The whole and the sum of the parts

Before I leave colors all together, I figured out how to embed a slide show

of one of my favorite, slightly quirky flickr groups. The goal: coordinate your photograph to the one before it in the pool, so the colors slowly blend into each other.



I like some of the photos better than others, but its always interesting to see what people will post next. And I like the idea that its not about each individual picture, but how they all fit together.

Vibrant

I'm tired of winter grays this week, so I went looking for some color and found myself drawn to bright, vibrant oranges.


(I thought I'd do red and maybe work my way through in rainbow order, but I just wasn't feeling red, a fact I'm blaming on a red and white sewing project I'm ready to be done with)


So, orange...

Raing OH by Tasawa69

One of my favorite things about this one is that it's such a warm, lively color -- and it's titled "Rainy OH". There's something about the unexpected contrast that just appeals to my sense of whimsy.

and some tulips of my own

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Something new to browse

Something new to browse...

Poking around on flickr today, looking for something interesting to post, when I found this The Commons,

Elizabeth Freeman (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.

So now you can go through the Library of Congress's photostream (among others)

A sad conclusion: There are more artistic photographs of onions, on flickr, than books. By a long shot.

I'm a bookworm, so I decided to go book-hunting on flickr, which is when I learned that although flickr has many many photos tagged with "book" and even a 5000-item group pool - the vast majority fall into two categories: "the cover of my favorite/newest/would-take-it-to-exile-on-a-desert-island books" or "look at my huge/crazy/messy/just-organized bookshelf" which are interesting as far as they go (I love book recommendations, have shelves of my own that could use a brilliant organizational idea and even picked up a tip I might use for displaying favorite books), they're not exactly compelling pieces of photographic art.

After much digging (well, clicking and scrolling...) I found some examples worth the hunt.

"White Books" by Vicki's_Pics






No 16. by _cassia's_






Home Memories by Mamluke

Working with White

I'm drawn, in my photography, to intense saturated colors and high contrast, so exploring all white photographs is something different, but I found some beauties.

This one is from Still Life, a simple architectural composition in classic lines and arches

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Stairs, originally uploaded by still. life..

And here's a still life of my own, a study in white with eggs ...

And a more modern image of a sail and all of its lines from Jerret Taylor

Sail

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