days in the life of an art jewelry creator
Posted in Colors and Shapes, Out and About on Apr 4th, 2010
Orange poppies were mixed in with the tulips and yellow poppies at the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden In addition to the tulips and poppies, there were other flowers which were good subjects with the macro lens.
Posted in Colors and Shapes, Out and About on Apr 2nd, 2010
Tulips at the Golden Gate Park’s Queen Wilhemina Tulip Garden were accompanied by generous plantings of poppies. All phases of the bloom were evident I enjoyed taking these before, during, and after-the-bloom photos
Posted in Colors and Shapes, Out and About on Mar 31st, 2010
After visiting the Cartier and America exhibit, we stopped by Golden Gate Park‘s Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden. After knowing about the garden for a few years, I am happy that I remembered it during tulip season.
Posted in Colors and Shapes on Mar 17th, 2010
On my computer’s desktop, I have a gadget that gives me a constant slide show of my pictures from my hard drives. These images recently caught my eye.
Posted in Colors and Shapes, processes on Jan 23rd, 2010
During the second day of Thomas Hill’s wire sculpture workshop, we chose a drawing or photo of an animal to use as a reference. Choosing the drawing or photo has a big part to play in the final outcome. If the photo shows the animal at an angle, only shows parts of the animal, or is [...]
Posted in Colors and Shapes, artists, processes on Jan 22nd, 2010
Last Spring I took a weekend wire sculpture workshop from Thomas Hill at Scintillant Studio, and almost completed a wire outline of a piranha skull. I posted a picture of the skull and the work in progress here. A friend of Tom’s had given him a piranha skull they’d found. The skull was one of [...]
Posted in Colors and Shapes, Out and About, environment on Jan 16th, 2010
At the beach in all these photos, the sea glass is protected and it’s illegal to collect any. The beach is amazing, sea glass has replaced the sand normally seen on beaches. The tinkling sound of the glass being tumbled is wonderful to hear. The beach is such a treasure that it’s been designated an [...]
Posted in Colors and Shapes, environment on Jan 15th, 2010
In this Mexican harbor I found so many pieces of broken bottle glass that my pockets were full. Notice the high percentage of jagged glass; that means the harbor workers are throwing bottles into the ocean. I’d like to go back in a few years and see how much tumbled sea glass is there and [...]
Posted in Colors and Shapes, environment on Jan 13th, 2010
View of Kona Coast from off the Kohala Coast. While our friends went diving we stayed on land so we could fly the next day. I took some pictures of them and one of the dive sites from a new vantage point: above the water.
Posted in Colors and Shapes, environment on Jan 12th, 2010
The North Kohala countryside has many shades of green Morning Yes, there are roads here. And, ravines. The sun sets over the ocean