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Photo Challenge: State of Mind, Where have all the flowers gone?

Flowers entangled in barbed wire do not mean much . . . unless you’re standing on Omaha Beach, below the American Cemetery in Normandy, France.

Weekly Photo Challenge: State of Mind

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

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Photo Challenge: Life Imitates Art

As a photographer, this is one of my favorite ways to capture a moment in art. I’ll take a selfie by reflecting in a minor in a museum and voilà, I’m part of a famous exhibit. Or I’ll put myself or a friend in a painting or sculpture. Sure, this is just bit of whimsy, but when I try these experiments, they always make me laugh.

Recently, I visited Rockefeller Center and, having some extra time, looked around the stores in the Rockefeller building. Murals hung on the wall, including this one of NBC television celebrities. I posed in front of the mural. I then put a sepia overlay onto the photograph.

I take the initiative to add a third-party to Charles Wilson Peale’s Staircase Group painting.

In this train station mural in Philadelphia, one might wonder who are the real people.

Life imitating art or art imitating life? The fellow at the crate dolly is wearing a red shirt and blue pants like the fellow in the mural. What are the chances?

Finding an excuse to take a selfie in the reflection of a Christmas ball.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Life Imitates Art

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Time, Traveling into the Past

Recording family history has expanded my perceptions of time, how families lived out their days in cycles of births, marriages, and passings. Sometimes I cannot tell whether I am in their time or my own as these dimensions seem to meld together.

Video shows the passage of time for a little farm-house that belonged to my great-grandparents. First photograph was taken a hundred years ago and the second when I returned to find the house along a back road on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

WordPress Photo Challenge: Time

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Family History, Family History and Genealogy, Nostalgic Memorabilia, Upper Peninsula, Michigan

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Photo Challenge: Vibrant (Red)

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner so perhaps that is the reason I was thinking in hearts, flowers and vibrant red. Be my Valentine!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant

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Photo Challenge: Inspiring Optimism by the Seaside

“hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic…”

― Van Morrison

St. Malo, France

Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimism

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Photo Challenge: Weight(less) . . . Defying Gravity and Convention

The photo challenge for this week is to share a photograph that either shows weight or the air of weightlessness. This memory came to mind: a time when I was walking through the plazas of Madrid. Street theater is entertainment at its best: varied, unexpected, usually humorous and contributions are voluntary–defying the boundaries of standard entertainment venues. Street theater is democratic, as actors can decide, independent of usual restraints, to perform whatever they like. Since no tickets are required, the audience receives the benefit of a free show. Defying both gravity and convention–fascinating.