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Studio 365: Day 216

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Pacific Spirit Park Variations I – IV 4.8.15

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More inspiration from last weekend’s early morning walk
along the Admiralty Trail in Vancouver’s Pacific Spirit Regional Park.

Studio 365: Day 169

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Burano Vignette 18.6.15

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One of the great joys of blogging with WordPress is the pleasure discovering new blogs to be inspired by. Today was one of those days when I was introduced to Small Town Girl Midnight Trains. Her misty images of Burano for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Off-Season are simply magical and made me want to rush to the studio and try and capture those colorful houses and deserted walkways lining the canal on that misty morning. How successful I’ve been is another matter but it led to a happy hour or two this afternoon immersed in another world.

The blog is a jewel, with a wonderful heading text: travel inspiration for small budgets and big dreams. If the blog is new to you too drop by you won’t be disappointed, and don’t forget to read her Travel Manifesto in which she “wishes to inspire by being ordinary,” but in which in fact she inspires by being extraordinary.

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A Hill in Umbria 18.5.15

No canyons today; this week Studio 365 will be in Italy, only figuratively speaking unfortunately, to re-visit memorable Tuscan and Umbrian landscapes with villas on hills surrounded by cypress trees and olive groves or the colourful houses of Cinque Terra perched on the rugged cliffs of the Italian Riviera. Aaaah! Bella Italia.

Studio 365: Day 90

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Anemones 31.3.15

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“We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes…Our looking is perfected every day –  but we see less and less.”

from The Zen of Seeing by Frederick Franck, 1973

This week I am drawing and re-reading one of my favourite books, The Zen of Seeing.  I was introduced to it many years ago in a drawing class in which we were all at different levels of ability, some never having drawn before.  The book, together with our wonderful instructor inspired us all to achieve wonders.  I recommend it to you and hope you are able to find a copy. You will want to pick up a pen or pencil and draw, draw, draw.

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