Qcpg 13-015 Imaginings from what is perceived: Squash flowers are just strange. They are not quite plump like a succulent’s leaves, but there’s more water in them than regular petals. They also seem crustacean in some off way. Maybe it’s the claw-like way the petals grow forward, before opening fully and filing off. Then the … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #348 – Qcpg 13-015
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #347 – Qcpg 13-013
Qcpg 13-013 Imaginings from what is perceived: A recent late-summer trip to Quebec City, my heart was filled with a joyous occasion. This emotion inspired the focus on some of the amazing flowers found in front of L'Hotel de Ville. I made the decision to use the natural lighting, with very little modification of the … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #347 – Qcpg 13-013
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #346 – A Friend from Next Door
A Friend from Next Door Imaginings from what is perceived: This remarkable blue flower is a clematis. It grew through the fence from my neighbor's yard. At the time, he didn't even know he had the plant and we guessed it was decades old from what the previous owners of both our houses told us. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #346 – A Friend from Next Door
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #345 – Gentle Purples
Gentle Purples Imaginings from what is perceived: Thanks to the blooms opening at different times on this cluster of flowers, we get treated to a variety of purple hues. The range goes from a pink to almost completely blue. The purples always seem so fragile, as if they can hardly stay this color without great … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #345 – Gentle Purples
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #344 – The Old & The New
The Old & The New Imaginings from what is perceived: These gentle pink flowers are the friends of the many bees that visit my garden in the warm summer days. This plant has a very fast life cycle for its flowers. Within a single day, you will find the flower you visited that morning has … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #344 – The Old & The New
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #343 – Mackintosh Gate
Mackintosh Gate Imaginings from what is perceived: You've just walked through the wardrobe and are about to see for the first time, the light post indicating the entrance to Narnia, only it isn't Narnia, it's a magnificent gateway to a Montreal apple orchard and it's late spring when the leaves are the most luminous green. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #343 – Mackintosh Gate
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #342 – Tomato Babies 3
Tomato Babies 3 Imaginings from what is perceived: There’s lots of movement in this shot. The blossom has turned and seems to be moving around the hairy stem, while the air on the stem reached out in all directions, feeling the world around it. Had I taken more shots, you would have seen the bloom … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #342 – Tomato Babies 3
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #341 – Tomato Babies 2
Tomato Babies 2 Imaginings from what is perceived: I really enjoy taking macros, especially when they show the life I’m trying to capture. There are many variations of green in this flower before we see a full yellow. Nature has carefully blended in greens and yellows, with the tiniest shadows of black and dustings of … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #341 – Tomato Babies 2
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #340 – Tomato Babies 1
Tomato Babies 1 Imaginings from what is perceived: Spring is on our doorstep. We will very soon be seeing life come back into our gardens. I planted three different types of tomato plants in my garden and here are their babies. However, I wonder at the oddly alien appearance of this ubiquitous plant. What inspires … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #340 – Tomato Babies 1
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #339 – Our Footprints on the World
Our Footprints on the World Imaginings from what is perceived:We leave our imprint on this planet in so many ways. It magical to see that we also leave actual footprints and just how cartoonish they appear. What inspires an artist?“All they see” is the first and most literal answer. For me, that is several gallery … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #339 – Our Footprints on the World
The New Renaissance Mindset 