Happy Father’s Day with loving memories of our wonderful dad.
remembering dad
photography
The sensational sinuous curves of Antelope Canyon, Arizona
This photo from Lower Antelope Canyon will be familiar to those of you who follow thechangingpalette. Our visit there just over a year ago was simply spectacular and I was greatly honoured when Cheri featured the mesh gallery I created from the trip in The Daily Post’s Photos We Loved last September.
More curves to follow.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure
Surely nothing can be more pure than our beautiful granddaughter whom, as those of you who follow thechangingpalette know, I love more than anything in the world, and who will be one year old this month.
what a sky!
Magical sunset over English Bay in Vancouver last night from Kitsilano Beach.
a day like no other
Today has been a day full of honour, gratitude and inspiration.
Where to start?
Perhaps I’ll use the words of Dylan Thomas from the opening of his great poem Under Milk Wood, “To begin at the beginning…”
The day began with a message from WordPress Discover on Twitter that my post “From Yardwork to Artwork” was being featured today as an editor’s pick.
I had received an email a week ago from Krista, one of WordPress’s great Editors, informing me that she had made the selection and I wrote back to thank her and to say how honoured I was. Her weekly photo challenges are always so enjoyable as you all know, so a big, big thank you once again Krista.
This week’s Photo Challenge is all about Numbers, which certainly applies to today with my reaching over 1000 followers on The Changing Palette…
…so I extend my gratitude to all of my wonderful followers for staying around for so long, and to those of you who have joined today in response to the post on WordPress Discover, a special welcome. I will be replying to all of your great comments over the next few days, so stay tuned.
Finally, the inspiration today was from all those taking part in this year’s Gutsy Walk for Crohn’s Disease and Colitis. I walk every year and wouldn’t miss it. This year it was held at Trout Lake in Vancouver on an unusually hot Sunday morning, but as always everyone was in the greatest of spirits. A special thank you to all of the volunteers, organizers and sponsors.
It really has been a day like no other as you can see.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers
“Numbers are everywhere” says Ben for this week’s Photo Challenge.
They certainly are and within a few minutes in the studio today I realized I was surrounded by them. On pens and pencils, paints and brushes,
boxes and cases…they were just about everywhere I looked.
the golden bough
A view of English Bay last night during the golden hour and beneath the golden bough.
I think Virgil would have approved.
A new champion takes the stage
7-5, 6-4
The numbers spell Garbine Muguruza the new French Open Champion at Roland-Garros today. What a match! What a future!
Photo taken from the television during the broadcast by NBC sports
Weekly Photo Challenge: Spare
Seven days to go to the Annual Gutsy Walk for Crohns and Colitis.
Spare change always appreciated.
Why not register and help make a difference.
From Yardwork to Artwork: The Photinia Story Part One
Photinia I 23.05.16
Today’s post is all about learning to find beauty and inspiration in the mundane chore of yard work on a holiday Monday.
Yesterday was Victoria Day here in Canada, the perfect time to prune the photinia and clean all of its dried leaves from the studio roof and gutter.
With the concrete cleaned and swept the afternoon was free for painting and photography in the studio with a rescued photinia branch making for the perfect subject…
and a few of the trimmed branches new tools for drawing with.
Now all I had to do was put the two together. What could be better than an ink drawing of the photinia created with one of its own branches?
Well, perhaps some additional watercolor to complete the picture…
and we’re almost there…
So ended a very satisfying day turning the hard work of yard work into art work.
to be continued…
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