March 20, 2616
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There is always another avenue of exploration as we express our creative nature. Since my last post I have been working on images and introducing texture in a new and for me different way. Working with digital photographs and moving toward bringing to life images that have their origin in the camera has been a challenge, and of late a satisfying way to work at this point in my creative growth.
This approach, as will working with any vehicle of creativity, brings with it a new set of problems and pitfalls that need to be be at least partially resolved. This is a gift as thinking I have reached any goal with the medium would inevitably bring boredom or an overly inflated sense of accomplishment.
I just saw a documentary about Beethoven's Nine Symphonies done by Simone Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Sir Rattle stated that the way he thought of these symphonies twenty years ago is not how he interprets them today, and twenty years from now it will be different as well. Things in the digital image realm move a little faster, but the approach is the same. As we mature so does our viewpoint as new insights arrive from the heart, the vessel that holds our creative and artistic nature. We become more comfortable and secure within the process that unfolds as we exercise our powers of observation, paying attention to what is emerging from our interior life.
Let me know what you think of the images.
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All Winter the seemingly dead trees hold a secret,
inside each hard case that will become a new leaf in Spring,
life waits for its time to explode into the miracle
that is birth, a reincarnation arriving again in a new Season.
As tugboats move from their moorings
to retrieve the waiting ships and bring them into port,
Spring starts Her engines, heads to all that is waiting
to emerge and become the arriving beauty of new life.
A partial reveal of Spring is its beginning.
Slowly the countless leaves, flowers, show their faces,
as we welcome old friends back into the world once again.
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"Sunrise On Mars"
"Everyone's moving to Mars,
we're going to get a house and a car."
From a song by Kiss.
Mars is not the only planet in the solar system.
(Or is this a billiard ball?)
Tulips, some of Spring's first arrivals,
are beginning to illuminate their petals
before pushing through the soil
in blazes of glory!
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The following two images are a variation on the same photograph originally taken of an abandoned tractor engine a few days ago. I am hard pressed not to identify these images with the heart surgery I had last summer when I received a new ascending aorta. I am tempted to send these to the surgeon and ask if this is what he saw once my heart was in sight.
Full recovery of vitality and heart's blazing passion for life
along with surgeries scars.
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Spring infiltrates Winter's barrenness with abandon.
This one is for you the viewer to give a name.
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A pair of bald eagles have taken residence in Washington D.C.'s National Arboretum and two cameras were put in place at their nest site. Mom and one chick so far are visible both day and night (special lights for night that do not disturb the birds.)
Please take a look as this is a special "good news" item for a change.
Some Humor:
The well-appointed eagle nest with child
Until next post,
Peace. Bill Lagerstrom
