database of images WELLCOME -
says it has pictures of 2000 years of human history or something..

http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/page/Home.html

Linda Christensen

Though Linda writes something about trying to convey a feeling of fleeting moments... Blah blah blah... I feel she is a sort of kindered spirit - I too feel that people are looking for reasons why an artist chooses this image over that one. Truth is, when all that you are really interested in is paint and composition, the statement comes across as dry. Which, in Linda's case, is no big deal, because her compositions and handling of paint are first rate. I would love to spend an afternoon picking her brain and watching her paint.

Also in her shadow would be Shannon Craig, daughter of Philip Craig, who has the guts to drag a paintbrush from one side of an almost-finished painting to another, and just leave it there. here is a terrible example of her work. there is better stuffout there, if you look harder than I

Paul Fenniak

Reuel Dechene

this dude's art is interesting - He was in the candela art exhibit at Cube along with me, and many others..


http://www.dalesmithgallery.com/artists/artist.php?artistId=11&page=0
http://artengine.ca/xmaslite/main.htm

valuable links to all kinds of art stuff

http://letracorrida.blogspot.com/

i would LOVE to do something like this!

check t his out
http://www.caiguoqiang.com/

have you ever seen those South east asian lanterns that are made out of paper, and that are heated with a small cup of flammable oil? they're printed with prayers and blessings, and, when heated, rise up into the sky. they go forever! im picturing a surrealearly morning, maybe with a dozen of these things weighted so they can't rise far off the surface of a lake. it's misty this time of year in the morning. a still morning would give a really cool reflection too..
..these containers of light could be moved to different settings - rural, urban, the woods..

sorry, SORRY Ming - it's been way too long since the update.

We've been busy, on and off...

we had an early morning sunrise shoot that totally didn't turn out, video or photos.


two weeks ago we had a late night shoot up at my parent's cottage - here are a couple of the images..



















we'll end up using at least one of the images - we'll blow them up big, and make light boxes out of 'em

im thinking that combining two - invert one and have them facing each other - may be interesting, but , we'll see.

MORE ideas.

ok - two ideas for photography.
it's 11:44 and this has gotten me out of bed.

go with it - again it's just a jumbled mess right now.

idea one

night shooting, long exposure. the shot is overlooking water. i want to somehow capture using a flash, a person walking across the surface of the water. this could be done maybe with a well timed jump from a boat, or rigged with someone standing on the bottom and supporting the person being shot. photoshop will fix up any little mistakes im sure.

this idea was the origional that has been brewing since saturday.

idea #2

night shot again, flash to capture.

first, i love this image


especially the pissed off st peter, forking over the money, "give unto Caesar that which is his..."


i see an open field, with this action in three parts - first, a group on the left, captured in a flast or two, a walk across by one, and then the money delivery on the right. playing with the intensity of the flash and people walking at angles to the camera (or curved paths) would also be interesting, i think.

BIBLE myths...
.. a good or a bad place to go?

update

ok ming..

Ian and i had to put off the sunrise shoot a couple of times. on friday, we did make it out, but the clouds did not co-operate. we'll give it another go at a later date. I have some film that is not very good, and ian has some photos that show some time lapse that would be kinda interesting if not for the fact that clouds obscured the sunrise.

testing...

just figure out how to add myself on this blog so i can actually post thing without signing in and out~

hey, thanks for showing up at the show~ really glad to have some trusty voice there to help me with the work.