The Photography thread - with pictures.

Post by **Seareach** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:11 pm

Matrixman...your photos are brilliant. I'd happily buy a coffee table book with all your park bench pictures in it. Every one I look at evokes such different emotions from me.

And Winter Scene. Oh I *love* that (it's now my desktop background

)

Post by **Loredoctor** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:07 pm

My remote-control Dalek (30cm tall)

Post by **Sorus** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:06 am

exterminate, exterminate

Very cool! Not what I was expecting to fill my screen when I hit 'view latest' (

), but very cool!

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:19 am

A handsome machine it is, Lore!

(I had so few toys as a child, boo hoo...)

More pics for perusal in the Album:

Winter Frost #2

Winter Frost #5

Post by **Wyldewode** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:23 am

Winter Frost #5

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

~Robert Frost

Beautiful picture, MM!

Post by **matrixman** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:46 am

And that is a beautiful Frost poem! Thanks! It's very fitting. I snapped that picture in rapidly falling daylight. A minute or two later and that scene would've been in the dark. (Not that there's anything wrong with dark and mysterious woods...)

Post by **Wyldewode** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:58 am

I thought of the poem immediately when I saw your picture. And Frost is one of my favorite poets too.

Post by **lucimay** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:58 pm

Winter Scene 7 is now my wallpaper on my computer at work.

very fitting Frost poem, lyr. i think the two of you should do a coffee table book of poems and pictures. it would be really excellent.

i am still encouraging you to do a photoblog spot Matrixman.
you could have guest poets like lyr and seareach and myself and others come on and post poems for the photos!!!

dontcha think that would be cool?

Post by **stonemaybe** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:56 pm

www.who.int/nutrition/media_page/WHO_Gr ... nner_3.jpg

That's my nephew, third from the left!

It's so cool he is part of the advertising for the World Health Organisation's new child growth charts, because he was born by emergency Caesarian at six months, nearly starved to death in the womb as there was a problem with my sister's placenta. He spent two months in an incubator after birth.

Post by **Damelon** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:34 pm

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from my trip to Arizona in October.

This one is from just east of Sedona.

The woman in this picture gives this picture a sense of scale. This picture was taken at a rest stop on I-17.

Post by **onewyteduck** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:56 am

Matrixman wrote:And that is a beautiful Frost poem! Thanks! It's very fitting. I snapped that picture in rapidly falling daylight. A minute or two later and that scene would've been in the dark. (Not that there's anything wrong with dark and mysterious woods...)

The Winter Scene is absolutely stunning! I'd hang it on my walls anytime. And as for dark and mysterious woods.....

The wood is full of shining eyes,
The wood is full of creeping feet,
The wood is full of tiny cries:
You must not go to the wood at night!

I met a man with eyes of glass,
And a finger as curled as the wriggling worm,
And hair all red with rotting leaves,
And a stick that hissed like a summer snake.

The wood is full of shining eyes,
The wood is full of creeping feet,
The wood is full of tiny cries:
You must not go to the wood at night!

He sang me a song in backwards words,
And drew me a dragon in the air.
I saw his teeth through the back of his head,
And a rat's eyes winking from his hair.

The wood is full of shining eyes,
The wood is full of creeping feet,
The wood is full of tiny cries:
You must not go to the wood at night!

He made me a penny out of a stone,
And showed me the way to catch a lark
With a straw and a nut and a whispered word
And a penny worth of ginger wrapped up in a leaf.

The wood is full of shining eyes,
The wood is full of creeping feet,
The wood is full of tiny cries:
You must not go to the wood at night!

He asked me my name, and where I lived;
I told him a name from my Book of Tales;
He asked me to come with him into the wood
And dance with the Kings from under the hills.

The wood is full of shining eyes,
The wood is full of creeping feet,
The wood is full of tiny cries:
You must not go to the wood at night!

But I saw that his eyes were turning to fire;
And I saw the nails grow on his wriggling hand;
I said my prayers all out in a rush,
And found myself safe on my father’s land.

The wood is full of shining eyes,
The wood is full of creeping feet,
The wood is full of tiny cries:
You must not go to the wood at night!

--Henry Treece, The Magic Wood

Post by **balon!** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:11 am

So over by my house there is this concrete building that has been deserted for as long as I can remember. It turns out that it used to be a fruit shed. Now it has been used by Greeners (people who attend the Evergreen State College) for an easel. A lot of it is really good stuff, and some has been faded.

Soon I'll be adding some sort of painting myself.

Here's the rest of it:

Post by **matrixman** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:31 am

Thanks for sharing, Balon! Interesting art, especially like the clock.

Damelon, I always enjoy your field trip pictures!

And thank you, Duckie, for your kind comments. That's an excellent poem, too!

Lucimay wrote:i am still encouraging you to do a photoblog spot Matrixman.

you could have guest poets like lyr and seareach and myself and others come on and post poems for the photos!!!

Um...I'll think about it...

Right now it's enough for me that fellow Watchers like my picture-taking efforts.

Some more frosty pics:

Winter Frost #3

Winter Frost #9

Archway

Post by **Seareach** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:40 am

I thought winter frost was WOW...but then I looked at Archway and I can't make up my mind which one I like more! Ah, your pics are wonderful MM!

Post by **Creator** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:31 pm

Very nice MM, VERY nice!!!

What camera do you use?

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:48 am

Thanks, Creator. I'm using an Olympus Stylus 35mm automatic camera.

another pic for the album: Winter Dusk 1

Post by **lucimay** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:30 pm

extraordinary. (winter dusk 1)

now my wallpaper at work

i just keep switching from one MM photo for wallpaper to another.

thanks!!! they're beautiful.

ps....i love the new avatar!!!

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:25 pm

Thanks, Rachel! --er, Luci!

(A bit of Blade Runner trivia: according to the film's cinematographer, Jordan Cronenweth, that is his single favorite shot of the entire movie -- the way the light reflects off Rachel's eyes, bathes her face and hand, and the cigarette smoke.)

And I'm pleased you like the new av! I worked on it a bit -- tried different artistic effects with the pic in Paint Shop Pro til I liked the result.

Now if only I could make a career out of this...

Post by **Wyldewode** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:22 am

Wonderful pictures, as always, MM. Another Frost poem for you:

Dust of Snow

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

~Robert Frost

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:29 am

our cell phone, our trip to the Museum of fine arts...

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

The Photography thread - with pictures.