Linda's Photo Adventures

Saturday, July 17, 2010

I'm No Angel

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This one's a beautiful mess; a spunky, growly, spirited 3-year-old. She had been having a lot of fun "building mountains".

"He doesn't let nobody mess with him, ... He's always been tough and spunky and I think if you're like that, you can overcome a lot."

By Rodney Roberts

Friday, July 16, 2010

Middle of July

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The first photo is the original. The second one is cross-processed in Photoshop. I hope there's not some little kid out there crying!

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

Albert Schweitzer quotes (German medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician and Philosopher. 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Ah! Young love -- so naive, so immature, so unsophisticated, yet ever so charming! Every generation warns the next of the heartaches and the heartbreaks that come with this love. Yet, each generation is eager to experience love. Authors have tried to express the happy occurrence we call young love. I watched this young couple at the Getty Museum. You could tell they were just getting to know each other, wanting to touch but not quite having the guts to try. She, especially, was very flirty in an innocent, cute way. I had to photograph them. I've posted the original and then a Photoshopped version.

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream

Thomas Moore

Wild Wild West

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A sand ball in one hand and a gun in the other, this little one was ready to conquer any sea creature that came his way.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

Jimmy Fallon

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Runaway Feeling

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A photograph of my nephew, Robby, having fun in the surf.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

Sivananda

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Scream and Shout

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There's nothing like spending a July afternoon on an inner tube on a Colorado river! Ahh, the exciting days of summer.

"Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road."

Bob Marshall

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Twisted

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The Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower was commissioned in 1999 to be the signature sculpture of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center. The Tower stands as a memorial to the late Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick, a Museum founder. It is one of the largest Chihuly towers in the world, occupying the three-story atrium in the Museum’s main lobby. The Tower is 55 ft. tall, 7′ 6″ in diameter, and is mounted on a black granite reflecting pool. It is comprised of 2,100 individually blown glass parts, held together by a seven piece steel armature, or spine, with 2,100 individual forks, and weighs 20,000 pounds. Illuminated 24 hours a day, The Tower rises as a beacon for Museum visitors. It is one of the many tower-type sculptures Chihuly has made since 1996, of which no two are alike. Dale Chihuly's practice of putting together teams of artists with exceptional glassblowing skills has led to the development of complex, multipart sculptures of dramatic beauty and scale that place him in the leadership role of moving blown glass out of the confines of the small, precious object and into the realm of large-scale sculpture and environmental art. In fact, Chihuly deserves much of the credit for establishing the blown glass form as an accepted medium for installation art and, hence, for contemporary expression in late twentieth and twenty-first century art generally.

“When the Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried.”

Rudyard Kipling quotes (English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Nobel Prize(1907), 1865-1936