Showing posts with label sun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sun. Show all posts

25.2.12

1.10.11

17.7.11

9.5.11

sunset

18.2.11

winter corn field

30.12.10

louisiana beach

Gulf of Mexico Sunset

18.12.10

it was snowing. . .

. . . And the Sun Came Out; Well, a Little Bit. I Saw It.

17.12.10

the other day, the sun came out

Snow and Sun on Road

27.9.10

no warnings in the forecast

Red Sky in Morning

23.9.10

after a rainy night

Yellow Morning Sky

14.9.10

later and later

Yellow Sunrise

NOTE: All photographs are available as matted 8 x 10 prints, $72. Email me.

1.9.10

6.4.09

no red sky at sunset


The sun set yesterday over Lake Ontario into clouds that came in this morning with rain. I'm holding on to pictures of the sun to remember what it is.

30.12.08

optical game



Cartographers have always known that the direction of light on a topographical object affects how we see it, whether it is seen as a mountain or a hole in the ground.

Here is a wonderful example of this.  These are goose footprints as I photographed them on the Lake Ontario shore the other day.

And here is what they look like turned 180°. Pretty cool, eh?

30.3.08

the color of light



At Letchworth Park the other day, the cold air, the clear sky, and the water droplets from the waterfall separated the sun's light into its true colors. If only everything hidden could be seen clearly once in a while.

6.1.08

art quilts

I participate in a monthly art quilt challenge called Fast Friday Quilts (the link is below and always in the sidebar on this page). On the last Friday of the Monday, we are given a challenge and have a week to produce our pieces. The challenges are meant to expand our thinking about our work, and they do that well. We might be instructed to do the theme of movement, for example, and then use some embellishment technique that is new to us to help express that theme. The results are posted on a blog on which we explain what we have done and can receive comments on the results. It's a wonderful, stimulating monthly exercise.

I realized this morning, however, that I post my art quilts there and not here, and that I should re-post some of them here because I'm thinking that many folks who read this blog don't go to the Fast Friday Quilts link to see what there is there and so are missing out on my art quilts.

So. . .I will post some of my work from there here periodically. I encourage all, though, to go to Fast Fridays to see what other members of the challenge group are doing. It's quite a creative bunch, I tell you!
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Here is the challenge from October that involved movement and embellishments:

Solar Wind

When the challenge was first announced, I saw this image in my mind's eye. And it's taken me days and days to execute it. The movement part was fairly easy to put down. The embellishments were to be things that I hadn't done before. I explored different stitches on my machine and then used a couching/beading foot to put the strings of beads down. And I did that using invisible thread. Whew! That stuff is really, really invisible, both the clear and the smoke. I finished the piece with a satin stitch edge and a hanging sleeve on the back.