PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN

                              ONE DAY THERE WAS A PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN,

                         THE ECLIPSE LEFT WONDERFUL SHADOWS ON THE SIDEWALK.

                    I AM EXCITED BY THE LAYERING OF THE SHADOWS, THE DRY LEAVES,

                           THE GRASS AND THE TEXTURE OF THE SIDEWALK

THE MARRIED ROCKS

One day on my way to Ise we stopped to see the Married Rocks.   I always loved the poetic idea of married rocks and married trees so I had to see the rocks for myself.

In Kyoto on the next flea market day, I found this picture of Japanese tourists at the married rocks.  I was very happy!

MAKING REPEAT PATTERNS

I enjoy repeating photographs and teaching others to make repeats.
I use Adobe Photoshop for all the repeats. Photoshop has a lot of wonderful functions and filters that can be used to significantly change an image.  I look for interesting elements in an image that can create a pattern.

Lotus repeat from photograph

 Accented edges

Cut out

Plastic wrap
 

 Photograph of water hyacinth

 Repeat of actual photograph

Repeat with edges

Here is a repeat using the lotus with the accented edges.  The beauty of repeated patterns is the secondary and tertiary patterns that can be achieved.  Then it is simple to find the primary, secondary and ground patterns.

Side to side repeat

Half drop repeat

Saturated colors

Lotus leaves

                                

Lotus leaves repeated

MY SABI GARDEN

This is my garden and pond SESERAGI. It is the end of August and my garden is starting to turn.  Now it is at the moment of the achievement of perfection before September, and the beginning of decline and decay.

SAKURAN

I really enjoyed this Japanese movie "Sakuran".  It is a story that takes place in the Yoshiwara (geisha) district of Tokyo.  It is glorious eye candy.  Although the reviews in Japan were mostly negative, I loved the overall use of red, gorgeous kimono, beautiful flower arrangements, great sound track, and scene after scene that looked like Japanese prints.  The original story comes from a manga (Japanese comic book).  If you can find a copy with English subtitles, watch it it's worth while.  Hopefully it will be on Netflix soon.

 http://www.ovguide.com/movies_tv/sakuran.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Heisei-Fuzoku-Sheena-Ringo/dp/B000O76UNK/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1281916603&sr=1-2-fkmr0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuran

COW DUNG

In India cow dung is very important.   It is used as fuel to fire pottery, for cooking and to insulate houses and when other resources are scarce. Mixed by hand with straw it is dried on walls and built into stacks. It is a renewable resource.

  

CHARPOY

A Charpoy is a bed or cot used in India.  It has a wooden frame with woven webbing for the top. Some charpoys have very decorative webbing others are quite simple.

I took these pictures when I lived in India for 9 months researching Indian textiles.  The pictures were taken in Shrikalahasti, Andra Pradesh.


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