tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060564893920006422024-02-19T00:09:58.930-05:00Tamarak's TableI have many things on my table!
Most of my life happens around it...family, friends and art...Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-75053903473334575692011-04-08T09:50:00.018-04:002011-04-08T11:59:55.271-04:00An Impromptu Artist’s DateYesterday morning I had to go out to run some errands - it was a beautiful day - sunny, spring-time warm and, for the first time in what felt like forever, the thought of having a little walk about was appealing. <br /><br />After finishing up what I had to get done, I parked the car on Murray Street in the Byward Market area and walked over to the <a href="http://www.gallery.ca/"target="_blank">National Art Gallery</a>…<br /><br />This is a shot of the Beaux-Arts lane that I took a few years ago…one of my first ‘drive by’ shots taken out of the car window while I was driving past…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdi9p7zn_kpg_uMYx9KvZcUGJF-jCeE-0MWsgbI_mZTEL_-TgXJ16eINJfFm3iIcuYTyMex-0Yco__X1SnD8UhZIchIPc7DTDLUkf3zCB9Cv804dNl4Ga7MlDSib4Qq5dG6-QxiYheRqV5/s1600/Beaux-ArtsLaneJan2004.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdi9p7zn_kpg_uMYx9KvZcUGJF-jCeE-0MWsgbI_mZTEL_-TgXJ16eINJfFm3iIcuYTyMex-0Yco__X1SnD8UhZIchIPc7DTDLUkf3zCB9Cv804dNl4Ga7MlDSib4Qq5dG6-QxiYheRqV5/s320/Beaux-ArtsLaneJan2004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593212886003079330" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Here is a shot of the same lane from yesterday…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkXD5Wr8zPNgSVKW_YtHj9NcZuJIOP-kisoMhxdpWsNtOXNdAZf8tmUkVdQ3_hrDq_Ain4k1LNcDXb0yQ0h4NU8yz-jjtuX4RGQPdPtYD1Gl5PWib5G6UQruGYm0eFw7LZR_GkFFebG-2/s1600/Beaux-ArtsLaneApril2011.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 202px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkXD5Wr8zPNgSVKW_YtHj9NcZuJIOP-kisoMhxdpWsNtOXNdAZf8tmUkVdQ3_hrDq_Ain4k1LNcDXb0yQ0h4NU8yz-jjtuX4RGQPdPtYD1Gl5PWib5G6UQruGYm0eFw7LZR_GkFFebG-2/s320/Beaux-ArtsLaneApril2011.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593212891092951650" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I can’t remember the exact day last fall, but at some point, while driving across the Alexandra Bridge into Ottawa, I noticed this sharp silver finger reaching up into the sky…I asked Cariño if he knew when it had appeared and what it was, but he didn’t know either…and that was how it remained until yesterday.<br /><br />I walked past <a href="http://www.gallery.ca/english/548_1039.htm"target="_blank">Louise Bourgeois’ Maman</a>…the giant spider, and although I really dislike spiders, this one kind of grows on you. She is quite lovely. I believe there are 8 of these huge spider sculptures around the world. <br /><br />Maman is one of many things that I keep returning to to try to get just the perfect shot…I’m not the only one, either…on any given day you can see someone or sometimes groups of people walking up to, away from and all around Maman trying to get their perfect shot.<br /><br />I am happy with this one I took yesterday, but I am sure that it won’t be the last one I take of her!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjgwiHgwrnwX_hZkBRLoTvHEVNHBO-DvjET0KoJLOhbEkto4pJ4-rM0SVlzQdPTIMoPBHMT3xPhiVrx9qab8XC9Zzn53-5BYLRUdYbHqlRvdCSiwbXZnjJfEWG6QQ_c5ygiWbqzGeJ1PZi/s1600/MamanApril2011.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjgwiHgwrnwX_hZkBRLoTvHEVNHBO-DvjET0KoJLOhbEkto4pJ4-rM0SVlzQdPTIMoPBHMT3xPhiVrx9qab8XC9Zzn53-5BYLRUdYbHqlRvdCSiwbXZnjJfEWG6QQ_c5ygiWbqzGeJ1PZi/s320/MamanApril2011.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593215610057138258" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />As I walked around to the river-side of the gallery, I started to get a feel of just how tall this new sculpture was…and such a nice shiny silver. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEsSjguZS0P-hBxL6NI36l8VjqwAxljl9n84H-F-59QXjsE-_YxFhniRPMTt_gDbmmV60S4ZDKlZe3j2eSEGRg-k1dT-DlafGe7nEFzeYUcxhwUyDsMZ_5g0cKunOcG87pY6ufZsA1isU/s1600/OneHundredFootLine1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEsSjguZS0P-hBxL6NI36l8VjqwAxljl9n84H-F-59QXjsE-_YxFhniRPMTt_gDbmmV60S4ZDKlZe3j2eSEGRg-k1dT-DlafGe7nEFzeYUcxhwUyDsMZ_5g0cKunOcG87pY6ufZsA1isU/s320/OneHundredFootLine1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593222106491591506" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I walked right up to it and all around it…I decided that I like it! I especially liked being right bellied up to it…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhro2y8wpnVp8Sr1I-b55GA5sz1VD2pWBPWsuQYCxAi29BTMO7g1kRH8z-XfMfNtsJp7F8P3Vjs0RDgALkjllsYSNf463UsumAmP8E3IdsrkwZfsbPXuQvaBx_uTXW1hxo1HpucItGigpm/s1600/OneHundredFootLine2.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhro2y8wpnVp8Sr1I-b55GA5sz1VD2pWBPWsuQYCxAi29BTMO7g1kRH8z-XfMfNtsJp7F8P3Vjs0RDgALkjllsYSNf463UsumAmP8E3IdsrkwZfsbPXuQvaBx_uTXW1hxo1HpucItGigpm/s320/OneHundredFootLine2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593222103738696450" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieC76fz4t2TRkIt6ucmmaJvqoRtqb1SJazEB0UCJIXV5kWpviDHyUTUq9cbY1R0KHh-73GIYnl6CKXib8gK-VFaP_9VZPax3nTIXuoGsxrWpLSh0Fm-wwDgzyNK2rP-CXORHy2xAQ3R5eo/s1600/OneHundredFootLine3.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieC76fz4t2TRkIt6ucmmaJvqoRtqb1SJazEB0UCJIXV5kWpviDHyUTUq9cbY1R0KHh-73GIYnl6CKXib8gK-VFaP_9VZPax3nTIXuoGsxrWpLSh0Fm-wwDgzyNK2rP-CXORHy2xAQ3R5eo/s320/OneHundredFootLine3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593222101398853282" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGqAkaKhqhgcOmQPsacJtBqq-UBQ1khPznUwD6P7UQAUXMBepec7gS-7b75FBUseE2G_zIiYtKJEpkdQ9rimHVal9Js478T0Tb_wwHc0oX5BTMuk3BdVhznI_UEL8ouLHTvSU4-ekOU1Y/s1600/OneHundredFootLine4.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGqAkaKhqhgcOmQPsacJtBqq-UBQ1khPznUwD6P7UQAUXMBepec7gS-7b75FBUseE2G_zIiYtKJEpkdQ9rimHVal9Js478T0Tb_wwHc0oX5BTMuk3BdVhznI_UEL8ouLHTvSU4-ekOU1Y/s320/OneHundredFootLine4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593222092975834994" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAD4OiwkyX6f3CWA27WJo_P5q7UUHcxQo2CcUE0WTy_RHSggUcXmAjohSNU_6nkCwDLkrZhBH8x8RyAyyfXKbpnSDyv0qm8OpeKTPUsKHoKmquJ3VGz82MhB7yubVn8syjpPBIhPciRzEB/s1600/OneHundredFootLine5.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 162px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAD4OiwkyX6f3CWA27WJo_P5q7UUHcxQo2CcUE0WTy_RHSggUcXmAjohSNU_6nkCwDLkrZhBH8x8RyAyyfXKbpnSDyv0qm8OpeKTPUsKHoKmquJ3VGz82MhB7yubVn8syjpPBIhPciRzEB/s320/OneHundredFootLine5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593222086813217282" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />There was no plaque or anything telling me what the name of the sculpture was, who the artist was…when it had been installed…so I looked it up when I got home and my artist date became complete then – I had got out, seen something up close that I hadn’t seen before, had fun figuring out how to take some photos of what I saw…and then was inspired to come home and research about what I had seen…and, finally, to blog about it! That whole package goes a long way to making me feel good!<br /><br />The new sculpture’s name is <a href="http://www.gallery.ca/roxypaine/en/index.htm"target="_blank">“One Hundred Foot Line”</a>, was created by the <a href="http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/roxy-paine/selected-works/"target="_blank">New York artist Roxy Paine</a> and is one in a series of trees that he has done in stainless steel called “Dendroids”. There are <a href="http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/roxy-paine/video/"target="_blank">4 interesting videos</a> about the artist and his work. The first one that comes up when you go to this page is a talk with the artist about his stainless steel trees and rock sculptures. I’ll let you go listen to it instead of my paraphrasing what he is trying to portray. The other 3 videos (click on the little arrow at the bottom right of the video to get to them) show the process he uses in his ‘paintings’ – really kind of neat – he has an elaborate computerized set-up that then allows the paint to do what it will do.<br /><br />There are some <a href="http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/roxy-paine/links/"target="_blank">more videos</a> that show the installation of his mammoth Dendroids – the first in the list shows a time-lapse video of the installation of One Hundred Foot Line.<br /><br />After getting to know the new sculpture, I continued walking around this area called Nepean Point. This <a href="http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/designingottawa/archive/2010/01/21/tall-sculpture-and-park-redesign-planned-for-nepean-point.aspx"target="_blank">article from the Ottawa Citizen</a> talks about both the new sculpture and Nepean Point.<br /><br />I continued taking some shots…it was a good a good artist's date!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHj4E0Rffr2Hy417GgOQuySP0FxkEmHOiQKzGH5a8DlRPq-JSqWVfF7pBPKKsF93pMgn2kSs3XQ3izEkCVTA7XhCnavNZ5NLMYqZ4OkWfotpPxbk-R5Hxq_ApjA6odJ2YUoW4nIF61nkO/s1600/NepeanPoint1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHj4E0Rffr2Hy417GgOQuySP0FxkEmHOiQKzGH5a8DlRPq-JSqWVfF7pBPKKsF93pMgn2kSs3XQ3izEkCVTA7XhCnavNZ5NLMYqZ4OkWfotpPxbk-R5Hxq_ApjA6odJ2YUoW4nIF61nkO/s320/NepeanPoint1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593239464300384658" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5aczaCaaiFH8I6oWj-fH9UrLklBKhpX5VL4_vPHhwzRr-RG981AiQ0PoPDcuRB1TdTw9zMZpYn9uVOktgPgdmICjILpyrFVR9l8M760derhLEwfGwxm2jwXfXYvNvfk5vrmF1JFycpVgX/s1600/NepeanPoint2.JPG"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyBtlAkgCSbXDtkKQqzH6eE69k3vTa6zppUZ218sKFUL9W2vDujDL6N4BmKcRQNd-ApuEYqjDGDpOBZPDSIPiV6GL0vitDWwoA0wK-ngakaHKoCZ1ekGXtIUIitr3eF1q_LD4pdbOshAR/s320/NepeanPoint4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593239442669366834" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnJCzQLuiBm1jzpINYKNZAimAaq06IAlJwY9OdyXjEd_68rl3HHPH5zUoS7nlk23UamBGpnK9fvTu8yQjUswu3S0gnkKMKvup_en74nAawnMeM20fwLaLMOfiNls5IibM9gQS4FUWejET/s1600/NepeanPoint5.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 208px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnJCzQLuiBm1jzpINYKNZAimAaq06IAlJwY9OdyXjEd_68rl3HHPH5zUoS7nlk23UamBGpnK9fvTu8yQjUswu3S0gnkKMKvup_en74nAawnMeM20fwLaLMOfiNls5IibM9gQS4FUWejET/s320/NepeanPoint5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593239434192810722" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwrE_FaZ1qf-lK07x07k8I-pf-J_e6LbfqjOMmGpjSlltkr2-Uc2yiLu9sKTCyOZIGpnmHmh_c39MCK6XHV3AXaHc8izMuSG7n0KBVpf5zIkORcOXBQFJTg84IuD6lVWUfsbZpZbq3SXb-/s1600/NepeanPoint6.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwrE_FaZ1qf-lK07x07k8I-pf-J_e6LbfqjOMmGpjSlltkr2-Uc2yiLu9sKTCyOZIGpnmHmh_c39MCK6XHV3AXaHc8izMuSG7n0KBVpf5zIkORcOXBQFJTg84IuD6lVWUfsbZpZbq3SXb-/s320/NepeanPoint6.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593241024632059058" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />To top the day off I played with Lily - who was 6 months old a few days ago...I can't believe how fast the time flies!!!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkyFtZVUGn63uzFlzQWgWpAuFFTeiQNyWKGHuOBYT86jFWufThHUVro-Ks085O3rPin15V-Rzi3LUUuMgbjjL4rWjVULNOV-GRlQNHkC7eeAHOchEBLJzIB_br7VqdTk9yx7h5I5cPVLk/s1600/LilyApril72011.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkyFtZVUGn63uzFlzQWgWpAuFFTeiQNyWKGHuOBYT86jFWufThHUVro-Ks085O3rPin15V-Rzi3LUUuMgbjjL4rWjVULNOV-GRlQNHkC7eeAHOchEBLJzIB_br7VqdTk9yx7h5I5cPVLk/s320/LilyApril72011.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593241018335846466" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-9243084482729439542011-02-07T18:37:00.007-05:002011-02-07T19:13:00.167-05:00I never meant to lie...I really did not intend to tell a lie. I honestly thought that I was on the verge and just about to, and I have felt that way ever since I wrote that last blog post back in late June of last year, but it hasn’t happened yet. Many other things have happened, some of which have made it difficult, for the time being, to have space and time in my studio, in fact, most of my paints and materials are packed up for now.<br /><br />I still have lots of creative ideas, but the actual painting and creating of them will have to wait. They will have to wait until we move to a bigger place. One major thing that has happened over this past year is that I became a grandmother! This is proving to be a thrilling journey, little Lily has brought such joy into our house. Joy and happiness…and a lot of ‘stuff’! My daughter, her beau and the baby have moved in with us, so now we all need to move to a bigger place! We had been planning on moving anyway, so this is no surprise.<br /><br />I have still been keeping creative, even if I haven’t been painting. I have been focusing my creative energies on photographic ones…last January 1st, 2010, I began a Project 365, and on December 31st, 2010, I completed it. I had so much fun that I am doing another one!<br /><br />A number of us who finished up our Project 365 at the end of December were sent some interview questions…you can <a href="http://365-community.blogspot.com/2011/01/congratulations-to-tamarak2010.html"target="_blank">find my answers here at the 365 Community Blog</a>. At the end is a slide show of all of my photos for the year: <br /><br /><object width="400" height="300"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Ftamarak2010%2Fsets%2F72157622990247503%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Ftamarak2010%2Fsets%2F72157622990247503%2F&set_id=72157622990247503&jump_to="></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Ftamarak2010%2Fsets%2F72157622990247503%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Ftamarak2010%2Fsets%2F72157622990247503%2F&set_id=72157622990247503&jump_to=" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><br />I do miss writing my blog though. Through the process of writing it, I would reflect on whatever it was I was working on, taking the time to examine my creative processes, to look closely at how I came up with my different ideas and how these ideas would grow and change into more ideas. Blogging made me sit back and look over things in a way that I simply don’t do at all if I’m not writing my blog and I believe that process helped my creative growth.<br /><br />I do still spend most of my free time “filling the well”, getting in all the eye candy that I can, as well as reading about and learning new things. My Cariño told me about this new Google project that he heard about on the radio – Google Art Project. I have just started to wander about in it and it is wonderful! There is a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsynsSWVvnM"target="_blank">great video</a> that explains the project and <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/02/google_art_project"target="_blank">an article about it from ‘The Economist’</a> and you can find the <a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/"target="_blank">Google Art Project here</a>. I think I am going to be spending some quality time wandering around these museums. I love that, with some of the paintings, you can zoom right in and almost feel the brush strokes – and no gallery security guard is going to yell at you for being too close to a piece of art!Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-14022456064301399312010-06-29T10:49:00.008-04:002010-06-29T11:15:04.743-04:00I am on the verge and just about to…I have no shortage of creative ideas…just a serious lack of the “right” kind of time…it is kind of like when, a number of years ago, I wouldn’t allow myself to paint for over a year because we had to get our taxes done…the taxes never got done and I got progressively more grumpy because I wasn’t painting! Now our taxes are done…finally…we put 3 years worth into the system about 3 weeks ago…and we are caught up for the first time in about 5 years…I should be celebrating and painting my head off…so what is holding me up now? <br /><br />It could be because I now feel that I should be doing all of the de-cluttering that needs to be done before LT will come to paint the house so we can put it on the market…but, like the taxes, neither the de-cluttering nor any painting is getting done! <br /><br />You would think that I would have figured out by now (actually, I think I have figured it out…I just don’t act on it)…that I need to strike some kind of balance between doing what has to get done (in this case de-cluttering and packing) and what needs to get done (some serious creative play so I can function)…but balancing, scheduling and all of those basic organizational things have never been my strong suit…I seem to bounce from an excess of one thing to an excess of another…so that when there are things that really have to get done, like taxes and de-cluttering, I end up avoiding everything and doing nothing…except my mind never stops racing between thinking up creative ideas for paintings and berating myself for not getting the “have to get done” things done…I am my own worst enemy!<br /><br />Yesterday, in my avoidance of all things, I wandered off down this trail…it all started with a newsletter from <a href="http://photojojo.com/"target="_blank">Photojojo</a>…it was called <a href="http://photojojo.com/c/10638"target="_blank">“Unchartered Photography: 7 AM Portraits”</a>…a fun <a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/SLEEPWAKE/152896?utm_source=Photojojo+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c266d39c03-7am_Portraits6_27_2010&utm_medium=email"target="_blank">“Sleep/Wake” project</a> idea that <a href="http://www.behance.net/meredithandrews"target="_blank">Meredith Andrews</a> came up with…this led me off in 2 directions…one was to look at <a href="http://www.meredithandrewsphotography.com/"target="_blank">Meredith Andrew’s website</a>…I love her <a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Works-in-Progress/286040"target="_blank">“Works in Progress”</a>…I have a thing about repetition and collections of things that are all the same but different…the other was another link from the Photojojo newsletter that led to <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2010/05/off-the-shelf-michael-putnams-sleep.html?utm_source=Photojojo+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c266d39c03-7am_Portraits6_27_2010&utm_medium=email"target="_blank">an article in the New Yorker</a> about a series of photographs that Michael Putnam did back in the 60’s and 70’s about sleeping in public…they are wonderful…the book – called <a href="http://www.blueq.com/shop/item/114-productId.125838203_114-catId.117440647.html"target="_blank">“Sleep”</a> has been reprinted…I would love to get a copy…<br /><br />It was an enjoyable couple of hours…and not wasted time either...I justify it by telling myself that it is all a part of the <a href="http://www.womenfolk.com/creativity/well.htm"target="_blank">“filling of the well”</a>…now if I could only get myself to pack for a couple of hours, paint for a couple of hours and blog wander, visit a gallery or go on a photography excursion to fill the creative for a couple of hours daily...well…then I might find some balance…but, wait…how do I fit working into that?Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-53941627008422950472010-06-16T16:03:00.008-04:002010-06-16T16:26:53.298-04:00I Have a New Toy…!I can’t remember, exactly, when my elder daughter and I took a weekend workshop at the <a href="http://www.artottawa.ca/osa-eao/"target="_blank">Ottawa School of Art</a>…it was a few years ago now…but I do remember the content of the 2-day workshop! It was my first introduction to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encaustic_painting"target="_blank">encaustic painting</a>…and I loved it… <br /><br />For one reason or another, and likely because of a great many reasons and life ‘stuff’, I haven’t been up to paint in my studio since the last mad flurry before my show back in March! I have been photographing and I suppose that this has kept me stimulated enough creatively so that I haven’t felt an overwhelming need to be painting…but I do miss it…<br /><br />I love oil paints for their richness and the way they blend…but with the way that I paint…using tons of paint and slathering it on thick, with lots of texture…it takes years for my oil paintings to fully cure…that was why I switched to using acrylics…and I love the different acrylic mediums and the ease of clean-up and all…but they aren’t oils…they just don’t have the same luminosity and richness…encaustic painting combines oil pigments with molten beeswax…the depth and sheen of this amalgamation is simply amazing…plus this medium has endless possibilities…you can build it up with many layers, carve into it to reveal the layers below, add elements to it creating a collage, create a layered mass of it and then carve away at parts of that…artist <a href="http://www.lauramoriarty.com/index.html"target="_blank">Laura Moriarty</a> does some pretty wild things with encaustics…this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4WWH4t1ac"target="_blank">video</a> shows her working on one of her sculptural paintings…<br /><br />Another encaustic artist that I like is <a href="http://www.susanwallis.com/"target="_blank">Susan Wallis</a>…<br /> <br />Ever since that encaustic workshop, I have wanted to explore this medium further…and our visit to <a href="http://www.susheedy.com/"target="_blank">Su Sheedy’s</a> studio in Kingston back in April woke that urge up again…<br /><br />While at Su’s studio, she showed me her tools and materials…one main tool was a blow torch…with a self-igniting switch…how cool is that?...<br /><br />It has already been 2 months since we visited Su’s studio…but the idea of doing some encaustics hasn’t been far from my thoughts…and a couple of days ago, I finally used up some of my Canadian Tire funny money and bought myself this…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2l12EDNG6KHYdeEZeyi8YTwRxbdGP9ByTAHoXx-UXgFLc-B-7eUYORs0tly_l5iX-EVAHWukqoAZ3Wku3msufKJ1-BjQiozSAv4EiXvtFdK4CVk_V8ja-WGq3tbJqDCfY3M3vwVrgJCP/s1600/BlowTorchResized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 127px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-2l12EDNG6KHYdeEZeyi8YTwRxbdGP9ByTAHoXx-UXgFLc-B-7eUYORs0tly_l5iX-EVAHWukqoAZ3Wku3msufKJ1-BjQiozSAv4EiXvtFdK4CVk_V8ja-WGq3tbJqDCfY3M3vwVrgJCP/s320/BlowTorchResized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483464884454024370" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-84960301687103742932010-04-29T23:22:00.014-04:002010-04-29T23:53:21.890-04:00Tulips and More Tulips…I seem to be on a photographing flowers kick lately…this spring seems to be more visual for me…maybe that is because I have been doing the Project 365...maybe it is because the weather seems to be perfect for the spring flowers…I have been photographing way more…loving my new camera…<br /><br />So here are a bunch more tulip pictures from the other day…I'm hoping to be able to get out to photograph some of the artists that come out to paint the tulips plein air...I also have some daffodil ones from a week or so ago…those will be next…<br /><br />I’m afraid that with this weather we’ve been having, the tulips will all be finished before the May 7th beginning of the <a href="http://www.tulipfestival.ca/" target="_blank">Tulip Festival</a> in Ottawa…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKAQZ9btxPzsWJ2Fkpi8aZGNSasICO_ZFZMcMo1bKAodNlPlDI98GthMWAjXMzkIt0i83gpCOaeJX6p5dtmAynIThGXx0VcWU-XMqBEnCY6nB2sc5KCWMx2-AtMiPnmWy26Nji4RSIkqo6/s1600/SingleTulip1.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; 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WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 319px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464578992081384530" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KrA7t8yMdfN-cpUsc7Qtau3pj8dfbFCJDewYnl_Ae-0SAZx9KOUlEyjKOCfjYaq3z_4Ma4gqURITrSZkcbNozhObXZMPjqPp7jOdSXZK1cu4R93FHtZZrgEfdZKb5ERudXye4tlvc6Rv/s320/FlowXXIVResized.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Mom and her cariño took us for a delicious dinner at a little place called <a href="http://www.lemongrassrestaurant.ca/"target="_blank">Lemon Grass Restaurant</a>…then a good sleep, leisurely morning, nice visit and we headed off on the next part of the trip…<br /><br />Just before Dad’s there is an old abandoned barn…it makes me sad to see these beautiful old wooden farm buildings being left to fall to pieces…they are so magnificent…but they also take a lot of maintenance…we had one of these wood barns on the farm that I grew up on…Dad tells me that it was endless upkeep…that he could go out at night and hear pieces of the barn falling off…still…it seems such a shame that so many of these old beauties are being left to fall to the ground to be swallowed up by the brambles…<br /><br />I have tried a few times to photograph this particular group of farm buildings…I’m not sure if it is lighting, or the fact that I am a bit hesitant to go wandering in and around them too much…I have never seen anyone that I could ask permission from…the old farmhouse is abandoned too…but I have yet to get a picture that I really love of this place…here are my efforts from this past Saturday…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi95LQlVEd2gWVnPxemXwoHQC6AOZgE1S6RyBJn-tjihPclmbZvVF506LtMMekgQCEexhtJC4_juKqckOWeH3xMP1NZz75iCYl_3rgNbrLdmIz6UgAFmhuHOdzgsplCKhf2yi3mTyrC89w/s1600/OldBarn7.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; 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WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464595987992082034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsTGZCqMF6Lcc-VoEVU382X3D1Zqu9Tb3L52JC4j-1AcoDdPUKjtRLYDtKTRhfuxXCqB5KngZT34t64m-XYZXwaiCuvBz0bVquXPYjGy5W2YVtOUDhOl1vYnwqO21wuPYs2Vxh1oUC6g89/s320/OldBarn2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI09bTzns2NpyfvVSITnYubAv3NYA4TXBgruuQtUsHi31ke36Xx_vRT176y2ZVcReeLc6SoFJVJQOiVFiwa1ePHZ39k3onaGk5NZf0xvbrmVnt53dfG2I5rl5mqWmoncabHqVkN_KNqi6g/s1600/OldBarn4.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 193px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464595984288531442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI09bTzns2NpyfvVSITnYubAv3NYA4TXBgruuQtUsHi31ke36Xx_vRT176y2ZVcReeLc6SoFJVJQOiVFiwa1ePHZ39k3onaGk5NZf0xvbrmVnt53dfG2I5rl5mqWmoncabHqVkN_KNqi6g/s320/OldBarn4.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYwOw6guKoxVSJrAP7meXxg0h4rQlWJzC9qu8PJEIRx75f2-J1A6wL6a2YyqEwxbYYdr_VSX3KPzugtD12J09aipHnWZKq0EKUZ1OZxjllsJ9JoSunfKb-b53JGUH_CWiJJW2Uw4VSW5I/s1600/OldBarn3.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464595978389008946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYwOw6guKoxVSJrAP7meXxg0h4rQlWJzC9qu8PJEIRx75f2-J1A6wL6a2YyqEwxbYYdr_VSX3KPzugtD12J09aipHnWZKq0EKUZ1OZxjllsJ9JoSunfKb-b53JGUH_CWiJJW2Uw4VSW5I/s320/OldBarn3.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We got to Napanee in perfect time, once again, for pre-dinner drinks…yummy dinner and then later we watched the movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028532/"target="_blank">“Hachiko: A Dog’s Story”</a>...it was very touching and had me crying…it was based on the story of a dog in Japan – <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D"target="_blank">Hachikō </a>– who waited for nine years for his master (who had died while at work) to return to the train station where the dog had met him after work each day…of course I am a sucker for a good animal yarn…plus the facial expressions of an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akita_Inu"target="_blank">Akita</a> are amazing…<br /><br />After brunch Cariño and I began the trip home…on the way, we stopped in to visit one of my Dad’s cariño’s daughters (my step-sister) in Kingston…<a href="http://www.susheedy.com/"target="_blank">Su Sheedy</a> is an encaustics artist…my elder daughter and I took a weekend encaustics workshop a few years ago…it was so much fun…so for a while now, I had been wanting to get together with Su to talk art with her and to see her studio…it was a wonderfully inspiring visit…<br /><br />Here are some shots from around her studio…what a fun place...full of neat things...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6H1HPI4qoDgnnBZWaix6tXAtUOA_m56XJvVcDCMDxsnn_L-X3S26vp1V9CSYI1ycnaH7U8DmUU5YVFUMLRlInaF9Ro4ww_tAre5vFqyzaeDM6TeTZGn6Cyx6oU0t_7yqknWEmvu0sv5l/s1600/SuStudio1.JPG"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzlEqz1wOq1UH0kabY7a8RhbcloIYHuw_RdmC1A9X03PqQlPvkghfaxjAi9_VkW1la-6gR_hUcrYcbFsKjbYgRkmI2mA69x9MA6wz5c4fnlJqxbz0r6VFC-PmWO23-ivve8gTXTvhQa5JS/s320/SuStudio3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464600688750726882" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNfa6j_JID5OKtzC_WL58R6yoqDTgVEg34uYSvx6LVqCjpcQ82TAJj-QB2RwD0Gzdo2O_ESgQJigBW2vWwNI71kVT_ddLxYVYme4L8kZmfeFwV_n2625EJ2LY8BNYs2eU_RTjjqP1XsQAk/s1600/SuStudio4.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNfa6j_JID5OKtzC_WL58R6yoqDTgVEg34uYSvx6LVqCjpcQ82TAJj-QB2RwD0Gzdo2O_ESgQJigBW2vWwNI71kVT_ddLxYVYme4L8kZmfeFwV_n2625EJ2LY8BNYs2eU_RTjjqP1XsQAk/s320/SuStudio4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464600685101174850" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrdAOeWiyMsmeRWbpGEHGj5von6UPkFjtMDj0pP80zZieHfqNQ5TJ2zOTaQQDwATgyGgl75WXC28qXqw2bvyyrJgHCMFw9Kt2SsmwbjW7kzD_0U3uqOaE3sItAFodqjryLK1aOkETdVyz/s1600/SuStudio5.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrdAOeWiyMsmeRWbpGEHGj5von6UPkFjtMDj0pP80zZieHfqNQ5TJ2zOTaQQDwATgyGgl75WXC28qXqw2bvyyrJgHCMFw9Kt2SsmwbjW7kzD_0U3uqOaE3sItAFodqjryLK1aOkETdVyz/s320/SuStudio5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464600679971291458" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />After picking up the dogs from Oma’s outside of Wakefield, it was late by the time we got home…I woke this morning to the welcome feelings of happiness and being inspired…it was a very nice weekend and I want to get back to painting! <br /><br />Out running around today it seems that Ottawa is starting to burst into colour with blooming tulips…they have started to open over the weekend…masses of vibrant colours…I think they will be in their full glory before the beginning of the <a href="http://www.tulipfestival.ca/"target="_blank">Tulip Festival</a>…I’m going to have to spend some time this week out photographing them…this is what I got on the way home from errands today…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWB-r7L6dNWKsW9hsSWGAbfatFOz1vOloW8lUKgy1ViNbRkdD-5j_OiSvI42DYItbhyRZ__Ga2ogyAD9ye2qZDLcPgP0v5g0ZE5HDET9gaBvWvuu9LV5bK5Y1Nn67B5CUD2ZCriAv2iCZM/s1600/Tulips1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWB-r7L6dNWKsW9hsSWGAbfatFOz1vOloW8lUKgy1ViNbRkdD-5j_OiSvI42DYItbhyRZ__Ga2ogyAD9ye2qZDLcPgP0v5g0ZE5HDET9gaBvWvuu9LV5bK5Y1Nn67B5CUD2ZCriAv2iCZM/s320/Tulips1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464610718367308786" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK47JrkYXTasVkgOAiS_EYnvyUxqyhLA_sw3qgyLvVA6UqwhvZuwaFy-xcbS_XocksME_4HML01r3iqDNYGuyPiYeE8Fa0evSpsiEPFICy-D5Fn1fTwvK7egnDgmTj1p7CjHUCY7s80A2r/s1600/Tulips2.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK47JrkYXTasVkgOAiS_EYnvyUxqyhLA_sw3qgyLvVA6UqwhvZuwaFy-xcbS_XocksME_4HML01r3iqDNYGuyPiYeE8Fa0evSpsiEPFICy-D5Fn1fTwvK7egnDgmTj1p7CjHUCY7s80A2r/s320/Tulips2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464610708880949666" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIdqFnY09Vg4xx0PF6pgaXXUg2_f81AlQc2ZYj6EQzKJI3bSiIIbDpRJDhLoUndj0ohJeJXmBu-pvaUDNWikD-RCjyFpZNg6SXZiZbhu6S3slxCmscHX4IT3ib7ldEIsIWig5WG_MgrFf/s1600/Tulips3.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIdqFnY09Vg4xx0PF6pgaXXUg2_f81AlQc2ZYj6EQzKJI3bSiIIbDpRJDhLoUndj0ohJeJXmBu-pvaUDNWikD-RCjyFpZNg6SXZiZbhu6S3slxCmscHX4IT3ib7ldEIsIWig5WG_MgrFf/s320/Tulips3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464610696051410722" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxz_lgJ7EfyvhKZ3XvRzKjLDb7wXxI53XIIyZiH4O3bzZkfHJDt3Kp35U6dQcVAdKvFM6Wf2H7WfAaiqp9786GkZzb2HsJYSDMRzs_SPHczAgQdbdLbJKvt-YKeTlxM0v1SNL_RVvCmU7E/s1600/Tulips4.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxz_lgJ7EfyvhKZ3XvRzKjLDb7wXxI53XIIyZiH4O3bzZkfHJDt3Kp35U6dQcVAdKvFM6Wf2H7WfAaiqp9786GkZzb2HsJYSDMRzs_SPHczAgQdbdLbJKvt-YKeTlxM0v1SNL_RVvCmU7E/s320/Tulips4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464610688357598722" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFEI2TQRKHAJ9F7BVB1ZPv_Beip5BP8ohqWrRNjGKDSQESYlE_jgAx_wfsy9rQWVKasWhP-WUVEwBsxVxwiFMBqSjdQoUvvBMqPyLXGdKkxTky9Spn1ykN-iDYFRw-AXcEJu9e5TwgQaw5/s1600/Tulips5.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFEI2TQRKHAJ9F7BVB1ZPv_Beip5BP8ohqWrRNjGKDSQESYlE_jgAx_wfsy9rQWVKasWhP-WUVEwBsxVxwiFMBqSjdQoUvvBMqPyLXGdKkxTky9Spn1ykN-iDYFRw-AXcEJu9e5TwgQaw5/s320/Tulips5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464610679206454658" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtprL90i6uDaC5LL6qxsDOtPeEVDr-M7k9_dBlLVlMqPy4xJUS7gP-gbBCm52H2KLJu2I9gmKUJpqwpdsUv919t2ky4W7vr88EtvK5iZ1-zEpbm8S1OW_UMvLHxOMw_TjVFHzUzv2ZbsU6/s1600/Tulips6.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtprL90i6uDaC5LL6qxsDOtPeEVDr-M7k9_dBlLVlMqPy4xJUS7gP-gbBCm52H2KLJu2I9gmKUJpqwpdsUv919t2ky4W7vr88EtvK5iZ1-zEpbm8S1OW_UMvLHxOMw_TjVFHzUzv2ZbsU6/s320/Tulips6.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464611228360627394" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjsVC0yiKB8iKygpcMGmjm3sXJswNC6ZR6lBmJ6Q7NA_w2_yl91w5Z2NCiukyI0GyToUSydTkStElNd9twRfZFiACXmkXxb0UXgEYTFhyphenhyphen5U8Hw__jNKuNWYPKJAQl2XTypAytcNgN5U2mZ/s1600/Tulips7.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjsVC0yiKB8iKygpcMGmjm3sXJswNC6ZR6lBmJ6Q7NA_w2_yl91w5Z2NCiukyI0GyToUSydTkStElNd9twRfZFiACXmkXxb0UXgEYTFhyphenhyphen5U8Hw__jNKuNWYPKJAQl2XTypAytcNgN5U2mZ/s320/Tulips7.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464611222694318690" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-26752612024940683592010-04-03T11:39:00.012-04:002010-04-03T12:42:47.626-04:00Post Show…Depression…?...Well…it has almost been a month, now, since the show opened…I have long since caught up on my sleep and have been back working - although this year is getting off to a really slow start - but I haven’t been back to painting at all yet…<br /><br />Now, there may be a number of reasons for this…we have moved my brother in for the duration to do whatever renovations need doing to spruce the house up so that we can put it up for sale…(I really need to move back to Ontario)…this means that the house is in even more of a state of upheaval than it usually is…I have started ‘de-cluttering’ - packing the stuff that I can live without for the next while so the house won’t look like an overstuffed storage closet (the house we moved from when we moved into here was much bigger and had a wonderful, dry basement for storage – I won’t set foot in the basement here!)…there is the usual family chaos…which, in my family, might be considered to be fairly extreme…but mostly I just feel like a deflated balloon…<br /><br />I have been doing my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamarak2010/"target="_blank">365 Project</a>…and that brings some thoughts of creativity into my daily life…but I haven’t painted since that last flurry before this last show…my next show isn’t until October…but, really that isn’t that far off…but I do tend to wait for the looming deadline…but that isn’t it…I love to be painting…it makes me feel good…I have lots of ideas…some series I want to work further on…as well as a few paintings in progress that I am happy about…so why am I not painting?...and it isn’t because I can’t work in chaos…I live in chaos!<br /><br />The opening went really well…at first I was nervous, but I did calm down so I actually enjoyed myself…and I sold 6 paintings! But I still seem to feel a sense of guilt for enjoying myself at something like this…for enjoying promoting myself…<a href="http://tamarakstable.blogspot.com/2009/02/visits-ice-sculptures-and-vernissage.html"target="_blank">I wrote about this before</a>…my feelings are the same…but I did do better this time…<br /><br />I’m sure that the feelings to get myself up to my studio to paint again will return…but for now I will coast along…photographing - with my absolutely fantastic new camera that my younger daughter orchestrated getting me for my birthday in February…I am thrilled with it…what a difference this better quality of camera makes!<br /><br />To catch up a bit…here are my February and March Project 365 mosaics…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbcqpkCcrCEMGbP48ZZuiK1Vyc-yRgYeJxr82UdXhX4tIZnBJV_QDkvGpV5Rtiup_Rm2QKagWmw8h1gwD0ea7vjtitcnYBTmsEYRFQcrLM15jlv5DWCBOBTrqgmIEuSj9j9op5kxncWEyP/s1600/February2010.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbcqpkCcrCEMGbP48ZZuiK1Vyc-yRgYeJxr82UdXhX4tIZnBJV_QDkvGpV5Rtiup_Rm2QKagWmw8h1gwD0ea7vjtitcnYBTmsEYRFQcrLM15jlv5DWCBOBTrqgmIEuSj9j9op5kxncWEyP/s320/February2010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455936877724976994" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8NkpiFM3XPh82ApVzoCRQtqN8IMNw26TQEMwwQuPA0RgrTq601x3AQfI8MV1bsQzACNv7NG3CEZHt1U2xbstVv0bBXKhJbdR5dGTkCLcMW2AjEf91Ojx5dsnUsZEpKDetzZCkkbhbTHv/s1600/March2010.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8NkpiFM3XPh82ApVzoCRQtqN8IMNw26TQEMwwQuPA0RgrTq601x3AQfI8MV1bsQzACNv7NG3CEZHt1U2xbstVv0bBXKhJbdR5dGTkCLcMW2AjEf91Ojx5dsnUsZEpKDetzZCkkbhbTHv/s320/March2010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455936870051835698" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Up to the end of March, I have taken 1,464 photos…I seem to be consistently averaging just under 500 a month…it will be interesting to see if this goes up…seeing as February is a short month and I still took just under 500 photos, it seems that I was increasing as the months past…but for about a week in March I had a hard time getting myself to go photographing…was feeling down and uninspired…I think that I am through that now…let’s see what April brings…hopefully, along with the daffodils and tulips, inspired picture taking and painting!Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-87583890936822805342010-02-26T10:40:00.006-05:002010-02-26T11:07:19.271-05:00Pre-Show Jitters…It feels strange to me…I paint happily, quietly all by myself up in my studio…getting completely lost in thought…or, at times, the act of painting brings me a blessed release from too much thinking…I get lost in the colours and the textures of the paint…fat, colourful globs, swirls, peaks…I love the zen of putting the paint on…slathering it on…moving it around on the canvas…taking delight not only in the mixing of the colours, but also simply in the texture created by the brush, palette knife or whatever it is that I am using to apply the paint…it is a very private thing…<br /><br />It may be because I am still new to this…I hope that is the main cause for it…but I suspect that I will always feel these pre-show jitters to a certain degree…and probably a bit of healthy fear is a good thing…it is a big step to move from the private into the public...<br /><br />Initially…when I am working on setting up a show…I don’t feel these jitters…but as the deadline looms, they set in…usually a couple of weeks before the show date…that is when my negative inner voice starts to speak up…telling me that I am not worthy…asking me who I am trying to kid…suggesting that I don’t have enough pieces for the space…<br /><br />I try to quell this negative voice…tell myself that it is just that…my over-active inner critic…I go to a fair number of art shows…I am constantly looking at art of all sorts…I am by no means much more than a beginner at this…but I think that I can hold my own in the emerging artist’s ring…sure there are many, many who are far better than I will ever be…sometimes that is because we are creating different types of art…also, I am not, I don’t think, at the bottom of the pile…it is a dangerous thing, this comparing yourself…it can lead to a bruising of the self esteem…or, worse, an inflated ego!<br /><br />So here I am…a few days before the opening of my next show…a solo one…this is my 9th show…my 5th solo one…and I have just come through the pre-show jitters…my elder daughter joined me yesterday evening and, with the owner of the gallery, we got it hung…mostly I was worried that I didn’t have enough pieces…this is my first themed show…so it is all pieces from my Flow series…a few weeks ago I went into overdrive and finished up a few pieces, as well as started and finished, 8 new pieces…it was a lot of fun…and, as usually is the case with me, the more I paint, the more the ideas start to fly…it just takes the looming deadline to make me rearrange my life so that I make painting a priority...I ended up with 21 pieces, 2 of which are triptychs and 1 diptych - so 26 canvases in total...<br /><br />Now the next thing that I get worried about is the ‘<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernissage’"target="_blank">vernissage</a>’…the actual opening event…where I have to be present, with my art…the pieces that I have created in private, which are now hung in a public space with people there to view them…I suppose that this gets easier with experience as well…but this is only my 2nd vernissage!<br /><br />Rebecca – the owner of the <a href="http://www.steppingstonesgallery.net/"target="_blank">Stepping Stones Art Gallery</a> is a wonderful person…not only does she operate this art gallery, but she also runs <a href="http://www.camelliateas.net/"target="_blank">Camellia Teas of Ottawa</a>, which not only hosts traditional Japanese tea ceremonies, but so much more…demonstration and instruction is a variety of world tea ceremonies, Kimono, Ikebana and painting…entering into Stepping Stones Art Gallery and the home that houses it is like stepping into another world…a wonderful world of all kinds of aesthetics…<br /><br />With respect to the art gallery, one of the things that Rebecca likes to facilitate is a bridge between artist and viewer…she creates a safe, encouraging atmosphere in which communication between the 2 can be carried out without fear of judgment or ridicule…so I that think this will be a very good experience for me…talking about my art is something that I have had to learn how to do…it doesn’t just come flowing out naturally…but it is important, I think, for my growth…Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-55596860853076189902010-02-15T10:16:00.006-05:002010-02-15T10:43:24.451-05:00Creative Growth…We grow in our creativity – at least I do – in fits and spurts…there are times of rapid growth and times of slow or non-existent growth…it is in the times of rapid growth that I have ideas coming at me faster than I can do anything with them and I need to write them down or risk loosing them…then in the times of slow or no growth, I can go back and explore these ideas that I wasn’t able to look at before (that is, if they still make sense!)…<br /><br />There are also time when I seem to get sidetracked altogether…like I seem to have been lately…spending more time doing photography…but it all goes towards feeding the creative spirit…I did make it up to the studio yesterday though…I have a few painting ideas that have been percolating and germinating in my head for a while now and I need to get them out now…and it is a good time to get them out and onto canvas, because I can use these ideas (which will hopefully be actual, physical paintings soon) for my next show that is coming up fast! I think I will have enough for the show with these few more…this is something I am still figuring out how to figure out – how many paintings are needed to nicely occupy a specific space…I guess that comes with experience…<br /><br />I’m not sure what, if any specific thing or combination of things, triggers periods of rapid growth…was it something inspirational that I saw? – I’m sure that has an effect sometimes, but it doesn’t always seem to…is it just some natural ebb and flow of my being?...to be honest, I haven’t ever really tried to track the reasons…while I am lucky in that I almost always have more ideas than time to explore them, I am not so self-assured that I want to look too closely at that creative vapour thread for fear of scaring it away…and I think, by its very nature, it is an ethereal thing, not something that you can produce on demand by means of some creative recipe…<br /><br />I do know that I am always looking at art…of all kinds…all over the place…in real life and on the Internet…blog wandering is great for this…I can get lost for hours wandering from link to link…eye candy to eye candy…inspiration to inspiration…researching various artists…I also going to galleries, read books and magazines…this renewed interest in photography has me becoming more observant and that helps not only with my photography but also with creative ideas for painting…I think this constant immersion keeps me inspired…<br /><br />This week I will be bringing in 3 paintings to the <a href="http://www.artottawa.ca/osa-eao/"target="_blank">Ottawa School of Art</a> Boutique to hopefully have them hung for sale in there…I am still deciding which ones to take in…<br /><br />This one...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr7ELUdwECYT6x0V70_fwvO9tBqyEexBSZX1IlLrhDaTmucW7JP_t1rY7tc6bXeyv6NHGA0CR0MlqWkk0hkoPvnKMB8cwYUlACwPu3p8ZyQDfcaUFSGXG63DPxB-lkE_pB1_JEQWzHTkvn/s1600-h/DreamTravellingIResized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr7ELUdwECYT6x0V70_fwvO9tBqyEexBSZX1IlLrhDaTmucW7JP_t1rY7tc6bXeyv6NHGA0CR0MlqWkk0hkoPvnKMB8cwYUlACwPu3p8ZyQDfcaUFSGXG63DPxB-lkE_pB1_JEQWzHTkvn/s320/DreamTravellingIResized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438494152614205010" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And maybe this one...this is a detail...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gqa8oOjzAd8K48CMxQtMr0LXljODJlb_UkyYKzbdaGHdvqrTohwFpM-vdKHoGlL8GPQy2iRjRlH8Dx4GL6P70_0SSXmzcm1ARr3Qgy-84kQCHaS9p9rI0iUhfDa6kBOQWEnHKKebKd67/s1600-h/Daydreaming1DetailFinResized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gqa8oOjzAd8K48CMxQtMr0LXljODJlb_UkyYKzbdaGHdvqrTohwFpM-vdKHoGlL8GPQy2iRjRlH8Dx4GL6P70_0SSXmzcm1ARr3Qgy-84kQCHaS9p9rI0iUhfDa6kBOQWEnHKKebKd67/s320/Daydreaming1DetailFinResized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438494156710300354" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My studio is in its usual state of chaos...I am going now to spend some time painting...sorting...and deciding which paintings to submit...Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-19392278142443324812010-02-02T09:32:00.015-05:002010-02-02T17:20:48.101-05:00Month End…Month Beginning…Yesterday was so busy…I didn't get home from it all until almost 10pm...in between 3 various appointments I managed to get my photography show hung at the ArtSpace at the <a href="http://www.firstunitarianottawa.ca/learn/explore-arts.html"target="_blank">Unitarian</a>…I am still working on the photo transfer piece that I had wanted to have done for it…but it didn’t happen…I can go in and hang it later in the month…or save it for another show…or see about getting it accepted into the <a href="http://www.artottawa.ca/osa-eao/index.php/osa-galleries/gallery-information/osa-call-for-boutique-submissions.html"target="_blank">Ottawa School of Art Boutique</a> which is taking in submissions on February 17th and 18th…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiivIPPTJH3k2Zja7aIStJb3WYLehgm_EGDIZ2KISCU1ivkdoK1Nvmqqr1fyBogtAL3WGe2WllsY6ntj87BJPB0Mpuu9i6IHk0MjGGVdNx9Vx8Z8AKpY414y614Ldin9GzR7M1pkfZrK_4Y/s1600-h/PhotoShow1Resized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiivIPPTJH3k2Zja7aIStJb3WYLehgm_EGDIZ2KISCU1ivkdoK1Nvmqqr1fyBogtAL3WGe2WllsY6ntj87BJPB0Mpuu9i6IHk0MjGGVdNx9Vx8Z8AKpY414y614Ldin9GzR7M1pkfZrK_4Y/s320/PhotoShow1Resized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433771790134884258" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheqLuS1fnKo2mGLvonqLWlKsbmdA7e9q4m8L1-wXQ6ciP7N-NgkIF8E-RcjX_EYbZn91uH1S_hEGvswewlrRSRJSfjyIQEdBHMTRNhago3RaZKo9atXrxMf5HTooqZZsMpmlpTwgBA572e/s1600-h/PhotoShow2Resized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheqLuS1fnKo2mGLvonqLWlKsbmdA7e9q4m8L1-wXQ6ciP7N-NgkIF8E-RcjX_EYbZn91uH1S_hEGvswewlrRSRJSfjyIQEdBHMTRNhago3RaZKo9atXrxMf5HTooqZZsMpmlpTwgBA572e/s320/PhotoShow2Resized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433771781120758482" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7hg6Wmdt58VUBbKU2PHq0LYjgt54yX0zmJMvVF6c6ni43tCbfIgINGJsTyiMD3lNxOQuMPGUTR4Ylc2MEda7Pu2mzIeq8TklGlYfTSN7o2SwL7sKUzvggue_UpGP9X2ca_hwBtzxiApce/s1600-h/PanosResized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7hg6Wmdt58VUBbKU2PHq0LYjgt54yX0zmJMvVF6c6ni43tCbfIgINGJsTyiMD3lNxOQuMPGUTR4Ylc2MEda7Pu2mzIeq8TklGlYfTSN7o2SwL7sKUzvggue_UpGP9X2ca_hwBtzxiApce/s320/PanosResized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433771771857256514" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjryMnCt3yO6acwPX3bO7degmV1MAv7f6p_oYJAF8vlr3vNHWaY5vgnzmNkpY6hRBx-YSd0oX8xNS1XblPyg1zt9mTfrlehXdn5RK7T1lCEek3EMIKw-Zs1PccP88zLX5oRiT_ZWjyWQMcl/s1600-h/RockNWoodTriptychResized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 159px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjryMnCt3yO6acwPX3bO7degmV1MAv7f6p_oYJAF8vlr3vNHWaY5vgnzmNkpY6hRBx-YSd0oX8xNS1XblPyg1zt9mTfrlehXdn5RK7T1lCEek3EMIKw-Zs1PccP88zLX5oRiT_ZWjyWQMcl/s320/RockNWoodTriptychResized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433771768985712626" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I finished my first month of Project 365 and made the mosaic for the month…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMDmpJOHIKYnDsbT96F6bGEubiHXmje57CvJMDzFFFOG8_LiOqZz9r-Bwsb6K8NpDx5K2mI_-6FmBl33k6pnj5_P3Vp7gfCacBHkJy-21Ob54I_SB6TiyPF3IXvl3xDNT3x0Ur7zBe8xKg/s1600-h/January2010Mosaic.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMDmpJOHIKYnDsbT96F6bGEubiHXmje57CvJMDzFFFOG8_LiOqZz9r-Bwsb6K8NpDx5K2mI_-6FmBl33k6pnj5_P3Vp7gfCacBHkJy-21Ob54I_SB6TiyPF3IXvl3xDNT3x0Ur7zBe8xKg/s320/January2010Mosaic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433654368470017154" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I have also gone through all the shots I took in January – 527 of them and picked out some of the ones that I didn’t choose for the project but that I still like for one reason or another…<br /><br />In no particular order here they are…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvI9ppqQTiFzgCsNCY-UYMAAKd5wET-5Bda1rhWuCGGpa-DIQ1HOSVouV4x6T7jkmB0pte0OkuQcQWKjq4J-g9pdfGrWMU7BC09W3DZJ_iy9ko_DvuM2POvXSZDUbUZQEKiwbxU2Qgjq3F/s1600-h/HogsBackFalls.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvI9ppqQTiFzgCsNCY-UYMAAKd5wET-5Bda1rhWuCGGpa-DIQ1HOSVouV4x6T7jkmB0pte0OkuQcQWKjq4J-g9pdfGrWMU7BC09W3DZJ_iy9ko_DvuM2POvXSZDUbUZQEKiwbxU2Qgjq3F/s320/HogsBackFalls.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433764326293251138" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokDhuLYF3NP1nbLrVx3VN0fhxQemc0CJ40xAS5uCHGiDGmSsWzZbLfolNRn8paW5oeR4QaUVHyKdua0YmuZLRPc7-fWKTxCWiJUghi57Ha0hTCZPGDVVCTXafiiOgjZM09STnLyAKETMi/s1600-h/Cupola.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokDhuLYF3NP1nbLrVx3VN0fhxQemc0CJ40xAS5uCHGiDGmSsWzZbLfolNRn8paW5oeR4QaUVHyKdua0YmuZLRPc7-fWKTxCWiJUghi57Ha0hTCZPGDVVCTXafiiOgjZM09STnLyAKETMi/s320/Cupola.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433764323881257810" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizlYNI9V6RpZU5BRM0eWBj54f8zUp9_S1fdTXScWzz4R9t7u_f0UgZjZyfvSPEWZa7GSeReIGvhPHF91E-DJy_S5Inw0jbBcfpGlfRf2ICrgSCwg4IoDyjr0KwW7TA0qBIaP_4e7Z1aY5B/s1600-h/ChristmasLights.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizlYNI9V6RpZU5BRM0eWBj54f8zUp9_S1fdTXScWzz4R9t7u_f0UgZjZyfvSPEWZa7GSeReIGvhPHF91E-DJy_S5Inw0jbBcfpGlfRf2ICrgSCwg4IoDyjr0KwW7TA0qBIaP_4e7Z1aY5B/s320/ChristmasLights.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433764316279606082" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0kykaF4zar-gBh1dKk9orYNiPImOp3lDWz5hvmZEQ8MUCk9S1fgy7LWiebo0dsC23aiyOoJBpg_GdGoX1P-Q2kqelsn9cGxmB9CAGM8Ar4yNQQoqLI0w3WhqEkZoKn0kORArM4E8UPjre/s1600-h/BlowFish.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0kykaF4zar-gBh1dKk9orYNiPImOp3lDWz5hvmZEQ8MUCk9S1fgy7LWiebo0dsC23aiyOoJBpg_GdGoX1P-Q2kqelsn9cGxmB9CAGM8Ar4yNQQoqLI0w3WhqEkZoKn0kORArM4E8UPjre/s320/BlowFish.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433764310780773202" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6uZHwYBikncg2uWa5i4GF04zfG0RiyfX5Jn83RzitrMu0c6sR3LbD_g1LNZX4x3o8MMHAJe3IYyoC9ESpjMLUNw8ZtczHW96D46N03EbrYkeDAghP78HzgGUK0FQtOgzQizMO9h3EwR_/s1600-h/BirdPrints.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6uZHwYBikncg2uWa5i4GF04zfG0RiyfX5Jn83RzitrMu0c6sR3LbD_g1LNZX4x3o8MMHAJe3IYyoC9ESpjMLUNw8ZtczHW96D46N03EbrYkeDAghP78HzgGUK0FQtOgzQizMO9h3EwR_/s320/BirdPrints.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433764306103532802" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveMFti7P4VMev3mgBFy9yHdG3Aw15QTSzk1Qgb_fq-22Nm-y1FIKkHiRwI5SYgK27H8WRCmI7acmFE6Uxb342Aqc0X0VUbWxkCkubCypcAqtE1Gds99Ng7h1UsKRaLffh-e6jRzkdL7PL/s1600-h/WinchAtHogaBack.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveMFti7P4VMev3mgBFy9yHdG3Aw15QTSzk1Qgb_fq-22Nm-y1FIKkHiRwI5SYgK27H8WRCmI7acmFE6Uxb342Aqc0X0VUbWxkCkubCypcAqtE1Gds99Ng7h1UsKRaLffh-e6jRzkdL7PL/s320/WinchAtHogaBack.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433765473646348642" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8v3EzNxnfVYYS2CBvf5fptRriVPpR-UupQkpur2ska19g5GXOtIt72lzv7BI12RIELK1LRYFeR_UGrGBnjpnGEeUQOlJx_AqkQusjUFb5Hdir5A06Np5VrnPAxIkD7AlUKfwUEQhsoD6m/s1600-h/Turkeys.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8v3EzNxnfVYYS2CBvf5fptRriVPpR-UupQkpur2ska19g5GXOtIt72lzv7BI12RIELK1LRYFeR_UGrGBnjpnGEeUQOlJx_AqkQusjUFb5Hdir5A06Np5VrnPAxIkD7AlUKfwUEQhsoD6m/s320/Turkeys.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433765470556150210" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEh9la_T_YFUkBSJLLnY-iv9Iaoot_1rgrZBRNE3yhtNehM2KFkzqjtRgYPSzzJgQvD4KFplSSw0v3O_G0hyUiAUjNwOqc-cH3IvghblrL8Q1Qt_8wP7ixjMsOTqqo_DplT1MEZYp9b46b/s1600-h/ThothAndMandara.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEh9la_T_YFUkBSJLLnY-iv9Iaoot_1rgrZBRNE3yhtNehM2KFkzqjtRgYPSzzJgQvD4KFplSSw0v3O_G0hyUiAUjNwOqc-cH3IvghblrL8Q1Qt_8wP7ixjMsOTqqo_DplT1MEZYp9b46b/s320/ThothAndMandara.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433765465166990962" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCa5x7sNTd8Z3VYes8hZ8ipv1bz1J0xDtDns5R7wxTSg60im94K0wUMYYoUXa5RAlfkJh8VwwgkSoIIbdWiJTZ9hLiLThR-pqxpyqIid7VsVKwYhCqriM97A5cChcNfMwNbH4T0zGm1U3/s1600-h/SnowSquall3.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCa5x7sNTd8Z3VYes8hZ8ipv1bz1J0xDtDns5R7wxTSg60im94K0wUMYYoUXa5RAlfkJh8VwwgkSoIIbdWiJTZ9hLiLThR-pqxpyqIid7VsVKwYhCqriM97A5cChcNfMwNbH4T0zGm1U3/s320/SnowSquall3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433765245931914450" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFlXPpymIuhhPOW0OdibGvQMXHFjNjdb6RFpq_7KKULl5_skM8l1K9w5D8lVKufMH0RnjKT4jnHdcha9vF8t-esLbkwhf_nZq6Rz36p4ml2WNB3qKUZ-3r5DM-ug6eEFwJ37aeMhVvduQ/s1600-h/SnowSquall1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 204px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFlXPpymIuhhPOW0OdibGvQMXHFjNjdb6RFpq_7KKULl5_skM8l1K9w5D8lVKufMH0RnjKT4jnHdcha9vF8t-esLbkwhf_nZq6Rz36p4ml2WNB3qKUZ-3r5DM-ug6eEFwJ37aeMhVvduQ/s320/SnowSquall1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433765235051911106" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsqla22hjfLsroDd2rTe7DzpCcJMH97mnanunChPzLK50cs7oqnH0jbmvgxyIU4oPcCD0vda2RvE45zaXIpx6lcSxpYZX-qDHsRrBFKQTV2pt8zzY1YXUAV4fjcul7-l1NmBvO8ggvh1Y9/s1600-h/Ne-Ko.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 143px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsqla22hjfLsroDd2rTe7DzpCcJMH97mnanunChPzLK50cs7oqnH0jbmvgxyIU4oPcCD0vda2RvE45zaXIpx6lcSxpYZX-qDHsRrBFKQTV2pt8zzY1YXUAV4fjcul7-l1NmBvO8ggvh1Y9/s320/Ne-Ko.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433765225486140114" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIJZGiq4cYOdT78JOxiv4xaHbYWUgttap9wriX5WkvrU04ruDm1OqxDPDTSfYwFA4klWkG8hupdtNnECqma57CaaOz8_U26hjpPlgdAOrLWCdKzHNFmChQ5GBt0_c2DqifQV7qz4FFhlr/s1600-h/Maddy.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIJZGiq4cYOdT78JOxiv4xaHbYWUgttap9wriX5WkvrU04ruDm1OqxDPDTSfYwFA4klWkG8hupdtNnECqma57CaaOz8_U26hjpPlgdAOrLWCdKzHNFmChQ5GBt0_c2DqifQV7qz4FFhlr/s320/Maddy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433765220198976514" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGUL9gPo6Y6eO3nW9GRobl2kb7wZgml7CftfkJw-vVHoARce1H2BSbSq0t6Qrw2K6jaoN97i0ItnCANVpwYk5KBIFIXgcF1UfNxyNOF4W6E82hIVT3xEDqG3yLPGOuKqnUBps-KuFZ_4co/s1600-h/KaiahAndJess.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGUL9gPo6Y6eO3nW9GRobl2kb7wZgml7CftfkJw-vVHoARce1H2BSbSq0t6Qrw2K6jaoN97i0ItnCANVpwYk5KBIFIXgcF1UfNxyNOF4W6E82hIVT3xEDqG3yLPGOuKqnUBps-KuFZ_4co/s320/KaiahAndJess.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433765213935231314" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Another thing that I tried to do was to pick a favorite photo from the 31 photos that I did choose for the project…and that was hard…first I narrowed it down to these 5…and then I got stuck…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4YfOboly3eXET_9kzBkK3aoGBv-GPbS3McUCd1Ia9j0eW2QR631e0GZWZA15TAX0UBKpM5kOLNVyfStPqLObLGfTzchflMAH6ZrbWFrspQLuIimwfQUOWj_9aF-7r2JbrypGgqLdFojS/s1600-h/Jan6_PimkieResized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG63ehQ38c3MN1fxYZB3exjEGtgWFMimsRU-ZIpPBUdv972EA5E07_P3h6kFVPTshyphenhyphenEOSOJlCahLNVZyYQVgJnwaPd7Aau9xMfxOd8tMbDRz6AU9gFlyX_9Zw2XbPegkdxxDmFv5_gvCLM/s320/Jan31_RenoResized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433766797189006962" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-77755639181202143812010-01-28T11:01:00.011-05:002010-01-28T11:58:00.264-05:00Time is flying...The end of this first month of the year is fast approaching and so far I haven’t managed much (any?) painting time in the studio…which I really do need to do…and I really would love to find the time to do…I have a show of my paintings coming up in March/April…I also have a show in February…I have decided to make this one a show of some of my photography…so I am hoping to be able to pull that together…in, what – I have 4 more days – yikes!<br /><br />What comes to mind as I am thinking about how this month has flown by at lightning speed – how time, in general, lately, seems to have been speeding up and flying by - is John Lennon’s quote “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans”…how true that is! Very often there are times when I have plans to do one thing and then life just blithely steps in and dictates something totally different and there I go - heading off on a completely unexpected tangent…<br /><br />I have been getting a bit better at handling this though…not in changing the complete lack of control that I seem to have over my life – just in getting somewhat better at accepting it…even my horoscope that came this week from <a href="http://freewillastrology.com/"target="_blank">Rob Brezsney</a> seems to point to this – both the chaos aspect and the acceptance of it…<br /><br />"PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Congrats on your growing ability to do more floating and less thrashing as you cascade down the stream of consciousness. I think you're finally understanding that a little bit of chaos isn't a sign that *everything's falling apart forever omigod the entire planet's crashing and evil is in ascension* . . . but rather that a healthy amount of bewildering unpredictability keeps things fresh and clean. My advice is to learn to relax even more as you glide with serene amusement through the bubbling and churning waters of life."<br /><br />I have been taking photographs every day…417 so far…and that observance part of my brain is enjoying the waking up and coming back to life that this exercise has stimulated…there have been days when I have been so busy that by the time I have a chance to even think about taking a photograph, it is dark and I am tired and frustrated from a long day of working or running around doing those things that I hadn't planned on doing…but still, I have taken a picture…thank goodness we have so many animals – I can always fall back on a pet picture! <br /><br />I have learned, though, that of our 4 cats, 2 dogs and my younger daughter's puppy, I am not able to photograph all of them in the same way…for example, the black cat is a real challenge, as is the black and white one...the other 2 cats are easy and willing models...and one of our dogs requires certain circumstances in which to photograph him with any amount of success – he was hit by a car when he was young and had some spinal cord damage, so he almost always has his head down…the only place that I have managed to take good pictures of him…so he doesn’t look all ‘hang-dog’…is at the cottage – where I can get down off the boardwalk so I am below him, or to be ‘down-rock face’ from him…or I need the space to lie down on the ground and photograph him from his level…like so…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSXP9DZDxaNeoh7mV_54neUPxz_WWJTAdrWYzUdxcLBsuiaXX5P5W9CvWwcGdNjnfBL-vH15lltJoUxp2aAGU2L2xvtonjYqPJqmQvQKH_M9L6xYgwuybFH9vJISIKdf_rqG1Zbrltt94U/s1600-h/Teddy+on+Boardwalk.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSXP9DZDxaNeoh7mV_54neUPxz_WWJTAdrWYzUdxcLBsuiaXX5P5W9CvWwcGdNjnfBL-vH15lltJoUxp2aAGU2L2xvtonjYqPJqmQvQKH_M9L6xYgwuybFH9vJISIKdf_rqG1Zbrltt94U/s320/Teddy+on+Boardwalk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431824157804032130" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIMMq-pggFikuE49hkXv1gBREKcB4jLnKoNQ4y8ij8T3_AfOxQjhDei08lZMDZGtQtZnDs1NOARvYJoZJBNSiItLciAkekxSsY2-M4PZlHrllYykD82Y_rYrMPCu6zfcG6sJnWp_ObL1Y/s1600-h/Teddy+and+Shea+1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIMMq-pggFikuE49hkXv1gBREKcB4jLnKoNQ4y8ij8T3_AfOxQjhDei08lZMDZGtQtZnDs1NOARvYJoZJBNSiItLciAkekxSsY2-M4PZlHrllYykD82Y_rYrMPCu6zfcG6sJnWp_ObL1Y/s320/Teddy+and+Shea+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431824151989267314" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheWPVw-XR2T3rKqbmSwzwdU4id0ZcQDw3NNj6E0IchZVv2OU_aPgO_MWEBS2N-SybeCBWvbZw_iqQ6FIkw7y_9sHrp_dRITEBDw3YpDA-yJOp-qTA_rk6m_L0rL900RvY7ASeSnsIEko8A/s1600-h/Teddy+and+Shea+2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheWPVw-XR2T3rKqbmSwzwdU4id0ZcQDw3NNj6E0IchZVv2OU_aPgO_MWEBS2N-SybeCBWvbZw_iqQ6FIkw7y_9sHrp_dRITEBDw3YpDA-yJOp-qTA_rk6m_L0rL900RvY7ASeSnsIEko8A/s320/Teddy+and+Shea+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431824146278424322" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9xUHyH6FlJa4A9gbgbzWQVPpg5MIF3BqdA8QqTPN4aCJdDBYpm_gj_HKGVyyUoSh8IrD2VGZYLQAaEmNtHODs0Cc67hr5ePGlYB4cHIhRsdkw5sx3BprgK33ezE9WuoCu-mh0on5GEKkz/s1600-h/Teddy+at+eye+level.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9xUHyH6FlJa4A9gbgbzWQVPpg5MIF3BqdA8QqTPN4aCJdDBYpm_gj_HKGVyyUoSh8IrD2VGZYLQAaEmNtHODs0Cc67hr5ePGlYB4cHIhRsdkw5sx3BprgK33ezE9WuoCu-mh0on5GEKkz/s320/Teddy+at+eye+level.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431834005349186930" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I have usually managed to spend some time each day looking at and being inspired by some of the other’s photographs in the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/project_365/pool/"target="_blank">Project 365</a> and the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/365community/pool/"target="_blank">365 Community</a> groups on Flickr…these communities are an endless source of encouragement and inspiration…just like looking at art inspires me and fills my well, the same applies with looking at photography…<br /><br />I have also been learning things that I didn’t know about before…like Bokeh, for instance…I had never heard of Bokeh before…but wandering around Flickr I was seeing it more and more…<br /><br /><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bokeh"target="_blank">Dictionary.com</a> gives this definition: “a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image”…<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh"target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> expands on that to include: “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light"…and “Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights, as blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image”…<br /><br />Then I went looking some more…<a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=bokeh"target="_blank">Flickr</a> has a bunch of groups dedicated to bokeh…including at least one where no bokeh is allowed! Further searching came up with some more information (this is how I can get lost for a whole day just wandering around in cyberspace!)…<a href="http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/bokeh.htm"target="_blank">Ken Rockwell</a> talks about bokeh and <a href="http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh"target="_blank">DIYPhotography.net</a> tells you how you can make a lens cover to create your own bokeh…<br /><br />The other evening, while I was stopped at a traffic light, it had been raining and I looked out the van window to see a bokeh shot…not that great a one…but a couple weeks ago I didn’t even know what bokeh was!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4TmAORKlqmuHXCTbr2bgZrXgAvV-DfSIxfxqSo6dcPokv97uAUwvrwcpfDBLZsqL2MakruFBZGlQjsZ1goKmSWNJde1T9WYhIZfPPMR7_wq2nBzpCbosxnXKfsb_k0-BZ0dfdtYLm0fz7/s1600-h/TrafficLightBokeh.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4TmAORKlqmuHXCTbr2bgZrXgAvV-DfSIxfxqSo6dcPokv97uAUwvrwcpfDBLZsqL2MakruFBZGlQjsZ1goKmSWNJde1T9WYhIZfPPMR7_wq2nBzpCbosxnXKfsb_k0-BZ0dfdtYLm0fz7/s320/TrafficLightBokeh.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431830998549823170" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Of the 417 pictures that I have taken so far this year, I have used 27 for my Project 365...I haven't always been happy with what I have to choose from for the day...but, there have been days when I have ended up with more than 1...I am hoping to put together a collage shot of the month each month for this project and also to put up some of my out takes from the month as well...hoping to get a chance to do that at month's end!Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-8235548012557236432010-01-19T15:21:00.005-05:002010-01-19T15:36:08.995-05:00Project 365 so far…When I started painting a few years ago…it wasn’t long before some of my sleeping senses began to wake up and tune in…my observance of colour, shape and texture became keener…<br /><br />So it is now, through doing this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamarak2010/"target="_blank">Project 365</a> that even more of my senses have begun to stir…when I was in Photographic Arts at Ryerson, I remember become very observant…it was a skill that we worked hard at fine tuning…constantly thinking about and looking for things to photograph and ways in which to photograph them in order to make some kind of statement…<br /><br />In just these few short weeks I am beginning to think like a photographer again…it is a wonderful feeling…like another window in my mind opening and letting in some fresh air…fresh ideas…fresh ways of seeing…I now have a journal where I can jot down ideas for things to photograph…or a location that I want to return to…having flown past it on my way to or from a job…<br /><br />It is a challenge finding the right kind of time to go out on a shoot…a number of things need to coincide…sometimes the weather is needed to cooperate…mostly it is making the time…I have been really busy work-wise since people got back into the swing of things after the New Year…which is a good thing…but, I think I have said it before…being self employed in a break/fix type of job means it is feast or famine most of the time…there is very little ‘happy medium’…<br /><br />I have always been pretty good at always carrying my camera with me…so a lot of my shots are the spur-of-the-moment-glad-I-had-my-camera-with-me kinds…but this effort of having to come up with a photo that I am happy to post every day has got me thinking about photography more than I had been lately…<br /><br />There are days when I almost forget…or the day passes way too quickly but so far I have managed through these times when I have been out working from morning till 9 or 10 at night by quite comprehensively photographing an old typewriter…that was fun…it is gone now, so I can’t fall back on that anymore…but I also can always photograph our animals…right now we have 4 cats and 2 dogs plus my younger daughter’s puppy comes to visit often…I am lucky in that, for the most part, they love to be photographed…especially when there is bribery involved…a love-up or treat…<br /><br />Here is a collage of Pimkie posing for me...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK8HNFh7S5Hu_ewvY63KTe-b6GyVh5sRmU9bNVxlb6YtyQs-3J4rhx-1bmX3KzWnkkbp6srvmF0lAFlKgFi85maiuRKsCEjZc7ReOxN__f5B7ldSDpIY10wCGh0fPPBOasFobS0qb59hhn/s1600-h/PimkiePosingSmall.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 75px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK8HNFh7S5Hu_ewvY63KTe-b6GyVh5sRmU9bNVxlb6YtyQs-3J4rhx-1bmX3KzWnkkbp6srvmF0lAFlKgFi85maiuRKsCEjZc7ReOxN__f5B7ldSDpIY10wCGh0fPPBOasFobS0qb59hhn/s320/PimkiePosingSmall.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428551083987027346" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />So far this month I have taken 243 photos – 43 of the typewriter, 24 of just Pimkie and 21 of just Maddy…I have also taken 17 of a certain blowfish but am not happy about the lighting for that yet…<br /><br />I have decided that the show I am having in February will be a photographic one...I have to get to work on that...it is coming up soon!Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-31245283796693285862010-01-02T13:18:00.008-05:002010-01-02T13:47:16.588-05:00Happy Holidays!!!...December flew by without my writing even one blog entry…I’m not even sure exactly where it all went…except to say that a significant part of it was spent with my dog, Shea… he had a lump on his leg that kept growing – it had started when he slipped off the wood stairs out at Oma’s about a year and a half ago…we had it tested and it was benign but it had started causing him pain…we found out why – when the wonderful vet, Dr Barbara Anne Chidiac, at <a href="http://www.chidiacanimalhospital.com/"target="_blank">Chidiac Animal Hospital</a> operated to remove it, she discovered that it had encased a tendon and nerves...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnriLMEPR4wWnDL68qs2VnpjTb5LyKJ55jGI6vPfYnh9POgBRP0r8SrX3veZTstvSwodZ1ALapoGmL9l2or3JGc0IRrzPO5pK33tK5BJ4Fd_l9-ICmEOyrdqQBgISr4djfwVu7bBcbgA-o/s1600-h/Copy+of+100_0928.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnriLMEPR4wWnDL68qs2VnpjTb5LyKJ55jGI6vPfYnh9POgBRP0r8SrX3veZTstvSwodZ1ALapoGmL9l2or3JGc0IRrzPO5pK33tK5BJ4Fd_l9-ICmEOyrdqQBgISr4djfwVu7bBcbgA-o/s320/Copy+of+100_0928.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422209662250474802" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It was a worrisome morning when I dropped Shea off at the vet on December 10th (after driving through the first wicked snow storm of the season the day before to arrive at LT’s – the 5½ hour drive took 9 that day – yes, we are slightly insane to go to a vet that far from home…but if you knew her, you would understand why)…at that point they didn’t know if they would be able to save his leg…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiOwu5dfPmMVfja7yZXxPiNzJuagSV_ifaHuXoFdJLY4_tZek1uArSX5Gw2kKQX-9wIDA9FHagB0-XBAfC0u5pEsHwcxhGMwJl6rA5lR2RqDzLCi0UwGj4oWNe6wy25YK5uhJTsmuS3EvX/s1600-h/Copy+of+100_0926.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiOwu5dfPmMVfja7yZXxPiNzJuagSV_ifaHuXoFdJLY4_tZek1uArSX5Gw2kKQX-9wIDA9FHagB0-XBAfC0u5pEsHwcxhGMwJl6rA5lR2RqDzLCi0UwGj4oWNe6wy25YK5uhJTsmuS3EvX/s320/Copy+of+100_0926.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422209661069996338" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The operation went very well…he still has 4 legs…a fact I am very happy about – I had been told a number of times that he would adapt if they had not been able to save it, but I just couldn’t see him swimming with only 1 front leg…and he loves to swim…but it is all good…he did loose about an inch of tendon and he does have to pay attention now when he walks, so his foot doesn’t knuckle over…but he is doing really well…the first few days were restless…he didn’t understand the drugged haze he was in – he had a morphine patch for the first few days and was on pain medication on top of that…but as the drugs wore off, after a few days, he came to enjoy all the extra babying and cuddling he was receiving…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBtDDBONjEw_xTLYYCX2A43orCuRl_XADv43-uHqrZ9YhOz5atlxYZnLPSpnWJaQnP7EDg_Y9L0NEo3DiPUJozoHD-mk4AibKvBiB7zbcTdjSnsy32hGLcWOp91UPgEuueVFMF8DETkMqg/s1600-h/Copy+of+100_0952.JPG"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk7bN6IWjVm-iW96zzYzhffHUKQh9wTASVp9rrF94b319ike31JbSHl2BEfqcFEssuALTVs1lywdpz2zVCRgFVkJQgEkVR-PSt3KJhDVxCLBQfeSeB-JM3BzfEM5mldmeeLbzy446rDuIB/s320/Copy+of+100_0957.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422209643034486178" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Once more, Christmas and the whole of the holidays snuck up on me…I seem to be getting worse as the years pass, not better, as I had once hoped! While down at LT’s during the days around Shea’s operation, LT and I made our Christmas cards…I guess mine will be for next year as I didn’t get them mailed out!<br /><br />We had a lot of fun taking over the kitchen table for a few days making them though...it brought back happy memories from when LT used to live with or near us and the 2 of us used to create together often...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSRqlGtgM1veDTWo88ayz3WtOcItFkiLVt3RFjv7itrulrINxUyAWuh7_tjrO6kybgH7_BkOo_XlAIO5lGlakRMMvhH2-SDlAU28_jXZBX_bJ6v0DTSE44ZxChjDVayc8j8ORUL4OIRkZM/s1600-h/1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSRqlGtgM1veDTWo88ayz3WtOcItFkiLVt3RFjv7itrulrINxUyAWuh7_tjrO6kybgH7_BkOo_XlAIO5lGlakRMMvhH2-SDlAU28_jXZBX_bJ6v0DTSE44ZxChjDVayc8j8ORUL4OIRkZM/s320/1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422212869660565618" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzyerN9U9poD5Jd_9Jj8fZKSmcMew8HMIvIaApdheX7jJzOmKQ-F1Fhs7EIc7Kjmw5NkvU_rHbA0OJoBcmAUqWH0NboLoVtLCiITt9iSBXYX5OyGrV3285XhyphenhyphenY7z02PisQq2aBXgRGAEDO/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzasqTfLqcWo-GHTNs2qwJ0ax11jcfh0WQiIsxu5Lq7vU-PHQM2tDtnuHEcEFOSw_sULwEIeG6MIEHMZ6xbHVJoUVMnBcjf-lCOHHqMYwrgGkBX34Sntoff9IXNQ9CHtm0R74Y8LNQuqQL/s320/4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422212491402489410" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWoKMOavqm74_YnwBHoVGdfc2xsmzlmps3gj_daIVb48muWLqq1XwoRXcEKLOr9m8jp84kBIOomT3jE_u3y0S1SY-rnPoG8wN-I-WVbPB2HYWOL-K9I0LILT1TAQ-9qDFkw3J_gTtAdq0/s1600-h/5.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWoKMOavqm74_YnwBHoVGdfc2xsmzlmps3gj_daIVb48muWLqq1XwoRXcEKLOr9m8jp84kBIOomT3jE_u3y0S1SY-rnPoG8wN-I-WVbPB2HYWOL-K9I0LILT1TAQ-9qDFkw3J_gTtAdq0/s320/5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422212489064757298" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIkYGZOepSiVQbpb8j7mwoGYQTECkoEQsi-uZrCo4wAGupUGKmndCghxBepaLqaEpfbsWfJrThZE8zoeHd0cz8YOAlO_WPx36W20TuBsgqTSQwfC0UGUqCzzVB14MNZP4TZSHj54o3XiKR/s1600-h/6.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIkYGZOepSiVQbpb8j7mwoGYQTECkoEQsi-uZrCo4wAGupUGKmndCghxBepaLqaEpfbsWfJrThZE8zoeHd0cz8YOAlO_WPx36W20TuBsgqTSQwfC0UGUqCzzVB14MNZP4TZSHj54o3XiKR/s320/6.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422212484979494322" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4kyopaAKam2hk-hiIiI8vafPrkn9ycz5hOSFoJr1b3dpwyEDM3iuSea9WhVjwNnof8y50QaMXu7SqGJGn0r8RgGOtIij8YsSB3izMAuEvN8lSvDTcfXsu43qqbfQ9vj11O4MCE3SQ1nuj/s1600-h/7.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4kyopaAKam2hk-hiIiI8vafPrkn9ycz5hOSFoJr1b3dpwyEDM3iuSea9WhVjwNnof8y50QaMXu7SqGJGn0r8RgGOtIij8YsSB3izMAuEvN8lSvDTcfXsu43qqbfQ9vj11O4MCE3SQ1nuj/s320/7.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422212477608912258" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Christmas was spent with family and friends...good food and wine...seeing family I hadn't seen for too long...seeing my sister and her family's new home which is absolutely beautiful...and now it is January once more...another year has come...<br /><br />I have been trying to decide between a couple of words for my theme this year...I think I will use both...they just might compliment each other nicely...<br /><br />Mindfulness and Colour...Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-81844645658765249942010-01-01T11:54:00.006-05:002010-01-01T12:17:58.274-05:00Happy New Year!!!Welcome to 2010...here is hoping that we all have a quiet, happy, peaceful, gentle, tender, organized and healthy upcoming year/decade! This was the list that I came up with last night, with a couple of additions from Mom and Bro...he just added productive as well! I'll be happy with peaceful and healthy but all the other things would be nice too...<br /><br />Last year I came up with a word to act as a theme for my year – it was “challenge”…I haven’t come up with one for this year yet…I’ll think about that today…<br /><br />I plan to continue challenging myself though…and one of those challenges is to do <a href="http://tamarakstable.blogspot.com/2009/10/project-365-taking-photo-day.html"target="_blank">Project 365</a> – starting today…I opened a Flickr account back in October in preparation for this…later today I will upload my first photo for this project. I will put a link to my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamarak2010/"target="_blank">'Flickr photostream'</a> in the sidebar of my blog…<br /><br />Happy New Year to everyone...hope your holidays have been filled with goodness!Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-14514504258377009302009-11-30T14:16:00.006-05:002009-11-30T17:17:27.680-05:00Last day of AEDM 2009...This month has flown by…as most months seem to be doing these days with alarming regularity and increasing speed…wouldn’t it be nice to have back all those days from my youth when I thought I was bored! <br /><br />This past Saturday, Yvonne, my elder daughter and I went out to the new <a href="http://www.shenkmanarts.ca/index_en.html"target="_blank">Shenkman Arts Centre</a>…this is where our <a href="http://www.gloucesterpotteryschool.com/"target="_blank">Gloucester Pottery School</a> has moved to…not a very convenient move for us, really…driving to Orleans is not a pleasant exercise during rush hour…which, if we were to keep taking our classes, we would have to do…but it is a beautiful spot…this was our first time out there since the pottery school had moved…<br /><br />We originally went to see the Gloucester Pottery School Christmas Show and Sale…which runs until December 15th…it was great to finally have a look at the new location and there were some wonderful pieces…but the real surprise was seeing <a href="http://www.hansblokpoel.com/"target="_blank">Hans Blokpoel’s</a> show called “Patterns in Nature” in the <a href="http://ottawa.ca/residents/arts/galleries_exhibit/trinity_en.html#P62_4498"target="_blank">Trinity Gallery: Salon A</a> exhibit space at the Shenkman Arts Centre…Hans’ sculptural pieces are wonderful…I love rocks and nature and his use of slate, rocks, nails and hardware bits really appealed to me…<br /><br />On Sunday…after a much needed sleep-in…Cariño, my elder daughter and puppies, Shea and Teddy, met my younger daughter, her Beau and their puppy, Kaiah, at the <a href="http://www.brucepit.com/"target="_blank">Bruce Pit</a>…what a great place…my younger daughter, her Beau and Kaiah had been there before, but the rest of us hadn’t…there were great trails through the woods…lots of dogs running about…it was a fun outing…we also saw this awesome tree…it's base was huge and very complex...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinZ3hX_ygthW5erTtWiAgE695uAFy7fzSFwsFZOSY9dN0WSHcObmCS5J_dfx9w-qvbphIJuo0vPWXkwq03VmaUGcR_cIIHgtAr_FyK27xZlbBKZFVwWHo5eGzzvJUEcCr3GlQ_xHgP4MKv/s1600/TreeBaseResized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinZ3hX_ygthW5erTtWiAgE695uAFy7fzSFwsFZOSY9dN0WSHcObmCS5J_dfx9w-qvbphIJuo0vPWXkwq03VmaUGcR_cIIHgtAr_FyK27xZlbBKZFVwWHo5eGzzvJUEcCr3GlQ_xHgP4MKv/s320/TreeBaseResized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409978062311554082" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In the confines of the woods, I couldn't get the whole tree in one shot...so I made this composite...which I think is more interesting...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Sq8ZLfDn5dtdba70PhUwNxLMihr9LXuMUzYKkAStx75SLK0bBC2kI-VSk9nOk5hUpLhUN-Hz1SJQCezHAbdu3aUJbwzL0_lpcoyr-MSdNe2ldlBahlqMuqemRomspGvwbzHLo2RkMBDL/s1600/TreeDiptych.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 145px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Sq8ZLfDn5dtdba70PhUwNxLMihr9LXuMUzYKkAStx75SLK0bBC2kI-VSk9nOk5hUpLhUN-Hz1SJQCezHAbdu3aUJbwzL0_lpcoyr-MSdNe2ldlBahlqMuqemRomspGvwbzHLo2RkMBDL/s320/TreeDiptych.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409978056168169778" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We came home to the wonderful smell of the stew I had started earlier in the slow cooker…we roasted some veggies to go with it – there wasn’t room for everything in the slow cooker…it was a delicious late fall dinner…<br /><br />This afternoon I plan on spending the last day of AEDM up in the studio painting…I’ll post pictures later if anything interesting happens…Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-14133417789534229812009-11-26T22:10:00.007-05:002009-11-26T23:15:59.727-05:00Checking in...It seems that the last week and a bit have got away on me...life has a way of doing that...mine does anyway!<br /><br />It also seems that I have not been destined to spend very much time at all in my studio this month…but I have been doing some photography…though none of that in these past few days either…but today I did spend some time playing with some photographs that I had taken previously and have been meaning to fiddle with…<br /><br />When I was at Ryerson in the Photographic Arts program, I started exploring and experimenting with things like distortion, repetition and panoramas…it was much more labour intensive back then when I had to develop film and print the pictures…one of the final pieces that I did in second year - which was made up of 36 negatives - took me 56 hours to print…now, with Photoshop and digital images…my how things have changed…although I can still get lost for hours fine tuning and tweaking…<br /><br />These have not been tweaked to their final pluck…no doubt I will go back and fiddle some more…but here are some of the things I have been playing with…<br /><br />This is a panorama of my favorite place on earth..."The Island"...last year for Christmas I made 5x7 prints of these 5 pictures for my 2 nieces...I would love to enlarge them a bit more and have them printed on canvas...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiglu4Im3_q_bl-5mLteLI_uwbbzqfD51A_VEK0-UpSApRSOQmMimc56AJ8NyRt3Q7s74wWlPkHUwKVd1-ooVMF5MEqxlFdabqXl8f_y5l9CCWvJupDWCbIWLCJxO-Adx_1i5aTf8ufcA1P/s1600/IslandResized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 55px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiglu4Im3_q_bl-5mLteLI_uwbbzqfD51A_VEK0-UpSApRSOQmMimc56AJ8NyRt3Q7s74wWlPkHUwKVd1-ooVMF5MEqxlFdabqXl8f_y5l9CCWvJupDWCbIWLCJxO-Adx_1i5aTf8ufcA1P/s320/IslandResized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408629602572696946" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />From the other side of Georgian Bay...at my Mom's beautiful Cobblestone Cottage...these 2 panaorama series were taken just after a storm had rolled through...storms on Georgian Bay can be very awe inspiring...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY-LhEgvcpIFGIipea4g0YvpZusy1E7s7GTh2Ds8pBgcnj-SNn8fKgqZXBn6saW22tuv8MnaSAQDQgZO1KUGtW5rITR7Yw_kvRE1rr9dR5rVXBHE_vAMndnDoh9ZzvoH9a7mnoPv0EkFyV/s1600/Storm1Resized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 98px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY-LhEgvcpIFGIipea4g0YvpZusy1E7s7GTh2Ds8pBgcnj-SNn8fKgqZXBn6saW22tuv8MnaSAQDQgZO1KUGtW5rITR7Yw_kvRE1rr9dR5rVXBHE_vAMndnDoh9ZzvoH9a7mnoPv0EkFyV/s320/Storm1Resized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408629601669150162" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjinF40Z5bNIIjeeC6kwmN6tAeff3EhRUv64yoT_aoFGWrAOjQ7pTWAdI6mtTdJsyrTdY9fJHF5n-LWVzdsaG0nhk-JN7GmkBA-D7bw9kkQnGsTOgn0Vrc0uDrFgWhatr6IbpdTwEw3xzEI/s1600/Storm2Resized.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 80px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjinF40Z5bNIIjeeC6kwmN6tAeff3EhRUv64yoT_aoFGWrAOjQ7pTWAdI6mtTdJsyrTdY9fJHF5n-LWVzdsaG0nhk-JN7GmkBA-D7bw9kkQnGsTOgn0Vrc0uDrFgWhatr6IbpdTwEw3xzEI/s320/Storm2Resized.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408629605475150690" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />PS...if you click on each picture you will be able to see a larger view of it...Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-77389098671808162512009-11-17T10:53:00.005-05:002009-11-17T11:43:17.743-05:00AEDM ~ Days 14 to 17…Had a great weekend…nice birthday dinner for Cariño Friday night out at Oma’s…then on Saturday Cariño, Oma, elder daughter and I went to the <a href="http://www.ottawaguildofpotters.ca/index.php?fall"target="_blank">Ottawa Guild of Potters Fall Sale</a>…saw lots of pottery eye candy…I went back again on Sunday with Yvonne…there is always so much to see that I usually go 2 or 3 times…<br /><br />On Sunday Cariño, Yvonne and I went out for breakfast at a place in <a href="http://www.eastottawa.ca/"target="_blank">Orleans</a> that Cariño’s niece, along with a friend of hers, have just bought…many family members and friends are helping with all the work that needs doing…a number of family members and friends work there as well…<br /><br />On the way to pick up Yvonne, Cariño stopped so that I could take a picture of this tree that had caught my eye…I seem to be noticing trees a lot more since that full moon drive…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYeKbZDWngLFvAfMwSYgaliNEAcn4yCPaYCEG7wWo_iuS78O4fp7qxwdV954WrkYO_r0eDQE0Lp_3oIXEqgoXyonKVrKlYntKj2OOljZ5mg6i-Pz_OpCvgVIfAtcRXIXEgWi0e_9855kY4/s1600/Tree.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYeKbZDWngLFvAfMwSYgaliNEAcn4yCPaYCEG7wWo_iuS78O4fp7qxwdV954WrkYO_r0eDQE0Lp_3oIXEqgoXyonKVrKlYntKj2OOljZ5mg6i-Pz_OpCvgVIfAtcRXIXEgWi0e_9855kY4/s320/Tree.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405110173778347250" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I managed to spend a bit of time in the studio yesterday…started working on a big canvas painting for my Georgian Bay series…stylized rocks and trees…I had done this ATC card months ago...this is what I am using as reference for the new painting…it is in the same style as my Northern Series…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmI24rcBZYE5M33ltefFIRRMNNjNAzs6-llkPjtd7wqB4s7rv77vRQbwJkbuEM29q5xkF3JBSlYxWMenwxSVWGwD_3fDZjXDQheQWtAyvQaFanz40_H0J7xcgcQmj7x-IKTggILSLzwkOc/s1600/GeorgianBay.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmI24rcBZYE5M33ltefFIRRMNNjNAzs6-llkPjtd7wqB4s7rv77vRQbwJkbuEM29q5xkF3JBSlYxWMenwxSVWGwD_3fDZjXDQheQWtAyvQaFanz40_H0J7xcgcQmj7x-IKTggILSLzwkOc/s320/GeorgianBay.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405110178424117826" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Last night Cariño and I ended up driving out to Orleans to the restaurant again…only this time it was dark and during rush hour…since I wasn’t driving I could play a bit more taking pictures out of the window as we were driving along with all the other cars…<br /><br />I was trying to get interesting blur photos...to show the chaos of rush hour...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tGMsu7IwxazOdnXtO09wRj9Mh4AaD4SUP8nsyL2Eg43YrmFsZuOiwSNMexZ-yLfjiMWSfQEDI9rAAP0gtpEXc1cLmGs_zvelrXLT1t-DHG2gQbRDrlkh-4svbtN04ZpIALDC8ktDu9N0/s1600/RushHour1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tGMsu7IwxazOdnXtO09wRj9Mh4AaD4SUP8nsyL2Eg43YrmFsZuOiwSNMexZ-yLfjiMWSfQEDI9rAAP0gtpEXc1cLmGs_zvelrXLT1t-DHG2gQbRDrlkh-4svbtN04ZpIALDC8ktDu9N0/s320/RushHour1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405110161836726850" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ53BvnljF8aKZzvWDjB9SXCuPaP-kiadXZsJn9Hexa1sf_9z0Bm_ARxUplzrIynLZC8XCFvlsIzpRlKqf3xoo5dJFeAF9pvXwZmfqtjj_7FiRQavk07mJmjXeMqgW9_LgupxUDv0B-NBP/s1600/RushHour2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ53BvnljF8aKZzvWDjB9SXCuPaP-kiadXZsJn9Hexa1sf_9z0Bm_ARxUplzrIynLZC8XCFvlsIzpRlKqf3xoo5dJFeAF9pvXwZmfqtjj_7FiRQavk07mJmjXeMqgW9_LgupxUDv0B-NBP/s320/RushHour2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405110167317084930" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqPUEnuXNCPT1N30V79yLwP3o9NyllXNEe-e63KfS00zDfDJ42p_M-gdr9VDo4Gp6dGFSnjxggx10GT-pR2Tydv4eQdEFSrZjqpsRnM-1296lGr4SRnBO5Zirv7b5sCGVZ7EczVCkqV1ji/s1600/RushHour3.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIpSpRinw-HFxSzSkVpU47XI_dXOqZbzgd2iuZpF0ihllb03xDpOy2c3PtoGb3uc_dZh-nivWPhPbrIFTYiGsKQMxdUkgBvWp41Ba9K9C5IzEaMZm1VX2vaTMJiR-yOQqeBulHywsBVwaG/s320/RushHour7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405111460169064098" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKl24l3MRRh-lb6xJru3Di0XBsbcAQCxsQu60xWmbyzKI8Bq_MOBcHyMZd9f_UCNj8lThTWkvBc8H_p0adrqzM2Hz8YFJN9-5TEiwTXusuz-Tbbs7SpclQqKfCoO9kfjBBx-QZGw-iI_c/s1600/RushHour8.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKl24l3MRRh-lb6xJru3Di0XBsbcAQCxsQu60xWmbyzKI8Bq_MOBcHyMZd9f_UCNj8lThTWkvBc8H_p0adrqzM2Hz8YFJN9-5TEiwTXusuz-Tbbs7SpclQqKfCoO9kfjBBx-QZGw-iI_c/s320/RushHour8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405111454305423458" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-89443646344787091752009-11-13T08:49:00.005-05:002009-11-13T09:05:05.814-05:00AEDM ~ Day 13…Happy Birthday Cariño!!!<br /><br />Both my Mom and Cariño were born on the 13th day of a month…so Friday the 13th days hold no fear for us…they are happy days…especially when a birthday falls on one!<br /><br />Last weekend Cariño and I went to the <a href="http://www.260fingers.ca/"target="_blank">260 Fingers pottery</a> show…it was fantastic…such talented clay artists…there were many pieces I would have loved to have had follow me home…some of my favorite artists were there…<br /><br />I love <a href="http://www.chandlerswain.ca/"target="_blank">Chandler Swain’s</a> work – especially the ones with the crows or ravens…I have also been lusting after Saskia Praamsma’s pieces for a few years now…one of Cynthia O’Brien’s women wall figures cried out to me…it was hilarious…I also wanted one of <a href="http://www.madawaskastudiotour.com/studios/storey/storey.htm"target="_blank">Tim Storey’s</a> wall birds…his dragons are great too…it was nice to see Diane Sullivan there…when Yvonne and I were on our way to the Fall Fire pottery workshop weekend back in September, we stopped in at her studio in Williamsburg and so I already have some of her pieces…as well it was nice to see Leta and Don Cormier’s pottery creations, but I didn’t get a chance to say hi to Leta – she was one of the presenters at that Fall Fire workshop and has inspired both Yvonne and I to learn throwing…lastly I fell in love with <a href="http://www.spiritedclay.com/"target="_blank">Colleen O’Reilly’s</a> totems…on going to her web site, I realized that my sister has some of her pieces…the colours are so wonderful and bright…she is from Hamilton and I am going to have to go check out her and her partner’s <a href="http://www.jamesnorthstudio.com/"target="_blank">James North Art Collective</a> next time I am down in that area…<br /><br />This weekend, on top of being Cariño’s b-day weekend, the <a href="http://www.ottawaguildofpotters.ca/index.php?fall"target="_blank">Ottawa Guild of Potters Fall Sale</a> is on…it actually started Thursday and runs until Sunday…this is most definitely a must attend…dangerous though… <br /><br />It was cold again last night, so I took my camera this morning on the puppy walk...it didn't seem as glorious as yesterday...but then maybe it just got blown up into the memory of something wonderful because I didn't have my camera yesterday!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLt3n0u9KjCNbNgPEkEKGNuFegUqf4YQdfWHf2RUZJlione8lcpcTOoKE5KfSj_uPwgQ2R-qZEbSRpFFRh3EvIZ4xG3505wa0gB3h8vzE6-pfLC_h7_-zuSQg0eD-EMgcMQEKmQOeHg_k/s1600-h/FrostedLeaf.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLt3n0u9KjCNbNgPEkEKGNuFegUqf4YQdfWHf2RUZJlione8lcpcTOoKE5KfSj_uPwgQ2R-qZEbSRpFFRh3EvIZ4xG3505wa0gB3h8vzE6-pfLC_h7_-zuSQg0eD-EMgcMQEKmQOeHg_k/s320/FrostedLeaf.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403587062780765298" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3UfXkQ8NusRJRUXCvb3ITvZNV8yLm9WQthi8ORLQ_3Amj85dMT4HjdAa50YIy7AQXqVt8axXhMXKhNh6hNvQMYAmERZ9pOwJ2Qi6_iOafjkVjiEvGw2TRUhNIq9shcdQQxhxhiGid1usj/s1600-h/FrostedRedLeaves.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3UfXkQ8NusRJRUXCvb3ITvZNV8yLm9WQthi8ORLQ_3Amj85dMT4HjdAa50YIy7AQXqVt8axXhMXKhNh6hNvQMYAmERZ9pOwJ2Qi6_iOafjkVjiEvGw2TRUhNIq9shcdQQxhxhiGid1usj/s320/FrostedRedLeaves.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403587056851610210" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbGXyn3Zk6ArdxOBnkaEId3KEyo2HT0cRSN4LJlf_Fi9jlqcDEvdbXD89bCtyKptJDROjhslucKcsJ27vj1x2FYuRCeXDE-7tzGcHrseVY27uW1-326poY7rL_1HR_mjgxYbe21d-fiCV_/s1600-h/FrostedLittleLeaves.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbGXyn3Zk6ArdxOBnkaEId3KEyo2HT0cRSN4LJlf_Fi9jlqcDEvdbXD89bCtyKptJDROjhslucKcsJ27vj1x2FYuRCeXDE-7tzGcHrseVY27uW1-326poY7rL_1HR_mjgxYbe21d-fiCV_/s320/FrostedLittleLeaves.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403587058598116482" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiewl_Xf_x99N-FTnMrK3rRO56AYySBLBAF5nBdTluDAOkjxjvdi04ExhqjF1kUY7iFagIM3jofCu0ReR9M0gPHE7IOTfcFtFNOv_3RwP9eswu2lh2_5K0K0Ftt6PNo2wCp9qWeU3sH08Sy/s1600-h/FrostedLeaves.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiewl_Xf_x99N-FTnMrK3rRO56AYySBLBAF5nBdTluDAOkjxjvdi04ExhqjF1kUY7iFagIM3jofCu0ReR9M0gPHE7IOTfcFtFNOv_3RwP9eswu2lh2_5K0K0Ftt6PNo2wCp9qWeU3sH08Sy/s320/FrostedLeaves.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403587054204106370" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-3vJ6kToIf_eugAvXJoXJlwIO4ALnRuTY1yDzWBIiSAQuFp80m1MjbJ5eBw7mcdx-Er-ce4HGa3UC-RtV61NlCCCYxiBaMD-HJtJNwatAQ6tSzRpiCxrqfjzv7wJ-X6xk7QdcViql0MEd/s1600-h/FrostedRose.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-3vJ6kToIf_eugAvXJoXJlwIO4ALnRuTY1yDzWBIiSAQuFp80m1MjbJ5eBw7mcdx-Er-ce4HGa3UC-RtV61NlCCCYxiBaMD-HJtJNwatAQ6tSzRpiCxrqfjzv7wJ-X6xk7QdcViql0MEd/s320/FrostedRose.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403587051617841298" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-11035025925781467742009-11-12T17:47:00.004-05:002009-11-12T18:12:49.751-05:00AEDM ~ Day 12…The temperature dipped down below zero (Celsius) over night…on my walk with the puppies this morning the grass and the leaves on the ground were all painted with frost…each blade of grass and edge of leaf emphasized so that it stood out - separate from those around it…it added so much to the depth of this simple scene on the ground…I didn't have my camera with me...<br /><br />On my way to a job this morning, I passed by a newly formed ghost town…<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/photogallery/rockcliffe/"target="_blank">CFB Rockcliffe</a> closed down at the end of July 2009…leaving hundreds of empty, boarded up military homes…I stopped by after my job…hoping to be able to walk around and take some photos…but there were all kinds of no trespassing signs, so I didn’t venture too far into the deserted neighbourhood…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzhfL4nz0iOAE9kREX4dHjGJrg9-rZmXgM3se9PUOhrLRJ0RBHnqFN3p6sL_HBXUTO_QU9OnsatcYu6o-Ai2lLxCkTtydiyXhEePqq5Y5RXIOEXUgddVclPW8-jtVJ4LMPvZoiX2xbKraY/s1600-h/CFBRockcliffe1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzhfL4nz0iOAE9kREX4dHjGJrg9-rZmXgM3se9PUOhrLRJ0RBHnqFN3p6sL_HBXUTO_QU9OnsatcYu6o-Ai2lLxCkTtydiyXhEePqq5Y5RXIOEXUgddVclPW8-jtVJ4LMPvZoiX2xbKraY/s320/CFBRockcliffe1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403352837370125042" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdWBc7Hv9hHn71_UD2lesORJBwF5tGwK7m4EB8PsYEBluHtYJqmgEW-Tpl2JN2f_mf3TT9M7IWAqXUZ-F79tscxN6JhkZlG9Cg8iXkeBIESVOCJyp6idJih5YJJ-4jbrl0lzINooSpRkkG/<br />1600-h/CFBRockcliffe2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 156px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdWBc7Hv9hHn71_UD2lesORJBwF5tGwK7m4EB8PsYEBluHtYJqmgEW-Tpl2JN2f_mf3TT9M7IWAqXUZ-F79tscxN6JhkZlG9Cg8iXkeBIESVOCJyp6idJih5YJJ-4jbrl0lzINooSpRkkG/s320/CFBRockcliffe2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403352839393824114" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2wqIegau0gGNcMENU4C_cEOPlxLsLTU3JhZb2ZvHszE1gCqBgVAS_mDyy5azEoA1OUfJ4B5PGnp0nIxzV69Y41A16iwnyf6r7qz3RmPM-axmaQt0a0mnCaOLdt8fk7-Y67peG9SgN2KA/s1600-h/CFBRockcliffe3.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU2wqIegau0gGNcMENU4C_cEOPlxLsLTU3JhZb2ZvHszE1gCqBgVAS_mDyy5azEoA1OUfJ4B5PGnp0nIxzV69Y41A16iwnyf6r7qz3RmPM-axmaQt0a0mnCaOLdt8fk7-Y67peG9SgN2KA/s320/CFBRockcliffe3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403352834914440434" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I am feeling kind of stumped on that painting I started yesterday…sometimes I just have to leave it for a bit to let it sit…I don’t know…I also have a painting that I started over a month ago and then I got side-tracked by life and have yet to get back to it…it was like I got interrupted mid-thought and am having a hard time picking up the thread again…<br /><br />Since my elder daughter has moved back out again, we have gone from 5 cats down to 2…my younger daughter’s 2 cats will be with us for a while yet…one of them – Maddy – has become super affectionate once more…he didn’t like one of the other 3 and it really affected his behaviour…here he is tonight…helping me…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkvJEDGqz1stc8D2k9eEqZgNHjcXfMn0s8-vu0FbA2NV17oYjAe_2_zu_3RsJQbUijA_1kQRwGbc7J6iS5Ps_R69ec_1aO4uuvnNmRC7dQXLSp5alljrt7_gwbJmQ-uYq3Riidq_GbRnT/s1600-h/MaddyHelping1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkvJEDGqz1stc8D2k9eEqZgNHjcXfMn0s8-vu0FbA2NV17oYjAe_2_zu_3RsJQbUijA_1kQRwGbc7J6iS5Ps_R69ec_1aO4uuvnNmRC7dQXLSp5alljrt7_gwbJmQ-uYq3Riidq_GbRnT/s320/MaddyHelping1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403353177242991298" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWn5iX5_OPF0-fDPIuZBzyLEg-osYnLPKN_xtrduFtbvDnXr2Sn3-z6tPAqKxmPCRZn4i-9E6wIOWDjHbxMUH5HVpQr1GbeaHcgJICax46SjxKxUurMXL1124bhhtJz0BMGG7I7LPg6KS2/s1600-h/MaddyHelping2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWn5iX5_OPF0-fDPIuZBzyLEg-osYnLPKN_xtrduFtbvDnXr2Sn3-z6tPAqKxmPCRZn4i-9E6wIOWDjHbxMUH5HVpQr1GbeaHcgJICax46SjxKxUurMXL1124bhhtJz0BMGG7I7LPg6KS2/s320/MaddyHelping2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403353175033212370" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />He is very hard to resist...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY_9wobhPIfyNmSuEcyYd1luhyphenhyphenxqI9H008GVrNKlo5wowCtKwcjeLJolxplcyoPbN2q4-Bdg7yKQl80-mepd3Z-gHLk69QQzVQQZsn3ufWllTs0xe5N-6IL3I80TSlsPHo7UxZtORPaCkF/s1600-h/MaddyHelping3.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY_9wobhPIfyNmSuEcyYd1luhyphenhyphenxqI9H008GVrNKlo5wowCtKwcjeLJolxplcyoPbN2q4-Bdg7yKQl80-mepd3Z-gHLk69QQzVQQZsn3ufWllTs0xe5N-6IL3I80TSlsPHo7UxZtORPaCkF/s320/MaddyHelping3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403353170920027986" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-39667061599334504822009-11-11T17:17:00.009-05:002009-11-11T17:34:40.341-05:00AEDM…Day 11…Remembrance Day…Prince Charles and Camilla were here in Ottawa today for the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/11/11/remembrance-ceremonies.html"target="_blank">Remembrance Day ceremonies</a>…I can only imagine the crowds…it was a nice day too…I don’t like crowds, so I didn’t even attempt to head down to the National War Memorial…but we could hear the CF-18 jets fly over and the cannon boom from home…<br /><br />Today I played…it has been a while since I have had a chance to do anything in my studio…first I had to sort it out a bit…things tend to fill it in when I am not holding the household chaos at bay by spending time in there…<br /><br />I started with a canvas painted red…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmC3GUUfuoZ3-tUYRexX52DvTTQiHCpn8fOjTn7gpeb5bdl3ShiqCRVeU3-GFwrHA_d5ERFRzJCuOg3L55oCKmRNl3xP3ZIVbHmMLd-48r58tF70_1DZF6p17my2tIFsFaRVfBD8ZY2J0l/s1600-h/Day11a.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmC3GUUfuoZ3-tUYRexX52DvTTQiHCpn8fOjTn7gpeb5bdl3ShiqCRVeU3-GFwrHA_d5ERFRzJCuOg3L55oCKmRNl3xP3ZIVbHmMLd-48r58tF70_1DZF6p17my2tIFsFaRVfBD8ZY2J0l/s320/Day11a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402974484128968130" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Added some cheese cloth…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDqoE_KHrDKc3vPbP_Cd6D4e_gjWCsSiC95BhXIJl-SRyEjZU6sq7pVwJZq3AeqRgkkRE5c4DxgB5hqTvZ3M52vEDpAB7Pj61ErMfJtjcqKdabqC4ih_DZQ-lMm2kZ11dDtl9O6dVmn46/s1600-h/Day11b.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDqoE_KHrDKc3vPbP_Cd6D4e_gjWCsSiC95BhXIJl-SRyEjZU6sq7pVwJZq3AeqRgkkRE5c4DxgB5hqTvZ3M52vEDpAB7Pj61ErMfJtjcqKdabqC4ih_DZQ-lMm2kZ11dDtl9O6dVmn46/s320/Day11b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402974479500531506" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I love the way it folds on itself creating texture…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipyFxiEn3zGixz8rtQUGRzEzk_jkwvVOVz6SPOWStSKE53HCEEIwbp92RNSsZd0IUUr1Sv0ppYHgQcEnQ9D4A257jeUCy0RB9v6ecNk2SkzY57XWTWcPKl8wqIYNeN5B8bCNHT6mZ66Tp/s1600-h/Day11c.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipyFxiEn3zGixz8rtQUGRzEzk_jkwvVOVz6SPOWStSKE53HCEEIwbp92RNSsZd0IUUr1Sv0ppYHgQcEnQ9D4A257jeUCy0RB9v6ecNk2SkzY57XWTWcPKl8wqIYNeN5B8bCNHT6mZ66Tp/s320/Day11c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402974474497888370" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Then I squeezed out a bunch of colours and dipped a felt flower that I had picked up a few weeks ago at The Papery (wonderful store in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glebe"target="_blank">Glebe</a>)…I actually bought 3 of these felt flowers and I imagine that I will use them collaged right into a painting or paintings at some point, but I wanted to see how they worked as a stamp…then I got out my various taps that I have been saving…I have 3 now and a metal tap end circle that I found on the road way back and used them to get some paint on the canvas as well…now I have to wait for this to dry…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0sJHSaHvzihg-xgciKO6aPExEqipMdh9UD8td7a1FEXyNN6YoCvAg0ZaCj6wF6z117SAXleIw1ulUcaHYUJROXLCvpjOl7cOyDohO9Amx6UB87g0QlHy5LjFLsP0HU2GRF_4vKqNiwis/s1600-h/Day11d.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0sJHSaHvzihg-xgciKO6aPExEqipMdh9UD8td7a1FEXyNN6YoCvAg0ZaCj6wF6z117SAXleIw1ulUcaHYUJROXLCvpjOl7cOyDohO9Amx6UB87g0QlHy5LjFLsP0HU2GRF_4vKqNiwis/s320/Day11d.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402974471827622242" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga4RspLffciJKHhc8PiN6Mxr5aH0WxUMrvLl0c_nMCCTvIF6rdmedyuLQV0J1vT3S-N1kdbpD_wkqmC6jYLm3BN54yhsUJc4i5AVuw6Y_wJjbbdateqTrD1J8mapmuvWVBM0deu8_JIXxR/s1600-h/Day11e.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga4RspLffciJKHhc8PiN6Mxr5aH0WxUMrvLl0c_nMCCTvIF6rdmedyuLQV0J1vT3S-N1kdbpD_wkqmC6jYLm3BN54yhsUJc4i5AVuw6Y_wJjbbdateqTrD1J8mapmuvWVBM0deu8_JIXxR/s320/Day11e.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402974466907255794" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Here are the "tools" I used...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlwicH04U9phoedTnWTMsJrsZuSG27BrSVPYcPoY9lX6Io98oJSYor7yi7UgEHKh0nt3frQTzYbK3mMMjzef_mgO2F2jZDDxKJ2fzwbN6KJwM3Ysc74lsuTswWhg_fbYMY2rghOGborHih/s1600-h/Tools.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlwicH04U9phoedTnWTMsJrsZuSG27BrSVPYcPoY9lX6Io98oJSYor7yi7UgEHKh0nt3frQTzYbK3mMMjzef_mgO2F2jZDDxKJ2fzwbN6KJwM3Ysc74lsuTswWhg_fbYMY2rghOGborHih/s320/Tools.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402977662022567410" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-85881181650469458542009-11-10T08:44:00.007-05:002009-11-10T09:11:47.475-05:00AEDM ~ Day 10 ~ Ghost Town...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfZ-58RsqVEGVcG1DSVCWzCEq-UlKx3jbeI31LBHn6u0RT-psqKs-aqZawyXGPaIxWFuX8CqeafAWkQHF_5MLjbn_iEQWmUntgTt9ilswqQzOXm12BF_eqdRCl1Z-1hgDRMqTFHMz2CDY/s1600-h/GhostTown1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 172px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfZ-58RsqVEGVcG1DSVCWzCEq-UlKx3jbeI31LBHn6u0RT-psqKs-aqZawyXGPaIxWFuX8CqeafAWkQHF_5MLjbn_iEQWmUntgTt9ilswqQzOXm12BF_eqdRCl1Z-1hgDRMqTFHMz2CDY/s320/GhostTown1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402473419682273682" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />After getting lost a couple of times this summer while trying to navigate from one back road route across Ontario to another, I got totally fed up with my ripped and tattered, years out of date basic Ontario road map and treated myself to 2 new back roads map books…one is from the <a href="http://www.backroadmapbooks.com/main/index.html"target="_blank">Backroad Mapbook Outdoor Recreation Guide</a> series…and is the <a href="http://www.backroadmapbooks.com/shop/backroad-mapbooks-67/ontario-74/cottage-country-ontario-8-208.html"target="_blank">Cottage Country Ontario</a> one…the other is from <a href="http://www.mapart.com/"target="_blank">MapArt Publishing</a> and is the <a href="http://www.mapart.com/store/merchant.ihtml?pid=178&lastcatid=1&step=4"target="_blank">Ontario Back Road Atlas</a>…<br /><br />The MapArt map book shows ghost towns…and while Cariño and I were heading back to LT’s to retrieve my forgotten laptop on October 31st…we figured what better day of the year to visit a ghost town than on Halloween? <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsrLpmo-9WsHNNFnG5sOEbu5d7_1U_IlCTx7pBQPopicqKSwzoG0BXu4ArvtarJ4fx_uhTa5bc4jtTPgWLF0y80wKcONnANLRyKH6WoO42_sJwAbVEW6RwSnFyB6aW2XbUcyf3tPOxQOz7/s1600-h/GhostTown2.JPG"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSv0L-uj4QbceQcbnFUxM8U3-ZorAUlQcPCcYn2cQbbGHT5QjzwZ5E4PbHMtEjwlbuyYHaa5Lm_dfUz6wH_uHsVFjlC-wofv8LuvclvAR70kCscyBLMwzf87cgCcaepckR0VkuA2BzALZT/s320/GhostTown7.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402472922415756178" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibwYmI2KTrow1cmXXJPFPYFW2h0PulVHKekjfR_9Y4syeU60654JFcafr7q-m2PdKzRB46fqI0eJ4LARFjwh-cR8y3t3Uvcl-qiiy3pW4AHO1_pElIH2DUWPZ3Br2l1EweX_R-H_7PSCdj/s1600-h/GhostTown10.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibwYmI2KTrow1cmXXJPFPYFW2h0PulVHKekjfR_9Y4syeU60654JFcafr7q-m2PdKzRB46fqI0eJ4LARFjwh-cR8y3t3Uvcl-qiiy3pW4AHO1_pElIH2DUWPZ3Br2l1EweX_R-H_7PSCdj/s320/GhostTown10.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402471995726307970" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ronbrown.ca/"target="_blank">Ron Brown</a> has written a number of interesting books about Ontario…I decided that I needed his one entitled Ontario’s Ghost Town Heritage…this could make for some fun outings!...I picked it up at one of my favourite stops when I pass through Orillia…<a href="http://www.manticorebooks.ca/"target="_blank">Manticore books</a>…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6X6LueKWq3P3E29OMCornfr0bz9fsj8uuLFfQtLEZyY8pQZkN9yQNyLZqftsliyWNmLoMP4jetajFf7ZTJFjMbBS1V0Zy70E8Wbik9XhSkg5PExoyIpm1rCowAGH3Gf4EmObhrNmlXTX/s1600-h/GhostTown11.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 311px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6X6LueKWq3P3E29OMCornfr0bz9fsj8uuLFfQtLEZyY8pQZkN9yQNyLZqftsliyWNmLoMP4jetajFf7ZTJFjMbBS1V0Zy70E8Wbik9XhSkg5PExoyIpm1rCowAGH3Gf4EmObhrNmlXTX/s320/GhostTown11.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402471990503278546" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibKR4RtTdzZ0GHZzd_tm0sO-DDweYy6Wz3pMd5p7O2UrlhClpcSBmXserimGQpTn6C9az2p6RG0owDDMbFwrX_h9ap_oxS4j_LNvIG1m9CPjJUGek7hznLetO_ja4iI56J8Qk2CECy9L_K/s1600-h/GhostTown12.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibKR4RtTdzZ0GHZzd_tm0sO-DDweYy6Wz3pMd5p7O2UrlhClpcSBmXserimGQpTn6C9az2p6RG0owDDMbFwrX_h9ap_oxS4j_LNvIG1m9CPjJUGek7hznLetO_ja4iI56J8Qk2CECy9L_K/s320/GhostTown12.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402471984454915458" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcsfVWNn_H2-Rtm7HEW2Oo8zUgvUPNeyj5MABQl7BckQnqZgeXIKS3eUSZwP9g_itVQn08NeGJzHGK9ShqQYBdh1sHVMbrMtaFL1YylRTbPpyPFO-gDALLDoAbPpit1lFpUrkIvq32e_wq/s1600-h/GhostTown14.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcsfVWNn_H2-Rtm7HEW2Oo8zUgvUPNeyj5MABQl7BckQnqZgeXIKS3eUSZwP9g_itVQn08NeGJzHGK9ShqQYBdh1sHVMbrMtaFL1YylRTbPpyPFO-gDALLDoAbPpit1lFpUrkIvq32e_wq/s320/GhostTown14.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402471980021857234" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-80343282525987020862009-11-09T11:31:00.005-05:002009-11-09T12:07:23.776-05:00November 6th to 9th…I had started writing this post about a week ago...but hadn't had a chance to get it finished and posted...I have a few of these almost finished postings...I haven’t had any time for painting these last few days either…but I feel some coming up...<br /><br />Late Fall Drive…<br /><br />This year I have driven back and forth across Ontario more times than in any other year…I have been crisscrossing the province via a number of different routes…I realized on one of my last trips across that I had never done it at that time of year before (October 24th)…so I was seeing things that I have never seen before…most spectacular were the <a href="http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/ClimateChange/2ColumnSubPage/267336.html"target="_blank">tamarack trees</a> in their full fall glory…<br /><br />On the route that I was driving, most of the leaves from the deciduous trees had fallen by this time…the height of the fall colours having passed a couple of weeks prior…I was driving across the province then as well, but couldn’t stop because of time restrictions…I did take a couple pictures of the beautiful fall colours...taken out of the van window as I drove…but wasn’t able to stop and photograph...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2CcEc3N6AdkwQ0cDXFOaddKoihBoADgXRIcr5XikyZ8Z1s_gJxl7H2SC-lr7zYmM7-hRWt7ReU9O3RPcWi7j__nKdWosmzo_qtMjaVHwVdWpLtRYcWRxoS-JrPtrktd_m_NEARjmL2-Zk/s1600-h/FallColours1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2CcEc3N6AdkwQ0cDXFOaddKoihBoADgXRIcr5XikyZ8Z1s_gJxl7H2SC-lr7zYmM7-hRWt7ReU9O3RPcWi7j__nKdWosmzo_qtMjaVHwVdWpLtRYcWRxoS-JrPtrktd_m_NEARjmL2-Zk/s320/FallColours1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402144980912401746" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNu2Esd1n-WZOcIfBMEYjgqf4wRIMJAoYeMAP9j8Du9-PCI8Gu2toqPmXNJdeBIxAuIn5BkYmsWqgWz4Zqc52lVCYDqI5RmOlZnBxJeY8gA7cDaCv9x3Qvzh7Dp_hIoOkWpVl1GZ0jOlDT/s1600-h/FallColours2.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNu2Esd1n-WZOcIfBMEYjgqf4wRIMJAoYeMAP9j8Du9-PCI8Gu2toqPmXNJdeBIxAuIn5BkYmsWqgWz4Zqc52lVCYDqI5RmOlZnBxJeY8gA7cDaCv9x3Qvzh7Dp_hIoOkWpVl1GZ0jOlDT/s320/FallColours2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402144980089859778" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I left Ottawa on that Saturday morning, a few weeks ago, in the misty rain…it was really quite beautiful even so…there was a lot of ground fog…so lakes were mostly soft grey blurs, revealing only the outcroppings of trees and rock close to the road…the rest of the scene strangely missing in the foggy haze…swamps meandered, snaking back and forth between the landscape forms, disappearing into the mist…the dead trees showing as stark black lines against the muted golds and browns of the dying grasses…the water reflecting back varying tones of grey…the mostly leafless birch added their bright white highlights to play against the beautiful, rich dark greens of the pines…then the shock of the yellow tamaracks…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0PkqohPGZ29yfe3SiJcYMHFOsicpGXiJ6krXHWvwFbHhVOr5Jv7c0C8znDURVmIkZwAS_0-JkZMPCff5rd8b9sk1N-vV5Vlez73nhhe8l4Nms7umkB-bzjh6ByKyTY1J94nbHYDgbOBR/s1600-h/Tamaracks1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0PkqohPGZ29yfe3SiJcYMHFOsicpGXiJ6krXHWvwFbHhVOr5Jv7c0C8znDURVmIkZwAS_0-JkZMPCff5rd8b9sk1N-vV5Vlez73nhhe8l4Nms7umkB-bzjh6ByKyTY1J94nbHYDgbOBR/s320/Tamaracks1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402145767486062162" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXK5mn93JwY5zR5bUrkzz38am9yiAUjGYO87BbLdcpWoiDMuiICXE_OfqmlLOqqxnTW4GcHTrP0THX0I9dRR0cdidij34I5z3GyiBkyooZCwxS9hxor56PaOFBQakyewZq-_lfZD-7Aud/s1600-h/Tamaracks2.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXK5mn93JwY5zR5bUrkzz38am9yiAUjGYO87BbLdcpWoiDMuiICXE_OfqmlLOqqxnTW4GcHTrP0THX0I9dRR0cdidij34I5z3GyiBkyooZCwxS9hxor56PaOFBQakyewZq-_lfZD-7Aud/s320/Tamaracks2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402145762865799906" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5Jc91pCAhjS8AGiuvHepUiwH2wapCsMyQow-bWo_R0T8QtLa2MMdxRRcxc0J5hwjiVrUm2lLAG4O_1kVIkjNd5tQCq7c6scVvdifeaVAgOuLBKiyK8uFa9fUZIb1Foiek7iAGIAULtqg/s1600-h/Tamaracks3.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5Jc91pCAhjS8AGiuvHepUiwH2wapCsMyQow-bWo_R0T8QtLa2MMdxRRcxc0J5hwjiVrUm2lLAG4O_1kVIkjNd5tQCq7c6scVvdifeaVAgOuLBKiyK8uFa9fUZIb1Foiek7iAGIAULtqg/s320/Tamaracks3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402145761169307762" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgA8210g3zbrfbJuV1yOQvXMjsntOI-TF0g3YyMdlr-vW3yN1OFP7fYXFATInAf2GgH9tTd41L6k-kybqJm3x4liapxT5Y3umENoLuNowa5rNm5iz_35LIgCe1KtuhPQLnzHRt1GBWGMEo/s1600-h/Tamaracks4.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgA8210g3zbrfbJuV1yOQvXMjsntOI-TF0g3YyMdlr-vW3yN1OFP7fYXFATInAf2GgH9tTd41L6k-kybqJm3x4liapxT5Y3umENoLuNowa5rNm5iz_35LIgCe1KtuhPQLnzHRt1GBWGMEo/s320/Tamaracks4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402145755011177298" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLFs08NZ1lxLtPkvJbT2owemFW-Pvh54kse67O0PhOl6h0k6liFlYgnIUjL1woxSpPlgXaiz-B9HY66CVaDtltSJF89UGttJZiiB45p6Qvpc3PYaIFWoyQ-wFkC3t5IwAo4SEgc0YJDvx/s1600-h/Tamaracks5.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLFs08NZ1lxLtPkvJbT2owemFW-Pvh54kse67O0PhOl6h0k6liFlYgnIUjL1woxSpPlgXaiz-B9HY66CVaDtltSJF89UGttJZiiB45p6Qvpc3PYaIFWoyQ-wFkC3t5IwAo4SEgc0YJDvx/s320/Tamaracks5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402145757107683938" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I wanted to stop so many times…but I wasn’t set up for photographing in the rain…and while beautiful in real life, my simple camera would not have been able to catch the subtleties of the colours and the light…the depth and mysteriousness of the landscape would have been lost…<br /><br />I drove along in awe…relishing the fleeting sneak peeks at mostly hidden lakes and swamps that disappeared around the outcroppings of rocks and the stands of trees…the back roads that I take to get from Ottawa to near Midland or to the cottage are so magical…Ontario is such a beautiful province…<br /><br />When I reached LT’s, there were still some deciduous trees with their leaves still clinging…we walked the dogs on some paths near her house...part of the network of the <a href="http://www.simcoecountytrails.net/trails/trails.htm"target="_blank">Simcoe Forest County Trails</a>…it was a beautiful world in bright yellow…looking up into the trees…and the path blanketed with leaves…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD75cY_JNbeQgBEk4nx9qEnncQiGq_s2bQor9L-F_XuslXCWZ6KjfhW1WIJQA0CD8rQhgM0q75O6wxUT_C7GZcWCP837_O3Za1Car3T6LTlZNVRuTuRFnZA1AOQDxJhRBRdkN6eFwboPPM/s1600-h/SimcoeTrails1.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD75cY_JNbeQgBEk4nx9qEnncQiGq_s2bQor9L-F_XuslXCWZ6KjfhW1WIJQA0CD8rQhgM0q75O6wxUT_C7GZcWCP837_O3Za1Car3T6LTlZNVRuTuRFnZA1AOQDxJhRBRdkN6eFwboPPM/s320/SimcoeTrails1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402144992154679778" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibZ9miqXLzTgph-f5Hoj5VMS8d6fSZoy_sCr00CgUhzhjWLKD0B6ne59tslMCsOivArkEOVNBH7g_e-93SjegidCicc9KKhZwP9Y0bw7pnvw6mF5PdL0efNBs9evxrvH2FQ2i4-O-Dt_k3/s1600-h/SimcoeTrails2.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibZ9miqXLzTgph-f5Hoj5VMS8d6fSZoy_sCr00CgUhzhjWLKD0B6ne59tslMCsOivArkEOVNBH7g_e-93SjegidCicc9KKhZwP9Y0bw7pnvw6mF5PdL0efNBs9evxrvH2FQ2i4-O-Dt_k3/s320/SimcoeTrails2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402144986987574130" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPJK27FvrFnXi8IJVc9pZ3RFfjyJVF_WFRoDyPxbictDqxma3no8R32OHx4BYCZPCEFrffhH_4ZM7A5QYUr2roUuFNu8Cc0PRk58M-pScLWLe98d30Lcb_qZzfQq5_rXlbKtebvxRX9rMp/s1600-h/SimcoeTrails3.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPJK27FvrFnXi8IJVc9pZ3RFfjyJVF_WFRoDyPxbictDqxma3no8R32OHx4BYCZPCEFrffhH_4ZM7A5QYUr2roUuFNu8Cc0PRk58M-pScLWLe98d30Lcb_qZzfQq5_rXlbKtebvxRX9rMp/s320/SimcoeTrails3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402144980932362130" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2k1v48GMNHZCYrP6pqj1nYM5GJY56Po_hqTGw5Py0hQNmlp29isofrSs5S7w5TBehZ7Wcd0eXtvkB2SdFR-FdkW72QAH7yYCSEwK6ip1rQTsJRx3LRKhAHnxvZ7kfMe5Itje-IbR9Zgeh/s1600-h/SimcoeTrails4.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2k1v48GMNHZCYrP6pqj1nYM5GJY56Po_hqTGw5Py0hQNmlp29isofrSs5S7w5TBehZ7Wcd0eXtvkB2SdFR-FdkW72QAH7yYCSEwK6ip1rQTsJRx3LRKhAHnxvZ7kfMe5Itje-IbR9Zgeh/s320/SimcoeTrails4.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402145155781779522" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I would love to, someday, do a number of photography trips through the back roads of Ontario...so that i could concentrate on the photography and not just snap pictures as I fly by…I would have to go a number of times...in the different seasons…I have since bought myself a couple of really good back road map books…that was how Cariño and I ended up at the ghost town of Balaclava…Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-1821940920890534412009-11-05T20:03:00.007-05:002009-11-05T22:14:44.247-05:00November 5th…As the nature of my job would have it…it was 2pm before I managed to get out of Ottawa yesterday and head to LT’s…which meant I spent a portion of the drive in the dusk and the dark…and, it being hunting season, the deer seem to be on the move…a pick up in front of me at some point west of Bancroft narrowly missed hitting the second of 2 does running across the road and then later on, just east of Sebright, I had to brake hard as a big buck charged his way across the road in front of me…close calls like that always make me want to slow right down and just creep the rest of the way…<br /><br />On both my drive yesterday and my return trip today, I kept seeing herds of burly men in florescent orange coats and groups of pick up trucks parked by paths leading into the woods…hunting season…<br /><br />The weather doesn’t seem to be cooperating with me lately…it seems that the times that I have to spend inside working are the sunny times and my drives back and forth across central Ontario are the rainy ones…so my drive yesterday didn’t yield any photo ops…<br /><br />On my return trip to Ottawa today I drove in and out of periods of wet snow which left a beautiful white frosting on the fall coloured landscape…all shades of browns, tans and rusts interspersed with the various coniferous greens…the wild reds, oranges and yellows now a couple weeks gone…even the stubborn oaks have given up almost all of their beautiful burnt orangey-brown coloured leaves…the black lacy skeletons of the tamaracks have only a few golden orange needles left clinging to their branches…<br /><br />Here is one of the stubborn oaks...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmf2CC4fk-cDfh8uULUI5TD4q26IqH6Jn_R5JWx53RDea9Uqe5TEbQ-C9AvQVJred87D5y6O0LK1h7ISzDWvkr5_RNVZWFuwCZyOI_h443YFmBeAr1DN2udDgLY-IW8WlTZC41F1leCpmq/s1600-h/StubbornOak.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmf2CC4fk-cDfh8uULUI5TD4q26IqH6Jn_R5JWx53RDea9Uqe5TEbQ-C9AvQVJred87D5y6O0LK1h7ISzDWvkr5_RNVZWFuwCZyOI_h443YFmBeAr1DN2udDgLY-IW8WlTZC41F1leCpmq/s320/StubbornOak.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400814883865500882" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tamarack and evergreens...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicHINHCDG3AR8FtMv-_9LE8_KritgcufeRnu_qGcTOqWU5tm5A-la79JRz0jdLYTG4-XAvdLDZsKV5Qya-Gw_zyYgu3PbUh9lJglhV0eNky_sZZd8hMbBCICJRjO8mcyTiT8mEVA7GsEU0/s1600-h/TamarackAndEvergreen.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicHINHCDG3AR8FtMv-_9LE8_KritgcufeRnu_qGcTOqWU5tm5A-la79JRz0jdLYTG4-XAvdLDZsKV5Qya-Gw_zyYgu3PbUh9lJglhV0eNky_sZZd8hMbBCICJRjO8mcyTiT8mEVA7GsEU0/s320/TamarackAndEvergreen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400814874509897554" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I met Jake just west of Norland…I found him standing in the middle of the road a few miles before the town…looking lost...I was worried he'd been dumped on the lonely back road… what could I do but stop and see what was up… he had no collar…he barked at me when I got out of the van…but then came over wagging his tail and looking silly…I opened the sliding door and he hopped up in…our van smells like dogs even to people…so dogs must be able to smell us coming…he jumped right up onto the front seat beside me and looked at me with his clear brown eyes…a beautiful young male black lab…we need another dog like we need multiple holes in our heads so I drove around to the farms and homes in the area and thank goodness the last place I tried was his home…silly puppy…but it was a fun diversion for a little while…<br /><br />I regret, now, that I was so worried about finding Jake’s home, that I didn’t take a single picture of him…<br /><br />In-between the bouts of snow I took pictures of tree silhouettes…and thought about how beautiful they were and how I might try to capture some of that beauty in my full moon paintings…<br /><br />Here are some of the more picturesque ones…most are just reference shots...and the power lines get in the way…<br /><br />This majestic lone birch stands before a backdrop of pines…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGb_x_N3dTFzfVbsTw73fkOPWUs2_1shgMu77g-54dTgeWgIVnuCbbDWA50c9oNch8zBKDE1RgBgCkLOQ_aeiEwtSgft20a9wMIjq93A_b-TnKeC8qIi0OdpmrUEOioq-i6c9KGv9yLw_W/s1600-h/LoneBirch.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGb_x_N3dTFzfVbsTw73fkOPWUs2_1shgMu77g-54dTgeWgIVnuCbbDWA50c9oNch8zBKDE1RgBgCkLOQ_aeiEwtSgft20a9wMIjq93A_b-TnKeC8qIi0OdpmrUEOioq-i6c9KGv9yLw_W/s320/LoneBirch.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400816071813114370" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This is a very odd shaped tree...mostly hollow...I wonder if it will survive this coming winter's storms...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLBlTgWN2ILFalpJlrk2T7hwCZY3D7d1e0CBZLg9aOonWSH_9W3IELrTgcECSkUnyRuQLGvbdWMNnqHaQeRNML2sFSQtgAUNiHhPwg4S7iyWxTz4iu-9tqKPCEviffUyoLrtp_7nsnH_0/s1600-h/StrangeTree.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 167px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLBlTgWN2ILFalpJlrk2T7hwCZY3D7d1e0CBZLg9aOonWSH_9W3IELrTgcECSkUnyRuQLGvbdWMNnqHaQeRNML2sFSQtgAUNiHhPwg4S7iyWxTz4iu-9tqKPCEviffUyoLrtp_7nsnH_0/s320/StrangeTree.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400816081682189650" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This tree skeleton is so graceful looking...I wish that i could get a better picture of it...but it is in a swamp and I can't get closer to it...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_72U-2N0_ie_6cObUECCrfHgaPACGU9iblk87svASs03aeO0ncYSe0QRYyr7-mdzOPtR7xRiT5D7UOeddXdjmK_8q5tqpOd7ZmvD53d8IFHi-HJVvg8-gYasSajWz1l2RyWSgYHOoP93/s1600-h/Skeleton.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 148px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_72U-2N0_ie_6cObUECCrfHgaPACGU9iblk87svASs03aeO0ncYSe0QRYyr7-mdzOPtR7xRiT5D7UOeddXdjmK_8q5tqpOd7ZmvD53d8IFHi-HJVvg8-gYasSajWz1l2RyWSgYHOoP93/s320/Skeleton.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400816075472684674" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Various tree silhouettes...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDjGhm6PROy5w9fjSHQvRa6YkwMbb7LYhX8ESeDteCyXPOr2tru3nyM2bnMMostdMVwvrN0mCtoN3OJHU0ehNgd4pTbM6cBQONV7SBUBYOr0D2ig80dszYTP361W8pm2TBWPWloUQAcx4A/s1600-h/TreeSilhouette1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDjGhm6PROy5w9fjSHQvRa6YkwMbb7LYhX8ESeDteCyXPOr2tru3nyM2bnMMostdMVwvrN0mCtoN3OJHU0ehNgd4pTbM6cBQONV7SBUBYOr0D2ig80dszYTP361W8pm2TBWPWloUQAcx4A/s320/TreeSilhouette1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400816080209342562" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKB9VAviFzUA4B-KQBjc6JidyFuZ-3p3hemUvH7N4r0onLKQpxdXRGDAg15VZ4LmemhZLk-NOlbE0XP3xEZbYnqli79lnddQvF-q6mgPnSH84dG5hBg2ATua28R9_mW8Oysc3CsJo8uHc/s1600-h/TreeSilhouette2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 115px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKB9VAviFzUA4B-KQBjc6JidyFuZ-3p3hemUvH7N4r0onLKQpxdXRGDAg15VZ4LmemhZLk-NOlbE0XP3xEZbYnqli79lnddQvF-q6mgPnSH84dG5hBg2ATua28R9_mW8Oysc3CsJo8uHc/s320/TreeSilhouette2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400816085188484018" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7LxWhnrSwUmUpc3nSuSy4ewu3LDEDyPVmxrq-B9DDNGiZj4OIfbsxHcRWLHBa2YQWHo47uE3E-vvb4Z165cAwUrONqdAu7MR8bl81TsLL8St4pteaAphjFn0hsSph-NwbA1rxgT-rat0V/s1600-h/TreeSilhouette3.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 181px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7LxWhnrSwUmUpc3nSuSy4ewu3LDEDyPVmxrq-B9DDNGiZj4OIfbsxHcRWLHBa2YQWHo47uE3E-vvb4Z165cAwUrONqdAu7MR8bl81TsLL8St4pteaAphjFn0hsSph-NwbA1rxgT-rat0V/s320/TreeSilhouette3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400816318471125298" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Snow and getting dark...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhElVuGOHT_DNHC54MB64J2-Azlmo0iZzfh2rzJp8FWACVrZDH4M8q2dASp22gnqbPhdrOo_FKdWih6TY4jJi9KQiGS_JkhoBwu6hPkqK57e-qU9-GCzOATr3hMEhn8gPFaZReExrXagR/s1600-h/Snow1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhElVuGOHT_DNHC54MB64J2-Azlmo0iZzfh2rzJp8FWACVrZDH4M8q2dASp22gnqbPhdrOo_FKdWih6TY4jJi9KQiGS_JkhoBwu6hPkqK57e-qU9-GCzOATr3hMEhn8gPFaZReExrXagR/s320/Snow1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400816322077764770" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkF4cU1Jfwh5eSKkBgaQ3F9XmK9XVhMAYqXRJNqxTh-XUZgPgJHZ0aJpyQk8k31MXrrQKRTZhfouzKbC2v-sKmX2vEW78epkvC72pwbReecNl4M1QzUb-R3Xm02sKFtXHc0NOxgMqkHjov/s1600-h/Snow2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkF4cU1Jfwh5eSKkBgaQ3F9XmK9XVhMAYqXRJNqxTh-XUZgPgJHZ0aJpyQk8k31MXrrQKRTZhfouzKbC2v-sKmX2vEW78epkvC72pwbReecNl4M1QzUb-R3Xm02sKFtXHc0NOxgMqkHjov/s320/Snow2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400816319932293506" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-16449590345420728032009-11-04T11:14:00.004-05:002009-11-04T11:22:27.668-05:00November 4th…Today, after my morning computer job, I am heading back to LT's to return the rental car and pick up the van...it is a nice sunny (so far) day...so I hope to get away in good enough time so that I can stop and take some photos...that will be my creative activity for today…another drive on the wonderful back roads of Ontario!…I won’t have Internet access until I return tomorrow…so I won’t be able to post my photos today…<br /><br />This Friday evening Cariño and I will be going to the opening party of the <a href="http://www.260fingers.ca/"target="_blank">260 Fingers</a> show…a wonderful pottery show…Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306056489392000642.post-48205923429475522252009-11-03T11:10:00.004-05:002009-11-03T11:26:14.538-05:00Nov 3rd…This morning I was able to slip up to my studio…if only for an hour or so…it has been over a month since I have had a chance to be here…and for the few months before that it was very crowded…but my elder daughter and her beau have found a place of their own and have moved most of their stuff out…so I have breathing room again up here!<br /><br />I perched at the big table, got out my sketchbook and jotted down some of the ideas that floated around in my head while driving home in the dark with Cariño this past Sunday…it really was a beautiful night…the bright, full moon in a deep grey sky with a gauzy haze of clouds moving about provided dramatic lighting for the skeletons of the mostly leafless deciduous trees and the wonderful silhouettes of the coniferous ones…<br /><br />On the route that we take across Ontario, using the back roads, we drive through the mixed forest region which makes up the central part of the province...known as the <a href="http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/Forests/2ColumnSubPage/STEL02_163390.html"target="_blank">Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest</a>…so the combinations and varieties of tree silhouettes against the grey sky and the full moon were endless…it was beautiful and mesmerizing…<br /><br />As I was sketching, I came to the realization that I am going to need a tree book…or a good web site…one that shows the tree shapes for both summer and winter…it is the winter shapes that I am interested in now…although I guess – except for the Tamarack – for the coniferous trees it doesn’t much matter the season…<br /><br />Here are my starting sketches…I can go ahead with the coniferous (not sure which species this was) painting, but will have to do some research for the deciduous and mixed ones…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9K3HmfXv2O3wwCvJEYSik-A-uSLXKTilt7xpwh2PsmBoP04JV0aeXxUxOVxYPVq4be0Ggl0DWxNbBCjrNvQ_1BpVfNZWSWVwbLv_hcCSVs9t9Z9-6lANggiJPlliOkH1OPl-1QGWPW8Vf/s1600-h/FullMoonTrees1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 181px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9K3HmfXv2O3wwCvJEYSik-A-uSLXKTilt7xpwh2PsmBoP04JV0aeXxUxOVxYPVq4be0Ggl0DWxNbBCjrNvQ_1BpVfNZWSWVwbLv_hcCSVs9t9Z9-6lANggiJPlliOkH1OPl-1QGWPW8Vf/s320/FullMoonTrees1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399910797454448466" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBIsnlFSJZAcg-Gc_juJZv5OrSjy2QYYBat7P4hQxJYNcasb0V3YVW4YKqdgaFinDFRZ-EDUJ1FHAU8p5IdDZ6CC-IHd0duBcdvnP4IJA3kE4Gu6HSeq_T1IMaQC0J5Ls5uzplHMjTtwlL/s1600-h/FullMoonTrees2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBIsnlFSJZAcg-Gc_juJZv5OrSjy2QYYBat7P4hQxJYNcasb0V3YVW4YKqdgaFinDFRZ-EDUJ1FHAU8p5IdDZ6CC-IHd0duBcdvnP4IJA3kE4Gu6HSeq_T1IMaQC0J5Ls5uzplHMjTtwlL/s320/FullMoonTrees2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399910798121466306" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It might be neat to do a triptych of a mixed species scene…sort of like this…except this is just a repeat of the 1 sketch…but then I do have a thing about repetition...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXgL9vjj073oUqdDjlnQ5d8E2SRnMms2Q3W_Itt2RnmlxjL-HGq9UCEQq9LRQWqw36lcnGqWR4duIfxtWr_0QbzlmBAKi4JVMkQInqT3oxRxo_SjIe_MeBowv2b13HCOgufUE1EGDAQt8/s1600-h/TreeTriptych.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXgL9vjj073oUqdDjlnQ5d8E2SRnMms2Q3W_Itt2RnmlxjL-HGq9UCEQq9LRQWqw36lcnGqWR4duIfxtWr_0QbzlmBAKi4JVMkQInqT3oxRxo_SjIe_MeBowv2b13HCOgufUE1EGDAQt8/s320/TreeTriptych.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399910791840312258" /></a>Tamarakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14033326166297693061noreply@blogger.com5