My Web Picture Tutorial http://www.mywebjpg.com/blog All About Photo You Host And Photoshop Tutorial Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Geranium Plantlets http://www.mywebjpg.com/blog/2010/03/geranium-plantlets/ http://www.mywebjpg.com/blog/2010/03/geranium-plantlets/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:00:12 +0000 admin http://www.mywebjpg.com/blog/2010/03/geranium-plantlets/
All winter I have been babying my geranium cuttings, changing the water they are in regularly and gently coaxing them along. Three of the cuttings have developed roots. On the weekend I planted them in a good soil mixture and moved the pots to a south facing window. I still have the parent plants [...]]]>
All winter I have been babying my geranium cuttings, changing the water they are in regularly and gently coaxing them along. Three of the cuttings have developed roots. On the weekend I planted them in a good soil mixture and moved the pots to a south facing window.

I still have the parent plants and have cut these back considerably.

(photo taken August 2009)
In the summer they reside in a nice, sunny location outside.

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Hi all,I think we all know this feeling. Some days we go out because the weather is nice but the birds will not show up or not behave properly, and we never get a single nice picture. Some days the weather is awful and we see many birds but are not coming back home with [...]]]>

Hi all,
I think we all know this feeling. Some days we go out because the weather is nice but the birds will not show up or not behave properly, and we never get a single nice picture. Some days the weather is awful and we see many birds but are not coming back home with any nice pictures. Some days we just get chance and birds are starting to pop up from everywhere….

Today I had to go back home at 10AM and strangely, even if the weather was bad I decided to take my camera just in case. When I went back to work I also decided to take the road along the big salmon river and scrutinize it for birds. After driving only 5 minutes, I saw something on a light post that was neither a raven nor a gull.. So I stopped close by and realized it was a merlin. The light was bad because it was foggy and the pictures are cool but not that nice. We do not see so many of them down town, so I decided to take some pictures.

Bonjour,
Je crois que nous avons tous ce sentiment étrange parfois quand nous revenons de balade. Parfois, nous partons avec un beau soleil, mais les oiseaux ne se montrent pas, ou alors refuse de se comporter correctement pour la prise de belles photos. Parfois il fait mauvais et on va quand même se balader. Là les oiseaux se montrent, mais à cause des conditions, les photos ne sont pas terribles. Parfois, la chance nous sourit et les oiseaux sortent de partout.

Aujourd’hui, j’ai du rentrer à la maison vers 10h, et bizarrement j’ai décidé de prendre mon appareil photo, et de longer la rivière à saumons pour retourner au travail, en observant le long des berges pour voir si quelques oiseaux se baladaient. Après 5 minutes, j’ai vu un drôle d’oiseau sur un lampadaire, qui ne ressemblait pas à un grand corbeau ou à un goéland. Je me suis arrêté très près et c’était un faucon émerillon. Les conditions lumineuses n’étaient pas bonnes car il y avait du brouillard, mais on en voit rarement en ville, alors j’ai quand même pris quelques photos.

Merlin/Faucon émerillon.
I then went back to the car and decided to go back to work when I saw something again on the river this time… A duck rather small, blue, white and red colors!! I just thought, no way, not already!! But when I stopped by and went down the river, I realized I was right to think it was a… Harlequin duck! Looks like they are Back…. Youpi!!! So that’s species number 46.. Again the pictures are not beautiful but it is a Harlequin duck after all.

Je suis retourné à la voiture direction le boulot, et là j’ai encore vu quelque chose sur la rivière cette fois. Un petit canard, aux couleurs bleues, blanches et rouges… Je me suis dit, pas possible, pas aussi tôt.. Mais quand je suis aller voir, j’ai pu voir que je ne mettais pas tromper, c’était un arlequin plongeur.
Ils sont de retour… Youpi… Et c’est la 46ème espèces de l’année. Les photos ne sont pas superbes, mais bon c’est un arlequin!!!

Harlequin duck/Arlequin plongeur.
When I left I still managed to see species number 47, it was a lesser black-backed gull. These were 20 nice minutes of the day even if the weather was bad.
Cheers, Chris.

Quand je suis reparti, j’ai réussi à voir la 47ème espèce de l’année, un goéland brun. Voilà 20 bonnes minutes bien efficaces même si le temps était plutôt mauvais.
A bientôt,
Chris

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Well, you could probably guess this was coming, given the theme. So here are some portraits of hats in my collection. For videos this week, I entered “hat” into YouTube’s search engine, and right at the top of the list was this gem by Joe Cocker, “You Can Leave Your Hat On”. Heh, heh! That oughta [...]]]>
Well, you could probably guess this was coming, given the theme. So here are some portraits of hats in my collection.



For videos this week, I entered “hat” into YouTube’s search engine, and right at the top of the list was this gem by Joe Cocker, “You Can Leave Your Hat On”. Heh, heh! That oughta give a kick-start to your day!

Not too much farther down the list was a song by an artist I hadn’t heard of before – Ingrid Michaelson. The song is “The Hat”, which is obviously a fan favorite. I like, too, and this is somebody I’m gonna need to check out in more depth. In any case, here she is live at Easy Street Records in Seattle. Enjoy!

Photos & text © 2010 by A. Roy Hilbinger

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The primary gravestone carver in Newport in colonial times was John Stevens, who moved down here from Boston and set up shop in 1705. Two of his sons, John II and William, carried on the carving tradition; William split off and founded his own business in a shop on Long Wharf while John II inherited [...]]]>
The primary gravestone carver in Newport in colonial times was John Stevens, who moved down here from Boston and set up shop in 1705. Two of his sons, John II and William, carried on the carving tradition; William split off and founded his own business in a shop on Long Wharf while John II inherited his father’s shop on Thames St. and eventually passed it on to his son John III. In the meantime, William had an apprentice named John Bull who eventually left to go it on his own (and supposedly broke his indenture and was brought to court by William for recompense). It’s Bull’s carvings I want to look at today.

A wander through the Common Burying Ground shows that John Stevens III and John Bull were the chief rival artists in the 1770s and ’80s. Styles had changed radically since John I’s winged skulls, and now gravestones were sporting carved portraits of the deceased and much more developed ornamentation, as well as more classical lettering styles. To start this off, let’s look at two of John III’s stones.

John III’s carving style is fairly straightforward, sort of a variation on traditional themes; while his carving is much deeper into the stone than earlier styles, his floral ornaments are still very two-dimensional, imitating the floral ornamentation in books like the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. However, the stone on the left, for Capt. William Burke, is much more stylized; his floral ornamentation at the heads of the finials is almost abstract compared to the florals on the Wyatt stone to the right, especially having it trail down to a simple straight line rather than carry the floral theme all the way down the sides, and his curly-headed angel and its framing on the tympanum is highly individual, almost modern. Click on the photos to get the full-sized version to see the full details of these carvings.

Now look at some of John Bull’s work from the same period:

This is an amazing stone. In fact, John Bull’s Charles Bardin stone is famous in the world of students and admirers of stonecarving. The stone was also controversial in its day; the depiction of God looking down from the clouds was considered blasphemous by some. The carving of portraits on stones was looked at as pushing the limits of the allowable by the more conservative in Newport, so this depiction of the Deity in the manner of Michaelangelo’s Creator on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was considered horribly Papist by the staunchly radical Protestants of 18th Century Newport.

But look at the carving; it’s far more sculptural that John III’s, and far more detailed. Rather than use floral ornamentation on the borders he uses a plain linear, almost Celtic intertwining lines design, and his angels on the finials are highly unusual, almost abstract. The lettering is also different; rather than the usual classical Roman-style lettering Bull uses a style more reminiscent of the Trajan column lettering, with its less defined serifs and almost rounded lines which Eric Gill in England was to develop 150 years later at the peak of the Arts & Crafts movement. In many ways John Bull was way ahead of his time.

Now look at this stone for Elizabeth Sisson. At first glance it looks very traditional, but compare it to the two John III stones above. The winged angel is far more sculptural than Stevens’, far more detailed, and much more individually stylized than Stevens’ very stylized head. And notice the the very thin, closely-spaced hatching lines around the borders and finials and in the hair of the angel. There’s such a wealth of detail on this stone, far more detail than on the other stones by his contemporaries; you can tell that this stone too a long time to carve!

Finally, there’s this stone for the six children of William and Sarah Langley. This is another stone far ahead of it’s time. The stylistic treatment of the angels almost looks like the illustrations from a 20th Century children’s book, and the treatment of the borders and the arched columns is enticingly Mediterranean, that Greco-Roman-Arabian-North African style developed in Spain when it was still Al Andalus under the rule of the Muslim Moors. This is a fascinating stone indeed!

This is just a small sampling of John Bull’s work; a wander through the Common Burying Ground alone will reveal much more. He was a fascinating – and controversial – man, so much so that he has a whole chapter to himself in Vincent Luti’s Mallet & Chisel: Gravestone Carvers of Newport, Rhode Island, in the Eighteenth Century, the bible of research for Newport stonecarvers. I hope you’ve enjoyed this brief look.

© 2010 by A. Roy Hilbinger

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More items from the fab Polka Dot Posh site! This adorable hat and matching leg warmers! I just did these images this morning:Make sure that you enter the give away below, the winner will be picked tomorrow! Related Posts We’re GIVING AWAY A HAT!!! HOTTIE HEADBAND GIVE AWAY! Babies and hats {salt lake child photographer} ]]>

More items from the fab Polka Dot Posh site! This adorable hat and matching leg warmers! I just did these images this morning:



Make sure that you enter the give away below, the winner will be picked tomorrow!

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We’re giving away another item for Polka Dot Posh! This time it’s this adorable women’s headband.If you win, you can pick any of these to cool for school colors.The fab thing about these is the flower actually has a button on the back of it so you can trade the flower for [...]]]>

We’re giving away another item for Polka Dot Posh! This time it’s this adorable women’s headband.



If you win, you can pick any of these to cool for school colors.

The fab thing about these is the flower actually has a button on the back of it so you can trade the flower for any color your little heart desires.
From today until FRIDAY the 12th when the give away ENDS, you can purchase anything from Polka Dot Posh for 20% OFF!! Yahoo!! Just mention this site!

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then tell us in your comment you’re a fan. Just click on the icon below!
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Leave different comments for each entry puh-lease!

I’ll pick the winner on FRIDAY at 10pm!

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More from my Mesa sessions! We had a good time at this shoot. Samantha and Maggie were so cute. And I really loved their outfits- and the bare feet. I love. You’d never guess by the pics, but Maggie gave me a giant run for my money. She was [...]]]>

More from my Mesa sessions! We had a good time at this shoot. Samantha and Maggie were so cute. And I really loved their outfits- and the bare feet. I love. You’d never guess by the pics, but Maggie gave me a giant run for my money. She was not about to sit for more than 1.967 seconds. So I did a lot of following her around, which is actually one of my favorite ways to capture children. Here’s a sneak peak…


And later today….
I’m giving away one of these fabulous-O headbands. Stay tuned!

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Zach was awesome!! This guy has the best clothes, I mean the choices he had were great. Im anxious to see what his favorites were….I loved that orange shirt!! He did lots of research before choosing us as his photographer, but I think he chose us because every picture he saw of his friends that [...]]]>

Zach was awesome!! This guy has the best clothes, I mean the choices he had were great. Im anxious to see what his favorites were….I loved that orange shirt!! He did lots of research before choosing us as his photographer, but I think he chose us because every picture he saw of his friends that he likes….we did!! Thanks Zach…..and I still wanna photograph you with your car!!

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Aarons mom “karon” worked at the studio for years!! Im soooo excited about Aaron! He is such a cutie, and that dark hair is to die for. He did great considering hes so “new”! Im sure he gets lots of practice modeling for his aunt Shannon….but Im glad I got a turn to photograph him [...]]]>

Aarons mom “karon” worked at the studio for years!! Im soooo excited about Aaron! He is such a cutie, and that dark hair is to die for. He did great considering hes so “new”! Im sure he gets lots of practice modeling for his aunt Shannon….but Im glad I got a turn to photograph him too!!

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I love the family shots on this backgroud. Its such a classic yet contemporary look for white clothing. This set will even look good on easter type outfits, and its not too late to call and set up Spring Break easter appointments!! These kiddos did great for us, I think mom will be very happy!! Related [...]]]>

I love the family shots on this backgroud. Its such a classic yet contemporary look for white clothing. This set will even look good on easter type outfits, and its not too late to call and set up Spring Break easter appointments!! These kiddos did great for us, I think mom will be very happy!!

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