Openings Connecting: Photo Play 101 4me&my mac

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Photo Play 101 4me&my mac

safe place for trials
waiting quietly
unafraid

day 6, trial and no errors, no mistakes, enjoying the play with

my long awaited upgrade:

the new friend to share the winter's interior..

homage to Rosario Mac
the writer, the passionate one

12 comments:

Caterina GiglioSeptember 12, 2010 at 12:06 PM
oooh you will love it!! great winter friend!
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SethSeptember 12, 2010 at 12:42 PM
The first image here is stunning. So, so, so beautiful and an incredible composition.
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nancy neva gaglianoSeptember 12, 2010 at 1:50 PM
thanks U 2....i like that image, too, after experimenting with settings== my "first published image"...101 !!
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Kelly M.September 12, 2010 at 3:51 PM
Wonderful work, Neva! Oh, happy days!
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Blue Sky DreamingSeptember 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM
You are on such an nice ride...winter will be full of learning, doing and surprises. Love the beauty of the first photo and the invitation of the second one.
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LauraSeptember 14, 2010 at 5:50 PM
the yellowy sky...the birds posing, aligned perfectly...beautiful, beautiful!
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layersSeptember 15, 2010 at 2:32 PM
you are going to have a good fun time with your new desk top companion-- especially on those long cold winter days--- I signed up for one more year of one to one classes at Apple store-- still so much to learn.
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~BabsSeptember 15, 2010 at 8:11 PM
What a beautiful image with the birds!
I came here from Roxanne's,,,,looking for your rocks. I love your whole rock concept,,,I too am a lover of rocks, stones, pebbles and boulders.
It's a great blog you have, and I shall return.
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ELKSeptember 16, 2010 at 6:47 PM
i have missed you ..so happy to see inside and outside here
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ArtPropelledSeptember 20, 2010 at 12:03 PM
The first image is wonderful and your header is so striking.
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rivergardenstudioSeptember 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM
This is a beautiful autumn image, filled with softenss and golden light. I can imagin the leaves getting ready to fly. And your new mac! We are a mac family too. I love my laptop... roxanne
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DebrinaSeptember 25, 2010 at 9:50 PM
This is really a very stunning photo!!
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FOUR DIRECTIONS/FOUR VISIONS: Two Graces: First showing for me, JUNE 3, 2011

With no directions home, I found Taos in the late 60s. It felt like home immediately. It still does. I know this sentiment is familiar to countless others.

The mountain stopped me in my tracks, and I stayed for several years. Since that time, I circle back annually.

To me, that circle is symbolic of this body of work at Two Graces. This is a time in my life when I've been fortunate enough to experiment with art making. Not surprisingly, I found myself drawn back to the images in the Ektachrome slides that I'd taken in the early 80s of Chaco Canyon, the San Francisco de Asis Church, dusty roads, and the ever changing skies of Northern New Mexico. The spirit of this adobed land lingers in my core and manifests itself within these works.

This past Michigan winter was spent creating enlarged negatives from my thirty year old slides, pulling part of my past into the present via today's tools of scanner and computer. Using traditional silver-gelatin darkroom processes, these resurrected and modified negatives acquired a new life. The majority of these prints are the result of this mediated reincarnation.

The smaller images took me into photographic processes from the mid-1800s. These handmade platinum/palladium prints are created coating vellum, for translucency, with these metal salts and exposing them to ultraviolet light. They are then bathed in the alchemy of the darkroom. The tonal qualities are unique in each print. Finally, 24k gold is layered to the backs of the prints, emanating the warmth, glow, and depth of these beloved places.