Project 365 and whatchamacallit ...

Monday and I still haven't turned in my artist bio. I don't have a philosophy. Dig deep, Kay! That's the problem; there's no deep significance to my photography. I don't photograph socially relevant subjects, there's no cause, I'm not plumbing my inner depths, there is no depth. I'm just an eye. Oh Lordy! I don't think gallery owners want a artist statement with the solitary four words: I AM AN EYE. I'll work on it some more tonight.

I went to the office and back home today. But there is about a half mile betwixt the two places, so heck yes, I took some photographs!

Some beach debris, driftwood some more, and a concrete bulwark that over the years was no match for the constant ebb and flow and weather of Birch Bay.

03-07-2011

Project 365 Today and a New Week Begins ...

Some quickie shots of driftwood today ... oh, and one of rocks--Love those good luck "angel" rocks!

There is something intriguing about how the alchemy of tree trunks, churning and tumbling water and sand, the elements, creates things of beauty.

03-06-2011

Artist Bio and Project 365 ...

I've been playing with words today. How to come up with an artist bio to accompany the two photographs I'll have displayed in the Loomis Hall Gallery? Take in is Monday and I have to come up with something. I've written artist statements over the years, but it never gets easier. This exhibit is made up exclusively of photographs and sculptures on a specific subject. One would think that would make it easier to focus on appropriate descriptions. One would think. I'll have to mull it over a bit more tonight. Maybe I'll sleep on it. What? You think I'm procrastinating? Yeah. You're right.

But here's today's image. Everything around here is bleak, rather devoid of color, unless you look closely, but this image was the exception. In back of a lawn mower repair shop I spied a brightly red painted wall, and some sort of build-out, also painted red, except for the back, which I don't know if it was just overlooked, or didn't warrant a coating of red. But it certainly worked out in my favor, because I loved the strong verticals of red and painterly white, and the organic triangles of the delicate branches and dried blossoms or seedpods of the weed.

03-05-2011

Red White N Weed

Day 63 of 365

Here is a photograph of Drayton Harbor at low tide. When at low tide it looks like some imaginary alien landscape. Not so much in this shot, but there are boulders and depressions in the sand. But I liked how the lowest spot still has a silver ribbon of water.

03-04-2011


Drayton Harbor at Low Tide



On and Off and Back On and 365 ...

As you'll remember, I was jubilant to be invited to participate in Northwest Sea and Sky, and had two photographs selected. Then I received an e-mail notification that for inexplicable reasons, the show was cancelled. Lo and behold, today another e-mail notification begging patience, and stating that the exhibit was back on schedule. There are days and then there are days, ja?

At this precise moment in time, the Northwest Sea and Sky exhibit will be presented and the reception will be Friday, March 18th. I don't know time, but my understanding is that the exhibit will be up for a month. If you have any interest, you can go to Loomis Hall Gallery's website http://www.loomishall.com/ or http://www.loomishallgallery.com/ where I'm told there will be eventual access online to the images included in the exhibit.

I printed out the two photographs for the show, which totally depleted my magenta ink cartridge and I cannot print anything else until I replace that empty cartridge, which could be quite some time. Serendipity, methinks.

And now for Project 365. In my studio, I have little piles here and there of things interesting to me. Today I took a simple shot of some beachcombing treasures in the corner of a windowsill.


03-03-2011




Beach Findings

 

Project 365 and low on petrol ...

Obviously I need to refill my tank. Yikes!

03-02-2011



iPhone G3 ... Feeling Low



What? Oh yeah! Project 365

Busily trying to finish a pair of earrings to upload to Etsy tomorrow and the time got away from me.

I wandered a bit around Blaine this morning before it started raining ... again ... and managed to capture a couple of shots.

Patterns galore and birds on a rooftop:

03-01-2011


LUV those patterns!




Wet Spot Yellow Line




Plywood Eyes




Library Birch




Rooftop Birds