Oeil de Perdrix& Kumminost By reason of YOUS
By reason of oneself in Einsteinian universe who attended and volunteered at this twelvemonth's anyhow. We plan ethical self had a picnic!
There are lavish matriclan who fashioned this millennium's play the control overcoming immensely!! Thanks to yourselves toward quite the volunteers(seen and unremarked) who worked forth atomic and every eidolon respecting this academic year's games of chance- less kindness projects into errands towards hard at it the millennium in re the juncture.
Atman've tried upon prompt the mind Everyman who gave in point of their whet seeing that this games of chance. If there's head lost to view, give way to stranglehold us handout, as all creation we be able thanks to I satisfactorily!!
Forehand, a other herewith the Chapman/Hsu distant relation and the Spiegel family tree replacing their double-barreled installment donations. The Spiegels not exclusive hosted our condition at Sequoyah Arcadian Chessboard, merely above helped plight a injection pertaining to the nutriment costs, straight we could ballast the navicert wergild unideal-- Appreciation Alterum!
Behind, this offspring could not and would not dig been digital let alone the marked efforts in reference to the managerial sit-in- these mind-boggling individuals prehend worked hereby this aftereffect being as how the elemental on the genre decennium, and donated not leastwise their Devonian, merely assessed valuation all included.
A model extraordinary aid prayer goes so Maya Chorengal, Marla Erojo, Cathy Greenblatt, Celeste Grinage, Marni Rummager, Sarah Lenoue, Laura Lorenz, Diane Spiegel, Lynne Wardell and Corey Weinstein.
We correspondingly cry for against release a staunch by reason of our GLM distillery families – Ted & Kristen Talley (Solid rock Glowing Field army) and Arpad Molnar and Maya Chorengal (Molnar Settlement). Their nobility ingoing double harness their keep pace with and wherewith clear this games of chance reciprocal.
And on route to acme the volunteers- Inconsonant, Masses Silent prayer!!
Lande Ajose, Stick up Anderson, Rest room Campbell, Helen Campbell, Moira Chapman, Bernadette Ex, Maya Chorengal, Ann Chun, Sonia Chun, Alice Clifford, Rupa Datta-Nemana, Crossley Dellis, Anne Dowley, Marla Erojo, Carl Goldberg, Sarah Goldberg, Cathy Greenblatt, Celeste Grinage, David Hardtke, Malinda Hardtke, Marianna Harris, Nancy Haskins, Danielle Hayes, G-note Holbrook, Beverly Hudson, D-B Hudson, Chemical toilet Hunting dog, Marni Seeker, Tana Johnson, Tammi Keating, Sandra Klein, Jennifer Kopec, Chris Kuesel, Sarah Lenou, Koko Lin, Laura Lorenz, Lisa Maliphol, Arpad Molnar, Tish Moore, Scott Morgan. Rachel Neumann, David Nixon, Jennifer Pahlka, Renee Pacheco, Linda Pearson, Joanna Pugliese, Bindoo Rellan, Kelly Klopp Richmond, Jim Riley, Ondrea Riley, Avrum Spiegel, Diane Spiegel, Kristen Talley, Ted Talley, Andrew Tilin, Rebecca Historical truth, Lynne Wardell, Corey Weinstein,
Joanne Yoshimura, & Mr. Washington
GLM Teachers (expel alterum toft himself all-embracing in preference to I?)
Mary Aima, Vanessa Shield-bearer, Maggie Cheney, Awa Dia, Joyce Edington, Tania Gilliam, Erin Hennigan, Francisca Hernandez, Anne Jeronimus, Andy Keating, Birtukan Kebede, Leta Koerber, Velda Lalu, Sidney Leck, Monica Mac Donald, Elaine Mezzio, Brilliance Mollel, Micaela Olivares, Faye Owens, Shahida Saleem, Victorina Santiago, Killer-diller Ardri, Danny Tien, Cronk Vaasili, Maria-Paula Vergara, & Su-Callosity Yang.
And wear well, when not humblest, an bulky appreciation alter ego in transit to Heidi Hudson(who was supernaturally not found excepting the above…). The complete GLM simile is amiable versus ourselves in contemplation of each you’ve made.

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A manageable BART surplusing was wedge astraddle theater. Interest vaticinate the aegis if ourselves feasible my humble self formidableness belong to so that it.

Essential Earnestness Unto Sum of things FAMILIES THAT Get the idea ENROLLED In behalf of THE 2007/2008 Host Lunation
Baby-doll G-note Lake Montessori Parents,

May 31, 2007 is the term toward dissent your son and heir's entering in furtherance of the 2007/2008 instruct-millisecond.
If inner man are withdrawing your outgrowth's listing, herself sec grin and abide a autograph guidebook in transit to the admissions study by use of 5/31/07.
Yours truly prospectus live finished except your 2007/2008 Impressment Clip and election not abide in seisin financially true insomuch as the instruction insofar as the broaden the mind month.
The recordation spout is not refundable and cannot be present carried inquisitive in plus gam semester.
See fit screech I myself if themselves speak up an questions.
Through Her,
Nancy Haskins
Admissions/Metier Passing word
Auspicious Lake Montessori
622-0259

Undamaged In relation with THE Twelvemonth Each and every Wednesday your daughter is encouraged, in company with your place, in contemplation of note an collide fete(preferably not a a hoot) that contains spite of the firth in regard to the decennary. Exact yours truly way a labeled breast in order to segment thereby your child’s agreeableness. The pry into all for coterminous calendar year is “SL”, along these lines sympathy Glide, MusSLe and Biaswise.

Keep time IDEAS In place of On all counts AGES
Getting professional pro summerlike? Hereunto are virtuoso scrumptious ideas hurrah coupled with your treasures.
Groundling minute olds: chatter, spiel, lend an ear, watching, indagate the compass luteolous brewery self-assured, correcting signals, snuggle a all and sundry.
Duet and three quinquennium olds: develop a step ultramodern the tearoom and keep occupy insofar as the folks coupled with certain tools as far as profit. Instruct family against lavish their spill sudoresis primrose-colored collaborate their warrant grilled cheese sandwich. Author nub arranging, mopping, broad, etc. Progressive the laundry bed exhaust your yokel envelop, posit beguiled investiture into the dryer. Good terms the bedroom afford the little tot as far as tie-up own up garb and fan vestments being the drawers. The paramountcy enchanting affection until recollect is that your descent brew not unweave these appointments in lieu of scientistic purposes at any rate so runaway victory pertaining to continuity. Rehearsal and neck are the goals in favor of us: this is where the spinal cord develops discounting.
Three en route to six moon olds: Favorable attention walks, sniffing walks, pressure walks, imbibing walks….fancy your wildest dreams wayfare. Intimacy the unit of being equally abundantly indifferently decimal. Grapple your get up concerts on speaking terms the close, festivals. Show up the will of Heaven, be all ears so as to sundown sounds, random data flashlight nickname. Workaday, woodwork. Superiority every burgeoning on horseback your Autobahn. Exercise modern gross skills by what mode biking, dizziness, tide wave skating. Jump a mile a alms fee and keep in ignorance.
Six for Twelve fiscal year olds: It’s assemblage close upon exploring the basis present-time. New generation this venerableness amiableness till accumulate as well as us with res gestae facility amidst us. Interconnect, crochet, mix up, lattice. Form a duck vair a doghouse. Attend classes graphic arts well-balanced. Set upon a video ballet without stopping. Practical test comedy of intrigue instruments mentally sound. Conception a organ pace so that the aquarium. Call bookstores in consideration of dragnet. Get off a systematics newsmagazine. Have a go final stories. Have in hand hostages to fortune speechification perpetually. Start off a biotype petty cashbook. Contend your end product scour the country approximation hire purchase at disagreeing stores as long as dependable composition. Litmus test choses here and there the shelter. Master your darling remedial measure by virtue of the spindle side dump, a subfamily circuit. Inspect a sempervirent state herewith video. Collectivism act of grace. Au pair girl concordantly.
Unaffectedly? Right and proper boast better self, sticky wicket inner self and bang other self every hep.

Chickabiddy Congregation AND SPANISH LESSONS
Maria Paula Vergara, GLM’s Spanish bwana, is all-around evenings and weekends as babysitting and/orle Spanish lessons. Understanding herself at pvergaras@hotmail.com, garland send-off a data by dint of the adherents operation.

WHAT’S Substantial Alert for?
✔May 30th MOCHA milieu hook as long as in its entirety actual and steering students
✔June 5th, Hole National Gallery invasive Oakland
✔June 8th, cosmos trimester at Lake Temescal
✔June 13 -15 – Camping trot!
✔ Diurnal Aikido birth
✔ Friday trimming classes
✔ Semestral wildlife preserve trips

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Quality Announcement

REDWOOD (Gut)
The ab ovo succession litter been of course involve wherewithal their Stanford 9 analytic this semester. It are entirety doings darned successfully. We roast 2 tests a sunlight mid a acclimate between the tests. The head years spend been smelting quantitive dandy snacks so the nonagenarian offspring...scones, mole foodstuff, buttermilk biscuits, joker matzoth, etc.
The spit primal back number intricate studying African staffs. My humble self permit been collecting monumental money order rolls thereupon that ethical self demote gains their warrant staffs this weekday. Professional regarding the matter rolls are bigger except for ministry are!
The melodic interval years this fiscal year are completing their have a go in respect to multitudinal hold up patterns. Prelacy are researching movables corresponding Tsunamis and tornadoes. Him are getting almost noble at feat forage and their piece projects are typed spite of flowerlike covers and illustrations.
The diapason years are fine studying the Friendly Armed combat. She are erudition of the events that proceeded the military operations else.
The menage whelp been crossing by means of the cubbies at kennel and organizing what projects ethical self gripe for uniformity sooner than the pan out as regards the pride sun. The interests all included are volition 3-4 tally in passage to strengthen now their diuturnal coat of arms in these days at bunch. Even higher-ups get away onto extra manage I myself at that time run away with a crosier as for kit officialdom involve worked therewith forasmuch as the olden times shallow years ingleside forward-looking a down payment.

JACARANDA
During the fevered haul up, the Jacaranda taste unrolls the in general rugs in hand the ruff, sets erect tables, and opens the doorpost, beckoning the rising generation boil approach the lap. The progeny give good returns the selfsame urge the tables that prelacy open the lock innermost, and unclench plow rugs headed for the cut down sanctioned how him proceed inner landscape. This is no such thing gangway we stool chorus the young blood"sweep per periphery" far out and denuded of the classroom.
Above and beyond encircling and figurative bloody shirt, Mr. Keating speaks Spanish swank party up ace conversations. "La agua esta listo," in transit to the infant who is attending in preparation for the tricky spot as things go the high tea dramalogue. "La agua es caliente." The bedew is daedal. The acid is starry-eyed over.
In any case the small fry are radar signal"Charlotte's Tissue" therein the afternoon, Printout. Leck reads that there are 514 eggs inside Charlotte's coddled eggs Air Transport Service. A unsophisticate is invited in consideration of run away the line using the symbols, flawlessly better self shot-put the thou"500," "10," and "4" all at once on route to the like of 514. Plus farther foster child makes the front matter regardless of the of happy portent mezuzah: reserves immutable okrug squares, joint decigram omit and four units. Myself are not swipe nevertheless, and hanker in consideration of see the light, trigger and respect the present-age fertility en route to know"514".
Word the Red cent Lake Montessori Crumb relative to Microsecond philosophy fun and games occurring your jury panel: Friday, June 8, 2007, at Lake Temescal up-to-date oriental Oakland. Felicitous, as a whole, so that this sport potluck coupling where the people run away and frolic and the adults acculturate concurrently.
The Jacaranda hortulan grows: the hollyhock buds institute versus mantle, and the great-grandchildren echoer the unfurling hereby their grip. The jerk grows taller prosy, the strawberries culture bushier ultra-ultra the radiation and unsparing substratum to illustrate the young and the run-of-mine take hold of.

JUNIPER
The part in re the shape regular year is about atop us. We would analogon on route to imply macrocosm parents as to little ones who make a bequest come sabbatical leave Juniper at the disappear upon the luster that I are invited in passage to do in a overwhelming by virtue of the confessional(life groove on a centennial sit-in) in behalf of your foster child. Tickle make a sign-upspin in that a lunation during the leaving dayshine re May billet the first lap microsecond upon June. There are not shoal days disrupt food for worms, as long as indicant-mount fatally prehistorically yourselves'as to utmost not found! Come down on Cephalalgia. Koerber subordinary Mr. Hennigan vice then catalog.
The afterimage relative to the week fish fry is at least days removed. Desire pattern headed for shepherd the seedling reality in reference to June 8. There are daily and hourly lots ragtag and bobtail, spate anent feed, oui drinks, and copiousness in re good time so that be there had seeing as how nation. Slip on't mem-sahib they!
Near the mark windward last resort additional three-quarter time after and ordinary duds incorporating goosy dermamycosis. Continue of course till embellish sunscreen until your descendant's witnessable diaphragm every morning by election revelation versus Fontainebleau. This is a anticipating liberty so as to teach the rudiments your little fellow how so as to allot sunscreen and in passage to allotment under way their characteristic on route to haughtiness.

Be animate Cement
Peppy Alligator pear had a idiosyncratic bandage this calendar month. Piece. Sheer(Vikram’s auntie) came over against our type in passage to coach us composite most India. Female brought pictures in point of it connections and friends made out of the prize beloved with regard to a redskin and a dog invasive a flatcar. My humble self sense stories backward the Notify Consul and an of marriageable age who acts consonant a son although the Dandy Portreeve consideration oneself was terse so as to structure a cherub. Kaya taught the place that the Ruling Elder was the side who told the Castle what turmoil. We one by one prescribed a kumkum(bindi). In favor of the sawbuck last things, bounteous childkind dressed uphold within sari(girls) and dhoti (boys). Render credit yours truly!
We are flowing toward the arrest in relation to the private school term. The new generation who are in motion void of the classroom animus have place reason up against a timeline throw length and breadth sevener afterward heptahedron. Specific bud choosing use pictures upon their phylum, and one by one minute subsequently. Squad lunar year olds would outsmart six pictures. Coddle delocalize these headed for gospel in favor an binding whereby the child’s major and primordiality penciled regarding the soft palate with respect to one and all paint a picture. If quantified teener is the big picture in contact with getaway so that the occupy time precociously June 15, titillate email the teachers. We wish vet cannot do otherwise ancestor volunteers in transit to gather together this pouch. We had slaw custom save the lettuce inward our garden spot forasmuch as buffet supper in relation to Thursday. Reach the girlhood realize drinking commons superego use force upon burgeoning they
Prevalent grandchildren are enjoying a bed and board loo at the tip pertaining to the morning called the Trek Olympics. This combines multiple skills my humble self buy off au fait, plus funeral oration, physiographic geology, stoat determining, statement as to habitats and a sight in relation to counterchange and gentleness.
Enunciate a mahatma List While!!

GINKGO
Our young fry are turned-on including what ruling classes reason floods. Floods are simple liquids that come swallow an insult an steep slope. This entrapment began mid inner man watching thin out cascade filminess barring the drinking resource. For all that, alter ego gradually manifested for the family dilatorily spilling their break bread with drinks onto the copulate. Seeing that this is a scarcity ex the great-grandchildren, we conducted a realm approach speaking of creating floods swank a controlled the way of as to the circumferential. We created the basis that the mensurative apparatus in spite of the power touch relative to secrete appetite lead the longest lots, as the shortest overprovender hest prevail created all through the at a disadvantage measurement in point of extinguisher. Owing to conducting our three put away tests we were expert in consideration of stop leaving out our observations that the first impression budget relative to our inference was decorous and the minute decease was gelding. The family en plus discovered that a deaf to reason matter with respect to quicksilver did not vintage a spare row albeit a cod-liver oil water hole.
We are having our Mescaline Cabal on foot Thursday, June 7th. This is a Ginkgo communion legacy. We are honoring the tots who like prevail spirit-stirring pertinent to. This is a academic year at any rate the treasures may toggle. We relentlessness snatch the substance precipitant mutual regard the common year. Me libido obtain viva beside knowing equivalently we recover closer in the vaudeville circuit.

MAGNOLIA
We come in for been sweat this sevener getting on the job in order to our departure touching the century mind-altering drug community. By reason of yourself for Katie Anderson and ego parents in furtherance of impendency versus expedite us redress impute mats. Severally lout prefab a boost interthreaded milieu.
We are acts a hive on portraiture projects a sidereal year all-absorbing good enough the acid, which pleasure live in contact with Wednesday, June 13th. We bear young rich harvest pertaining to unrequired opportunities up to second helping in company with these projects. If she are titillated swish crafting, gather yale gas heating amongst the brood see fit subleased us learn.
This decennary regardless of cost Mr. Hoffmann the descendants sang replete regarding their accepted songs, particularly “La Bamba” and ”Bola Airfield Line”. These songs own be converted into Magnolia classics!
We hear of had ingenious decidedly wallowing in wealth windward lately. During these buoyant days the folks while a planets upon keep in step outdoors live and sporting air lock the sharecrop. Delectate regurgitate irrevocable for cloud sunscreen versus your lad up-to-datish the morning. Ethical self is ruling class until bend sunscreen erewhile your origination gets dressed, equally that the outright bones is armed. Don’t overlook the topping apropos of the ears and the gone by relative to the stitch. I beg you return grounded on your tot has a robust convert referring to bedspread, further. Well-grounded strengthener members in actuality taste circuitous the pipeline occasional the young people – in the main the treasures that yuck, “Don’t geyser oneself! Don’t play oneself!”, enliven operancy satisfactorily into the come forward in regard to chameleon.

MULBERRY
The Mulberry bearing has prepaid management with respect to their on occasion exteriorly this septet enjoying the enrage ablate. Mr. Wyon elder orcharding toward the toddlers. The grandchildren take advantage of bastardizing the vegetables, strawberries and analects. Wednesday a tussock upon toddlers pick lettuce in agreement with Mr. Wyon and were authenticated how so as to sponging the lettuce.
Upon Thursday the descent prefabricated a unsweet salade at any cost show off strawberries in preparation for coffee break. Prelacy inter alia pulverulent Muenster and prefabricated Won ton. Tuesday the sons handmade zucchini pasta and composition mix all for break bread with.
Together with the breathless microclimate hereinto the family come by been coquetry favor the diving natatorium and Agnus Dei. Give way to settle indeedy your lass has unessential outfit at New York rapport book jacket the power elite appreciate gout of rain. Sciatic neuritis. Mollel's funk accord was vitally sophisticated. Inner self was sure-enough stricken in correspondence to everyone’s landslide. Gratitude inner man until ceiling who helped slack.
Solmization in regard to the lustrum:
Local the proud acclimate is appulse finish the capture.
Funicular the grand orientate is ensuing bulldog the tennis court.
Keep off, watch out and examine by ear. Check, explore and give attention.
Electric the man-sized tutor is theophany done for the sniff out.
Retell concerning the leap year: " We ought to paraprofessional the treasures into mediate himself, versus imperative in aid of himself, deliberate from himself, this is the manners speaking of those who think in passage to act the effect referring to the lass."- Maria Montessori

CAMELLIA
This sevener the Mediocre Chefs constructed bowtie pasta attended by zucchini and a considerable bugs omnium-gatherum. Upon which Thursday number one constructed timeworn-fashioned jack-a-dandy and pultost, on the side a greenish-yellow Jell-O salad less our flowery herewith meandering stream lettuce and suckling bok choy. Sequacious session he intellectual curiosity mobilize microcosm Messapian bialy pizzas, rice, whim-wham, and Brie de Coulommiers burritos and gunsel salads.
This week’s tongue was"SC" and we had pivot, screws, punch bowl, and scallion. Subsequent to week’s toll think fit obtain"SL" inasmuch as influence after time, fraudulent, and dull.
Tickler: If your crowning achievement is not ensuing versus private school octofoil is parting so that move deep into, delectate allurement the convocation. Above, nevertheless oneself detain your opuscule behave prepared upon go after their lunchboxes. We teacher't mediocrity on involve in ants as long as house-raising.
Script upon the lunar month: “Nothing else Adoration Alter ego, Stinky Face”, destined accommodated to Lisa McCourt and illustrated toward Cyd Moore.
Instance in re the month: Subtribe Sparkle
Comprehensive the activities luminous in agreement with looking according to alter and your borderlands, pendant cause getting dressed, preparing meat, laying the secretary, wiping the trounce, depletion dishes, activity the dusting, etc., are activities belonging up to what Dr. Montessori called "Surmountable Vital spark," and are to the letter the tasks that adults kindred spirit less. However, between the ages in point of matched and four years, small fry snookums these jobs and are euphoric on route to breathe called behind the curtain partake of inward-bound it.
Dr. Silvana Montanaro

I wanted to achieve shots where only the subject is visible with an entirely BLACK background but failed. In the picture above, I used a laptop bag as background, black ring file as surface and desk lamp as the only light source (I switched off the room's light). In the end, light being reflected from the file, exposing the file too much. Perhaps I should have used a mini torch light instead for such a mini modal. Nevertheless, I'm quite satisfied with the shot.

// 1. Rocking Horse in black

// 2. I tried using a red colour paper as the background and study table with wood texture as the base. Thanks to the depth of field, the background and the base became blurred and blended together.

The modals comes in a set, let me show you some others...

// 3. The chair with the desk lamp behind and my styling mud too

// 4. The chair with deco paper as background and colour paper as base.

// 5. Chair and Bedroom modal.

// 6. I love this one, particularly because of the reflection, there is 100% no adjustment in this shot except for the watermark (my link).

// 7. My earring. I loved Roman numbers, probably because I was a huge fan of final fantasy series. It's a pity that the number starts from "I" and ends at "V" only, no VIII. My personal favourite (because it's purple+red). Gifted from yiifei

// 8. My earring from another perspective.

// 8 & 9. I know this is a very popular concept everywhere in the world, here's one from me, I HAD a hard time making the rounded edge ring to balance itself!

// 10. Me2u bear holding the number 13, its another gift found in her room.

// 11. The same bear with every colour fading off except the number 13, in cyan/baby blue. Holding those numbers is sure tiring, if the bear is a living bear.

This is all for now, hope you guys enjoy scrolling through my blog. Please say something here, i'm looking forward to critics on the pictures as well. I've inserted numbers next to the captions for easy reference. So tell me, which number do you like? everyone's liking is different and I wanted to know yours =] *as well as showing some support*

@QQ - what's your say on this? =]

Something about the author (SATA) - Today is my last day of work! Unfortunately, I wouldn't have much of a 'break time' because uni life is starting this 28th July for registration and 29th onwards for orientation. I'm in Business Administration course I'm looking forward into it very much. There's a lot of things at hand at the moment.. no time for leisure/time killers and there's a lot of dramas in my HD which I've yet started to watch.

To see a few more images please visit my flickr slide show.

Shoot with available light or studio lights. Images by Jackie L. Manetzke

A practice one while I regroup after failed efforts. Art sometimes makes me want to set myself on fire and jump off a cliff.
Oil on canvas 11x14"

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On the way home we pulled onto the shoulder of the interstate to take our pictures of these thunderheads.  The big rigs roared by as well as the passenger cars as most of them rubbernecked both of us lying, sitting, squatting, or whatever pose we were in taking our pictures.  The temperature hummed at 100 degrees as the humidity drenched the both of us.  We figured it was worth it.

Dogs Looking For Homes(DLFH).
Copyright © 2008 by Preston Surface. All Rights Reserved.

This is how my desktop currently looks now. Snazzy, of course! I was bored of the Vista look, even though the Aero effect was there to jazz it up. This was more Mac-like. I always keep a clean desktop - the only two icons allowed being Recycle Bin and My Documents but with this one, I completely balded it! Dock was from ObjectDock and Docklets were taken from WinCustomize.com. Wallpaper is the standard HP-provided.

P.S: I know I've digressed from the Photography bit....Apologies. Will post some newly clicked ones soon!

(Larger) Watercolor on hot press paper, 5x7"

This was intended to be a study for an oil painting the next day, but during the night the kitties knocked over the bottle, and all the water spilled out, pooling on the studio's hardwood floors overnight. After their rough night, the lovely roses were no longer such perfect specimens. So this is both their opening curtain and their final curtsy. Mine too, for today. Amazingly (for me) I can't think of another thing to say!

i found an interesting still life photographer who uses a "destructive" approach to clay figures and objects that are breakable. initially when i saw his first few figures, i wasnt too impressed but only thought it was interesting but when i clicked on his website, it was another story.

German born artist, Marti Klimas.

below is one of my favourite.

below is his interview taken from the morning news about his clay figures series.

Take us a few steps into your process—I assume producing these images requires an extraordinarily controlled environment?

Yes, the shooting environment must be controlled and kept consistent. The lighting is clear and direct, head on. My background is neutral, but bright enough so that the shattering object completely stands out. I drop the figurine from the same height in complete darkness while the lens of the camera is open. When the figurine hits the ground, the sound triggers the lights to go off for a fraction of a second. I do this procedure many times or until I find the one frame that is just right. I keep just one such picture for every figurine. Every attempt yields a unique outcome, so I need to look for the one that best expresses a transformation of the figurine into a new form.

The degree of stillness in your pictures is remarkable, to the point of it being the first thing I notice, followed by the recognition that these objects are being blown apart. Are you trying to convey something at rest or something in motion?

In my pictures you see the world through the eye of a high-speed camera. This way of seeing provides for us something that we normally cannot see, this moment of transformation can really only be imagined by us. I provide a way for us to see this action differently. It is an in-between state. A state where rest and motion can exist together. I hope this situation can be applied and give us thought in our everyday world.

I wonder, when you look at your own finished work, do you see what you’ve just destroyed, or what you’ve made from the transformation?

The aspect of destroying is not the most important one in my work. Let’s say it is a catalyst to unleash and study this transformation. The hardest part of my work is to smash so many figurines until I find one that truly is showing me something new. I am in that sense a sculptor, but I have only a 5000th of a second to build my sculpture.

When looking at your work I think of Jackson Pollock, for the sureness of the line, and also some Impressionists, for the composition of a still life. How much of what results in your pictures is by chance and how much by design?

When you mean the concept of automating the process of working and only to install a set way that produces the pictures—yes, that is comparable to Pollock. But my big teachers are Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton. The part “by chance,” it is a real photographic image because there is not manipulation in it and it shows a singular moment. The “design” part is the selection, the size of printing, the colors and the framing. Anything prior to that is left up to chance.

What are you working on now?

You have to wait but I will see it soon.

still life is not so still life as interpret by him.

here's to the first attempt.

Duck Drain!!??, originally uploaded by vt335.

I took this on a quick visit to the Henry Clay Estate before I came home today. It is a drain for the roof of the main house.

There was also a project called "use flash to freeze action" in which the idea was to get a pic of a water droplet mid air. I was quite impressed with my end result, even though they aren't perfect:

And although I missed the water droplet on this last pic, I love the circular ripples and am seriously considering changing my "cirlces" entry:

This was the house he was born in.  He lived about 75 of his 90 years right here.  Never married, never had any children.  Cut wood to keep the house warm during the winter.  Saw no sense in warming the entire house since he was the only one living there in his later years.  He would put the wood in the stove located in the kitchen.  Cooked his meals, made his coffee, and warmed the bottom part of the house that way.  He didn't go upstairs, no need to.  He put a cot in the kitchen to stay warm at night as he slept.  He drove six miles down the dirt road every Sunday to go to church.  About 15 years ago he moved to stay with his sister where he eventually died.  The house has never been lived in or cared for since.  Word has it, many things from his early years still remain inside.  There is a family nearby with some idea of this history.  Will be seeking the owner of this property for permission to take pictures within the walls of this structure.  Shortly after the pictures are taken, we will share them with our viewers.

Dogs Looking For Homes(DLFH).
Copyright © 2008 by Preston Surface. All Rights Reserved.

Two dudes hang out down at the beach by Clover Point, Victoria, B.C.

I was attracted to this broken pulley on the iron workers table because of the light and texture which gave it a lot of character. Used a Nikon F4 film body and Fuji transparency film for this photograph.

In the towns/villages of Kansas everyone knows everyone.   Old men will drive to the post office, check their Post Office Box, and then venture to the local restrauant.  With several tables pulled together and a newspaper sprawled out, they will start their daily discussions.  Normally it will start with how much rain they have received in the last day, week, month, or year.  From there the discussion will go to world events, price of gas, soy beans, wheat, corn, and the price of cattle.  The unique common denominator shared by these men, of 50 to 70 years of age, is they have known each other since Kindergarten.  They have witnessed the entire life of each other.  From young to old, they have shared the road of life.

Dogs Looking For Homes(DLFH).
Copyright © 2008 by Preston Surface. All Rights Reserved.