PhillyPhotoDay

Last Friday, Oct. 26th was PhillyPhotoday and the Library hosted a workshop in which I took part. Above is the pic I submitted. I pushed myself to try and go beyond my usual traditionally composed, bucolic mode. I like this one because I was able to combine so many disparate elements without losing balance. Framing the image, to the far right and left, and the lower center, are curves. The rest of the picture looks like what could be chaos--different angles, materials, colors, time-periods, planes of perception, yet balanced and harmonious. Like a city, like Philly, like a human being. My camera's dating is set with PM and AM topsy turved, so I hope the wrong dating doesn't disqualify it.


Here are a few more I took.

 

 

And one bucolic I could not resist, the Horticultural Society's grass planting in the Library's Shakespeare Park.

My new camera is bringing me a lot of happiness by allowing me to do good stuff that previously I had only been able to imagine.

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

Library Workshop Leader: Joseph Baumgarten

Autumn in Vermont

Recently came back from a beautiful place, beautiful in a mighty, magnificent, gentle way. And no, that's not an oxymoron.

We stayed at a small B&B in Arlington on the Battenkill River where my husband could walk outside to fly-fish. Below is the view from the bedroom window,

Southern Vermont between the Green and Taconic Mountain ranges is one of those places where wilderness rubs right up against culture. One of the highlights of our visit was a Rockwell Kent show at the Bennington Museum.

Rockwell Kent, well, rocks. Many of the paintings in the show were done in his studio that was on the Northern ridge of Red Mountain. In Arlington. The same Red Mountain whose Southern face towered over our B&B.

 Beautiful country. The below shot was taken on Red Mountain facing South.

Besides art and wilderness there is one of the best independent bookstores around--Northshire Books.

 

Also pleasing is the sculpture garden of the Southern Vermont art Center.

I think I may have found a street where some of "The Trouble with Harry" was shot.

And went on a successful quest for the church in this Kent painting, which is called"Pilgrim Church," or "Hen and Chicks."

 Found the hen.

And ditto the chicks.

 And of course I found some sheep.

Either I have writers block, or the pictures really are more elegant than any possible words I can find.

 Either way, I want to go back. Did I mention the food is really good?

The above pic was taken from an outlet shopping mall parking lot. Cause yes, there are lots of outlet shopping malls. And no bad views from any of the lots.

But then it is hard to go indoors, cause for a moment, you miss out on the views all around you.

Here is some illustrative commentary from the Kent show.