Gorgeous photos from Ice Swimmer, taken with a cell phone. The wild chives grow on a cliff by the sea. Click for full size.
All photos © Ice Swimmer. All rights reserved.
Affinity
Art, Fun, & Nonsense.
Gorgeous photos from Ice Swimmer, taken with a cell phone. The wild chives grow on a cliff by the sea. Click for full size.
All photos © Ice Swimmer. All rights reserved.
Daisies. My favourite. (Bellis perennis). Click for full size.
Images © C. Ford
Nakotah LaRance is a citizen of the Hopi Nation, six-time World Champion Hoop Dancer, and member of Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations. He is equipped with a game console, earphones, a Japanese graphic novel, and a dance hoop, to signal that he is both a traditional dancer and a fan of popular culture; he resists easy categorization.
Photograph by Will Wilson (Diné/Bilagáana), b. 1969
1992, from the Feather series
“1992 represents a future denied us in 1492. A kind of reminder that indigenous people have a future that they can make their own.”
Photograph by Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisga’a), b. 1955
Will Wilson is a Diné/Bilagáana photographer who has gone platinum (the platinum photographic process) with CIPX, The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange. Another photographer doing the same is Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisga’a). You can read more about these artists at http://nmai.si.edu/indelible/.
A major exhibition featuring contemporary photographs by Native American photographers Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, and Will Wilson in dialogue with photographs from Edward Sheriff Curtis’ renowned body of work The North American Indian will be at the Portland Art Museum through May 8th. There’s more about the exhibit and the artists here: http://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/contemporary-native-photographers/
Thanks to Ice Swimmer. I miss the sea something fierce, it’s always good to see photos. Click for full size.
Bladderwrack and reed debris. © Ice Swimmer
Sailing in Xmas. © Ice Swimmer
Sun low over Toolonlahti. © Ice Swimmer
Sunset from Merisatama. © Ice Swimmer
Sunset from Siltasaari Hels. © Ice Swimmer
it’s going to be ages before anything is growing here. Sigh. Click for full size.
Tiger Lily, © C. Ford.
I do believe I’m going to have to start hoarding my pennies. Great gear from Cognisys, and amazing captures. Thanks to Opus.
Captured with the new Sabre by Steve Gettle. This pair of Blue Jays was captured in our home state of Michigan. Many thanks to Steve for sharing! You can see Steve’s setup for the shot on his blog.
The rest of the animal fence can be seen here.
Some of Gracie’s crew.
I am not, however, in the kindest of moods towards them, Gracie in particular:
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council photo competition allows researchers and doctoral students to share their work in pictures, with winners from categories ranging from eureka to weird and wonderful. Award winning images of science in action. Thanks to Opus for the heads up.
A rotating jet of a viscoelastic liquid, which won first place in the weird and wonderful category
Photograph: Professor Omar Matar/EPSRC/PA
There’s a quotation group on Moblog, and it’s a lot of fun. You choose a quotation, then illustrate it photographically. Some quotations can be a real challenge. I’d like to do that here, but with a bit of a twist. Leave quotations you’d like to see illustrated here, and anyone can choose one, and illustrate it any way you like, with a photo, drawing, or other art form, then send it to quesneaffinity@gmail.com. Here’s an old one I did for the Moblog group, way back when, titled Perhaps:
“Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.” – William Inge