I took this picture last time I was in Paris. This Ferris wheel is huge. It’s called La Grande Roue de Paris. It’s 60 meters tall and was built for the millennium celebration in 2000.I’m not crazy about heights, so I didn’t go on it, but I’m sure it’s a great view from up top.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine
Chibi is my dog. I love this little guy to pieces. In this picture, I was taking him for a walk around the lake near our house after it had rained. The grass was really tall, and there were a lot of really fun things to chase. Chibi wound up really wet. He finally chased some ducks that were swimming in the lake. I thought I would never stop laughing. He took a flying leap into the lake.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary
The weekly photo challenge this time was solitary. I just got some black and white film developed and this one just kind of popped out at me as representing that concept. Since I mostly take pictures of horses for my work, it tends to be what I have to pick from. I took this picture at the Evergreen State Fair a few weeks ago when I was there with one of my friends. I love taking black and white pictures because I feel like adds a certain amount of romance or nostalgia to the picture. I will be posting more of my photos in the days to come, stay tuned!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Free Spirit
This weeks photo challenge stumped me at first. How do I show free spirit? Who do I know that is a completely free spirit? I had no clue, which is, I guess in some ways, the point of the weekly photo challenge. It makes you take time and really look at the world. I know I have been doing mostly posts about horses because that is the type of art I typically do, so I wanted to do something different this time.
I started by looking through all of my old photos. This picture is a picture of my grandfather taken in 2007 with his dog/wolf Blackie. To understand why I used this picture, you need to understand a little bit about my grandpa Jack. He lives in Alaska in a small town called Wrangell on his boat with his dog. He is currently 82 years old and still going strong. My grandpa doesn’t have your typical day job, he is a prospector. He builds trails, and camps and hauls canoes to where he thinks some type of precious stone or gold might be. He doesn’t have a lot, but he enjoys what he does so much that he doesn’t care if he make money at it. He lives at the end of the road in the middle of nowhere. He lives day by day his own way, and nothing anyone can say could change his mind. And isn’t that what a free spirit does?
Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban
Three years ago I had the fabulous opportunity to visit Italy. We went to a number of hill towns in Tuscany and Umbria. I chose these pictures for the urban challenge, because these towns were the urban centers for commerce and community in this part of the world in ancient times. The above picture is of Pitigliano. It is a hill town in Tuscany. It was known for centuries for its flourishing Jewish community, even through the Inquisition. However, it’s Jewish community was not able to survive the invation of the Nazis in World War II.
The picture below is of Orvieto. It is a hill town in Umbria. During the sack of Rome in 1527, by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Pope Clement VII took refuge at Orvieto. Fearing that in the event of siege by Charles’ troops the city’s water might prove insufficient, he had a spectacular well made–the Pozzo di San Patrizio . The central well shaft was surrounded by ramps in a double helix. These ramps were each designed for one-way traffic, so that mules laden with water-jars might pass down then up again unobstructed. You can still travel down into the well today and bring water out.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Merge
The photo challenge this week is merge. On Thursday of this past week, I went to the race track to take photos of the horses in-motion for my art. I really want to go back more often now that I’ve been there. Watching the horses run is one of the most beautiful things I think I have ever seen. They are sleek, and powerful, and so very big in comparison to my 5’1 height, that it is almost laughable. To see the horse and rider working together to move as one unit is really something else. To watch the riders and horses training is awe inspiring. I don’t think there is much that can be more beautiful than the merging of a horse and rider.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong
Every week when I am driving to and from Seattle I see these trees. And I always have to wonder, are they fake? Did someone paint them? Did these people somehow manage to grow blue trees? I decided to stop and take a look and maybe take a picture, because what can be more wrong than a blue tree?
Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong
The photo challenge this week is wrong. I thought the idea behind this picture is what is wrong, not necessarily that it is wrong in and of itself. And by wrong I don’t mean horrible or some ill is being done. Just the breaking of the laws of nature.
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