Fairies and Flowers
A fairy sleeps, dreaming of summers past and the summer yet to come. While at the window a fairy waits to join again the garden. Join our merry band of colour and scent. Hear the birds singing and the bees buzzing in anticipation of another sweet harvest. The warm sun spreads out the blanket of freedom on which we dance with the breeze, while leaf and tree keep time.
Lily Literacy
Consider the Lily. Read between the lines of stem and petal. Gather meaning from the stamen. Stain not your tongue with harsh words.
Interpret the colour and texture that blazes with news. Notice the scent ? It advertises secret desires. Be beguiled by subtle meaning and allusion. Beware of the illusion of love. Nectar can come with a sting. All wares come with a price. The bees know when to take flight. The birds hum the tune; you supply the words.
Passion Flower Spiral
A bit of an experiment using a photograph of a passion-flower from the summer of this year.
Antique Impressions : Home
Two very different homes and settings In Elliot Lake, Ontario. I gave each image a distinctive treatment & style to reflect the equally different building styles & settings. Enjoy the Day.
Heads-up in The Garden
Keep your head up in the Garden.
Watch with eyes wide open.
Revealed in shadows and sunlight,
The unexpected & the new.
Consider the Heronography-
Read the leaves and count the lines.
Contemplate the broken Catsuary -
Perfection is a matter of Perception.
Mounted flower pots,
Hanging flowers reach out,
Faces to the sun.
Three Steps in the Garden
Step into the Garden -
Watch as Nature and Time
Dance by.
First is a Floral Rumba -
Then the Thistle Quickstep.
Finally drifting into the Summer air
The Feathery Seed-flight Waltz.
Sunlight & Fence
We plan our yards and gardens, trying to control Nature. Plants wanted and unwanted grow, while the golden sunlight shines down on all without discrimination. That is sort of the way life works , isn’t it ?
Antique Impressions: Garden Ornaments
Time chases a butterfly;
The spider spins a web.
The sunlight is harsh.
Antique Impressions: Nature6
Some experiments in texture and nature/garden shots. Working to complete the school calendar images. Almost done with the project and then it is out of my hands and I can concentrate on some personal creativity ideas that I have had stewing. Enjoy the day !
reasons of the heart unknown
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist (1623 – 1662)
Flowers: Coming & Going
Some flowers are just arriving while others are coming to an end. Remind me of the end of the school year, the graduates prepare to go past grads may drop by for a visit, and a few students are thinking ahead to next fall – they can not wait to tell you that they are in your class come September.
A note to my subscribers and visitors, once again I am working on photo-compositions for the next school calendar. They only came through with the grant money to publish the special colour calendar this month. As my time is starting to open up from other school duties and I now have access to this year’s photos I will not have as much time for posting, especially photos. I have some creative projects on the go, but the calendar photos need to be finished first. I don’t want them swallowing up as much of the summer as they did last year. Enjoy the day !
Irises in Another Light
Beside the warm wall
My wife’s purple Irises rise-up.
The Summer’s sun paints shadows
On yellow & brown bricks.
In the flower bed
The Morning is embraced -
Petals provide
Scented kisses.
Surreal Garden Corners
Waiting in the corner of the garden
A dragon watches over a pool.
The flowers have strange dreams -
Feverishly Nature reclaims
Nooks and crannies.
The Gardener awakes -
The Dragon givers him a sly wink.
The flowers’ laughter echoes
In surreal garden corners.
Iris Sunlight
My wife’s yellow Irises rise with the sun.
Summer sings to Spring
As she embraces the Morning.
The front fence was designed and painted by my with, Elizabeth Kanski. She is the Visual Art teacher at E.L.S.S and a local artist. Enjoy the day !
Antique Impressions of Spring
Preparing the fish pond, the fish have not yet taken up residence as they await the warmer weather.
The Toad Abode remains empty , perhaps later in the season someone might hop by.
The yellow moon lily opens in the evening. They open quickly, sometimes touching them will trigger the bloom. Each bloom opens in the evening and only lasts the night and into the next day.
Flower-gram 4
Here are some flower-grams that are variations on one photograph. I used some of my textures to create these variations on the early clematis bloom.
The blue and the gold.
Here are a couple of other shots. One more variation on the clematis and then a bit of yellow to add some Spring sunshine to the post.
Antique Impressions of the Manufactured2
Went to the local plant nursery with my wife and daughter. I took a few pictures of the garden ornaments and bric-a-brac . Somehow it all had a very Victoriana-Steampunk tone to it all. It may have been a time slip, an alternative reality, or just typical style of garden ornaments. Then again it could have been my choice of subjects and use of imaging effects ( Media constructs reality).
Natural Abstract
The fish pond now waits;
The spring sun warms the water.
Beneath, dreams of fish.
Looking for life here,
The sun waits over water.
Beneath, shadows dream.
Snowfall: April 20
Between rain and snow,
Falling in wet clusters.
Forming feathery clumps
That cling to the branches.
Tomorrow’s sun
Will remind us
That it is spring.
April Showers: Freezing Rain
In Northern Ontario the seasons come and go. Sometimes they go and come back rather swiftly. We had some beautiful weather. A few of my wife’s more sheltered flowers were starting to reveal themselves in the garden. Then we had a cold rain. A very cold rain indeed, the ice began to build up on some plants and objects. The pavement was wet, but did not freeze over. By noon the ice had melted. By midnight the rain had turned to snow. The seasons come and go in north Ontario.
Plastic Camera-Lilacs&Lamps
Some more experiments in the use of layers and textures to create photo-edges and simulate earlier photographic processes and technology.
I came up with a new photograph-edge that works very well with tinted black&white pictures. It is also not bad with a colour photograph.
All three photographs were taken a few years ago, The last two were taken at Sheriff Creek, Elliot Lake, On. .
Heart of the Flower
A series of images that are based on closeups of garden flowers. Then photographs were modified to bring the viewer closer to the heart of the flower. Hopefully the catch the fire, colour, and mystery that resides in every flower.
Plastic Camera-Crabapple
I decided to try to create a plastic camera effect using Paint Shop Pro X and the VirtualPhotographer plugin. The original photograph was taken last spring. The photo edge is adapted from a Paint Shop Pro mat effect.
Texture and Colour
Here are two experiments in texture and colour. The first makes use of the photo edge I have recently created. I chose to blend layers to create a tinted black and white that is reminiscent of an earlier era.
The second black and white photograph was set in an album mat that I have modified with old book paper texture and colour.
This last image involved modifying two photographs and then blending them together using layer properties. It has the most striking use of texture and colour. All three images are tied together by the experimentation in with textures and colours to convey the passage of time.
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