Digital art: bloom — 83109

 

© Diane Beaty

This piece went through a number of changes in both color and shape before I found the look I wanted, one with an exaggerated shape and a much bolder use of color.

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Digital art: green – 83109

 

© Diane Beaty

This piece began life as a photo of some greenery found in the yard. I ran it through Photoshop, Paint and Picnik to get it to this, its final stage.

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World Music: Native Rhythms Festival

 

The Indian River Flute Circle, in conjunction with 

Native Heritage Gathering, Inc. and the 

Brevard County Parks and Recreation Department, 

proudly present the inaugural cultural gathering of the 

Native Rhythms Festival.

 This three-day event during Native American 

Heritage Month honors the culture of the

indigenous peoples of the Americas

through music, and especially the music of the

Native American Flute.

 

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Call for Entries: Museu Picasso de Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Want to try your hand at becoming a Fauvist photographer????

The Museu Picasso de Barcelona is sponsoring  a competition to celebrate their  current exhibition from the artist Kees Van Dongen, who is considered one of the key proponents of the  fauvist movement. And, they are inviting you to contribute your own fauvist photographs via  Flickr.

Deadline: September 27^th, 2009

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Sandhill Cranes II

Sandhill Cranes are big birds, with long legs and necks, long pointed beaks, and wingspans which can be over six feet. Adults are gray with red crowns. Juveniles are gray, washed with brown. During the breeding season, the gray plumage of the adults is often stained brown with mud. A “bustle”, which covers the short tail, is composed of long, drooping inner wing feathers (tertials and inner secondaries.)

Source: www.seattleaudubon.org

Sandhill Cranes I

 

There were three of these tallish birds near the side of the road when I went cruising by, luckily with my little camera in hand. I did my best to stay far enough away so as not to spook them as they were having a nibble in this yard.

Tate Liverpool — Colour Chart follow-up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A bit ago, there was a post here at dig-n-dash telling everyone how to enter a competition being sponsored by Tate Liverpool. The original entry can be found by typing Tate into this site’s search engine.

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There were several thousand monochrome images entered and the staff at Tate had to whittle those down to a final 36 for the Colour Chart exhibition poster.

The winners have been announced, and I’m happy to say that one of my entries, khaki, has made the final cut and will be one of the 36 images appearing on the poster for this particular exhibition.  

Short Hiatus

I will be otherwise occupied and offline beginning

Monday, August 24th. Look for new posts towards

the end of the week. Meanwhile, feel free to browse

the archives or to chat among yourselves…  :)

Photojournalist Don McCullin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the following link to view some of the work

and an interview from today’s Quote of the Day

Photographer, Don McCullin:

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Quote of the Day

 

 

 

Photography for me is not looking,

it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what

you’re looking at, then you’re never

going to get others to feel anything

when they look at your pictures. 

 

 

 

 

Don McCullin

(1935 -    )

British Photojournalist