It's "Cosmic," Dudes and Dudesses … on Creative Arts Thursday/Friday

Cosmos Flowers © A. Mac/A.G.

After a Day of Ugliness …

… let me leave you with something of beauty … © A. Mac/A.G.

A Surf Fisherman Heads Up the Beach

Years ago, I spent a good amount of time fishing for bluefish and striped bass in the ocean surf at places like Barnegat Light, New Jersey and all along Jersey's Long Beach Island. Much of that fishing was done after sunset … Coleman lanterns guiding us up and down the sand and along the surf....

PART TWO ~ "Art Should not be a Copy of Reality … One of the Damned Things is Enough!":

NOTE: If You Missed the Discussion Preceding this One … it's at this Link …  https://thenewstalkers.com/community/discussion/42909/art-should-not-be-a-copy-of-reality-one-of-the-damned-things-is-enough#cm923357 Continuing … There are a number of variations of the quote in the headline...

"Art Should not be a Copy of Reality … One of the Damned Things is Enough!"

There are a number of variations of the quote in the headline … https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/10/01/copy/  … ultimately, I think it's a philosophical matter, one perhaps of preference, or, of a viewer's presupposition regarding what "Art is supposed to be." When I don't feel like "just...

A Penny for Your Thoughts? Hell no! Here's a Buck!

Shot this (with a camera) on my way back from fishing late this afternoon … there were four White-tailed Deer Bucks in this clearing, I thought they might start crashing antlers … didn't happen … but got a number of good "portraits" like this one. © A. Mac/A.G.

Four-in-One … Creative Arts Group Weekly Feature

CREATIVE ARTS THURSDAY/FRIDAY … October 18/19, 2018

Four-in-One … Creative Arts Thursday/Friday

In earlier days of photography, when a photographer wanted to combine two or more separate photos into one, "with some forethought, the photographer could create unique and artsy imagery by adding double exposures to his or her shooting repertoire.   A double exposure is accomplished by...

Seriously Sepia

In the early days of photography, black and white photos were sometimes tinted sepia tone … Sepia is a reddish-brown color, named after the rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish Sepia. The word sepia is the Latinized form of the Greek σηπία, sēpía, cuttlefish. In...

First Frost of the Fall, No Fish Caught … No Complaints.

When a cold front moves into the Pocono Mountains in October, the barometer rises and fish in still waters experience equilibrium difficulties … and to compensate, they usually head for deep water and suspend somewhere between the water surface and lake bottom … and generally lose their appetite...