The ocean is always fascinating to me, and on days like this one, the lighting was perfect for capturing reflections in Yaquina Bay. I love this photo taken during the photoshoot for the Salishan Cowl – precisely because of the beauty of the reflecting sky and the shimmering reflected fishing boats. Even the colors reflect. In this picture, everything is more important than the cowl – hence it did not end up in the pattern. But I love it!
This week’s theme: Reflections
the throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
an amount of light, heat, or sound that is reflected by a body or surface
It’s always interesting to look at reflections…are they really the same as the reality?
How many times did you look at your own reflection and wondered if that’s how the world sees you…?
This week’s theme is: Reflections…show us how we look at the world upside down…how we see ourselves from the other side…how water seems to be the borderline between reality and imagination…show us who looks back from the mirror…make this week your own and tell us a story that will make us reflect:)
When I first started the Wordless Wednesday feature, my main goal was to have a weekly feature and to be able to share my love of photography. However, as time has passed, I see that the photos and themes I choose definitely tie in with my knitting and designing, more significantly with the latter.
Three of the Wordless Wednesday stories deal with a huge inspiration for me: color. Color for me is visceral; beautiful color, whether a single hue or several in combination, elevates. Wordless Wednesday: Monochrome, Wordless Wednesday: Multi (1) (because I fully expect there to be further “Multi” stories), and Wordless Wednesday: Green. These beautiful colors inspire my knitting and my design ethic.
This golden color may very well be my favorite……as evidenced by my use of it in many projects and designs.
I discovered this beach, Gleneden Beach, which is on the Salishan Spit, the year before the Salishan Cowl pattern was written. I was so shocked and delighted to discover that we had a black sand (or dark sand, at any rate) beach in Oregon. How could I have lived here for over twenty years and not have known we had such a beach?!? The wind- and surf-made texture in the sand was a direct inspiration for this cowl.
Wordless Wednesday: What They’re Looking At ponders point of view. The subjects of these photos are intently looking at something, thinking about it and taking it in. The practice of taking the time to examine something in depth often leads to design inspiration, at least for me.
This week’s post will be Wordless Wednesday: Stonework. Recently we visited the grounds of the Historic Columbia Gorge Hotel and Silver Falls State Park, both of which feature some beautiful stonework. I was taken with the beautiful warm colors within the stonework and the play of light on the surface of the stones. One of my favorite photos is of a stonework drinking fountain (!). I love that a basic, everyday object was made into a beautiful work of art…and that’s what I attempt to do with my knitwear designs.
Wordless Wednesdays serve to share stories with you about what I’m seeing and thinking about, and they serve to keep me rooted in the images – the colors, textures, emotions and impressions – that inspire me.
Thanks for checking in and taking the time to visit!!
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1. the season after summer and before winter, in the northern hemisphere from September to November and in the southern hemisphere from March to May.
2. a division of a road marked off with painted lines and intended to separate single lines of traffic according to speed or direction.
This week your challenge is to interpret autumn…the lane that separates the end of summer and the beginning of fall. Capture the beautiful colours of trees…the ripe and tasty autumn harvest…the fine cross line between worlds that are so close but so far apart…
The possibilities are endless…show your artistic side and be bold…try different perspectives and share your own personal take on one of the most beautiful seasons that transforms nature into an unforgettable painting.
This is my most autumnal pattern yet. I went out at dusk one November evening last year to find some leaves and some light. The fall colors were amazing, and I have some pictures of this little pumpkin in and amongst beautiful red and golden leaves, but this photo is my favorite for this photo challenge. I love that it’s an almost literal rendering of the challenge.
I have to add that I love fall. I love the colors. I love days like yesterday, when it was cool enough to bundle up in a warm sweater, yet I could still feel some warmth from the sun. I love looking forward to Halloween, my birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I love the flavors of pumpkin, apple cider, hot cocoa. I even love football! Mostly I love the warm light of the autumn sun’s slanting rays and the way it turns everything golden in the evening.
Check out Julia’s My Red Page‘s weekly Camera Lucida Photo Challenge.
Julia’s instructions state:
The content of the post is completely down to you, share just the photo or be even more creative and tell us the story behind the scene, make it your own.
Colour – the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.
Life – a particular type or aspect of human existence
As a knitwear designer, this photo sums it up for me. I love the play of color and light within the photo…my design life centers around color, light, and the tools of the trade, along with imagination, texture, yarn, and thought.
This is my second entry in Julia’s My Red Page‘s weekly Camera Lucida Photo Challenge.
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