Each week at XingfuMama we are asked to ‘Pull up a seat‘.
‘Pull up a pew’, Zennor church, 2014.
Ken
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Un-Green Man- Sunday Stills – Green.
This week Teri has challenged us with:
Tis the season for showing us something green, if you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
Even if you don’t, the color green is all around us. If you want to get creative, you can use and interpret green idioms as in “green with envy,” “going green” (environmental), “sure as God made little green apples,” “giving something/someone the green light,” or “green thumb.” You get the idea!
Since I am all about my favorite color green, my images for this week’s Sunday Stills theme focus on things that are green.
Well my first thought when I had read that the challenge was to be green was to take a picture of my wife’s thumb, she is good with plants, then I thought maybe one of the nearby wind turbines, or maybe a piece of green Lego sat next to me on the desk.
So what I wanted to find in my archives was a photo of a Green Man, a foliate figure carving in wood or stone, however I could not find any at first glance, this is something I will have to add to my list to rectify.
This cheeky face at Dyrham Park was the nearest I could get!
‘Green face’, Dyrham Park, 2014.
And just for another splash of green a fern near Zennor Quoit.
‘Hillside fern’, Zennor, 2016.
And then finally I found him, although he is the least green in colour, he is providing the water, which is the life of the garden in which he is situated, and thus providing for the luscious green foliage that is around him.
‘Life giving Green Man’, Colby Woodland Garden, 2016:
Ken
Raw and Tamed – Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #33 – Nature
This week Patti has posted:
For this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #33, it’s your chance to showcase Nature–including plants, animals, landscapes–and other features of the physical world–either close to home or far away. It’s up to you!
So here are two shots for you.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein
‘Raw stone’, Zennor, 2016.
‘Tamed wood’, Newton House, Llandeillo, 2016.
Nature is not, of course, always benign and beautiful. It can be frightening and terrifying also.
Not too many generations ago, raw nature and wilderness tended to inspire fear and dread in “civilized” people.
They represented Otherness and the Unknown. That which is “wild” is also “bewildering”.
Today, wilderness is usually considered to be something good and in need of preservation.
The beauty and awesomeness of it dominate our attention.
We are attracted by wilderness, the Otherness of it, the sense it is something inevitably outside of us.
Always beyond us, it is what is ultimately real.
We cannot adequately appreciate this aspect of nature if we approach it with any taint of human pretense.
It will elude us if we allow artifacts like clothing to intervene between ourselves and this Other.
To apprehend it, we cannot be naked enough.
In Wildness is the preservation of the world.
-Henry David Thoreau
Ken
Repetition – Weekly Photo Challenge: Repeating Patterns
For this weeks challenge, Jen of Traveling at Wits End ask us:
Photograph Repeating Patterns
I worked on this compositional technique a lot when I first started trying to improve my photography skills. My eye will see repeating patterns, but only if the are really obvious. Once I started looking for repeating patterns, though they seem to be everywhere!The world seems a random place at times, but look again, maybe it’s not as random as you first thought.
So here are a couple of photos from the archive:
The first two from Zennor church, Cornwall, 2014.
The third is of another Pipe organ at St. Grada, a church in Cornwall – 2014. I had never edited this photo as it was slightly out of focus, but it works for this challenge.
And the fourth repetition, some architectural detail at Mumbles Pier – 2015. We were observing the rite of needing a cup of tea while out for the day, at the time.
And the fifth a photo I have used for a challenge before, scaffolding at Castle Drogo – 2015. On one of our many trips to Cornwall, we stopped in on the way.
Well I could go on, because once you start looking repetition is everywhere.
Carbis & Zennor: Weekly Photo Challenge: Ambience
This weeks Challenge asks us to post a photo of a place with ambience.
So here are two photos taken during last years visit to Cornwall (which is the series of photos I am currently working on). The first exploring ambience created by light, the second exploring, and I am going to be unashamedly hippy about this – the vibe of the place.
Sunset at Carbis Bay :
Magic at Zennor Quoit:
