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purrfectly blissful spot for a catnap

Photography 101: Bliss – Ah, bliss. What does this word mean or look like to you?

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What is your idea of bliss? Cheri asks. Well, I know what it is for Sunday. After over a year of blogging it’s the purrfect time to introduce you to a beloved member of the family. Sunday walked into our lives nine years ago, on a Sunday, and decided she was home. Tonight she looked so blissful in front of the fire, it was clearly a match. I Hope you agree.

Palette Cleanser

Photography 101: Water –  We want to see your interpretation of water — how might your image reveal more about you?

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Water, the essential element in the life of the studio.

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And so you have the story behind the name of my blog “revealed”…

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If you have a few moments listen to the Lentement from Handel’s Water Music played by Jordi Savall and Le Concert Des Nations, and enjoy a few changing palettes as you do so.

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Spring Back Fall Forward

Photography 101: Street – Today, capture an establishing shot of a street scene in your neighborhood.

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With winter just around the corner Cheri’s challenge today is the perfect excuse to spring back to those beautiful April blossoms that dazzled us for days just down the street.

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Fast forward to today and enjoy those same trees now dressed in their glorious Fall colors.

Autumn Glory

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Kitsilano beach park on a clear, crisp, sunny October day: Autumn perfect.

Since this is the first day of Photography 101 in which the assignment is to share an image that means home I thought this would fit perfectly.  On thechangingpalette you will find many photos of Kitsilano Beach taken at different times of the day and evening, as you will see in the related links below.   

For Photography 101 and Ailsa’s Weekly Travel theme: Autumn

Wait Inside Until Car Stops

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Angel’s Flight, “The Shortest Railway in The World” dating back to 1901, which is located in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California. During your short descent remember to wait inside until the car stops.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art

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For this week’s Photo Challenge, Pete Rosos invited us to stimulate our creative processes and imagine which of our images we would like to see gracing the cover of a book. Those of you who have followed my blog will be familiar with the bookshelf, and a feint image of the painting on the book cover was seen in one of my Monday bouquets. This week I wondered how it might look on the cover of a retrospective catalogue from an imagined exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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 Nothing like thinking big… even though it’s pure fantasy!

Oh Canada. They stood on guard for us.

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 R.I.P. Cpl. Nathan Cirillo murdered today guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

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R.I.P. Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, murdered two days ago in Saint-Hubert, Quebec.

This has been a sad week for all Canadians.  This painting by Georgia O’Keeffe from The Philips Collection in Washington entitled Leaf Motif 1,   expresses the emotions I feel tonight.

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