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An ad, from my podcast… audio only… tRump inspired…
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Throwing shade; A study in light and shadow… the final chapter… special ‘manmade objects’ edition…
The Golden Gate, framed by trees. One thing I love about where I grew up in the hills across the bay from San Francisco is that there are lots of trees in my little hometown.
Also, the Bay Area is famous for its mists and fogs, which is pertinent to a study of how we perceive light and shadow. Haze obscures vision and mutes shadows. San Francisco hides shyly across the bay, and colors are strangely muted.
Light highlights the edges of buildings, glistens on the water, throws the trees and leaves into well-defined points.
We respond visually to the colors and shapes of this earth, we wreath our houses in nature, we make roof tiles from natural components.
Cities beckon us, as does a cozy house, but still we add the colors and shapes of nature.
Nature smooths the rough edges, or the too-straight line.
And nature will begin to reclaim any object we make if it is left alone.
A brand new wooden fence is just a fence, even with artistic flourishes.
But give time and weather, water and sunlight some time, and they will make their presence felt.
And then, the interplay of nature and manmade, the dance of sunlight and shadow, come into their own.
We mimic the shapes of nature.
We use the colors that we have known for eons.
Posted in My travels
Tagged america, art, bay area, california, humor, light, nature, photography, san francisco, san francisco bay, san francisco bay area
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Throwing shade; A study in light and shadow… part 9… special tree edition…
Sunlight on a lemon tree. Our eyes are adapted to the light levels of our sun. And all the plants on Earth are adapted to grow in that same sunlight.
It is amazing how nature links together in so many ways.
Why is nature so beautiful to us?
Why is getting out in nature so rejuvinating?
Why is the weaving of light and shadow so mesmerizing?
Maybe it is because we have been living in and with nature for so long.
We lived in forests and woodlands for far longer than we have lived in cities.
We plant trees and flowers, make parks, keep the trees near us.
Maybe we know we need them, that they are more than decorations.
Maybe we need the tangled branches to offset the straight lines of our cities.
Maybe a stately oak tree speaks to us.
Perhaps a Redwood calls us home is some mysterious way.
Maybe we aren’t as far detached from nature as we pretend we are.
And maybe the trees are looking back at us.
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Throwing shade; A study in light and shadow… part 8… special animal edition…
A crow, on that beach near the Golden Gate Bridge, silhouetted by the sun. That might be the perfect picture for a photographic series about light and shadows.
That very young Redtail Hawk I spotted near the elementary school I went to so many years ago. Shadows obscure his magnificent plumage, but the light throws his majestic form into relief.
A turkey, pretending he is a vulture?
Nature doesn’t waste energy. Bird feathers have two functions, impressing the ladies for mating, and keeping the bird alive.
Turkeys are tasty, so the males, like that one, aren’t exactly peacocks.
But what does this have to do with light and shadow? I am getting to that.
Now observe the group of females. Those mottled feather patterns are perfect for woodlands. They blend in with the dead leaves on the forest floor.
They break up the turkeys’ shape, and even mimic the dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves.
A black cat is perfect for this study.
A black cat is basically a walking shadow.
Lots of cats are colored to blend into dry gasses and stripy sunlight.
The black cat can do this too.
But for hunting at night, in the absence or near-absence of light, these predators have it going on.
Plus, black keeps you warm at naptime.
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Tagged animals, art, birds, humor, light, nature, photography, shadow, turkeys
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An update from my secret sources inside the tRump crime syndicate…
According to my well-placed sources, tRump’s plan to disorganize the republican party by getting elected to the presidency and then being the worst president ever has worked far better than expected. I mean, seriously, who ever considered that the republican party would actually welcome racists, conspiracy theorists and violent militias in with open arms?
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Dear Q-anon believers,
Will you at least admit that so far, even though democrats run the House, Senate and White House, nobody ate your baby, or the babies of anyone you know, or even drank their blood, sacrificed them to Satan, or sold them into sex slavery?
This is the first step on the road to recovery.
Yours truly, Pouring My Art Out
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Throwing shade; A study in light and shadow… part 7…
For eons our eyes have been adapting, evolving, if you will, to the world on which we live.
They are attuned to the spectrums of light and color surrounding us.
Other animals have eyes that see in different spectrums, and they see more or less than we do.
But our brains have gained the ability to see the beauty in nature, and to enjoy it.
Our eyes are not just specialized for night vision; in fact, we have very poor night vision. We do not have the telescopic sight of the hunting birds, the finely tuned ability to spot movement of the cats, but we have very good all-round vision for many situations.
We do not use our eyes merely to acquire food or other necessities.
We can revel in the awesome beauty of a flower, or a sunset, yes, but even the simple aspects of nature catch our eyes.
Sun-dappled leaves, shade dancing in the breeze, the interplay of light and shadow.
The very symmetry and asymmetry of nature are marvelous.
Light allows the colors, and the colors and shapes make us feel at home on this planet.
The beach, where we first dragged our forms from the sea, those many millennia ago…
Where we struggled to take our first breaths, our first steps…
And where our eyes began the adaptations that led us to where we are today.
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Tagged art, colors, evolution, eyes, light, nature, people, photography, plants
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Okay, tRump supporters, let’s talk about stolen elections…
Democrats have had one election that was decided in one state, by a governor who was a relative of the republican that won by just a few votes.
Not long after, a guy became president even though he got less votes than the woman running against him, and he had the aid of Russian computer systems helping sway public opinion towards him.
So you know what? Democrats felt robbed. We felt that our voices were not heard. We felt that the election had been stolen, and that our country and way of life was in danger. And our feeling were based on things that really happened, not conspiracy theories started by the person that lost the election.
You know what we didn’t do? We didn’t storm the freekin’ Capitol building and threaten to hang people we didn’t like. We didn’t start an insurrection that killed people.
And as long as we are on the subject of the new president, I would like to say to all the tRump supporting women out there; Gee, I am so sorry we took away your pasty-white pussy-grabber-supporting guy who can’t even be in the same room as you and gave you an actual woman as vice president. I hope you can forgive us.
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Catching the perfect wave…
While we were in the San Francisco By Area, saving Christmas and visiting my 97-year-old mother, and we were on that day trip to a beach very near the Golden Gate Bridge…
I mean very near… I started a new photographic experiment. I want to get the perfect photo of a wave just as it curls and begins to fall.
Like my attempts to take the perfect photo of a dog shaking water off itself, or the dew-covered flowers and spider web photos, this is a little harder than I originally expected.
That is a good one, you can see the shade of the curl inside the wave. But timing is everything in this game.
Also, it didn’t help that this beach, being near the opening to the Bay, is at an angle to the surf. That one was taken too late.
That one, too early.
One microsecond late on that one. Hurry up, shutter!
I like that one.
I think I tried something like this with waves crashing against rocks on a beach somewhere.
But it does beg the question; why didn’t I think of this in San Diego, where I now live, where it is warm all year long, and the beaches have the common decency to face the ocean?
Even when your timing is off, you still end up with a nice photo of a wave.
And I suppose I could crop the images to the best part of each wave.
But whatever, man, it’s all for fun, right?
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Tagged america, art, california, golden gate bridge, humor, nature, Northern California, photography, san francisco, san francisco bay area, water, waves
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I promised you some new birds… part 2… (or); is that the Thanksgiving Day parade???
Every morning, a huge herd of wild turkeys pass my mom’s house.
These are almost all females. There is also a group of Tom’s, just three or four, that roam around.
I don’t pretend to be an expert on turkeys, but they are interesting to watch.
I think this is all part of some plan to reintroduce turkeys to the wild, because I never saw them when I was a kid, now California is swarming with them. Someone should Google that.
Turkeys in the wild can’t have been this easy to find and get close too… they would have been hunted to extinction by humans and animals alike.
On the other hand, even if they have gotten used to being around people, they are rather large and slightly intimidating.
I know I didn’t get too close.
Like some kind of fat chicken street gang.
But they are beautiful too.
Those feathers do not work as camouflage in an urban environment, but in the woods, they sure do.
But hey, not just more photos of little birds at my mom’s bird feeder, right?
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