Mindful, Day 21, Patternmaking Again

Still working my way through photos from LACMA (Los Angeles County Musem of Art). It is  interesting to look at the  indivdual photograph and the screen full of thumbnails on the computer and see the pattern of the patterns. I always gravitate to strong shapes, light and shadow and movement before anything else. This shot is up looking up at the ceiling through the giant metal sculpture that you walk under as you enter the building. I could spend hours just shooting the this one sculpture, the light and the patterns as they change and not go one step further.

Farewell to snow fencing

I think I have seen the last of the snow around here - I hope so. I took a number of photos of snow fencing shadows  this winter and have been manipulating the  images to see where it might lead. I  like some of the results - a few more to follow.

Shadow patterns

I love the color of this building - the late afternoon sunllight just made it glow and how could I resist "B" shaped shadows?

Graffiti and shadow

Graffiti on a boxcar. I took a LOT of photos of this train - more to come in the next few days.

Shadow and pattern, again!

Shadow patterns

Early morning sunlight

This morning I walked into the kitchen and the first thing I saw was this. My cornelian cherry branches are blooming and the sunlight from the east was throwing a shadow of them on to the curtain and then the light through the curtain threw a reflection on to the table. Quick, grab the camera. It was a great way to start the day!

Two days later

A couple of days after the snow and chair photos I took this photo of the same chair pattern as a shadow on the ground. What a difference a couple of days can make!

Let there be light

I have this prism made of a large circle of glass with small round raised circles on the surface that sits on a table near my bedroom  window. A sliver of morning light came all the way through the house from the front window - through the dining room, the kitchen, the doorway of the bedroom and stuck the prism at just the right angle to throw a shadow of it on the blind behind it. This can only happen a couple of times a year when the sun is at the right position in the sky. I think it is so cool.

Melting snow

After our wonderful spring weather last week, this weekend was cold and snowy. But today it is melting! The snow is actually about an inch above the pavement in this picture and the water is running away underneath. I like the strong black line that is created by the shadow.

Shadow and texture

Another shadow image of a metal sculpture take yesterday at the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit College. Not only do I like the strong black shapes but the texture on the wall behind.

More of the wonderful heads from Steelheart. I like the intimacy that is suggested by the shadow. Also the calmness of each face.