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Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic

January 23, 2016Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challengefamily, love, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 16 comments

With our beautiful granddaughter visiting this weekend I couldn’t be more optimistic.

palette alphabet

January 20, 2016Painting, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challengealphabet, Art, Art studio, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 11 comments

This palette alphabet has been created with layers and masks in Photoshop Elements using photographs of some of my palettes from last year’s Studio 365 together with a relief alphabet obtained online from Coloring for Kids.

alphabet

Thanks to Michelle who invited us to “let the alphabet be your inspiration” for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet.

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Happy Wednesday

from Fra Angelico to Gericault…

January 18, 2016photography, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challengealphabet, art books, library, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 7 comments

…by way of Chagall, Degas, de Kooning and Gauguin. More books to enjoy from A to G.

from Giotto to Matisse

January 16, 2016Photography 101, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challengealphabet, art books, library, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 16 comments

Time to enjoy G to M from my library shelf.

NoPro

January 15, 2016UncategorizedAndrew Seal View all 38 comments

Recovering from surgery yesterday. All’s well 😊

Weightless in Seattle

January 12, 2016photography, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challengephotography, postaday, Seattle, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 6 comments

Hard to resist just one more visit to the well of weightlessness.

canyon comeback

January 11, 2016Painting, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, Bryce Canyon, landscape painting, photography, postaday, watercolorAndrew Seal View all 11 comments

Bryce Canyon revisited 11.1.16

Remembering…

January 11, 2016photography, UncategorizedDavid Bowie, English Bay, photography, postaday, Remembrance, sunrise, VancouverAndrew Seal View all 9 comments

Remembering David Bowie with this morning’s sunrise over English Bay in Vancouver
that was pure magic, as was he.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less) 2

January 10, 2016photography, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challengeballet, black and white photography, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 12 comments

A second image of weightlessness from the archives.

weight viii

Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less)

January 8, 2016photography, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challenge35 mm film, ballet, black and white photography, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 7 comments

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less) from Ben has given me the perfect excuse to open up the archives once again and revisit a never-to-be-forgotten afternoon nearly fifty years ago shooting rehearsals at Covent Garden in London. You may remember my other archival visit in response to the Photo Challenge: Broken last May, which I cheekily entitled “Peeping Beauty”. As I wrote then, my negatives are as pristine today in their protective sleeves as they were all those years ago.

Although I love the convenience of modern day digital photography, I have to confess there is something magical about 35 mm film as I think back and remember waiting anxiously for those images to slowly appear in the dim orange light of the photographic dark room.