Each week Kammie challenges us to post an oddball photo:
Odd Ball Photos are those great photos that you take which really don’t seem to fit into a common category. We’ve all taken them and like them, because we just can’t hit delete and get rid of them.
This week a photo from the Eden project in Cornwall, a group of carved wooden posts which look like faces.
‘Faces’, Eden project, 2017.
Ken
Each week Kammie challenges us to post an oddball photo:
Odd Ball Photos are those great photos that you take which really don’t seem to fit into a common category. We’ve all taken them and like them, because we just can’t hit delete and get rid of them.
Well this week I thought I would continue with the sheep theme from last week’s oddball and add this photo.
‘Baa!’, Arlington Court, 2019.
Ken
This weekend GC and SueW have chosen ‘Blue’ as the theme for their challenge.
As we begin the month of April Susan and I have chosen a photo challenge relating to the color BLUE as the shade most appropriate to welcome the return of spring with its blue skies, fresh air and babbling brooks.
So this photo came to mind of a large Blue sculpture at the Eden Project. It measures nearly nine metres tall, weighs 20-tonnes, and fires out vapour rings, thought to be the world’s biggest ceramic sculpture at the time it was unveiled at the Eden Project on Tuesday, May 22 2018.
It is called ‘∞ Blue’ (Infinity Blue) and it pays homage to cyanobacteria, one of the world’s smallest living beings. Created by duo Studio Swine (Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers), Japanese architect Azusa Murakami and British artist Alexander Groves.
‘Smoking Blue’, Eden Project, 2018.
Ken
Last week for Kamie’s oddball challenge I posted this picture:
Kamie wondered what the back story was, so here is a very brief synopsis. It is a bronze sculpture and it is of a man dressed in a traditional Japanese travelling costume, he is sitting on the back of an ox, and reads a book while he travels.
It depicts either the statesman and scholar Sugawara no Michizane (845-903) or the itinerant Buddhist priest and poet Botanka Shōhaku (1443-1527). It is suggested that Takamura Kōun (1852-1934) is the sculptor. The sculpture was donated to Dyffryn gardens by Grenville Morgan in 1951.
References:
https://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/a-japanese-sculpture-at-dyffryn/
http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1682811
Photos:
And here are a few other photos I have taken of this sculpture.
Ken
Each week at XingfuMama we are asked to ‘Pull up a seat‘.
Here is another taken on the little 2MP Minolta Dimage Z3, and once again at High Head sculpture valley.
‘Y or J’, High Head sculpture valley, Cumbria, 2011.
Ken
This week Cee challenges us with the topic ‘Tender Moments’.
So looking through the archives I found a photo of this sculpture. This was taken while we were on honeymoon in Cumbria, but on a day visit up to Gretna Green.
‘Embrace’, Gretna Green, 2011.
Ken
#WordlessWednesday.
For this weeks Friday Foto Fun we are asked to:
Please share your idea of ‘framed’ either through your lens or in your own words? Post a photo or get creative about frames … try some humour!
So here is a picture of my wife, framed by a sculpture.
‘Inside art’, High Head Sculpture Valley, Cumbria, 2011.
Ken
This week Debbie has challenged us with the following:
Welcome to One word Sunday – over to all of you to join the challenge with your own contrast post.
So I have done a couple of contrast posts recently and wondered what I would have for this one. But a quick look at the albums made me start thinking about this shot, not just the contrast in the shot, but the contrast between the objects. I am fairly sure that this juxtaposition of solid versus holed objects would be what Barbara Hepworth wanted us to consider.
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. – Barbara Hepworth
‘Contrasting forms’, Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, St. Ives, 2014.
Ken
Each week at XingfuMama we are asked to ‘Pull up a seat’.
So here is a shot pulled up from the archives.
‘Organic’, Cumbria, 2011.
