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Entries from May 1, 2013 - May 31, 2013

Wednesday
May292013

diptych # 31 (civilized ku # 2522-23) ~ not my eyes that see / pictures + words project

Waterfront planks and stuff ~ Blue Rocks - Nova Scotia, Canada • click to embiggen

It was something in the street and it moved a little in the wind, as a leaf would. A wrapper? Something about it. It's beautiful, I thought. Did I... just think trash was beautiful? This was a strange place. A place where veils were lifted. Not only did I see a thing but I saw it as something beautiful; I saw its curve and shape; I saw the light in it. I nearly wept. My eyes, I thought, they keep changing. But it is not my eyes that see. ~ Cynthia Hecht

Tuesday
May282013

civilized ku # 2520-21 ~ Fisherman's Monument at Peggy's Cove

Trap lines ~ Peggy's Cove - Nova Scotia, Canada • click to embiggenFisherman's monument ~ Peggy's Cove - Nova Scotia, Canada • click to embiggenEven though Peggy's Cove is a top tourist destination in Nova Scotia, the only reason we went there was to see the Fisherman's Monument ...

William Edward deGarthe was a painter and sculptor and his artistic work was devoted to maritime subjects after his move to Peggy’s Cove. His “Fisherman’s Monument” was sculpted out of a 100 foot granite face of rock below his home. It depicts thirty-two fishermen and their wives and children enveloped in the wings of a guardian angel. The sculpture and his home (now a museum to his work) were donated to the province of Nova Scotia after his death. It is a beautiful piece of art meant to honor both the living and those lost at sea.

IMO, as it turned out, the little village of Peggy's Cove itself is well worth a visit although we visited off-season and had the place to ourselves. In season it must be wall-to-wall tourists. During our visit the fog made the place especially picturesque (IMO).

Tuesday
May282013

triptych # 10-11 (ku # 1236-41) ~ water and atmospherics

Water and atmospherics ~ St. Mary's Bay - Nova Scotia, Canada • click to embiggenIf the wife had not been with me outside of Digby, Nova Scotia, I could have spent the better part of 4 days picturing the ever-changing view of the water and atmospherics from the deck of our rental house.

PS Because of the no-so-good results of downsampling these pictures so that the triptychs fit on a smaller screen, I have presented them @ a 2000 pixel wide. By using your browser's Zoom Out function, they can be debiggened to fit your screen.

Saturday
May252013

ku # 1233-35 ~ Nova Scotia interuptus / Adirondack Spring rain

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Notch island / Au Sable River West Branch ~ Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
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Jay rapids / Au Sable River East Branch ~ Jay, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
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The Notch / Au Sable River West Branch ~ Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen
Interupting the Nova Scotia picture parade are 3 pictures made today of the Spring rain swollen West and East Branch of the Au Sable River.

Friday
May242013

diptych # 30 (civilized ku # 2518-19) ~ good things come in/from small packages

Pot still / Pear Eau de Vie with the Pear in the Bottle ~ Lunenburg, Nova Scotia / Canada • click to embiggenAs promised here is a fully processed version (slightly different view) of the picture - a quick iPad processed one - as presented in the entry, civilized ku # 2504.

FYI, we brought home a variety of products from the Ironworks Distillery, to include an rather incredible rum and an very unusual rhubarb liqueur.

Friday
May242013

civilized ku #2516-17 ~ I am a square, she's a square

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iPhone Photography ~ Lunenburg, Nova Scotia / Canada • click to embiggen
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Photo gallery / shop ~ Lunenburg, Nova Scotia / Canada • click to embiggen
During our first day in Lunenburg while driving down the main street, a poster in a storefront window caught my eye. It should go without writing that my attention was garnered by the square pictures with black borders. Nevertheless, it wasn't until our last day in the Lunenburg vacinity that we were walking past the window and I looked inside only to notice more square pictures presented 3×3 in a single frame.

The story/gallery was closed but, as luck would have it, a man came down some stairs and I knocked on the window and he let me in. After a very brief explanation of my interest in square pictures, he stated that he was not the picture maker. In fact the picture maker was a woman (his wife, I believe) named Mariette Roodenburg.

I was escorted up to the second floor where a gallery occupied the entire very large space. Most of the works on display were of Mariette's making and in short order she came down from her third floor studio (more of a print making studio than a picture making studio), introduced herself and we proceeded to have a nice long chat. Our chat focused on art/aesthetics and nary a word about cameras / gear or technique with the exception of a brief explanation about how she was able to print - with exquisite detail, tone and color - some of her Land Squares pictures on uncoated Japanese rice paper (she pre-treated the paper with an ink-retaining coating).

When all was said and done, it was a real treat to see the work of fellow-traveler, square picture wise.

Wednesday
May222013

triptych # 9 (civilized ku # 2513-15) ~ some things are better in 3s

Houses ~ Lunenburg, Nova Scotia • click to embiggenMy apologies for not posting for a while. Since my return from Nova Scotia, I have been beset by a combination of client work, social commitments, and the processing of 90+ pictures made while in Nova Scotia. Today's entry is the start of a long look at Nova Scotia along with some more samples of my pictures + words project.

Friday
May102013

civilized ku # 2510-12 ~ seaside attractions II

No Parking ~ Peggy's Cove - Nova Scotia, Canada • click to embiggenBig house / little house ~ Blue Rocks - Nova Scotia, Canada • click to embiggenPicket fence ~ Peggy's Cove - Nova Scotia, Canada • click to embiggenMore different-from-the Adirondacks stuff in my continuing endeavor to reminder John Linn about the attractions Nova Scotia has to offer.

However (or, that written), there are, in fact, vast stretches of inland Nova Scotia which are remarkably similar to the Adirondacks (without the mountains) and parts of central NYS. Those similarities have caused the wife to remark on several occasions, "We've traveled 850 miles so we can vacation where we live" ... then we arrive at the seaside and it ain't anything like where we live.