August 3, 2021 at 4:35 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, Gardens, Mendocino
Self is still playing catch-up with the Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) co-hosted by Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao (It’s now up to #7).
For her post today, self is looking back at the time she taught writing at the Mendocino Art Center. She did that for a few years. It was A LOT of fun.
The Center, on Little Lake Street, houses artists across genre: textile artists, sculptors, ceramic artists, photographers. The front garden and the buildings are packed with visual art:
July 29, 2021 at 10:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, California, Carmel, Cee Neuner, Dublin, Ireland, photo challenge
Self hasn’t been consistent in posting to this challenge, as she’s been on a road trip. She’s so glad she had time today. It really is one of her favorite Photo Challenges. Thanks so much to Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao for co-hosting this challenge.
For this post, she decided to focus on store window displays.
Store Window # 1: Carmel-by-the-Sea
Store Window # 2: Dublin Ink, Temple Bar, Dublin
Store Window # 3: Claire Garvey Design Studio, Cows Lane, Dublin
July 26, 2021 at 2:59 am (Books, destinations, Places, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: art, COVID Reading, England, English writers, London, memories, novel, reading lists, summer
London. Canary Wharf. About twenty storeys up.
The memories. Oh, the memories.
Canary Wharf is a fascinating place, a different London. Self’s pictures are from her last trip to London, November 2019:
July 25, 2021 at 1:58 pm (Links, Places, Surprises, Sundays, postaday, destinations)
Tags: Menlo Park, summer, art, California, Gardens, photo challenge, life of B, Filoli
I adore life of B’s Squares Photo Challenge for July: TREES.
The tree behind the metal dancing figures is in Filoli, in Woodside.
The tree with the dangling glass icicles is in East Menlo Park (between El Camino Real and the 101). A homeowner just decided to festoon a front yard tree with glass ornaments and name it The Tree of Hope.
July 9, 2021 at 10:17 pm (destinations, Links, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: archaeology, art, Cee Neuner, Cork, discoveries, Fridays, Ireland, photo challenge, summer
This stone circle was in southern Ireland, a day’s drive from Cork. Much smaller than Stonehenge, but — how beautiful to come upon it in the Irish countryside! Self saw the Dromberg Stone Circle in 2017 (She’s just beginning to appreciate the enormous amount of traveling she did that year!)
This is self’s 3rd posting for the Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC). Read all about it on Cee Neuner’s blog. She and Marsha Ingrao are co-hosts of this challenge.
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
July 5, 2021 at 5:05 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Lists, postaday)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, Dublin, Ireland, Irish artists, Mondays, museums, photo challenge, Stanford
For her second post on the PPAC Photo Challenge, co-hosted by Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao, self would like to focus on metal outdoor sculptures.
Here are three examples, from three different places:
July 2, 2021 at 4:34 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: art, blogs, environment, Fridays, inspiration, museums, nature, photo challenge, San Francisco, summer
Thanks to The Life of B for the #TreeSquare Challenge!
Self’s first post for the challenge are the trees of Land’s End, San Francisco, just outside the Legion of Honor. She visited the museum in June. (The trees are in the background, not the focal point, sorry)
These coastal California cypresses have endured wind and fog for many years — even, centuries. Hopefully, they will endure for centuries more!
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
July 2, 2021 at 3:05 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, blogs, California, California history, Cee Neuner, discoveries, Fridays, inspirations, memorials, photo challenge, summer, US history
Thanks to Cee Neuner and Marsha Ingrao for co-hosting a new challenge, Photographing Public Art (PPAC).
How it works:
For self’s first post for this challenge, self is happy to share this sculpture, standing right next to the San Luis Obispo Train Station, which she stumbled on last week:
Artist: Elizabeth MacQueen
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
June 29, 2021 at 5:59 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: art, Avila Beach, California, decisions, lens-artists photo challenge, memories, road trip, summer
Love the quote on the Travels and Trifles blog:
“A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
My One Shot, Two Ways is of Avila Beach, on the Central Coast.
I liked the wide angle shot of the beach, but the rescue station had such an interesting mural. I just had to zoom in. It seems to portray a rescue craft, heading away from a ship? I tried to find out the name of the artist, but so far I haven’t been able to find any information. I’ll keep looking.
It was my first post-pandemic beach trip. And it was a gorgeous day.
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
June 28, 2021 at 3:02 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, postaday)
Tags: A Photo a Week, art, COVID art, discoveries, exhibits, Mondays, museum, opportunities, San Francisco
Love this photo challenge from Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week.
tbh, ALL self’s shots are unedited. She takes all her pictures on the fly.
Here are a few shots she took last week at the Legion of Honor. She went to see the exhibit Last Supper at Pompeii. On the way in, her attention was captured by these Wangechi Mutu sculptures, and there was no way to take pictures of those without including the bystanders. Not the ideal, but here they are anyway. The man in the blue jacket has a starring role:
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
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