Cypress Alley Variation I 7.2.16
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Remembrance Day: 2015
The photographs for the video were taken during our visit to the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in 2012. The poppies for the final frames were filmed in our little patio garden where they swayed in the summer breeze as they must have done on the battlefield so many years ago.
Lest we forget.
Studio 365: Day 130
In follow up to yesterday’s Day 129, and staying in a Bryce Canyon frame of mind, I thought I would add an addendum to our unforgettable visit there just three weeks ago. The first trail we experienced was at the southern end of the Park, and is known as The Bristlecone Loop Trail. It is a 1.1 mile round trip and leads to views of The Pink Cliffs, and a 100 mile vista taking in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The Bristlecone in the photo is over sixteen centuries old, a true force of nature.
I wanted to capture that moment when the spectacular panorama appeared and the view of the 2000 foot drop into the canyon below unfolded. It was simply breathtaking. The next day we went back and I made the following video to re-create that moment.
Let me know if I’ve succeeded.
Studio 365: Day 116
Man in Motion
Maestro Donato Cabrera conducting the Las Vegas Philharmonic.
Last night we enjoyed a sublime evening of music at the Smith Centre for the Performing Arts here in Las Vegas. The added pleasure was watching Maestro Cabrera painting the music in the air with his baton, thrusting, smoothing, coaxing as he directed the Las Vegas Philharmonic in exhilarating performances of John Adams’ The Chairman Dances, Foxtrot for Orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony.
The concert was made even more memorable by the guest soloist, the brilliant pianist Joyce Yang, winner of the Silver Medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2005, playing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Her exquisite performance brought us all to our feet, applauding, cheering and shouting Bravo, Bravo, adding to a night full of both motion and emotion. In the pre-concert discussion with the audience she gave away the secret to her genius: fifteen to twenty hours of practice to learn one minute of music.
After the concert was over Miss Yang greeted everyone in the foyer and graciously signed our CD’s. Two more treasures to take home tonight after ten spectacular days, as we say our farewells to family and return to Vancouver.
Studio 365: Day 114
From the never-to-be forgotten canyons of Utah and Arizona to the high desert of Nevada and Las Vegas for a weekend visiting family before returning to Vancouver.
These palm trees bending and swaying in the warm desert wind seen during our rest stop in Mesquite seemed the perfect representation for this week’s Photo Challenge: Motion
Studio 365: Day 70
Using yesterday’s palette, here’s how I removed the acrylic paint today from the white ceramic tile I use as my palette, so that it’s pristine and ready for action tomorrow.
Palette Cleanser
Remembrance Day 2014: Lest we forget
Travel theme: Noise
Sudden summer wind…
Grasses dance and ripple with
Waves of sight and sound.
This brief film is of the fields behind The Maltings, Ely, Cambridgeshire in England.
The sound of the wind blowing through the rushes is for this week’s travel theme from Ailsa: Noise.
Blogging 201: Episode IV
May the Sauce be with you…
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