THANK YOU everyone for all your kind words! I am not a good patient, and this was a hard one... Today, finally, I am feeling better, and will try to add a few tempting posts for you soon! This old photo is the Cast from Sleeping Beauty. Just look at those costumes!!!
(Beautiful photos by Yamamoto Masao)
I find these photos quietly lovely, despite their focus on decay... by Mia Friedrich.
(from Spider awards)
These Russian Photographs are so compelling and filled with magic, I just needed to share a few more!
Cally sent me this wonderful link to photographer Agatha Katzensprung. Agatha's photos speak to me in different levels. I see stories within the images, some dark, some not so dark and want to jump in and see whats behind the frames... THANK YOU CALLY!!!
I love the romance, whimsy and fairytale quaility of these art photos found here!. I really want to know more!!! Does anyone know Russian? Oh to be photographed like this - what a dream come true!!!
Sometimes you see an image that just melts you to your knees... These photos from Aunty Vanya's Flickr File had that effect on me... Pure Bliss in colour...
These delightful photos are by Bernard Tartinville found via the fabulous blog Crust Station! Be sure and look at his websight for similar photos! DREAMY!!! This is obviously going to be a Romantic Fall for clothing and accessories - I can barely wait...
As an artist who also suffers from depression, I have had 'black holes', (periods of time when I am unable to create, let alone function) for as long as I can remember... My recent sporatic absense from this blog is related to my current 'black hole'. On days like these every step I take feels like a step backwards... Timing is unexplainable... Michael is improving by leaps and bounds every day! He is happy and taking steps to move forward in life. Yet, I feel immobile and unable to move, at times not even wanting to get out of bed...
Last night I had not one but two vivid dreams with the theme, 'Its not where you go, but how you get there.' Process not Product. They spoke of hope and determination, feelings that have not been on the surface of my thoughts lately... Sometimes we need to take 'baby steps', lots of them, before we can reach the other side of the room... I write this to you in explanation of where I am, but also in hopes of the words sinking into my heart and helping me out of my hole. As artists we sometimes forget that process is as important as the end result. I certainly do, often visualizing the product even before I know how to create it...
Process is: Being grateful for each day; soaking up the sunshine that beams on our faces; eating fresh food because it makes us feel good; getting up in the morning to hear the birds sing; Simple little baby steps - one after the other - that accumulate into a life well lived. I have needed to be reminded of this lately... that taking little steps moves us forward as beautifully as leaping does... Be patient with me as I navigate the hills and valleys of life - Its not where I am going but how I get there.
(Photos by John Reuter)
These dreamy photographs are by Anna Tomczak. She uses a large format dye-infusion transfer process, which I believe is also called polaroid image & emulsion transfer. Regardless of process, her end results are stunning and etherial - like photographs of dreams...
In his photography Tom Chambers has been inspired by Mexican Ex-votos, folk art paintings that "illustrate an occasion when in response to a prayer for help or guidance, the prayer was answered or a miracle occurred. These miracle paintings honor the power and mercy of the saints." With his photos, he creates ex votos that also honor a deity – the one for imagination.
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