The Challenge: I realized that the universe is constantly whispering words of love: expressions of pure joy, respect, loyalty, and sacrifice for someone other than ourselves, and instructions on letting go and focusing on what is most important in this world.
That which is beautiful calls to me. It inspires me, and it can move me to tears – or to action. It reminds me of the greater reality beyond myself. Beauty illuminates the path to love.
This week’s Camera Lucida challenge made me smile as I thought of this picture I had taken of the body of my Itty Bitty Giraffe (pattern by Susan B. Anderson). The combination of color and shape was so evocative of pears (which I love as a design element), that I just had to take this picture.
This week’s theme: ‘Hidden’
- kept out of sight; concealed;
- difficult to find, lying beyond what is obvious or avowed.
Share with the world your latest discovery…something that made you smile…something that was concealed from the naked eye…something that inspired you!
Finished giraffe:
Check out Julia’s weekly photo challenge here: Camera Lucida – Hidden.
This week, let your inner world and the outside one converge in a photo.
Viewed through a protected glade north of Cannon Beach. Looking outward, finding joy in observing the world around me, enjoying quiet solitude and thought. The inner world and the outer converge in this photo.
Photos show us the surface of things, but they often tell much deeper stories about the objects they depict — and about the people who take them.
Every photo we take says something about our emotions at the moment of taking it. So this week, share an image where you see a particularly strong connection between what we see and what you felt as you pressed that shutter button on your camera or phone.
This is my first entry to The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s theme is Seasons.
It’s always cloudy and rainy this time of year in Oregon, but there’s often a little sunlight peaking through, the promise of a dry spell sometime. It’s enough to keep my spirits up and keep me dreaming of those warm summer days that will be here eventually.
The Daily Post – Weekly Photo Challenge
This week, let’s embrace the season: share an image that embodies the world or the weather where you live.
The word “seasons” can also describe a period or phase of your life. If this context resonates with you, share an image that expresses the seasonality of life itself or the present season of your life.
~by Jen Hooks
I don’t think it is any secret that I do not have the gardener’s gift. I don’t have the patience, nor the memory (!), to be a good caretaker of plants.
So when I designed this pattern, Topiary Fingerless Mitts, I found the solution to my problem. A garden is a thing of beauty, and this one is a joy forever. This is where the trees are never harmed by winter, drought or neglect; where the leaves are always green and the jonquils are always in bloom.
This week’s theme: Garden Treasure
- a piece of ground adjoining a house, used for growing flowers, fruit, or vegetables
- a quantity of precious metals, gems, or other valuable objects.
This week your challenge is to share what is your garden treasure…it is your beautiful and personalised box of gardening utensils…maybe your secret corner of heaven…a rare flower that makes you proud…your dirty boots and gloves…
What is your garden treasure…how does your garden reflect you?
Share this week a piece of you…maybe a little secret that you’ve kept hidden behind a beautiful evergreen pot:)
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:)
Two other photos taken at the same time:
As promised, my Camera Lucida entries are knitting-related in some way. This rusted remnant of days gone by stands beside the pathway to the Salishan Spit. It was on my second hike to the Spit, the photoshoot for the Salishan Cowl, that I took this photo. The water pump had caught my eye before, and I thought perhaps it would be an interesting way to style the cowl. None of the pictures of the water pump made it into the pattern or onto the Ravelry pattern page, but I still think the elegance of the line of the water pump juxtaposed with the rusting iron makes an interesting image, and I share it here as my entry in this week’s Camera Lucida photo challenge.
This week’s theme: Metal
- a solid material which is typically hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical and thermal conductivity (e.g. iron, gold, silver, and aluminium, and alloys such as steel).
This week I am brining you into a new world…a different way of looking at something that all of us have around but rarely would we consider it art…the use of metal. Take a look around you and find that simple and maybe insignificant, sometimes even dangerous piece of rust that brings to life emotions…a different spark in our eyes and a modern interpretation of rudimentary.
Show your unique view on this weeks’ theme, bring us your best art…might that be a bridge of locks that tell a story, the old barn door with nails sticking out, a sculpture covered by rust but full of character or your personalised DIY tool box …this week anything metal goes 🙂
#cameralucida
The Challenge:
This week’s theme: Autumn Lane
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.
#cameralucida, Autumn Lane
This week’s theme: The Colour of Life
- 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.
#cameralucida, Camera Lucida – The Colour of Life
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