searchingtoseeFlower Friday
I’m going to post and run today… It’s a dreary rainy day here, but I have a busy weekend ahead – my bag is packed and I’m off into London! Happy weekend everyone! Emilyx © Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2012
A different way of seeing
I’m trying out new things. Collage is a way of seeing differently. Denser, more complex. Layered. Compressed. © Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2012
Red
This may seem like a strange thing to write, but colour is very important to me in my photography. By that I mean that a lot of my compositions are essentially aesthetic explorations of colour; the varying subtleties of accent, hue, tone, shade and shadow which build layer, texture and depth in a photographic image. The light is all we have to work with….
Thank you
A very belated Thank you to Nathan and Holly at http://ekphrastixarts.com/ and http://manoftheword.com/ for nominating me for this award. There are some rules, but I’m not so good at following rules, so I hope you don’t mind but since this is an appreciation award I’m going to just use this as an opportunity to show my appreciation for some of my favourite blogs; those which…
Flower Friday
Well that week really flew by…. Time for another flower: there are lots of these around at the moment, especially in our garden. I’m pretty sure it’s a dog rose, but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong! This one is a little crumpled, and past its best, but I like the way the golden stamen are illuminated, tall and bright in the…
Perfect fragility
A butterfly on a flower: an image of the perfect fragility of nature; of transformation, lightness and caprice. There is such beauty and energy in the perfect symmetry of nature… … but also in the flawed: the torn and the vulnerable; broken, yet beautiful and vital all the same – perfectly fragile in imperfection… © Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2012
Flowers for Friday
Last Friday I came across Alex posting a fence picture on Flickr entitled ‘Happy Fence Friday!’ “What’s that all about??” “Well, it’s a fence… you know, for Fence Friday. Like Macro Monday” “Macro Monday?” “… erm, it’s a Flickr thing…” (As you can tell I don’t really do Flickr. I would like to get more into it, but, well, time is an issue.) “Oh,…
Words and pictures
© Robert Frank, Mabou 1997 – image reproduced at Mutual Art opening line Stories are necessary, enchanting, evocative things; but they can also be the means by which our dreams are traduced or defused, defiled or filed away. We learn to read sideways. We learn to read by the light of secret planets and signs. Excerpt taken from From one state to the next…
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