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/ / DETAILS / this digital picture’s original size is 7800×5850px / Click a thumbnail for a real-size detail from the original~ / / / / © 2007 Nodakami
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A shot taken in my backyard pointing the camera up through the flowers towards the sky / ______________ / Check out more of my art from these categories: / Holiday Cards / Abstracts / Sketches / Birds / Seascapes/Landscapes/Sunsets / ______________ /
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A Goldfields bottlebrush, very close up to flower, shallow depth of field.
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As she lies dormant in the yard, this huge engine fills the mind with images of sweat and toil on the railroads of yesteryear
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The eye… / is the window to a person’s soul as one may put it. / Look into my eye and you’ll see what you need to see…
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Looking for a suitable angle capable of containing all this wonderful and finding none…
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This green tree frog is looking at life from the point of a Heliconia bloom
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Shot of Where the Congregation sits from the where the Vicar sits or stands. / Of course, well before the service has started LOL hehehe / This was taken at St Thomas Church in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. / /
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A common Grove Snail up close. Taken in my garden in Slagelse, Denmark. 60mm macro lens, handheld, using an external flash with a home made diffuser. A single RAW file HDR processed and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro. You can see a larger version here
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IF ONE POINT OF VIEW IS ALL YOU EVER SEE / HOW CAN YOU SURVIVE THIS MULTI-DIVERSITY?? DRAWING AND POETRY BY ARTIST PENCIL ON PAPER. PHOTOSHOP ENHANCED
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She’s quite pretty, really… / Taken in the very simple but beautiful, and greatly maintained chuch of the village of Grimaud in Provence, France. The stained glass of the church were made with the melted cockpits of planes shot during the war. Interesting indeed. “From an agnostic point of view” *was featured / - in the group European Everyday Life / - in the group Statues and Such *
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Two things that go perfectly well together, don’t you think? This is one of my favourite places in my hometown. It’s a park alongside the St. Lawrence river with a great view on downtown Montreal on the other side.
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My sister’s horse Jasmine. /
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Passionfruit vine!! Shot with Sony Alpha 350, and 50mm macro lens. Natural light, no flash!
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The original looked very ordinary but just trying Auto Levels in photoshop CS2 produced that intense blue and I cropped to get this composition. Otherwise, as is. Taken at King’s Park (nr Mount Eliza House), Perth, Western Australia on a wildflower photography course. / Sorry I don’t know the name of these flowers but they are real for those who doubt. I was shooting up from the ground into the sky. It was this cloudless though not quite as blue. nikon D700, macro 105mm macro lens, f/32, 1/250th, -.3 step. ISO probably 200. FEATURED IN PHOTOGRAPHY 101 / and KING’S PARK GROUP 50 favs at 15 Nov 09
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femme fatale point of view / an earhart chappel photograph / studio shoot / photographer chappel / model kb /kathy boui (www.modelmayhem.com) / make up , wardrobe and hair by chappel. / edit by chappel
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Art Therapy Basics from a Therapist's Point of View
by Lynn MooreBasic Art Therapy Concepts Lots of people ask me about how I use art therapy with my counseling clients and have expressed a desire …
Basic Art Therapy Concepts Lots of people ask me about how I use art therapy with my counseling clients and have expressed a desire to be able to help others heal through the artistic process. Many of us have experienced healing through our own art so it only makes sense we want to help others do the same thing. We know the power art has on our heart, soul, mind and spirit. I am just going to share some basic concepts I have learned and give you some great resources. I have found adolescents especially are open to artistic forms of expression, probably because they don’t have the years of inhibition and brainwashing about what is art and who can create it. They are more open to experiment and play with mediums and materials, especially when told what they create are not meant to hang on a museum wall somewhere. Adults who have some artistic background seem to be more open to using art as a means of exploring inner thoughts and feelings. Even if they don’t consider themselves an artist, just having some experience makes it a little less threatening. I have one adult woman client who, when encouraged to draw her inner child, did an amazing pencil sketch and I was shocked at her natural talent because she hadn’t talked about it. She didn’t really understand with her head what I was asking her to do, but her heart obviously did because the result was very powerful, both for her and for me. The biggest hurdle is just getting people started and the way I do this is using exercises in The Art Therapy Sourcebook by Cathi Malchiodi. She is very well known in the field and has a couple of other books out as well. She gives lots of direction on just getting kids and/or adults familiar with materials and then specific exercises you can give using each medium. It is pretty much step by step and has been very helpful for me, and as a new artist it has helped me feel like I don’t have to be an artist “expert” to utilize it with my clients. Let me give you an example. The first thing she has clients do is use pencil to experiment with lines, forms, shapes, shading, thick lines, thin lines and anything the person ends up creating. Clients at first are unsure and feel silly just drawing lines but start to loosen up after doing one or two of these. She will then add color, giving the same directions but using markers. After doing one with marker they are encouraged to do one with only their favorite colors and then their least liked colors. The goal is to get people experiencing different mediums with no expectation and just fun. It is amazing what clients have drawn during these simple exercises; not so much masterpieces, but how much it relates emotionally to what they are going through. Each piece must be signed, given a title and dated. Often the title itself is what is most revealing at this point, even if the drawing does not appear to be visibly tied to their thoughts and emotions. The wonderful thing about dating a piece is over time you can go back and revisit a piece, look for progress or add something to it at a later time. I have had clients say they want to add something to a piece they did weeks before and this is also an important part of the process. Also when they finish with therapy they have a timeline of sorts that depicts their process; a journal of images and symbols instead of just words. I ask clients to purchase a sketchbook and sketch throughout the week in between sessions. This is a good way for them to practice seeing more through imagery and getting comfortable with playing with images and symbols. They can also use it as a writing journal if they want and mix their sketches with writing. It is theirs to do with totally as they desire with no direction from me. Anything they want me to see they bring in and show me, other things they keep to themselves. Once they have worked with pencil, marker, pastel, watercolor crayon, and oil pastel then you move on to more fluid mediums like watercolor and poster paints. Most art therapists use these because they aren’t as pricey as acrylics, oils, etc. You want to see what mediums each person is most drawn to and this gives you good information for future work. As a general rule; for someone who lives more on the emotional end of the continuum, pastels, colored pencil, oil pastels can be best because it helps bring some containment to their emotions. For someone who has difficulty accessing emotion and lives on the rational side of their brain, the more fluid mediums can be helpful to get things flowing. It may also depend on the mood of the client on any given day. If they are too far into the emotional mind (overflowing with emotion) or rational mind (just reporting with little emotion) and need help with either containment or flow, you use mediums accordingly. This can also be helpful for us as artists when we are working through our own emotions, whether we need containment or more flow and emotional accessibility. Every exercise in this book can benefit us as artists and I have used some of them myself. I do not, however, work alongside a client because they can get too caught up in what I am doing and comparing. I just sit quietly while they work, often I will read something related to art therapy or be thinking about where to go next with that individual. I may ask how they are doing at different intervals and then I ask them to let me know when they feel finished. It can be helpful to play different kinds of music while they are working or playing also. You always save at least ten minutes to process the piece and they get better at this over time. My Healing Through Art Story Sometimes there are just no words to express what we are feeling, at least for a time. That is what I experienced when my dad committed suicide 5 years ago. I had always been a writer and did not believe I had an artistic bone in my body. When he died, it was like all my words went with him. I could not journal or write in any way, shape or form about the experience. For the first time in my life I was deeply and truly silenced. I had to find a way to express what I was feeling and that’s when I decided to take some art lessons. The first year I would call my trauma expression year. I painted abstractly and ended up with pieces that looked like natural disasters; Tsunami 2004, California Fires, Twin Towers and several others. None were directly about my dad’s suicide, but they were all about trauma, those who died and those who survived. I primarily used acrylics because watercolor was just too unpredictable for me. I needed more control and the ability to go back and fix things. If I made a mistake I asked for direction and painted over it. After the first couple years I found an artist named Mary Ann Beckwith and went to one of her workshops. She uses liquid watercolor and yupo and I was hooked. / It is amazing to me that initially, what I didn’t like about watercolor which was the lack of control, is now my favorite part of using watercolor. To me that shows how far I have come. Not that everyone has to like watercolor, it’s just that for me it became a barometer for the flow of my emotions. About a year ago my words came back and I am writing again as well. Every one of you most likely has a Healing Through Art Story; which means you also have something to offer others. I’m not saying you are all going to go out and do art therapy, actually I wouldn’t recommend it without the therapy part of the training. But you could work alongside therapists who want to incorporate art therapy into their work with clients but don’t feel comfortable doing it themselves. You could become part of a team approach to therapy. Inpatient treatment centers for eating disorders, substance abuse, and psychiatric issues use art therapy in conjunction with traditional talk therapy all the time. Why couldn’t you be part of a team in an out-patient setting, like with a therapist who is in private practice? I don’t know, maybe I’m crazy. It would definitely take the right therapist who is open to offering this to their clients, but I think those therapists might be out there somewhere. I am, and if I wasn’t offering it myself, I would love for my clients to have that experience and bring their work in and share it with me. The artwork just becomes part of the therapy process and I, as the therapist, get to benefit from seeing my clients pain and progress through another medium besides words. Sounds like a win-win situation for everyone to me! Those are my thoughts, take what you like and leave the rest as they say. I hope you have enjoyed my little art therapy article and that it answers a few basic questions you might have about it. More Books (sorry, not alphabetical) The Art Therapy Sourcebook by Cathi Malchiodi (the one referenced above) / The Handbook of Art Therapy by Caroline Case / Art Therapy for Children of All Ages by Heather Pearlman / Child Art Therapy by Judith Aron Rubin / Drawing from Within – Using Art to Treat Eating Disorders by Lisa Hinz / Artful Therapy by Judith Aron Rubin / Contemporary Art Therapy With Adolescents by Shirley Riley / Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul by Shaun McNiff / Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go by Shaun McNiff / Art is a Way of Knowing by Pat Allen / The Soul’s Palette: Drawing on Art’s Transformative Powers by Cathi Malchiodi / Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art by Nancy Azara / The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing by Natalie Rogers
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A true warbird. Seen here in the sea Hurricane colour scheme. Taken using a canon 450D with an EFS Canon 25 – 250mm zoom
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Yes, another sunrise taken from my workplace in Port Hardy, BC on Vancouver Island. It’s the best part of my job, to enjoy this beautiful scenery every time I look out the bay & Mr. Eagle put an added beauty to the scene! In 16 years, so many different colors and so many eagles! I have seen the worst and best that this bay has to offer! Hope you like and like always, thank you for viewing my point of view!! I recently had a small accident and off for a few days, catch up time in RB world. Keep smiling… / /
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