Stimsons
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THE SUBJECT: / This beautifully marked snake is a very fine specimen of Antaresia stimsoni (Stimson’s Python), a native of Australia. THE LOCATION: / The photograph was made during an annual event held between the Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club and the North Coast Herpetological Group called ‘Snakes Alive!’ We meet at a property owned by one of my fellow camera club members at Kundabung between Port Macquarie and Kempsey, NSW, Australia, for a photographic session with all their various reptiles and a BBQ. (No, we bring out own meat!) THE MAKING OF ‘Antaresia stimsoni (Stimson’s Python) #1’: / No, it is not my hand holding the little Python, the hand belongs to the owner. I needed both hands to hold and operate the Fuji S5500. Of all the reptile lovers there that day, this big burly man was the most gentle and loving of them all. The way he handled his prized pets and spoke to them and about them was so nice to see and hear. He had to keep a gentle hold of this serpent’s tail as it had warmed up in the sun and was a bit frisky. / Fuji S5500: High resolution jpg; Macro, 1/125sec @ f/2.8,ISO100, Hand held. / Photoshop CS. Visit the Amphibians & Reptiles collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more sibilant serpents. Enjoy! SNAKES / (Click the links!) Antaresia stimsoni / Liasis olivaceus / Pseudonaja textiles / Morelia spilota cheynei / Oxyuranus microlepidotus / Boiga irregularis /
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This painting was done from one of my husband’s photos. Kafe was a nouveau bohemian hole-in-the-wall coffee bar/art gallery that opened in our neighborhood during the period when my husband was just getting back into photography, and coincidentally becoming manic. It looked out on one of the most scenic antique turn-bridges in the state, which became the subject of many of my husband’s photos and my first digital darkroom efforts. We had our first photographic exhibition at Kafe in January, 2005, and it became an artistic focus for both of us during a very turbulent and productive period of our lives.
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Angry Goddess was one of the first digital abstract paintings I did. I had been making paintings of things like flowers and my cats, but didn’t think to try doing anything less “realistic” until the middle of 2005, when my husband who is Bipolar was hospitalized for a severe manic episode. While he spent a month at St. Vincent’s in New York City I had to move our belongings and 11 cats to a new home. I had no idea if he would ever be able to come back, as his progress even when discharged was slow and rocky, and my whole life was in transition. This painting was an affirmation for me that I would make it through regardless of what happened to him. It’s done in Photoshop and based on a close up of my face (of course!).
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My mother, a brilliant multi-talented artist, started losing her memory several years after the passing of her beloved mother, my grandmother, and shortly after her abusive husband retired from his job as a high school vice-principal. He would leave her alone for weeks at a time while he gallivanted around the country rock-hounding with his girlfriend, and provided only cursorily for her basic needs (in one case hiring to cook her meals a woman with a criminal record who proceeded to bring her boyfriend into my mother’s house to pick her pockets and her locks). I had to hire a lawyer to force him to let my mother go into a nursing home, where she spent the last five years of her life. It was a good facility as these places go, though I was not happy with her treatment much of the time and spent a lot of energy advocating and outright fighting for her to get adequate care there. Witnessing the relentless deterioration which accompanies dementia of any kind is terrifying. But it was the dullness of her eyes-those former bright stars now reduced to black holes-that I think pained me the most. Amazingly, she recognized me until the day before she died, on June 6, 2002. This painting is a curse against the tentacles in her brain that ate her away piece by heart-rending piece.
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This was another painting done while my husband had to be instituionalized for severe mania in 2005. He was having episodes of violence in the hospital, and the demons of his illness seemed to be taking over. This painting was based on a photo of him. It expresses a lot of my feelings about that time in both our lives.
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Another painting from my time in transition, in 2005. It started out as a photo of my brother-in-law with a group of friends looking into a store window. I liked the colors in it, and overpainted them into this very different configuration. This painting became kind of my visual mantra during that time. I put all my hopes and prayers for the future into it.
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This painting was based on a photo taken by my sister in law, Beth Stimson. It pictures two of her three brothers (the other brother is my husband) in Central Park, New York City, during one of those rare times when they were (just barely) speaking to each other. I think the expressions on their faces say volumes….
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This was (very loosely) based on a photo taken by my husband, Richard (bearybipolar), shortly after he was released from the hospital in 2005. It was one of the last photos he was able to take, as his new meds (which work better than anything he’s ever been on before) give him tremors in his hands, and we haven’t been able to devise a way for him to continue taking his wonderful photos. The parade referred to here is the big annual New York City gay pride parade. It has special significance for us because our brother in law, the partner of Richard’s brother Charles, died from AIDS-related complications in 1994, and both Charles and his current partner, Peter, are long-term survivors of HIV and AIDS, respectively. Joey, Charles’ late partner, was one of the dearest and most creative people I have been blessed to know.
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These gorgeous snakes come in all sorts of forms from different locales, this one is a WA specimen, which have some of the best..
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From the PX3 awarded series – ORDER:SQUAMATA / / Stimson’s Python (Antaresia stimsoni) native to Australia. / / ©2007-2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com / www.centralnetteddragon.com
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From the PX3 awarded series – ORDER:SQUAMATA / / Stimson’s Python (Antaresia stimsoni) tongue flicking its environment. / / ©2007-2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com / www.centralnetteddragon.com
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©2007-2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com / www.centralnetteddragon.com
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©2007-2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com / www.centralnetteddragon.com
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