Friday, November 6, 2009

Photographic Experiment 5: Reflections

We received a few less this time around, but I personally think this collection contains many of our best photographs to date - so quality certainly outweighs quantity for round 5.

Thanks to all who contributed... (click images to see larger).


















We received a few less this time around, but I personally think this is our best batch of photographs to date - so quality certainly outweighs quantity for round 5.

Thanks to all who contributed... (click images to see larger).

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Photographic Experiment 4: Autumn

The text above each image corresponds to the image below it, and was provided by the photographer of that photo.


The simple beauty of a leaf, the clarity of it's existence,
the ambiguity of being human, and what is in the space between?

Yellow String


it's not a typical fall photo, but i thought it was really pretty. great salt lake-ish area.




I took this photo because I liked the red splotches on the leaves.
It was raining that day which made it even better.

Fall is a beautiful and yet difficult time for me.
Most of the photos I took thinking about this were dark,
one was of a little skull, and a good number of them involved
the muted color sand fine shapes of dried seeds.
This one is a photo of harvest and hope,
the early morning light coming through the kitchen window.

green and sway
will give way
to rot and decay
biodegradable blessing
in death, there is life, there is death

Chlorophyll Draining

The fall is always wonderful because of the harvest.
You finally get to see the benefits of how hard you worked during the summer and it's truly satisfying.

i like the way
the veins are visible
in the leafs against the sky

this image is important to me because:
it was taken on the gate of the house i grew up in.
so there were a lot of memories made on the other side.

Squaw Peak Road, Provo Canyon. More on sheknewjoy.blogspot.com.

Hanging out in the nothing...

this is autumn.
the explosion,
the moment of color before winter white erases the vibrancy.
this is autumn, the promise of beauty being made.
the clouds, the colors,
the promise of beauty being kept as the chill
ready to steal it all away hangs overhead.
this is autumn.


Pumpkin pumpkin
big and round,
I'm glad you grow
upon the ground.
I'm glad you don't
grow in a tree
for then you might
fall down on me.


Autumn in Bellingham, Washington

Bird Watching

pretty tree at UVU

Um...I'm going to call this picture "Pine of Fire".

I just finished working the potato harvest, and this empty field embodies the pure, complete joy I felt on our last day of work.
No other feeling catches so completely my love for this season.

The only red leaf on the whole tree,
yet soon the whole tree will be red.
Change starts with one.



(CLICK IMAGES TO MAKE THEM LARGER)

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Photographic Experiment 3: Strangers







Unfortunately, not very many people participated in this experiment, but it is unique nonetheless. I may run this one again at a later time with some sort of variation. I would like to see an experiment like this take off. Thanks so much to the five of you who made this experiment happen still.

(Click images to see them larger.)

Sunday, October 4, 2009

The Road to Kasama

The landscape was everywhere and was everything, it was dead but also living and it flourished but also struggled.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Photographic Experiment 2: Cracks





















"Crack of Dawn"

Click images to see larger size.

Keep watching for upcoming experiments in photography. Comments welcome.

Monday, September 14, 2009

If you have not seen 'The Cove' yet, see it! (Beautiful clip below)

Friday, September 11, 2009

Photographic Experiment 1: Facing West

For this first experiment, people pointed their cameras westward at precisely 7:40 PM (mountain time) and snapped one picture. I received 21 photos from around the world (thanks to Jordan) - 20 photos from Utah and 1 from Canada - and these pictures are displayed below. Enjoy, and keep your eyes open for future artistic and photographic 'experiments'.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who contributed.

Without further ado: 21 different perceptions of the west, taken on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at precisely 7:40 pm. (Click photos to see larger image)

Woodland Hills, Utah (1 photo)

Utah (1 photo)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1 photo)

Sandy, Utah (2 photos)


Salt Lake City, Utah (2 photos)


Provo, Utah (2 photos)


Orem, Utah (10 photos)










Lindon, Utah (1 photo)

American Fork, Utah (1 photo)

Enjoy, and please comment.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

For Mark


Notice the bee...


Observers in the background...


Click for detail...

Monday, September 7, 2009

don't feel lonely

when i saw this i thought: that sunflower has windswept hair! and she's got an admirer looking at her while she reaches her arms out. but the two can't touch, can they? or do they, underground, their roots entwined? i don't know. there is smoke in the air and the sunlight's dimmed. what do they think of that?

it's a long way to the sun


i took this picture, thinking nothing. but then when i looked at it later i thought about how far away the clouds in the background are from the flower. and then i started thinking about how far away the sun was from the flower, and how the flower keeps reaching for it. and then i thought about the stars up there so far, far away.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERIMENT

RULES:

The rules are simple. Wherever you are in the whole wide world, at EXACTLY 7:40 pm (USA Mountain Time or 9:40 pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, September 10, 2009, point your camera TO THE WESTERN SKY/SCENERY and take ONE picture.

Then, send that picture to jorgen1225@gmail.com - by 11:59pm Friday, Sept. 11 (the next day) - and I will post all pictures on the blog 'The Ubiquitousness of Beauty' (url: http://theubiquitousnessofbeauty.blogspot.com).

IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE EMAIL WRITE: "PHOTOGRAPH: (and then the location it was taken: e.g. Salt Lake City, Utah"

It's as easy as that. Just be sure that you take the picture of the Western Sky/Scenery within that same exact minute (Thursday, Sept. 10, at 7:40 pm USA MOUNTAIN TIME) and be sure to send the picture to the email above by 11:59 pm the following night (Fri. Sept. 11) WITH THE SUBJECT AS STATED ABOVE (so I know which emails are for this experiment).

Then, be sure to check the blog (at the link above) on Saturday morning to see all pictures.
Tell your friends...

Saturday, September 5, 2009

blood sunset


I live on the third floor of a condo facing west and one night last week we were just sitting playing cards and our whole front room slowly turned red and we were wondering what had happened and then looked out the window and saw this. We had to take a picture. The photo doesn't show the whole effect or how bright it was because of our camera, but it was impressive.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Remnants of Summer (w/ alterations)





Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Enlightenment tonight

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Palmer Penstemon and Gin Martini: Nature and Civilization


Friday, March 13, 2009

i am a bird now







In this picture is a stained-glass hummingbird that my great-aunt made with her two hands and me stretching out mine to try and fly. When the sunlight comes through just right, the bird begins to glow and my eyes turn into emeralds.

My great-aunt gave this bird to her sister, my grandmother, whom I cared for during the last year of her life until the evening that she died. But for twenty years this bird hung (or soared) above my grandmother's bed.

So, after my grandmother had died, and my great-aunt had disappeared into some far away place and became forgotten, I found this bird and brought it into my room and placed it near a window where the sunlight could touch it. And then I wrote a letter to my great-aunt which said this: "I know that your sister loved you very much. She kept the bird that you made above her bed for as long as I can remember. I'm sure that every time she saw it, she thought of you and smiled."

Monday, March 9, 2009

Morning Light

Friday, January 23, 2009

Bodysong

If you haven't seen this movie, you should.
Bodysong is a collection of videos documenting human life.
The images are beautiful.
There's no talking throughout most of the film.
The music is composed by Jonny Greenwood.





Monday, January 19, 2009

Virtue Spent


I will follow but only as long as I can lead.
I will listen but only as long as I am heard.
I will behave but only as long as I am made.
I will laugh but only as long as I mock.
I will appreciate but only as long as I need.
I will fight but only as long as I win.
I will submit but only as long as I endure.
I will hope but only as long as I fear.
I will love but only as long as I can stand.
I will be but only as long as I must.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Looking, as so often before, west