White dogwood (transformed)

White dogwood ~transformed

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Last night I made a start on tidying my Gmail account (it'll be a long process). In a folder of 'Keepsakes' I found a message Nigel sent me, 31 March 2010. Attached was a morning moon shot taken where we lived back then, in the alpine tourist resort of Queenstown. I found I still like...

Stuff, by Harold Davis

As George Carlin put it in one of his most memorable routines, a house is nothing but a pile of stuff with a cover on it. In contrast, I suppose a home might be something more important than the mere stuff in a house, having to do with where the heart is. Since a home...

The Hallowe’en Tree by Candice Pierce

I'd like to share this photo and poem with you simply because I enjoyed them so much! I know my timing is well out but hey, I only found it yesterday 🙂  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Candice started with a tree image and then did some magic in Photoshop...

It starts with some twigs… by Harold Davis

Harold Davis discusses the construction of a complex image built up from twigs collected with his children. His blog-post of 21 Nov 2017  It starts with some twigs...  is reproduced in its entirety here with Harold's permission. You can view these images at a much larger size if you visit his original post. We don't necessarily...

Harold Davis | Constructing an image from the materials of nature

Harold Davis contributed the very first guest post in the Where and What is Beauty? series that I started on this blog in Sept 2017. On 10 Nov, Harold published a new post on his blog that provides further explanation and elaborates on his original discussion. I found this extremely interesting and valuable, and obtained...

On Beauty and Art. Guest post by HAROLD DAVIS

Images and Text © Harold Davis. All Rights Reserved. What is beauty? What is the place of beauty in art? Surprisingly, these are contentious and difficult questions that involve some very slippery concepts. In the past couple of centuries, since the end of representational art as the ultimate goal of the artist, the role of...

Where and What is Beauty?

Think about it ... there is no easy answer to this question! Negativity threatens to overwhelm us and its easy to feel swamped with all the political problems, social issues and environmental concerns. I was reflecting on these things earlier in the week and found myself thinking about the Beauty that I've discovered since joining...