Leaving?
Treasure Hunt?
This week’s contribution for the Lens-Artists’s Challenge #219: Treasure Hunt: two reflections. Originally hunting for a picture that would somewhat illustrate the Beatles’ Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and be photographed through things (for yet another challenge), I first tried what I could do with this figure and a glass vase. The pictures turned out to be nothing like what I’d had in mind. However, I came to like these ‘test’ pictures better than the one actually showing “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes” through a piece of cellophane. So always hold on to your test shots! They may turn out to be treasures you found without immediately realizing.
The Thirsty Ear
“Minton’s was just a place for cats to jam. People didn’t pay too much attention to what was going on, I mean the people there that weren’t musicians. So when you went in, you’d see cats half-stewed who weren’t paying much mind to what was happening on stage. But the musicians were.” Carmen McRae
Blue Train
A contribution for Cee’s Black & White Challenge – this would be my pick this week.
Hair Street
“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” Charlie Parker
Urban Environments
As I go through my pictures of miniature scenes, I find one commen denominator: urban environments. I obviously find myself drawn to urban settings, to the world of alleys, bars, theaters, and public transportatiou. Here’s a retrospective celebrating the city and its lights (and shadows) in H0 scale.
While the vehicles and figures (and the phone booth) come from the toy store, the buildings are custom made, mostly from scratch.
Automobiles…
Looking for pictures from a different series, I happened upon these – and remembered the last Lens Artists’ Photo Challenge: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles … and the places they take us. (The sign in the bottom picture reads ‘keep clear’.)
Boats … and Automobiles
The Alster Fleet in Hamburg – these boats are waiting to take tourists around on the river Alster, as I was surprised to find out when we visited a couple of years ago. Because I remember that when I was a boy, we used to hop on these boats to get from A to B, with this very fleet servicing the waterways like any other public transportation. For us kids, it was great fun to take the boat when we went visiting relatives.
However, since this week’s Lens Artists’ Challenge specifically asked for Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, here’s a picture with autos…
Museum Views X (Hamburg)
Museum Views IX (Rolandseck)
Architecture, art and audience: These three connect in museums, and I always find that facinating. Great architecture seems to open our minds for art, and art always seems to remind us of the vast range of possibilities we have. So, whenever I walk through a museum, there’ll be some favourite finds!
Sun and Sea
…and while the sun is about to set on these Dutch shores, this is my contribution for this week’s Lens-Artists’s challenge: Here comes the sun.
Lady Sings the Blues
Straight, no Chaser
April in Paris
The picture above, named after a song by Vernon Duke, is part of my Jazz series. I asked myself if the situation was too surreal, but then I saw the Lens Artists’ challenge, which is Surrealism. And I decided this amount of surrealism was all right. After all, the fun of working with toys is that you can push everything towards Surrealism as much as you like.
Continue reading “April in Paris”Solitude
Music by Duke Ellington. This is the first in a series of Jazz pictures I have not yet quite finished. It is also an entry for Paula’s “Pick A Word in July” in which I have not participated in ages: Here’s a window.
Reflection
A contribution to the lens-artists’ photo challenge Seeing Double.
Sonneveld Huis
Sand and Sea
Ms. Kyle
Gamora & Dr. Strange
empire of lights 