From Giliell. Click for full size!
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Art, Fun, & Nonsense.
From Giliell. Click for full size!
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From Giliell. I needed these, too! Click for full size.
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From Charly. My thanks for these, I needed them so, to see beautiful, bright life. Click for full size.
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© Elene Usdin — Les photographies et illustrations ne sont pas libres de droits.
© Elene Usdin — Les photographies et illustrations ne sont pas libres de droits.
© Elene Usdin — Les photographies et illustrations ne sont pas libres de droits.
© Elene Usdin — Les photographies et illustrations ne sont pas libres de droits.
© Elene Usdin — Les photographies et illustrations ne sont pas libres de droits.
Oh, go explore the world of Elene Usdin, a world of wonders and evocative stories! A grand place to get lost and wander. Elene Usdin.
From Lofty, who says: We know when the end of summer is approaching, because the belladonna lilies “Amaryllis Belladonna” come up in the top garden. Click for full size!
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It’s great to see all the older activists out! Photos by David Vassali. You can see more photos at The Advocate.
Hydrophilic beads are fun to play with – they bounce! They also hold and disperse scent nicely.
© C. Ford.
Beautiful snowdrops from Kengi. Oh, to see flowers this time of year! Click for full size.
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A young squirrel noted the feeding stations being filled, and I noticed young squirrel. Told him no, because dinosaur photo day. I was back inside, where I normally am to shoot birds, with the window open. Young squirrel looks at me, I say no again. Young squirrel opts for the pity position, curling one hand in against the chest, a signifier of just how effing cold it is, have pity! No is reiterated. Young squirrel goes the full court pity position, with both hands curled in, it’s really really really really freezing cold! I remarked to young squirrel that he should not have chosen a day with the sun shining and the temp a very unseasonable 54 F.
© C. Ford.
© C. Ford.
Aaaaaw. From Kengi, click for full size.
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From Kengi, click for full size! I’m so jealous. The only time starlings break their cover here, they are way out of my lens range.
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Mark Seliger, “Adrian Torres and Carmen Carrera” (2015), gelatin silver print, 36 x 36 inches, Edition of 7+2AP (all images courtesy the artist and Von Lintel Gallery).
Mark Seliger, “Mahayla McElroy” (2015), gelatin silver print 36 x 36 inches, Edition of 7+2AP.
Mark Seliger, “Benjamin Melzer” (2016), gelatin silver print, 36 x 36 inches, Edition of 7+2AP.
LOS ANGELES — Mark Seliger is a widely known photographer, with over 125 Rolling Stone covers to his name, yet there is something new and revelatory in On Christopher Street, his current exhibit at Von Lintel Gallery showing portraits of trans women and men. Seliger lives and works in Manhattan’s West Village, and although he is primarily a celebrity photographer, this new body of work arose from engaging with the trans people in his own neighborhood.
Seliger has the rare ability to get his subjects to open up to the lens, their deeper layers rising to the surface of the picture. The photographs are black and white, executed in the high-gloss stew of hero worship and advertising we have come to expect from images of the famous. Though the Christopher Street subjects are mostly ordinary folk, his visual style confers a measure of stardom upon them without eclipsing their human vulnerability.
You can read all about this fabulous exhibit, and see more, at Hyperallergic.