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Early photography: The Good Waters – John Stewart

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: The Good Waters Date: 1852 Photographer: John Stewart (1800-1887) Process: salted paper print, lightly varnished, from a paper negative Note: Stewart was the son-in-law of early photographic innovator Sir John Herschel. He worked primarily in France.  Source and information: …

Sixku 2

Sixku 2 A gorgeous view of Waimea Canyon, in Kauai, Hawaii. This island is one of the most beautiful places in the world — at least to me. Click on the image to zoom in. What is a sixku? Find out here. Feel like reading some more?

Inspirational art: Dragonfly – Wilhelm Kotarbinski

Sharing the most inspirational art I can find on the web! Title: Dragonfly Date: unknown Artist: Wilhelm Kotarbinski (1848-1921) Type of art: symbolic painting; art nouveau Source and information: WikiArt

Early photography: Camera Work: Beyond – Alfred Horsley Hinton

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Camera Work: Beyond Date: 1905 Location: England Photographer: Alfred Horsley Hinton (1863-1908) Process: photogravure Note: Printed book with photogravure illustrations. Camera Work was a quarterly photographic journal published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917 Source and information: The …

My new multimedia genre: The Flashku

Hello everyone! As you probably know by now, I am a writer with a minimalist style. I also suck at descriptions. Anything short, concise and punchy is my jam. When I started dabbling in flash fiction a couple of months ago, I quickly realized that I wrote pieces in the …

Inspirational art: Kimono for a Young Woman (Furisode)

Sharing the most inspirational art I can find on the web! Title: Kimono for a Young Woman (Furisode) Date: 1912-1926 Location: Japan Artist: unknown Type of art: clothing; silk crepe (chirimen); freehand paste-resist dyed (yūzen), embroidered in silk and metallic threads with applied gold and silver Note: This item featuring …

Early photography: The Old Order and The New – Peter Henry Emerson

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: The Old Order and The New Alternate Title: Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (Group Title) Date: 1886 Location: England Photographer: Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) Process: platinum print Source and information: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Sixku 1

Sixku 1 The Sixku is a poetry form that I invented in 2019. Sixku (pronounce ‘sis-ku’) are six-word, untitled poems based on haiku. Each piece must be inspired by and contain a photograph and include a reference (even implicit) to nature. For example: season, weather, month, time of the day, …

Inspirational art: A Basket of Clams – Winslow Homer

Sharing the most inspirational art I can find on the web! Title: A Basket of Clams Date: 1873 Location: Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States Artist: Winslow Homer (1836-1910) Type of art: watercolor on wove paper Source and information: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Early photography: Dog and Puppy in Barrel

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Dog and Puppy in Barrel Date: Late 1870s Location: France Photographer: Auguste Giraudon’s Artist Process: albumen print from wet collodion negative Note: Auguste Giraudon’s Artist is the moniker for a French studio active in the 1870s and which employed …