October 12th, 2011
Boris and I took a few days of vacation to enjoy a four day stay at Yellow Point Lodge. It’s a small rustic resort on Vancouver Island, just outside of Ladysmith. It is a beautiful scenic area of BC.
Boris enjoys the view.
A different type of deer than what we see on Bowen Island.
Tall trees along the forest trail.
Anne left us a stash of chocolates when she visited Yellow Point the week before, and we had to find it.
Spectacular sunrise.
Spectacular sunrise turns into a beautiful day.
The pool by the ocean.
Honeycomb formations in sandstone.
A murder of crows flies overhead.
These last three photos were taken using a pinhole camera app, while some of the others were processed using Instagram.
It was a relaxing vacation, and I’m glad I finally got the chance to visit Yellow Point Lodge. It’s not an easy place to get a booking.
November 2nd, 2010
A photographer I’ve recently come across on Twitter got me thinking about diptychs again. I haven’t shot any in ages but I love shooting two separate images and creating an even more interesting composition from the combination. I shot these three while Boris and I were in Portland a few weekends ago.
A Scattering of Leaves
Leaves and Boris Feet
Lines
Please visit the OneSee daily photo project by Jessica Bell for more diptychs. She inspired me to start looking at the world with fresh eyes.
October 27th, 2010
Just the week before Siobhan blogged about Ai Weiwei’s massive installation of handmade porcelain sunflower seeds at the Tate Modern in London. I found myself wishing I could travel to London to see it in person, but I know that’s not going to happen. So I suppose coming across his show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland is the next best thing.
I was really thrilled to see this work in person even if it only represents a small portion of the over one hundred million seeds the artist has in the Tate Modern installation. Most of the work in the show focused on the body of work the artist has created using urns. Ai Weiwei takes historic clay pots and porcelain vases and dips them into industrial paint or alters them in other ways. Some of these are up to 7000 (!) years old.
The other show on at the Museum of Contemporary Craft was Collateral Matters, an exhibition of ephemera and printed materials from the museum’s archives. I really like how the curators chose to display the wide variety of materials. There were also two stations where visitors could practice their hand writing or make something from paper and contribute their own ephemera to the show.
There are more photos from the Museum Of Contemporary Craft available on flickr.
