Asymmetry is pretty simple for me to find. I just step out the back sliding door, and I find my two small Japanese Maple trees. Both are studies in Asymmetry. The one that I planted first, just after I bought my house in the summer of 2000, is named "Fluffy" (by my husband). It was …
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I knew it was wrong, but I did it anyway. We went to our Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra concert at the Kirkland Performance Center this afternoon. The soloist today was Israeli jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen. We have heard her before with the orchestra, and were eager to see and hear her again. As usual, she …
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People are wired by Nature to seek symmetry. People with regular features are seen as more attractive than those with variations between the two halves of their face or body. We like things in our environment to be symmetrical too, and we notice things that have a pleasing symmetry about them. and then, there are …
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It occurred to me today that it's been a long time since I did a Limbaugh Quote post. Here's a short, sweet quote from Rush, about how he felt about school. I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have …
I just love watching out for funny or original signs, and they seem to be just about everywhere. In the 1980s, there was a popular TV series called Twin Peaks, that was filmed in the local town of North Bend, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. The town takes full advantage of that little …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #272: Billboards and Signs
One of the great benefits of having a cell phone with a great camera, is that you always have it with you to capture those scenes that just show up without warning. Yesterday, as we were walking back to our car after the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra concert, we took a stroll through the Puget …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #270: On Display
Sorry this is a week late, but I guess better late than never. As for the photos that are my favorites, I have exactly three which I think are my most memorable. Both were taken within a few feet of my front door. The first one is a picture I always come back to. It …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #268: Tell us Why
It is so much fun, deciding which color photos to edit and make black-and-white. I have a black cat, so I decided to start with a picture of her. It's not easy to photograph a black cat, since all their features tend to disappear. What do you think? That's not a defect-on the left side …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #265: Black and White or Monochrome
I hope "better late than never" still applies, because I will be catching up on some previous weeks' challenges. I admit I have been neglecting my blog lately, since when I get home from a long day at work and commute, the last thing I want to do is sit at a desk. My first …
Continue reading Late! Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #264: Primary Colors
Sometimes, you have to think "outside the box" to re-imagine the "box". Especially when the theme is "framing". So I remembered a sight from this year's Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration. Having run out of counter space to display all their accordions for sale, the owner of Tempo Trend Music from Victoria, BC enlisted a perfect …
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