The Evidence of Love

Dear friends, work your way down in a lazy-daizy  manner, enjoy the snippets of thoughts on each Valentine. (Feel free to print a copy.)

At the end is a treat better than chocolate covered PEEPS.

Share a bag of Peeps, or yummy chocolates with your loved ones. Hold them dear.

Love is what binds us together.

Love is Evidenced in many ways.

This beautiful video is shared by Kat Sloma.

A wonderful photographer, teacher, philosopher and artist. It is her gift to us.

Heart Thought: for today, the video is my heart thought.

Kateyestudio

Crossing the Threshold

In a children's literature course 
I was greatly impressed by a theory that suggests children's classics and many of today's most popular books, (like Harry Potter)
have a running theme:
the protagonist comes to the edge of something safe then

 steps over into the unknown.

Harry and his friends, cross this safe threshold at the train station, emerging into the unknown world on the other side. And this is where the adventure begins---on the other side.

I am discovering that photography intentionally or intuitively shot, is similar to literature:

Through the lens we look beyond the threshold. It is a simple composition technique. The lens guides the eye beyond the immediate to the unknown. What is on the other side, around the corner?

The lens forms a FRAME around what it captures.

 In Kat's Exploring with a Camera, the next two weeks are to be spent looking for frames, frames within a frame, crossing the threshold. 

As you view these photos, you  might ask? What is beyond the threshold, the frame?  Do I see a story? Do I wonder? Is my imagination peeked? What is just beyond my reach?

Can you sense the season? the place?

What is at the top? Which way do I go?

An unusual FRAME, a reversed point of view.

Where is the viewer coming FROM, how far will they explore?

Frames within Frames.
 

 

Like the Children of Narnia, would you like to step into this wall of glass and see what is beyond?

A Cup, a Saucer, and Two Tomatoes

 April found us excited to plant sunflowers, basil, thyme, rosemary, citronella, pumpkins and beautiful deep red geraniums. The coup de grace would be tomatoes...every day fresh tomatoes and basil. 

What could be finer in Carolina?  (sorry from Carolina)

But all the pampering, watering, vitamin-ing wasn't enough to combat armies of marauding ants, rabbits, sticky spiders and unrelenting heat.

Four plants, once healthy...output to date

two smallish, fully RED tomatoes.

Kat has kept us going strong in her Finding Your Eye course.

Today, we were to photograph one object.....50 times....50 times you have got to be kidding. I will get a cramp in my trigger finger shooting 50 photos!!!

Being obedient, I did shoot 50 photos. And all in honor of our 

 TWO PRECIOUS TOMATOES.

(We dined on them tonight....after the 50 shots!)

It was easy to narrow down the first round.