Colorful Koi, Colors of the Rainbow, Weekly Photo Challenge
Came across a pond with this fellow swimming about. Koi are popular ornamental pond fish that have been bred in many colors, patterns and sizes.
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Off-Season: Weekly Photo Challenge
So you’ve arranged to have a fancy party where the guests are dressed in their finest ensembles . . . and in walks . . .
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Vivid: Weekly Photo Challenge
Bilbao, Spain, once an industrial center now claims their fame as home of the Guggenheim Museum of Contemporary Art. My first impression: the building was an architectural marvel, made from titanium, limestone and glass, designed by American architect, Frank O. Gehry. On the patio that follows the river, the Tulips Exhibit by Jeff Koons offered a lively and colorful display on a rainy day.
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On the Way: Weekly Photo Challenge
On a recent voyage of the Star Clipper, a full-rigged barquetine sailing ship, the vessel pushed off from the Lisbon dock and began a series of maneuvers. Rather than heading directly out to sea and under the Vasa de Gama Bridge, Star Clipper sailed in the opposite direction, only to complete a full circle and begin the exercise again. The ship found its way to the open sea as the engineer consulted the sextant.
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Broken beyond Repair?
A good novel captures the imagination, and I attempted create a scene from a book into a sculpture project.
Working with porcelain, I carved the clay into the shape of a book and then created a scene from Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece, Moby Dick. As the piece air-dried, I had to fix and fix again the clay cracking along the sides but finally stabilized the splitting. Unfortunately, when it came out of the kiln, the book had nearly broken in two with a quarter-inch gap across the front. A corner had fallen off, and the sides had split and warped in several sections. Still, I set to work to see if I could make repairs. With glue, paint and glaze I began the patching process thinking that, in the end, this is not going to work.
Cracks on the Underside of Moby Dick
Perseverance prevailed and the porcelain representation returned, however imperfect, to one piece.
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Enveloped: Weekly Photo Challenge
Chinese Lantern plants produce white, 5-petaled flowers in mid summer that transform into a lantern-shaped husk. As it matures, the husk turns papery. These papery pods skeletonize, revealing the seed within the lantern.
Weekly Photo Challenge Enveloped
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The Storm Cometh, Force of Nature
Echo the far-off roll of thunder,
Rumbling loud
And ever louder, under
The blue-black curtain of cloud,
Where the lightning serpents gleam.
–Storm-Music by Henry Van Dyke
Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature
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on 06/19/2015