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Flower Prints/Digital Art with Commentary for the Summer of 2014
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
Been working on a new series of Framing Prints. Hope you like. Two of these were posted in one of the groups to date, there are four in all, as follows: All...
Today I Went Wild!
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
Like most major, American cities, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) has "mean streets" -- but it also has had the wisdom to preserve significant-sized areas of forests, streams, rivers and wetlands....
Dazzling Through the Trees
Via: neetu2
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
All these images are the work of my 15-year old daughter whose fascination for nature's wonders drives her to capture beauty wherever she sees it. A budding photographer and artist, she has...
A Flower to be Appreciated for its Transformations
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
Strawflower, Golden Everlasting, Siempreviva Xerochrysum bracteatum this flower has as many "faces" as names. It's one of my favorite subjects. Buds are very "sexy" IMO. Opening...
Backlighting for Spirituality
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 Comments
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9 years ago
Stained glass windows in houses of worship take advantage of "transmitted light," that is, light that passes through the translucent, colored (stained) glass rather than being reflected off of its...
Going to the Mattes … 'Course, They'll Be with Prints in Them (Photos, Digital Art, etc.)
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
Going to (hopefully) be selling some my of images as matted prints; I have hundreds and it's tedious to get them ready for display and sales -- not to mention the cataloguing and spread sheet and...
A Team in Decline and a Sad Farewell
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
It's just about the end of an era in Philadelphia Phillies baseball. It's been a great run leading to a World Series Championship in 2008, a loss to the New York Yankees in the 2009 Series -- and...
Some Things are "In the Bag." If We Will Just Think to Look There.
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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15 Comments
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9 years ago
The metaphor/colloquialism, "IN THE BAG" means Virtually secured - as good as in one's possession. Over the years, I've had lots of camera lenses, usually trading up, up ad up. My most...
Amateur Gardner and Really Amateur Photographer
Via: robert-in-ohio
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Photography & Art
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3 Comments
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9 years ago
I am nowhere near the photographer or the gardener that A Mac, Neetu or others are that share their masterpieces here on NT, but as a transplanted city boy learning to love living in...
It's a Pollen Nation … errrrr, a, POLLINATION. Mutualism in Nature
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
Ecologically speaking, when two organisms of different species interact and BOTH ARE BENEFITTED, that phenomenon is known as MUTUALISM as when this Bumblebee gets a drink and its Bull Thistle...
Does a Flower Possess a Soul?
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe And would it then not be somewhat plausible to believe that whatsoever...
Yeah, But they also Make for Nice Prints
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
Coreopsis |krpss|nouna plant of the daisy family, cultivated for its rayed, typically yellow, flowers. Also called tickseed . Genus Coreopsis, family Compositae. Makes you feel good just...
It Ain't Just a "Pick-up" Line … I Mean it … "Come up and see my etchings!" Well, maybe it's a little of both.
Via: a-macarthur
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Photography & Art
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9 years ago
In Raymond Chandler's novels, private detective Philip Marlowe (a decent guy, who, for professional image reasons pretends to be otherwise) uses the phrase to seduce women. (c.1940's) I love...