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Sixku 7

Sixku 7 Clouds + water = perfect combination for a photo. 🙂 Click on the image to zoom in. What is a sixku? Find out here. Feel like reading some more?

Inspirational art: Spirit of the Night – John Atkinson Grimshaw

Sharing the most inspirational art I can find on the web! Title: Spirit of the Night Date: 1879 Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) Type of art: painting Note: A major painter of the Victorian era, Grimshaw is considered as one of the most accomplished nightscape and townscape artists of all time. …

Early photography: Looking South into the Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Sheavwitz Crossing – William H. Bell

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Looking South into the Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Sheavwitz Crossing Date: 1872 Location: U.S. Photographer: William H. Bell (1830-1910) Process: albumen print Source and information: National Gallery of Art

Sixku 6

Sixku 6 “If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.” – Nathan Phillips I love watching sunsets. They make me feel whole, fulfilled. Nothing else matters but the beautiful courtship between the sun and the earth… Click …

Inspirational art: Temple hanging (noren)

Sharing the most inspirational art I can find on the web! Title: Temple hanging (noren) Date: 19th century Location: Japan Artist: unknown Type of art: textile, cotton Note: Noren are traditional rectangular fabric dividers hung between rooms, on walls, in doorways, or in windows in Japan. They have at least one vertical slit …

Early photography: Dawn and Sunset – Henry Peach Robinson

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Dawn and Sunset Date: 1885 Location: England Photographer: Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901) Process: platinum print from glass negative Note: Robinson pioneered the “combination printing” technique (a.k.a. early photomontage). He used a number of negatives to form a single image, …

Sixku 5

Sixku 5 When light and shadows paint stories, it is important to capture them… Click on the image to zoom in. What is a sixku? Find out here. Feel like reading some more?

Sixku 4

Sixku 4 There are thousands of wild chickens on Kauai. They are everywhere! And you can hear the roosters crow every minute of the day.  But it did not use to be that way. In 1992, Hurricane Iniki swept across the island and destroyed all the coops. The fowl were …

Sixku 3

Sixku 3 This photo is one of my recent favorites. I love how the shadows seem to fence the leaf in… Click on the image to zoom in. What is a sixku? Find out here. Feel like reading some more?

Inspirational art: The Siesta – Camille Pissarro

Sharing the most inspirational art I can find on the web! Title: The Siesta Date: 1899 Artist: Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Type of art: oil on canvas Note: Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He was a …