Snow; A Great Unifier for Landscape Photographs ~ Creative Arts Three Day Weekend
When snow covers large areas of a landscape, it becomes a compositional unifier and offers possibilities for contrast and shadows which add depth and volume to imagery.
© A. Mac/A.G.
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that picture is about as close as I like to get to snow now...
One of the advantages of living on a rock..😁🦘🐨☀️
Thankfully I don't expect that I will ever get to experience snow and ice again, although I loved it when I was a kid, tolerated it as an adult, can live without it now, but there will be no new photos of it that I will be able to post. A few of the old ones..
The ravine behind my brother's home in Ontario:
My wife, who joined me at the high school I was teaching at near Zhengzhou in north-central China with her first snowman.
The way that snow should be experienced by people my age:
In some parts of the U.S. where there used to be several snowfalls a winter-- there are now more and more of those places where there hasn't been a significant snowfall all Winter.
Just googled it and found this:
Major US Cities Approaching 700 Days Without SnowGlobal warming.
That was mid-December. Hasn't there been a real winter blast since then?
"Global warming."
No, the storminess this year has been delivered mostly by El Nino
First Arctic outbreak happened last weekend. Denver had a low of -16 for the lowest reading.
Current 9 AM temps around the Denver Metro Area range from 39 at DIA to 48 at Boulder, under high clouds
This week the core of the cold is further east. Here's the current satellite showing the extent of storminess.
Satellite Loop Past 24 Hours – iWeatherNet
Thanks for that info - it supports my supposition.
Maybe because I give credence to the fact that Life mimics Art, I take note of the continually widening increasing streaks of weather extremes and think of the movie The Day After Tomorrow.
Arvo...ummm can sand substitute for snow?? Because we don't have any snow..🤣🤣🤣
My favourite beach..
Looks like a 'sun of a beach'.
Nice beach, (And it looks like a Christmas tree is growing there!)
Arvo Krishna.. that's a Norfolk island pine..most coastal places have them..yes we use them as Christmas trees...
I am heading to Norfolk island off NSW next month for a week..it was a penal colony in the early days and a notorious one at that...
The Norfolk pine for this Christmas just passed in my town..
wtf? that entire country was a penal colony at one time...
... surrounded by a shark infested moat.
Morning... actually the States was the first dumping ground of convicts by the Poms (Brits) way before us...you had 50,000 running around before Cook even bumped into Terrra Australis..😁😁
You mob seem to try and hush that up, where as us lot think it is bloody brilliant if you have convicts in the family...
I was so disappointed there aren't any in my family..
We wouldn't have it any other way.. 🦈🦈🦈🐊🐊🐊🦈🐙🐙🐙
We had one as President.
we got stuck with all the religious nuts. too hot in oz for all the proper clothes they had to wear.
Seems you had Great Expectations.
So sad to see that only two people understood my comment.
if anybody else has said that here, I would've flagged it...
Morning Devangy...why??
I thought it was funny..at least someone still has a sense of humour...even I liked it sitting on my rock..
no politics...
Was tongue in cheek..I liked it..
People living on rocks rule..😁😁
... that depends on the rock. don't worry, you're cool.
Morning...always..
Someone has to keep you mob on your toes..
Ripper... brekkie time.. Vegemite on muffin...what a way to start the day..
it's butter or fruit jam that belong on a muffin, not that hideous paste, and I'd be afraid to see what kind of oz vegetables are used to make vegemite. in the US, vegemites are the slow witted that infest our government...
Muffins are also used to make Eggs Benedict - a very classy breakfast.
Arvo...we can drink to that..
Not my photo..
And hurricanes have never been any of my business either (although I once experienced a tornado).
Arvo 1st..no frozen anything here..
Not my photo..
... fishing for great whites, oz style...
Great Egret in Lake Sarasota, Stone Creek.
Photo by the Stone Creek Photo club.
We don't get snow around here.
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Some of the newest efforts.
(All images © G. Gam)
Very creative and quite interesting. The top one must be the adaptation of the kind of Chinese characters found on paintings, and I very much like the middle one that appears to be a riverbank with trees. I can't really make out what the bottom one is - a cooked turkey ready to be carved?
Thanks. For the top one I used a panel from an ancient Chinese calligraphy scroll from the on-line public access collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New, which encourages use and/or adaptation of their works, superimposed on a photo I took and edited of trees and a lake in Nanjing.
The middle one is a view of different part of the same lake in Nanjing.
The bottom one is a photo of acacia branches superimposed on a photo of a cloud. Don't tell me you haven't seen orange and green clouds before! I have more versions of the same image. Three of them are posted below. I like creating a series with some images to see how they turn out.
(All images © G. Gam)
The only time in my life that I saw a green sky was when I was driving home from just north of Toronto and the only tornado I ever witnessed in my life was barreling down on me. Changed my mind about the turkey. In the two new photos of it I see a fat white bear diving into a lake.
What clouds see --
very cool.
We don't have a lot of snow, but it so freaking cold outside I can barely get the dog walked. So it's been inside projects this week.
Last Sunday I picked up what was being advertised online as a used 60ish gallon cube aquarium. It actually a 50 gallon column tank - 22" x 22" x 24" high. It had been used as a marine salt water reef tank, but had been sitting for 2 years. It was filthy and crusted with serious grossness. The front of the weir is also missing. I spend a few hours this week cleaning it. This week I'll remove the rest of the weir and get up on the stand and see if I can run it. It came with a sump and the return pump. So I'll run everything for a while to make sure there isn't any salt residue that will mess with the fish and kill all my plants.
It certainly cleaned up well. Hope you can get the mechanics tip top.
Beautiful
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he doesn't look very aerodynamic...
He's puffed up to insulate himself from the cold.
duh. we're 3 months from seeing robins the size of softballs in the colorado snow...
Back in my imagination.
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yup
contrasting colors, intricate details, contained negative space...
no borderline artistic mental crisis in this piece for me.
This was posted on the Stone Creek FB page. We have some cranky old farts that complain about everything and one of the members came up with this which is just perfect.
do they fly big ass flags off their golfcarts there like they do in south texas?
No, you don't see that here.
Calling it a wrap; thanks to all.
See you Thursday night.