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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Close-ups #2

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Close Ups

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I was going for a painterly effect in working with this photo of my dog, Diego.  This is a different shot from the one I did a Warhol technique with a few days ago.  The canvas effect is because the photo was taken through a screen door.  Wish I could paint this well, but alas, everything was accomplished via iPhoto!
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Retablo of the Patron Saint of Poets and Musicians

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Santa Cecilia is the patron saint of poets and musicians.  This retablo evolved before I did any research on her at all.  I had bought this wonderful oil painting in Peru and just let my mind go in building a retablo for her.  I had no idea who she was–thought she was just another madonna.  When I had finished, an artist friend, Eduardo Xilonsochitl, was at my house painting and building a sculpture for me by the pool and he saw her and said, “Ah, Santa Cecilia.”  I then Googled Saint Cecilia and discovered that all of the symbolism of the retablo did in fact tell the story of her life.  Some things just want to belong together and so it was with her portrait .

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16″ X 16: Santa Cecilia: Mixed Media Retablo, Wood, Metal, paper, dried flowers and leaves, Gold Leaf, Feather, Bone, Abelone, Antique Toy Rocking  Chair, Oil Painting on Canvas, Acrylic paint. 16″ X 16. Click on picture to see details.

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WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat #2

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WordPress Weekly Photo Prompt: Afloat

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I love how the clouds are afloat in both the sky and the water.

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That blue mass to the right of the picture is definitely a “float.” Love the little pink beach bunny, complete with matching trike.

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Afloat on the muddy Amazon

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Candelabra Island, Peru. Hundreds of thousands of birds.

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There are thousands of white pelicans that winter on Lake Chapala.
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More floats to come tomorrow!  Now I must go float in the pool!!!!

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Well, the muse didn’t want to conduct an interview today.  Instead, we spent a few minutes simply viewing Diego through the screen door of my studio and then snapped a few pictures and played around with them.  Here are the results: DSC09992DSC09998 DSC09995 DSC09995 - Version 2 DSC09995 - Version 3 DSC09995 - Version 4

If you want to see what I did write today, look here: https://grieflessons.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/napowrimo-2015-two-abecedarian-poems-loving-thy-enemy-and-raw-savage-thoughts/

To read people who did answer this prompt, go here: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/the-interview/

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Churches–Jocotepec Church

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The Jocotepec, Jalisco, church is beautifully constructed of irregularly-shaped stone with smaller stones laid into the grout.  The base of each of the huge palm trees in the courtyard is surrounded by a huge metal or clay pot handcrafted by local artisans.  Although I live in the municipality of Jocotepec, my village is actually the smaller pueblo of San Juan Cosala.

 

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One Word Photo Challenge: Copper

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The copper vases were all hand raised in Santa Clara del Cobra, near Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.  I couldn’t find my pictures of artisans at work, unfortunately, but perhaps some day they will magically appear.  The woman is a Tarahumara woman from Copper Canyon, where I didn’t see any copper for sale, but the women make incredible pine needle baskets.  The murals are from the ceiling of a church at the bottom of the Canyon.  Seems like Copper Canyon pictures qualified.  I could have taken the Pepsi bottle out of the picture, but it is more authentic with it.  Pepsi actually made it to Mexico (at least my part of Mexico) before Coca Cola did.  I have a story about that.  Perhaps one day… The bracelets are from Santa Clara del Cobra and Africa.

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One Word Photo Challenge: Shamrock

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What fun to look back a few years to look for photos to meet this challenge.  The first one of the bird in the water plants was taken on a trip to Peru several years ago.  This particular picture was taken on a pond near the Amazon.  The picture of the ant was also taken in the rainforest on that trip.The Mayan woman is a fountain that I commissioned and that spilled water into my pool.  Unfortunately a workman tipped it over and broke it a few years ago and the new one I paid for  and commissioned has never appeared.  Nor has the artist I paid to make it.  Sob. The gold colored building is my studio and that little cactus in front of it is now at least 30 feet high. The water lilies are on a pond in the Lake Chapala Society in Ajijic–the town I live near in Mexico, and the green moth flew on to my computer screen a year or so ago and actually had a poem dedicated to it.  It was very tiny and only a little bit less green than this picture depicts it to be.  Thanks for taking this journey through green with me! If you want to see larger versions, just click on the pictures.

 

 

 

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Travel Theme: The Great Outdoors

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Here are my photos on the “Outdoors” theme:

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