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mixedmedia · 12-17-2008, 04:33 AM

My mother took home the carpet you see on the left.

little_tippler · 12-17-2008, 05:16 AM

These are lovely. I want your camera! And those beautiful old brushes ( or whatever they are). You also have a great photographic eye. I love the cherub photo. The gravestones are interesting too...cemeteries are fascinating.

roachboy · 12-17-2008, 05:46 AM

excellent.
i really like the interior series (interior to the larger series) from the door (which is great) to the black-and-white brick building...
and the black and white cemetery photos are way way southern gothic.

very nice.
i'll maybe say more when i've a bit of time.

nice to see new stuff.

fresnelly · 12-17-2008, 07:30 AM

My favourite is the kitchen antiques display. Wonderful colours and I can just about feel the enamel and glass by looking at it. The contrast in lighting tones and colours is also very evocative.

Great to see your stuff again!

Magpie_1 · 12-17-2008, 08:14 AM

Your photographs are beautiful. My favorites are the ones of the dolls.

snowy · 12-17-2008, 08:59 AM

It's always interesting to me to see the shots you choose, mixedmedia, to see how you frame the subject matter, or for that matter, what you choose as the subject matter of the shot. I like your eye. The photograph of the dolls in color is intriguing; it makes me think of my mother, and other mothers, who must have owned dolls like that when they were young, yet now their dolls are in antique shops. I also (as a lover of cemeteries, is that strange?) really enjoyed the gravestones.

And like other folks here, I'm happy to see some new stuff from you.

mixedmedia · 12-17-2008, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by little_tippler

These are lovely. I want your camera! And those beautiful old brushes ( or whatever they are). You also have a great photographic eye. I love the cherub photo. The gravestones are interesting too...cemeteries are fascinating.

Thank you, LT. The brushes, I was told by the store owner, are Japanese calligraphy brushes. He had some others that were about 4.5' in length, huge and beautifully enameled. It was a wonderful shop. The owner had taught high school in China for 25 years, then came back to this tiny little FL town and opened an Asian Antiques shop. I love stories like that. He was lovely. And so was his dog.
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Originally Posted by roachboy

excellent.
i really like the interior series (interior to the larger series) from the door (which is great) to the black-and-white brick building...
and the black and white cemetery photos are way way southern gothic.

very nice.
i'll maybe say more when i've a bit of time.

nice to see new stuff.

Thanks, rb. I'm glad you like them.

Lucifer · 12-17-2008, 12:29 PM

So glad to see your excellent photography eye hasn't diminished with your absence from these hallowed halls. Beautiful photos, I'm so envious of the cemetery shots!

mixedmedia · 12-17-2008, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by fresnelly

My favourite is the kitchen antiques display. Wonderful colours and I can just about feel the enamel and glass by looking at it. The contrast in lighting tones and colours is also very evocative.

Great to see your stuff again!

Thank you. You might enjoy these then, too. The amount of stuff in this house was quite breathtaking (the dolls were in the same shop). When I walked into this kitchen I literally gasped. I just liked the composition of the other photo more.

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Originally Posted by Magpie_1

Your photographs are beautiful. My favorites are the ones of the dolls.

Thank you. I especially liked the look on the face of the little 'Indian' doll surrounded by all the lady dolls.
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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl

It's always interesting to me to see the shots you choose, mixedmedia, to see how you frame the subject matter, or for that matter, what you choose as the subject matter of the shot. I like your eye. The photograph of the dolls in color is intriguing; it makes me think of my mother, and other mothers, who must have owned dolls like that when they were young, yet now their dolls are in antique shops. I also (as a lover of cemeteries, is that strange?) really enjoyed the gravestones.

And like other folks here, I'm happy to see some new stuff from you.

Thank you, snowy. The cemetery was amazing. The oldest gravestone we saw was from 1857. Many of them were so worn down that you couldn't read them anymore.
Unfortunately many of my favorite shots from there have my daughter in them so I can't post them here. But I am very happy to have pictures of her in a graveyard.

Even though this is not a great shot, you can get a good idea of how it felt to be there. It was getting near dusk and the overhanging live oak trees and their moss were quite evocative. It was very peaceful. Very nice place to be.

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Originally Posted by Lucifer

So glad to see your excellent photography eye hasn't diminished with your absence from these hallowed halls. Beautiful photos, I'm so envious of the cemetery shots!

I'm so glad you liked them. Thank you.

fresnelly · 12-17-2008, 01:14 PM

Agreed about the composition. There's something about that security camera though. It's completely out of place and I wonder how it could be included to highlight this.

mixedmedia · 12-17-2008, 01:19 PM

I know, but I didn't even notice the camera until I got home and looked at the photographs. The glass and china were a little distracting, lol.

I can understand the need for it, I suppose, considering the amount of inventory she had.

Just an aside, she wasn't nearly as friendly as the other shop owners in the town. Could account for something.

anti fishstick · 12-17-2008, 02:49 PM

i absolutely love your photography! great colors.

mixedmedia · 12-17-2008, 03:03 PM

Thank you very much.

Manic_Skafe · 12-17-2008, 06:40 PM

Cool shots mm - where are the eyes on that dog? Love the contrasty wall shots.

mixedmedia · 12-17-2008, 07:32 PM

thank you, skafe. Those eyes are in there somewhere, lol.

The walls were my favorite photos and, in fact, I was quite convinced that they were the only good ones out of the whole batch. Glad folks liked the other ones, too.

kramus · 12-17-2008, 08:20 PM

Lovely stuff Mixed Media. That door is very nice. The sense of the car - the texture - I can almost feel it on my hand or smell it. The HIS wall is very cool too. I really like your eye and your ability to make your camera follow your eye.

mixedmedia · 12-18-2008, 10:48 PM

Thank you, kramus.

12-17-2008, 04:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	stuff one might see in micanopy, florida. My mother took home the carpet you see on the left. __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

12-17-2008, 05:16 AM	#2 (permalink)
little_tippler Leaning against the -Sun- Super Moderator Location: on the other side	These are lovely. I want your camera! And those beautiful old brushes ( or whatever they are). You also have a great photographic eye. I love the cherub photo. The gravestones are interesting too...cemeteries are fascinating. __________________ Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918

12-17-2008, 05:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	excellent. i really like the interior series (interior to the larger series) from the door (which is great) to the black-and-white brick building... and the black and white cemetery photos are way way southern gothic. very nice. i'll maybe say more when i've a bit of time. nice to see new stuff. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite

12-17-2008, 07:30 AM	#4 (permalink)
fresnelly Functionally Appropriate Location: Toronto	My favourite is the kitchen antiques display. Wonderful colours and I can just about feel the enamel and glass by looking at it. The contrast in lighting tones and colours is also very evocative. Great to see your stuff again! __________________ Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

12-17-2008, 08:14 AM	#5 (permalink)
Magpie_1 Insane Location: Ontario, Canada	Your photographs are beautiful. My favorites are the ones of the dolls. __________________ "Art is what you can get away with." - Andy Warhol

12-17-2008, 08:59 AM	#6 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	It's always interesting to me to see the shots you choose, mixedmedia, to see how you frame the subject matter, or for that matter, what you choose as the subject matter of the shot. I like your eye. The photograph of the dolls in color is intriguing; it makes me think of my mother, and other mothers, who must have owned dolls like that when they were young, yet now their dolls are in antique shops. I also (as a lover of cemeteries, is that strange?) really enjoyed the gravestones. And like other folks here, I'm happy to see some new stuff from you. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

12-17-2008, 12:29 PM	#8 (permalink)
Lucifer Husband of Seamaiden Location: Nova Scotia	So glad to see your excellent photography eye hasn't diminished with your absence from these hallowed halls. Beautiful photos, I'm so envious of the cemetery shots! __________________ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Job 30:29 1123, 6536, 5321

12-17-2008, 01:14 PM	#10 (permalink)
fresnelly Functionally Appropriate Location: Toronto	Agreed about the composition. There's something about that security camera though. It's completely out of place and I wonder how it could be included to highlight this. __________________ Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

12-17-2008, 01:19 PM	#11 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	I know, but I didn't even notice the camera until I got home and looked at the photographs. The glass and china were a little distracting, lol. I can understand the need for it, I suppose, considering the amount of inventory she had. Just an aside, she wasn't nearly as friendly as the other shop owners in the town. Could account for something. __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

12-17-2008, 02:49 PM	#12 (permalink)
anti fishstick Post-modernism meets Individualism AKA the Clash Location: oregon	i absolutely love your photography! great colors. __________________ And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

12-17-2008, 03:03 PM	#13 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	Thank you very much. __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

12-17-2008, 06:40 PM	#14 (permalink)
Manic_Skafe More Than You Expect Location: Queens	Cool shots mm - where are the eyes on that dog? Love the contrasty wall shots. __________________ "Porn is a zoo of exotic animals that becomes boring upon ownership." -Nersesian

12-17-2008, 07:32 PM	#15 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	thank you, skafe. Those eyes are in there somewhere, lol. The walls were my favorite photos and, in fact, I was quite convinced that they were the only good ones out of the whole batch. Glad folks liked the other ones, too. __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

12-17-2008, 08:20 PM	#16 (permalink)
kramus loving the curves Location: my Lady's manor	Lovely stuff Mixed Media. That door is very nice. The sense of the car - the texture - I can almost feel it on my hand or smell it. The HIS wall is very cool too. I really like your eye and your ability to make your camera follow your eye. __________________ And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca

12-18-2008, 10:48 PM	#17 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	Thank you, kramus. __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce