exhibitions from the foto biennale...

The lovely Rachael left me a comment  the other day saying 'you do love your exhibitions!'. And it's true...I do. I definitely do.

brian duffy - jean shrimpton

While we didn't get close to seeing all 72 exhibitions when we went to the Foto Biennale in Ballarat a few weeks ago, we did manage a few. There was a brilliant retrospective of Brian Duffy, who died last year and was almost as famous as his famous subjects...

brian duffy - ziggy stardust

The next is by one of Richard's portfolio reviewers Cynthia Karalla...

We met the next photographer Heather Dinas when we were having breakfast at the Bibo cafe. She was lovely. Just as an aside, Richard chose 'the dog's breakfast' from the menu!

heather dinas - i carry your heart

 heather dinas - at your feet

heather dinas - lucretia

The next one by Judith Crispin, who is also a poet really captivated me...

 judith crispin - self diptych

judith crispin - soliloquy

judith crispin - afternoon of the cartographer

...and while I was looking at them I had a discussion with a photographer who'd also been having her work reviewed, about how I thought it was the height of laziness for an artist to label an image 'untitled'. And then she told me that's what she did! But she was very good about it and promised to think about what I'd said and why I thought titles were so important. I wonder if she went off muttering to herself about ill informed, amateur art critics! Probably. But, you know, it's all about the words for me, and how they can enhance the visual. Although I do concede that it's probably very easy to get it wrong.

Love, love, love these next ones by Lisa M Robinson. It's not often that the bloke I and agree on art, but we did with these from the Snowbound series...

 lisa m robinson - phantom

 lisa m robinson - verandah view

 lisa m robinson - running fence

lisa m robinson - echo

alfred 'greg' gregory - blackpool

There's still a few more weeks of the festival. Or if you can't get there, plenty of images on the website.
What do you think - titled or untitled?

Have a great weekend whatever it is you're doing...I might just go to another exhibition :))

I went to ballarat...

Hi there friends. I've been a bit absent I know, but I've been popping in and out of bloggy world whenever there's been a chance. I wouldn't want you to think it's been complete neglect. No, not at all.

One of the reasons for my absence was a lovely four day break in Ballarat. Although to be precise it was one day driving there, two days in situ and another day getting home. It's a long way between Canberra and Ballarat, it is indeed!

We went for the Foto Biennale. Richard was having his portfolio reviewed so I went along for the ride...and yes, he got some great feedback and encouragement to carry on. Yes, very pleased about that :)

But oh the irony, here we were in a lovely town for a photo festival and I hardly took any snaps. This meagre offering is it I'm afraid. 

Oh well. Next time. And maybe I'll show you some of my favourite works from the 72 exhibitions in another post. Yes I will. Hold me to that. There was some very fine stuff and it's definitely worth looking at. 

Baby Geese

5.25.11 : 145/365

How amazingly adorable are these little babies that we've been driving by everyday? The mister slowed the truck down long enough for me to get a few pics from the window on our way home. This was about the moment when mama started to get a little annoyed. I promised that I was done and we made our way out of there... no need to upset this adorable little family! I'm please that I got a picture to share though, because they really made me smile!

Flowers II

5.23.11 : 143/365

Here's my lilac making a go at it. This is it's second year, as it was a housewarming gift from my parent's last spring, and it's doing incredibly well. It has at least doubled in size, beautiful!

Flowers

5.16.11 : 136/365

A few more garden shots. You probably already know this but I'll tell you anyway; I didn't start any of these from seeds on my own, we all know how the herbs turned out!

Ethereal (Wordless)

5.12.11 : 132/365

First hike of the season!

** I tried posting this earlier in the week, but blogger was acting weird and wouldn't upload any of my pictures. So this post is about a week late **

This past weekend my husband and I were able to take our first hike of the season! The weather here in Ohio has been really awful this spring, so much rain. Every weekend has been either too cold or raining. This past weekend the sun was out and it was so warm outside! We decided to take advantage of it!

The park we went to is actually the same park we were married in, 5 years ago. I wanted to get a picture of the stone shelter, but someone was having a birthday party in it so I couldn't. :(

We also managed a first picnic in before our hike. Almond/peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fruit salad and chips!

A bridge we crossed on our hike. 

We have had a lot of rain here lately, so the water falls were going pretty well! 

A little friend we found along the way. 

So glad summer is finally here!

Photo Friday

We have been getting so much rain here the last couple of months. So one morning this week I took this picture. It had rained most of the night and there was also mist on the ground. I actually forgot these irises were in my flower beds! haha

Spring is in the air!

Today and tomorrow are the first days we have had in the 70's here in Ohio! I am very excited; definitely ready for spring! I took down the last of the winter decorations today and added some spring decorations to the outside and the house.

My tulips are about ready to bloom! 

Buds coming out on the flowering tree in my front yard. 

Jadis enjoying the windows open in the house! 

A new spring wreath I bought for the mud room. 

New decor I bought for in front of the TV. 

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Winter Ice Storm

Yesterday and last night we had a lot of sleet and rain here in Ohio, for that matter, most of the mid west to east coast did. The poor dogs were too scared to go outside much last night because they could hear tree limbs falling all around the house. I was just waiting for the power and the satellite dish to go out, but thank goodness, neither of them ever did. So this is what we woke up to this morning...

 

Thankfully no damage was done, I was worried about the cars being parked out under the trees. Looks like we will have a lot of clean up when it warms up! I'm just glad God kept us all safe and warm last night!! 

Wisdom Wednesday

A couple weeks ago, we went to the Creation Museum (my second time, everyone else first time) for my mom's birthday. I wanted to share this beautiful picture from there for today's Wisdom Wednesday quote.

Photo Credit: Taken by Heather G. at the Creation Museum