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Celebration

Posted in from the dark room, life, photography on March 29, 2008| 5 Comments »

There’s something going on in the garden……
the floor
the canvas
tightening the canvas
the roof
finished marquee
marquee at night

What do you like to celebrate? And how do you do it? What would you celebrate in a big tent like this?

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Sloping off somewhere this weekend?

Posted in from the dark room, life, photography on March 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »

What do you like to do with your time off if you’ve busy and working all week? Do you like to slope off somewhere with friends?
sloping off to the beach

Or do you prefer to slope off alone?

sloping off alone

Or with that someone special?

sloping off together

What works best for you?

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More What do You See Here?

Posted in from the dark room, perception, photography on March 27, 2008| 3 Comments »

rock, originally uploaded by bobsee.

For those of you who enjoyed the recent “What do you See Here?“……..here’s another one!

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What do you see here?

Posted in from the dark room, perception, photography on March 24, 2008| 4 Comments »

building, originally uploaded by bobsee.

Perception involves a lot more than just sensory inputs ordered by our eyes and brains in the way a computer would process an image.
We use memory to match the patterns we see to what we’ve seen before. And we use imagination to see more than could be seen by a machine.
What do you see when you look at this?
What do you see first of all, what does it remind you of, and, if you were to use your imagination, what would you see then?

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Cedar

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »

cedar

Looks quite strange, huh? Come back a bit and see more the tree – it’s a wonderful cedar!

cedar

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Bonnieux.

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Looking up towards Bonnieux. There are hundreds of lovely hilltop villages in France. I think the Mistral-driven wisps of clouds above Bonnieux made this view particularly lovely.

bonnieux

Down in the fields below the hilltop villages in the South of France there are typically lots of vineyards. At this time of year the vines look small and wizened but they’ll soon flourish!

vineyard

One thing which struck me here was how higgledy-piggledy (oh dear, I’m sure that’s not a real word!) the village is. There seems to be no order, just buildings on top of each other, crowded together in irregular streets. Really a chaotic and apparently random pattern. And yet, it was built by human beings. It didn’t just grow. Then down in the valley the order imposed on nature shows the straightest, most even lines of vines you could imagine.

So, here’s my dilemma. Why have people imposed such order on plants, but not on the buildings and streets they live in? (I mean the people responsible for these two views of course!)

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Engagement – the importance of social interaction

Posted in from the dark room, life, photography, tagged on March 21, 2008| 6 Comments »

I think you can understand what health is by considering the three main characteristics of healthy organisms – adaptability, creativity and engagement. In France, probably every town and every village has its “boulodrome” – a patch of sand where people play “petanque”. It seems completely informal. Just a space to use by whoever wants to use it. I think it’s a great example of designing social engagement into the spaces where people live.

Look at these guys enjoying themselves. It’s not hard to understand the importance of social engagement for human beings, is it?

petanque
petanque
petanque

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Creativity – weaving threads differently

Posted in creativity, from the dark room, life, photography on March 21, 2008| 3 Comments »

I came across two very different examples of weaving yesterday

nets
nets and ropes

and, then, further on, outside a shop

baskets
baskets

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The colour of water

Posted in from the dark room, photography on March 20, 2008| 1 Comment »

I took a boat trip today from Cassis into Les Calanques. I thought I’d just share these photos of the water. Aren’t the colours amazing?

water
water
water
water
water
water

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Mont St Victoire

Posted in art, creativity, from the dark room, photography on March 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »

From the driveway up to the place where I’m renting an apartment in Provence I can see Mont St Victoire –

mont st victoire

And just down the road a little I can see it more clearly –

mont st victoire

Mont St Victoire was a huge inspiration to Paul Cezanne. Take a look at this lovely (silent) video of some of his paintings of this spectacular mountain.

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