Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

2.06.2013

Home

Photographer Erin Wallace of Bluebirdbaby blog, is doing another EyesOpen  photography e-course. She asked me to be a contributor, which means I got to wax philosophical about my creative process and share some photos of my work and home. You can see the post here. I thought you might want to see some more photos of my home. Sometimes people say I should share more of my home, but I always feel a bit self-conscious about doing that. I don't know why since most of these have been on my Flickr stream for quite awhile. I live in a very old house (1763) that my husband and I have been slowly working on for 10 years now. We live in a little village on the coast of Maine, and it is a very quiet life for us. We have the feeling that our house chose us because we are hardworking fools who will devote that kind of crazy time and effort to this kind of endeavor! We love the house though. I fell in love with the old doors, and John loves the 2 chimneys we had to have rebuilt from the roof up (ahem, you see what I mean...we could have had a pretty nice vacation for what that cost!). But there is something about making a house a home, and one that reflects who lives there, and how. It is an art form, and one of the most satisfying to me. So here goes.

















6.18.2012

Olson House








Here is a funny little black and white album of photos I took at the Olson House in Cushing, Maine. You know how I love that place. I took a visiting friend down there last week. She got me hooked on Instagram...uh oh. So I took these with my iPhone and then monkeyed around with various apps, and here is what I got. The amazing thing about Instagram and all these apps is that it's like having photoshop in your phone...and not having to really learn it to use it! Can you say "time suck"?

1.13.2012

Street Art

via boingboing attribution to Sandrine Estade Boulet for photo

Yarn Bombing/Guerrilla Crochet

Mori Para Poder Vivir, Simeon Cummings, Isabel Paula Sanchez Garcia, Albert Mosoll Vives

see Street Art Utopia for more information

see Street Art Utopia for more information

see Street Art Utopia for more information
Lest we forget what art is all about, Street Art Utopia, here, posted a gallery of the "106 most beloved street art photos - Year 2011".

12.23.2011

My Year


I do love to take pictures!

12.19.2011

Maine Pride











Sarah Szwajkos is a photographer who lives in midcoast Maine. She creates commissioned portraits of interior spaces for her Personal Spaces Project. Her website is Damn Rabbitt Studios. These are all photos she has taken which are on her website. I like the way she composes in such a natural way. And what a cool idea to take a portrait of a home. I want to know the people who live in these spaces. 

12.16.2011

The Makers Project

Morris Kitchen
Mast Brothers Chocolate
Robicelli's
It was time to revisit The Makers Project, Jennifer Causey's beautiful photo project to document people who make things in Brooklyn, NY. I think her photographs are the best. I love her casual, natural approach and her composing eye. I've chosen food related photos here because, well, 'tis the season. But check out all the makers!

Jennifer Causey

11.04.2011

Aboriginal Art

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yam Dreaming, 1995, via Cooeeart.com
photo by Bindi Cole
photo by Bindi Cole
photo by Bindi Cole ( all via Aboriginal Art Coop Gallery)
Last year when I saw the drawing show at MOMA I was very interested in a large work by Emily Kam Kngwarry (Australia, 1910-1996). I started looking at the way she used dots, lines and color. It got me looking at the beauty of pure surface design, and it influenced me in my paintings and textile designs. I was looking around this morning for more images of her work, and came across this Kngwarry painting, this photographer, and many other aboriginal artists. Some links to visit are:

10.28.2011

Talk about incredible photographs!

photo by Mike Mitchell
photo by Mike Mitchell
photo by Mike Mitchell
Photo by Mike Mitchell 
photo by Mike Mitchell 
Mike Mitchell was 18 years old when he took these photos of the Beatles on February 11, 1964. They just sold at Christie's New York for various large sums of money. It was the first concert the Fab Four did in the US. The auctioneer called this last beautiful backlit shot "the money shot". It sold for $68,000., so I guess he was right. I found this image on line here. You can also go over to Christie's, here, to see how much each photo sold for. I love the Beatles! And I love black and white photographs. 

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