Month: August 2015

Weekly Photo Challenge: Today Was Another Good Day

As promised, our second unforgettable day visiting Antelope Canyon in Arizona. After the Lower Canyon with Ken’s Tours, posted on Friday for Cheri’s Weekly Photo Challenge, we didn’t think it could get any more spectacular. Well how wrong we were as you will see in today’s Mesh Gallery of photos from Upper Antelope Canyon originally posted on April 20th. I hope you enjoy them if you are visiting thechangingpalette for the first time, and for my wonderful followers I hope you agree that they are worthy of the re-post.

Antelope Canyon, Arizona – Part II

This was a never-to-be-forgotten day made even more special by our Navajo guide, Kim, from Adventurous Antelope Canyon Tours; thanks again Kim. The feather from a great horned owl found on our visit to Owl Canyon with her became the treasure of our trip and now takes pride of place in my studio back home.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Today Was a Good Day

For this weeks Photo Challenge, Cheri created a Mesh gallery highlighting her glorious summer’s day along the US Pacific coast, and invited us to recount a similar memorable day of our own. I have chosen one from amongst many that was truly a day we shall never forget, our visit to Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona in April this year, which I originally posted on April 19th using the traditional WordPress gallery format. I thought for today’s challenge I would create a Mesh gallery for the first time, as Cheri has suggested, and would be interested in any feedback that compares and contrasts the two formats.

Antelope Canyon, Arizona – Part I

For the amateur photographer that I am the day was like having a buffet table full of delicious desserts all in one sitting and feeling overwhelmed by all the flavours that come one after another. Having seen so many photographs online of the Canyons that always seemed almost unreal in their beauty to find oneself finally walking through this amazing natural wonder words seemed to be insufficient to describe the feelings of awe and amazement. The following day we visited Upper Antelope Canyon, which I will post in a day or two.

Thanks to Cheri for inspiring us once again.

Studio 365: Day 232

Day 232 i

Core Values 20.8.15

A little explanation of today’s post. Sifting through that bottom drawer again I came across this drawing from a class in 1981 in which the exercise was to draw an apple core without looking at the page.

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It stimulated me to reproduce this lovely Red Delicious before and after I had munched my way through it using watercolour, ink, pencil, charcoal and pastel.

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Some came out quite well although I have to admit the pastel was not a success as it is a medium with which I am not that familiar; something to work on.

Day 232 ii

Corps de Valley

Studio 365: Day 230

Day 230 vi  Day 230 iii
 
Day 230 ii   Day 230 i

Colorado Aspen Grove Variations I – IV 18.8.15

Inspired by Abstract Aspens in one of my favourite blogs, Tina Schell’s Travels and Trifles…Thanks Tina.

Studio 365: Day 227

Not at home, so…

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…here is another find from the studio bottom drawer from a series of visual puns I had been having fun creating some years ago. This one is entitled, not surprisingly, Knot a Painting.

As I’m away this weekend here are a few more images in the same vein, which some of you may remember…

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…together with a story I wrote in April last year in response to a Writing Challenge to craft a story in Fifty words .

Homage to Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis

Knot at Home

knotathome

Gregory awoke, still seated in his armchair, newspaper in hand.

Something felt very different.

He knew he was knot the same.

“I am in a giant Perspex box” he thought.

He remembered a book he had once read about a man becoming a fly.

He knew it didn’t end well.

not at home

Not at Home

…but home tomorrow.