CREATIVE ARTS Thursday/Friday ~ Meme, meme, me … a Meme of Me Own
MEME -
An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed
from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
Sometimes I'm not sure of the viability of my artwork, but, I really like this one.
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Well, it certainly is well decorated. LOL Just kidding, it's quite good.
Beautiful, Mac. The triple framing also adds to the 3-D aspect of the primary subject which is itself set apart in the picture.
Beautiful Mac.
I enjoy creating political memes.
Give a kid a fish and he'll ask you to cook it for him; teach a kid to fish and he'll cook and feed himself for a lifetime.
It's the fun kid/parenting thing to do.
Hey! Good to see you!
I can never stay away from Creative Art stuff for too long.
I read that "Family Business" seems to be going better for you and your wife.
Actually, get a kid to fish, and he'll ask you to take it off the hook.
Teach a kid to fish, and when he grows up his wife will thank you for it.
Fantastic!
Burney Falls in Northern California. This photo is off the internet but I have numerous photos but they the ''old style'' before digital cameras.
You don't go swimming in the pool below the falls since the water rarely gets above 45 degrees F.
At the base of the falls would be a "plunge pool" … into which I would cast a large bead-head nymph (artificial fly) with a small split shot on the tippet … then wait for the strike indicator to run left or right … and then …THIS!
Beautiful Kavika.
Love those time lapse shots like that.
I attended Painting with a twist on paint your pet day last year. I had just lost my Schultzy boy and thought what a great memorial this would be in his honor.
I have to confess that the instructor did help me a bit with the eyes. I just couldn’t get those right... maybe due to the alcohol consumption. 😉
Really good job.
Thank you!
Well done, JaneDoe! You did very well.
Thank you Raven Wing.
I love it JaneDoe
Thank you Kavika. He was my boy and now I can still see him every day. 😁
Very nice.
Such a nice dogie, sometimes call them doogies.
Thanks Dave. He was 105# of good doggie. 😢
Sooo....This happened.
Yep...the video is fricking hilarious.
Keep 'em comin' … we're off to a fine start!
Hope everyone has a great weekend....my creation for this week.
The perspective angle adds a whole new dimension of interest!
Thank you Mac. It was something new I had been wanting to try for some time. Finally found the right subject to try it with. Glad you like it. I added the beveled edges to the background to hopefully give more definition to the angle.
The bevel creates a three-dimensional aspect to an as usual lovely creation.
Thank you Buzz. That was an aspect I had not thought of. I like working with the various bevels on both the subject and the backgrounds to give them a different concept.
Really beautiful RW.
Thank you Kavika.
OMG Raven Wing, so nice.
Thank you Dave. I'm very glad you like it.
Clear Lake, northern California.
Been there are few times as I have traveled to Northern Calif. It truly is beautiful, and sitting out at the end of the pier and watching the sun set is very inspiring and Spiritual. The reflection of the setting sun looks sort of like the sky and water meeting up with each other in the middle.
Don't hold my beer. I am staying right here and watching.
A little flavor of what's left of fall here. It was nice for a couple of hours early Sunday.
In other photography news I purchased a used Canon Macro 100mm f/2.8 EF Lens. I'm hoping to get some snowflake macros this winter. It just shipped last night and should be in my hot little hands by Tuesday.
A very awesome photo EG. Reminds me of some of the small rivers I have seen during the winter here in the nearby mountains. I love driving up in the mountains in the fall and enjoying the beauty of the myriad of colors of the leaves of the many different types of trees that make up our forests.
But, having seen the beauty of Skyline Drive in Shenandoah Mountains in Northern VA during the fall, nothing else can quite compare. The small rivers and streams that run through the mountains and Shenandoah Valley look very much like your photo in the fall.
You are right about that Raven Wing.
Perfect scene EG.
Thank you.
CHINESE DATES - No, not the asking someone out for dinner or a movie, the kind you eat. The Chinese call them "jujuba" (although they're nothing like jujubes. When I first came to China the school took the foreign teachers to a jujuba orchard where we were allowed to pick some dates to take home. Here is a photo of a jujuba tree that's more than 100 years old:
And here is a close up photo of the dates. To gather them, the farmers place a big tarp on the ground under the tree and hit the branches with long poles. The dates fall so they gather them up and then lay them out in a field on tarps for the sun to dry them out. They end up looking like dark red wrinkled prunes, and are about the same size. Once they're dried, they are sweet and a little chewy.
When I picked them, I would alternate putting one in a bag then one I would eat raw, again and again. I paid for that foolishness all the next day.
Very interesting information on the Chinese dates, Buzz. And great pictures. I am not one who likes dates that much, but, I always like to try something new.
There are some lessons in life we sometimes wish we had not learned.
Very interesting Buzz. Very nice photos.
You must know by now I have a soft spot for trees. Now I should add fruit bearing ones.
I have a couple persimmon trees that are bearing good fruit this year. Don't want thenm to go to waste.
While it's still Friday … here are two more … beyond photography
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Beautiful pictures, Mac. The snow scene looks so real it makes me cold just to look at it. (grin)
The snow scene is a reminder of living in Canada - I may never see snow again. Where is the lighthouse located, and what editing technique did you use to colour the rocks? I also believe you did something to the snow photo to get a poster-like effect. Both are great photos.
The lighthouse is in Vancouver, British Columbia … I can't explain all that I did to transform the photos to "painterly" images, in both cases it was playing around with an endless combination of filters in Topaz software.
Not the same but it does some similar things that you did for the rocks in the lighthouse picture.
So nice Mac.
I have my favorite winter pictures too...she is also beyond photography.
All good, but the first one is a treasure.
Thank you Buzz.
She is my treasure.
Snow and autumn scenes have the common advantage to photographers of elements that tend to unify the composition whole, namely, colorful foliage and snow-covered ground and other objects. Here's a tip for photographing snow scenes in order to prevent white snow from looking gray. Because camera light meters are calibrated so as to make 17% gray a "neutral tone" (white = 0%, black = 100%), the processor will want to make very bright objects 17% gray (darker) and very dark objects, lighter. To compensate for these phenomena when photographing contrasty scenes, shoot several shots … incrementally OVEREXPOSING to keep bright areas bright and UNDEREXPOSING to keep dark areas dark.
Some scenes are just too contrasty to compensate perfectly, so take a number of shots and hope at least one is a success.
Anyway, the heart-of-snow is cleverly conceived, the black and white shot is perfect and the cool colors in the top pix are right in sync with the seasonal topics.
Really appreciate the technical explanations Mac. Thank you.
It doesn't come to me as designing a camshaft, or headers or induction system, but everyone has to start somewhere.
The heart-of-snow is all from the mind and heart of my little designer.
That was taken at Bukovel the winter following Maidan by a hired photographer. A new year, the beginning of 2015.
After getting Julia home to Kherson during Maidan in the winter of 2014. Ira (EeraaH, short for Irina) came up to Kiev to help get all of Julia's stuff on the train ride back to their hometown, Kherson, the Capitol of Khersons'ka Oblast.
Julia took a year off from the rat race. That summer she took a job as a day care worker at the Zaliznyy Port beach (Iron Port); 10 - 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. At the end of months of that I was concerned she came down with CFS.
The doctors told her to focus her diet on fresh fruit. After 6 weeks of that, she finally began to come around.
By then, mid autumn, it was time to look for a new job. She found one with a US company in Nova Kakhovka.
Her flat is in a new smaller building not far from the water.
So prior to staring work I needed to return home and wanted to give the girls a gift. They are river girls and always wanted to visit a ski resort. Hey! How about Bukovel for a couple weeks while I return home?
I had to leave, so that was a goodbye gift for the girls.
Julia, Ira, Nat (Natalya).
Thus came the Heart-of-Snow.
I am glad you like the black and white. She is with "Mom", Anna, there.
The colorful snow pictures remind me of my colorful Snow Girl.
Here is one more for this week....
Sweetness well portrayed in a perfect choice of framing.
Thank you Mac. Your words of encouragement are always appreciated.
LOL. She doesn't look happy about being confined in that lovely oval frame. Back in Toronto I had a photo of my grandmother in an oval frame just like that
Thank you Buzz...and yes...she doesn't look very happy to have to be stuck in an oval frame. (grin)
Always beautiful Raven Wing.
Thank you Dave. I'm glad you like it.
Here's one Mac. Not a meme, just a picture, taken by his mom, of a little guy you know pretty well, ready for Halloween. The artistic part is not the picture but the costume. Levi told her that he wanted to be a vending machine for Halloween, so she built a vending machine for him to wear, mostly from cardboard boxes and lights.
You may recall that, a few years back, she did the same with a Thomas the Train costume for him. My daughter in law is a very talented artist who uses everyday items to create really cool stuff.
What a great and very different costume, and very well created. Your Daughter In Law is indeed very creative and talented.
That's one of the most unique Hallowe'en costumes I've ever seen. Your grandson is very creative to have even thought of such a thing, and your daughter-in-law is amazing for having created such a costume so well.
OMG Love IT!
Hopefully, if he goes trick-or-treating, people will deposit significant amounts of change into his costume. Very imaginative on his part and very creative on the part of the costume designer!