MONOCHROME MONDAY - CITY NIGHT, NEW YORK CITY

                                                                                                                        

                                                                     

And this is a monochrome version of what the painter, Georgia O'Keeffe, saw:

City Night, 1926                                                                                                                                        The Radiator Building, 1927

                                                                                                









                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                    







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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY- BEFORE THE BIRDS THERE WERE DINOSAURS!

       The hi fives?  
                                                                            
                    Enlarge all                                                                        

"No Kidding!" (say, the five year olds!).    ANYWAY, WHEN THE DUST SETTLED, NATURE CREATED THE BIRDS, INHERITING DINOSAUR

CHARACTERISTICS ON A MUCH SMALLER SCALE - long story, of course.  Happy Birding!

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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS - UNIDENTIFIED REFLECTION IN NYC, USA

                                                       Enlarge





                   If anyone recognizes this uptown golden reflected building,  please let me know!




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SKYWATCH FRIDAY - SNOW IN THE MORNING, THEN

     PUDDLES BY NOON!

                                     Crossing the street at St. Mark's Place and 2nd Street, NY.

                                                              

                                      

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MONOCHROME MONDAY - THE LONG SHADOW

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - THINK DE-CONDITIONING

That means, physical therapy - undo sedentary habits like sitting for hours, blogging!

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SKYWATCH FRIDAY - A NON-EVENT THIS MORNING

    So,  I accidentally make one!

    The time is about 7.10 am

     Below is 12th Street and 3rd Avenue, looking East

                                                                              

8 am

The little triangle that you see is the Hudson River


  
 Other skywatchers will have something much more spectacular, although I used to work for a newspaper whose editor would say (to the novice that I was in those days) that even non-events are news!

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RUBY TUESDAY - WHAT THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE PAINTER SAW

 My posting of this photograph,The Red Daisy, for RUBY TUESDAY, is inspired by fellow blogger, The Aware Writer, whose 'Ode to a Red Flower' was posted on Monday Musings:    http://awarewriter.wordpress.com/

John McDevitt's musings and experiments with the photographic medium produced images that reminded me of Georgia O'Keeffe's approach to painting flowers.   In short, creating images that are about the flower itself, and the photographer's ability to reveal a transformative inner dimension that the transient eye doesn't register.  Today, photographers can go out on a limb with their imaginations and tools, just as O'keeffe decided to do with painting a little flower.    Notably, McDevitt's experiments with an 'Ode to a Red Flower' became as abstract as some of O'Keeffe's flower paintings.

                                               The Red Gerber Daisy by Margaret Gosden

   When O'Keeffe started painting flowers she wanted to paint what she SAW, not what people usually associated with flowers - the touching, the smelling, the gifting, the arranging.   She said, "Still, in a way, nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small, we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time".

  She thought that if she painted a flower, small, no one would see what she sees, so she decided to paint big.  "I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers".

  This is O'keeffe's painting of a Red Poppy, 1927. Oil on canvas 7 x 9 taken from Georgia O'keeffe, A Studio Book, published by The Viking Press, New York (1976)

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MONOCHROME MONDAY - 'THE GREAT ABOMINATION' ON ASTOR PLACE

Dubbed 'The Great Abomination' on Astor Place, New York (according to artist Doug Blanchard's blog COUNTERLIGHT'S PECULIARS) this building, completed in 2009, dominates the view of 4th Avenue, where Lafayette and the Bowery come together.       However, 'The Great Abomination' offers passers by a mesmerizing, ever changing facade of moving reflected shapes and, to the photographer, numerous choices of combinations of shots, when traffic allows.  One move to the right or left, backward or forward, and the favored pattern is gone!  

                

                                    

                                
It is not the only ugly new building that has lately appeared in the neighborhood.    But that is a story for
another day!


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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - STILL LIFE WITH UTENSILS

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SKYWATCH FRIDAY - HOORAY AND UP SHE RISES...

    About 7 am   Looking East

    Below, zooming-in on the building on the right (above), the flight pattern to Kennedy Airport is noted
    plus two birds can be seen if enlarged.

Then

 About 7.15 am      "Hooray and up she rises...  

 Early in the morning!".      

     The building on the left is one storey higher than last week.

     About 8.30 am     Work is seen to begin as the elevator moves up and down.  Temperature  30!

      Up there, very chilly!

                                                          

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MOTION THURSDAY - REFLECTIONS - TO CROSS, OR NOT TO CROSS, THAT IS THE QUESTION...

                                                         No day dreaming allowed here!






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RUBY TUESDAY - GHOST PAINTING after GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

    O'Keeffe and Abiquiu house:  "The wall with a door in it was something I had to have - it took me 10 years to get it...after that the wall with a door was painted many times".

    (Below:   Black Door with Red (Oil on canvas 48x84 in.1954 Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk,Virginia).

    Relaxing at home over a snifter of brandy, following a visit to the Whitney Museum NY to catch the Georgia O'keeffe exhibit, my friend MFH noticed how the painting above is reflected when looking at it through the brandy.    Ha!  A new abstraction of The Door.   Not only that, the first photograph produced the ghost passing through it - how fitting!     (O'KEEFFE ABSTRACTIONS travels to The Phillips Collection in Washington DC  February 6 - May 9)

     So, one image led to another, and another...

The art world, and one or two of my friends, still find it difficult to consider O'Keeffe's work worthy of the attention she has had throughout her career.   O'Keeffe would accept none of it - she saw that audience associations with gender, erotic relationships (and personal relationships) limited the possibility of looking at her painting, free of such issues, and seeing what SHE saw.

    So, forgetting the alcoholic relationship here, this is what I saw!  Lots of red for Ruby Tuesday.




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MONOCHROME MONDAY - SnoW THANKS!

                        That is the corner of 14th Street and 4th Avenue, viewing Union Square Park, NY from my 10th floor window on 12th Street

         Today, the Empire State Building cannot be seen between the Zeckendorf Towers, overlooking Union Square

 These buildings are on 12th Street - I am shooting ALL views, using my G7 Canon camera.

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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY - UNDER AND OVER THE TABLE

                    


            
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