Cloud Photographs as Meditative ToolsIt was Bernie Nelson who first detected - in a book review - that I use clouds as a meditative tool. Bernie has just passed away; I will miss his perceptive ability to tie together the clouds and my text on consciousness. But people have long, in fact probably since there were humans, been staring at the clouds and feeling their mood change, feeling themselves a part of nature; seeing faces, images, Some say that a great guru can project images into the cloud...
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Cloud Photography Interview of Me
This link will take you to a brand-new interview with me that explains how I got interested in photographing clouds. I am more known as a writer, but the parallel to that is visual, and my visual side is exclusively focused on clouds. Listen and find out why. Also on this web page, you will see a display of some of my cloud photographs, which are for sale or available for exhibit. Let me know what you think. I also narrate how to move from film to digital and why I stay with film photography.
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Artbook gallery page – New
Here is a spread of some photography of mine that's about to be published in an artbook. You can see the photography for sale by clicking here.
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Flickr from Rome – Metropolis 2 Exhibit at La Vaccarella Art Gallery
The La Vaccarella Art Gallery reports that the exhibit opening in Rome drew a crowd and appreciation.
And in this link you see various shots covering different walls. Here is .
La Vaccarella Art Gallery in Vicolo della Vaccarella,12 00186 Rome. The exhibit is on now and ends Saturday.
Here the link to the posted flicker so you can see all of the photos.(off site).
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Video of Rome Art Gallery Pre-Exhibit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1toa9Xkmg
Here is the Rome art pre-exhibit YouTube video for ArtExpo Metropolis 2 that Sunscape: Face in Blue-Brown is en route to or has arrived at.
It's eclectic, with art from a variety of countries, from Romania to Japan.
The gallery is really publicizing it. Hope it draws a crowd.
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Rome Exhibit
Here's the announcement of the Rome exhibit in a small art gallery. Also, here's the gallery link. And below is the cloud giclee that will be on the wall. We're to use this for publicity. So to all my Rome friends, here's the location. Of course, I need to make some Rome friends. Maybe this photograph will do it for me.
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Sunscape Going to Rome
So this morning I received this announcement accepting Sunscape: Face in Tan-Blue for an exhibit in Rome:
Hello, we are pleased to inform you, that your artwork is selected to participate at "ArtExpo Metropolis" ! International Art Exhibition in Rome (Italy) from June 6,2015 to June 13,2015 vernissage saturday June 6,2015 at 18 in the centre of city La Vaccarella Art Gallery in Vicolo della Vaccarella,12 00186 Rome. Artistic director of gallery and curator of the exhibition Renato Costrini.
Th...
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Why I take Cloud Photographs
The photography above is titled Cloud Tapestry.
—Eh! Qu’aimes-tu donc, extraordinaire étranger?
—J'aime les nuages qui passent ... là-bas ... là-bas ... les merveilleux nuages!
—Eh! What do you love, extraordinary stranger?
—I love the clouds . . . the clouds that pass . . over there . . . . over there . . . the marvelous clouds! Charles Baudelaire
—Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull? Aristophanes
I became a pho...
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Cloud Panaroma
Click here to see the moving panaroma of clouds in my See Me account. They nicely display the art and then viewers vote as well as judges. It's an online way to get artwork before viewers and in a long shot get picked up for shows in Paris, New York, and other major cities. If you like the art, "support" it by clicking on the link and then sharing it on Facebook. Thanks.
This is the See Me display of my cloud art that’s in the contest “Art Takes Paris.” If you like it, “vote” and share the lin...
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Cloud Forests
Below are two websites about Cloud Forests:
Click here to read more from
Cloud Forests Fading in the Mist, Their Treasures Little Known
John Roach for National Geographic News
August 13, 2001
They are nature's "water towers," providing billions of gallons of fresh, clean, filtered water. They are home to thousands of indigenous peoples, and storehouses of biodiversity, at least 80 percent of which has not yet been catalogued.
Yet in as little as ten years' time, biologists...
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