – sometimes in the brilliant green ivy / that works its way into cracks and crevasses the way lovers’ fingers entwine, / sometimes in the softness of the wind, or the stillness of untouched afternoon sunlight – or / the way gravity welcomes the falling rafters back to the earth and time / absolves its past in the oblivion of unmolested sleep. teton had such beauty – in / the sincerely charitable ambitions that built it, in the graceful forms of its architect’s true design, / in the naive hope of the many who genuinely believed it could bring a cure for the ill, / and in those confined who stole friendships and dignity from the greedy hands of / disgrace and neglect. if you can’t see these things, you’ll never understand why i do what i do. / photographs capture slivers of time. they preserve a point of view, a moment / that would otherwise be forever lost. if you seek truth through them, / maybe you can illuminate the soul of a thing, and maybe show someone else / the proud glory and splendor of the forgotten and forsaken. / the triumphs and frailties of human endeavor may now be heard only in echoes, / but i guarantee you if you are quiet and you listen / you will hear not screams of agony and anguish, but the sweet serenity of final release. / if you approach the past with humility and reverence in your heart you’ll realize that / immortality is not something anyone can ever capture – but if you are very lucky, / through a photograph perhaps you may capture a glimpse, / a fleeting moment of something that, in its own abstract and inexplicable way, / proves beyond a doubt that nothing ever dies. / —-—-—-—-—-—-- photo taken at teton state hospital / more of my work is on www.abandonedamerica.org / please check out my new book, filled with photos and text – the link is on my site’s main page!
My granddaughter and I paddling in the surf. She was actually trying to get in, and I was restraining her, but I thought the title fitted better.
I was asked to make a / second image to go along / side Words Mean Nothing This is what I came up with a year after / making the first, it’s a bit more sinister, / which of course I like! Stock From DA: Stock Used: yellow-stock / Texturematic / amptone-stock
North Avalon on a crisp Autumn morning, had the surfing community impressed… Canon 20D – 300mm
Model: yellow-stock Textures: texturemattic / darkrose42-stock / Fairy-Of-Ice-Stock / amptone-stock
/ The Nothing That Is” is part of the Winter collection…this is a complicated thought…Winter is indeed something, as we know here in the North…most people would say that Winter is white, but in the city we have the reflections of all the colour in the buildings and lights that the snow reflects…but most of all the joys of winter, I think, should be portrayed in brilliant colour…the stark white of the birches pop against the blues and purples, and there is a little green and gold to remind us that the earth is still alive underneath. / In the face of all that winter is, Man himself becomes “Nothing” and “Beholds Nothing that is not there, and sees the Nothing that is”... Watercolour on Arches Paper…. One must have a mind of winter / To regard the frost and the boughs / Of the pine-trees crusted with snow / And have been cold a long time, / To behold the junipers shagged with ice, / The spruces rough in the distant glitter / Of the January sun; and not to think / Of any misery in the sound of the wind, / In the sound of a few leaves, / Which is the sound of the land / Full of the same wind / That is blowing in the same bare place. / For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is ..Wallace Stevens / /
I keep myself quiet / I lock my voice away / I will never spill venom / from a closed mouth / nothing spiteful will you hear / keep the key / you will never / know me
My second rendition of this shot…..I will miss this place as it has now closed down…sad….at least I was able to capture it while I could. HDR and LucisArt used in processing John
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I did absolutly nothing to this apart from crop it, so its a fitting title!
Kanji: lover’s whispers, sweet nothings, whispered intimacies. / / Another in the series, as below: / (they’re all the same size) / The Tee: /
This shot was taken in the immense dune field between Lake Wau Wauka and Iron Prince Reef in the Howe Wilderness Zone, Croajingolong National Park. It is just near Cape Howe on the Victorian, New South Wales border where the coast line takes a dramatic turn north resulting in the sand building up on this rock flanked headland. On this particular day I had arisen an hour before dawn and witnessed the white dunes absorb all the predawn colours before a spectacular ocean sunrise had me chewing through my film in awe. I wandered around the huge dune field taking advantage of the morning light that emphasised the ripples in the sand. After some inclement weather this part of the dune field had dried out unevenly resulting in sand bands of differing moisture content being blown in alternate directions. The result was this remarkable, and logic defying pattern. For more pictures of this area check out my Croajingolong gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
A dandelion with tiny droplets :)
except perhaps in our imagination. part of a ttv (through the viewfinder) series Theory: / TTV (Through The Viewfinder) photography is when you use an old medium format camera and a digital camera. / These old medium format twin reflex cameras have large viewfinders. Firstly you compose your image using the medium format camera (in my case i have used a mamiya c33) then you actually take the picture using a digital camera (here i use my pentax K10) of what is in the viewfinder of the old camera.
My favourite Gerberas have made another appearance …
Everyones doing it! my submission for the London Calling challange :D / i was looking through a bunch of demo’s product,( 12 grain stuff is awsome!! ) and this is what came forth after a brain fart explosion. xD
A Great Egret leaps of a Tree limb at Green Cay Preserve, Delray Beach, Florida after I won the “War of Wait” with him.
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