Change

I am currently changing my blog in order to suit me more.
Well the chang has happened ...

Exciting times!

Inspiration: Paul Klee - "City of Lagoons" 1932

Master of abstract!
My mind boggles in joyous contemplation attempting to decipher whether or not this is tetris  future telling  or just a representation of any and every sky.

None of this is important. Instead I believe the importance lies in the genius of where this leads your imagination.

Enjoy!

Swatches: Sergei Sergeivich Solomko

Getting ideas for my favourite colours, this is my favourite today I think:

Pure Magic: 'This pleased me toaday!'

I found this little gem today ... a book written and illustrated by William M Timlin.
The writing and images are just so magical!

It amazes me that both him and Tolkein are on a similar vein and both spent a vast amount of time in South Africa.

This pleased me today.

I found it!

I found it! I found it ... the image I was looking for all of Friday and couldn't remember where I had seen it.
This for me is a 'Favourite favourite' (this is a rarity) and the one I should have posted last week. It is responsible for the bout of inspired underwater photography posts and multiple underwater camera purchases. I fear a housing case for my D90 is in order ... the more I look at this work! Eeek! (££££)
I am just so pleased that I am able to share it!
Pop on over to Elena Kalis's facebook page or website or flickr account .... I promise you, you are in for a treat!

Underwater ... my first take!

So, this was my first little taste of experimental underwater photography using a 7mp Kiddies underwater digital... I don't think much of the quality ... but it was well worth the fun factor!

Dreaming at the moment ...

Underwater Photography

Today it arrived! A little bundle of plastic ... the cheapest underwater camera on the market to experiment with and I know I will love every minute of it ... up until the point that I will want a housing case for my D90 ...absolutely not! (This is probably as expensive as the camera itself!!)

So, off with my new toy I dive (apologies for the pun ... I couldn't help myself.)

And I leave you with some professional material from the underwater realm, by Elena Kalis
Absolutely brilliant!

Peeling away the layers

Summer time brings swimming, and renovation.
I am currently painting my room, which was a ghastly blue, over with white.
I am also currently looking forward to getting an underwater camera and was wondering about its arrival.

All of this I think had inspired my psyche to create the above image ... if not I had fun creating it!

Inspiration for the week

My inspiration for the week is the set designer and photographer combination:
Rhea Thierstein and Tim Walker

Make something cool every day!

I have noticed this on Flickr through a few of my contacts pages, because this is how I found them.
This one I found today is a definite favourite ... just brilliant.

 grmblshi



I think I might give this a go but I am terrible with keeping 'Everyday' events up ... because I just do too much!
All those that do attempt this and continue to do it ... 'I take my hat off to you'!

Day dreamer

'The genius of photography'

'The genius of photography' (Title from the BBC documentary):
"The medium doesn't care what you think is important or not. It is all seeing but undescriminating"




Perhaps the art comes in determining, altering or experimenting with what the camera sees?

Inspiration - Ryota Kuwakubo:

'The Tenth Sentiment'

This is shadow painting at its best ... pure genius!
My inspiration for the week ahead ...

Faerie tales

So what's in a name?

I have been house sitting all of this week, and the owners are rather elderly hence, no internet connection... and lack of posts ...  blah blah balh!
Being back at work though I realise how much time I spend on the net... I digress...

So, back to the house sitting bit ... our main concern is a dog by the name of 'Fly', however when we arrived it appeared that meiosis had taken place and all of a sudden there were two dogs. A note that was left for us explained the doggie duplication letting us know that we had to feed another fluffy mouth but falied to let us in on the twins name! This posed a dilemma... you need to know a dog's name in order to call it.
Following on from this: In my maddness I was calling the main dog 'Sky' instead of 'Fly' and I couldn't understand why the twin was responding instead.
I later jokingly said to Neil that I bet we know this other dog's name even though we don't know it.

Well, the very next day we found out that my insanity was 'right on the money' and this dog's name was 'Sky' ... so we were looking after 'Fly' who I called 'Sky', but the twin dogs name was 'Sky' ... so as predicted we knew its name already ... but didn't, if you catch my drift!


In the end I have decided to rename them to prevent further confusion:
'Fly' I have named Cake because she looks like a Victoria Sponge (vanilla colour, and because of her age she is a classic, just like a vanilla sponge)
'Sky' on the other hand is a younger dog whom I have deemed: Cookie because she is caramel in colour and reminds me of caramel cookies.
They respond to their new names better their old ones ... very odd!

So what's in a name?
This one looks like 'Fly' who I call Cake:

And, this one looks like 'Sky' who I call Cookie