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52 Photos Project: Uncommon Shapes

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The 52 Photos Project theme this week is Uncommon shapes. . . .  this assignment intrigued me  "Born Again into Color" © 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian Piqued my curiosity. Made me excavate my photo files to see what fit. Should I choose this? Or this? So many possibilities I can't decide. Please forgive me. . . . I'm feeling a little gluttonous. . .  it's a Miss Piggy kind of day. (For a more weighty, philosophical post from me today, check Meri's Musings .) Since so many of you are intrigued by the teapot, here's some info from Conde Nast .  The close up of Chihuly glass is from a huge installation in Tacoma, Washington outside the Museum of Glass . If you're an art glass lover, check out the museum's website and the live feed when artists-in-residence are working in the hot shop.

52 Photos Project: Water Droplets

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This week's theme for 52 Photos Project is water drops. Plenty of those falling  out of the sky  right now.  They beat a soft snare drum sound  all night on the skylight in my bathroom. Somehow, those water drops  seem most suited for soaking into the garden than capturing with my camera. I'll bless them, of course, but leave them to do their job. Which is to create shots like this one. "Ballerinas" ©2011 Meri Arnett-Kremian I got up early one morning  when the sun had broken through the clouds, remnants of the previous night's showers, and went out camera in hand to meditate through the view finder. Looking up looking down there was magic all around me.

52 Photos Project: Crop

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The theme this week in 52 Photos Project is "crop." As in taking a photo straight out of the camera (or, in this case, with the saturation  bumped a little to approximate what I remember of the absolute saturation of color, the variety of blue to aquamarine, the hazy blue of the distant sky, Surfer © 2013 Meri Arnett-Kremian and  cropping it to enhance the composition by focusing in on a particular part of the original. Surfer © 2013 Meri Arnett-Kremian Here, my goal was to focus in on the surfer, showing a world in which the ocean, its magnificent power,  and the thrill of riding a wave successfully are the only things on his mind. In the moment. Present.