Day 86
March 27, 2010Lovely crisp sunny day and the jet-lag is waning. The clocks go forward tonight which should help us.
This ornament in our garden has survived the cold of the winter
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Lovely crisp sunny day and the jet-lag is waning. The clocks go forward tonight which should help us.
This ornament in our garden has survived the cold of the winter
Taken with a 14mm wide angle lens this small stone lion looks very menacing.
The problem with wide angle lenses is they are not at all selective regarding the background, they gather everything and it’s usually pin sharp!
I’ve applied a motion blur in Photoshop to remove what was a very distracting background of wall, fence and bushes.
The lion is one a pair that ‘guard’our steps in the garden.
This is a wooden sculpture by Andrew Tebbs, recently unveiled on our village green. It was a felled tree that had just left the base.
The bear was been renamed three times in as many weeks. From ‘Dancing Bear’ to ‘Happy Bear’ to ‘Barlborough Bear.’
However, it is universally known as ‘The Gay Bear“, tee hee!
A visit to Chatsworth House again and they are putting up the sculptures for an exhibition.
Some more traditional views of Chatsworth today
Our Buddah from Burma….
This mudra symbolizes one of the most important moments in the life of Buddha, the occasion when he preached to his companions the first sermon after his Enlightenment in the Deer Park at Sarnath.
In this mudra the thumb and index finger of both hands touch at their tips to form a circle. This circle represents the Wheel of Dharma, or in metaphysical terms, the union of method and wisdom.
The three remaining fingers of the two hands remain extended. These fingers are themselves rich in symbolic significance:
The three extended fingers of the right hand represent the three vehicles of the Buddha’s teachings, namely:
The three extended fingers of the left hand symbolize the Three Jewels of Buddhism, namely, the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.
Significantly, in this mudra, the hands are held in front of the heart, symbolizing that these teachings are straight from the Buddha’s heart.
An unusual texture on this modern sculpture by Ron Arad.
Ron Arad came from his native Tel Aviv in 1973 to study at the Architectural Association in London; he worked briefly for an architectural practice, but one lunchtime he walked out, never to return. His first furniture project was the iconic Rover chair created from the reclaimed leather seats of the Rover 2000, and in August this year, more than 30 years later, he unveiled his latest sculptural seat, Gomli, at the Timothy Taylor Gallery.
The Gomli chair is named after a small steel figure that sits on Arad’s desk. “When we design chairs we always imagine the invisible sitter who could be male, female, old, young, large or small – so I developed the invisible sitter into a real figure. We nicknamed this sexless, ageless everyman the Gomli.
“The name might have something to do with my friend Antony Gormley. He uses himself as a model for his artworks, whereas Gomli is a one-size-fits-all figure used to represent everybody. Gomli has no preconceptions of beauty – he is designed for comfort.”
Out in the garden with the puppies and 10 photos in the 10 metres.
I quite surprised myself that the most mundane and familiar objects can make nice pictures. You just have to look!
To show the 10 pictures concept, these are the ones that didn’t make it….looking at the time stamps they were all taken in 4 minutes, start to finish.
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