Flower Melody

Magnolia

Yellow Flowers

Desert Garden

Desert Garden Tree

Huntington Gardens
February 20, 2010
Kodak E200 film processed in C41 chemistry

A transcendent moment at the Chinese Garden at the Huntington Gardens.

Ducks float by on a calm pond.

Tonight’s moon hanging over a night cloud.

I found a gem in my camera and I want to share it with you.

I had vertigo the day I went to the Huntington when I first saw through a lensbaby. I sat down near these yellow flowers and fell into a meditation. This is what I saw.

(straight out of the camera through a lensbaby, unaltered)

It was past 1am last night when I took this photo. I couldn’t find the Leonids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids) with my naked eye. So I zoomed in at 200mm, set my camera on 200iso, f5.6, bulb shutter speed, and let it expose for 2 minutes. I still did not see any meteors. But I saw stars… many stars of different colors! Not just blue, but also yellow and red and green! The stars in the foreground are moving from the rotation of the Earth, and the stars in the background are more prominent but too far off in the distance. Yet you can still see the flicker of their light, twinkling in the night.

View the full size image.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artemis_pie/4114522066/sizes/o/

Those are stars right??? I don’t believe it’s digital noise. Those are stars!!!

I was having some trouble with this image in my mind. Trying to write a haiku. But the image still wanted to be born. So here it is. Although I shot it with a digital point and shoot, this is what I would have wanted a Horizon camera to see: A panoramic view with saturated color film. This is just the drawing board for an image I’d like to create…. the immediate feeling that the world that you see with your eyes can change when viewed through a simple raindrop.

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“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them – words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than the living size then they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
– Stephen King

“Darkness is the place for seeking and finding answers, for accepting healings, and for accessing the hidden light of truth.”
- Black Panther
Animal Medicine Cards
by David Carson

September 6, 2009

Marina Del Rey fireworks show July 4th, 2009

The day was filled with driving around the beach cities. Venice Beach. Venice Canals. Hermosa Beach. Redondo Beach. Marina Del Rey. It was a lovely day and night.