photography
November 13, 2009
- M E D I A R E L E A S E CONTACT:Linda HouleLinda@lldreamspell.com dkchristi@yahoo.com For Immediate Release November 13, 2009 A mysterious orchid is central to a story of love, lies, and redemption Ghost Orchid, a Mainstream Fiction/Paranormal novel, was released by publisher L&L Dreamspell in October 2009. Once more before I die…the haunting mantra of a lonely woman. A ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
October 30, 2009
- Here in the centre stand the glass. Light Is the lion that comes down to drink. There And in that state, the glass is a pool. Ruddy are his eyes and ruddy are his claws When light comes down to wet his frothy jaws. -- Wallace Stevens, "The Glass of Water" The pride of lions -- stone and otherwise -- in Venice numbers in the thousands. For centuries the king of the beasts has served ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
October 27, 2009
- I've been studying the goldenrod along my fence...and played around with a few pictures downloaded from my camera, this photo turned out to be my favorite so far...it reminds me of one of my favorite paintings, Charles Burchfield's watercolor, Goldenrod in December, 1948...(Whitney Museum of American Art, 74.62, follow link for photo and a complete entry: ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
October 7, 2009
- Of all the beautiful photos you’ve ever seen in your life, what would be the ones you would put in a single book to share with the world? National Geographic tapped into its vault of photographs from over years of time and put them together in this amazing book. Some of these pictures are dated back to the 19th century and some are never-before-seen pictures. All of them are breath taking. ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
October 5, 2009
- Bill simply got tired of being around the kind of people who weren't exactly happy to see him, and that he didn't want to see. So he quit law enforcement, dead-of-night surveillance, investigations, and watching bad people do bad things--and came to live and work at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Retired, his work is unpaid (his wife, the breadwinner now, directs operations for the Grand ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
September 27, 2009
- ARTIST 'S STATEMENT: JOHN OUGHTON ZERO APERTURE, PHOTOGRAPHER After reading Yeats, the Tarot and the Golden Dawn by Kathleen Raine, and The Negative by Ansel Adams The number Zero is a Fool an empty O under glass who seeks more in a scene but what is, is the Fool is bottomed in bells which strike against the rained grass a little dog named Dark dogs his ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
September 11, 2009
September 8, 2009
- I've always appreciated the arts and believe they add greatly to our existence. Strike that-rather, I believe that they validate our very being. From music to literature, to painting and photography, it is the creative works that make life so much more bearable. I gave this idea some consideration when a friend from Wales was showing me photographs he'd been taking over the last few days. They ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
August 19, 2009
- Something about two articles caught my attention about art, design, photography and process. The first, “Familiarity Breeds Contempt” appears on the blog Rap Sheet, by J. Kingston Pierce, and presents numerous book jackets that use the same stock photo. Granted, most of these copycat covers are for crime novels, but there's also an adaptation of the same image on James Patterson’s detective ...
- Continue Reading » 1 Comment
August 14, 2009
- I grew up less than a mile from what is now regarded as an "informal settlement" -- Alexandra Township. The striking difference between the lavish homes surrounded by high electrified walls remain in stark contrast to the poverty in Alex. The ANC has got to do something about Alexandra Township. A relic of Apartheid, to some extent it seems stuck in a time warp. Although there is ...
- Continue Reading » 0 Comments
