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That’s Silly, That’s Cool

12.24.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // 11 Comments

She sees something I should see she says “That’s Silly.” I in-turn see something she should see I say  “That’s Cool.” So I ask her when she says that sometimes it is silly, but sometimes it is cool what you want me to see?  She looks and ponders, the car goes alongDSC_0148S15 B-2 Lgt ShirtChair 50 Cnst-50 Lgt30 LgtChair 20 Cnst_20 10-3-15we pass something she likes wants me to see, “That’s Cool” I agree it was cool colorful, creative, unusual which is what I mean by cool. Later we pass something else from the back she hoots “That’s silly!” It was and grandpa smiles.

Next month 4Y.O. time races by faster than a speeding 3 YO and that’s fast. Here are a few moments from recently for me but long ago for her. There is little time to linger as there is something new, something always comes next.

DSC_0026 72 Fist Hair Cut at Salon 11-24-15The first real haircut with Jason at Jamie Lee and Company.   She sat very still and the bangs are not in here eyes. We played with the kitties, looked at the art and laughed while mom had her hair cut. 

DSC_0014 S15 Shad Lgt10 Drk Hi 40 cnst -65 Shadows 9-9-15In September we were meeting mom downtown she noticed the shadows and I talked about how at the end of the day shadows grew fast. Standing for a few minutes we watched them increase in length. Take a picture grandpa. It was cool. 

DSC_0074 Ss15 G-30 R-20 Thats silly 11-24-15Boo Bash at The Hands On Children’s Museum where she was a Penguin. We sat for a picture in a giant chair now that’s silly. 

There were snakes and lizards to pet and a real Herpetologist to meet.

DSC_0037 Ss15 Boo bash 11-24-15 Turtles, a Hissing Madagascan Cockroach, a glow in the dark tee shirt to make. Something always comes next, Grandpa grandpa she squeals above the din of 300 + kids racing from event to event so much to see and do. To touch she wants to touch everything it is a way of understanding the world around tactile communication. The movies she watches, the books she reads Mostly Nat Geo or Nova. Science videos, documentaries it is plain that people are a boring animal.  Ahwooo she howls I am Trancern the king of the wolves.

enjoy pjc 

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Categories // Adventure, Events, Eyes of the child, Late light, Olympia Wa., Silly, Smiling Eyes, The Present, Waning light Tags // Ambiance, Blending the past and the present, Color Fine Art, Olympia, Portraits, Shadows

After The Rain, Digital Kodachrome?

12.13.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // 1 Comment

DSC_0014 12-13-15 S25 Sat Mas+15 Y+20 B+10The walk today, drops of rain gently back lit by sun through passing thin clouds.

DSC_0027 S30 Sat Shad+Hi Cnst+20 12-13-15Almost back from the market turning to my yard the ground growth in one of the gardens rich satureated. Slight post process to these two add +10 to saturation to near the wonder of Kodachrome.  Not an easy task.

enjoy pjc

Photographic Art   Christmas, Holiday greeting from past years. PEACE

 

Categories // Autumn, Color, Color Fine Art, Digital and Film, Fine Art Photographs, Kodachrome, Nature, Olympia Wa. Tags // Blending the past and the present, Color Fine Art, Flowers, Kodachrome, Olympia, Photographic Art, Seasons, Simplicity, Street Photography

Fall to winter ramblings

12.10.2015 by Peter J. Crowley // 7 Comments

DSC_0085 Ss15 Sat+20 Nisqually 9-26-15

Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge  Sept. 26th late afternoon light. Could be Vermont in the 70’s a farm a dirt road to visual adventures. But it’s the other side of the country the other side of life.

Dec 1st a stroll with film camera out before the deluge. Darkness 1pm ISO 400 1/125 F5.6 I shake the meter, test the batteries even cloudy this is not mid day light. A visit to the past waiting for the bus a 70’s era Olds cruises by Eight Cylinders straight pipes sounds of my youth. A one time subject possible muse too busy to shoot I understand, she needs not tell me. Creativity a passing fancy that briefly nourished my soul an appetizer to the main course that never arrives. 

Traditions reading the paper my shoulder aches another part that needs repair. Like an old auto I move forward. Darkness, Darkness visiting this journal, film the window seat Capital Lake Park cold empty devoid of kites, volleyball nets, gleeful children, legs and fannies decorated in geometric  brightly colored  patterns hibernating….. Striped legs flash through the cafe thick wool, winter coat, scarf a momentary memory of summer. Abstraction as yet unfulfilled images perhaps they will bloom again in spring? Now bare trees gray light a winter sound track.          peace pjc

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Categories // Autumn, Color Fine Art, Farms, Fine Art Photographs, Identity, Journeys between here and there, Olympia Wa., Passionate Observer, Reflecting on past, The City as a Muse, Washington Tags // Ambiance, Blending the past and the present, Color Fine Art, Humanity, Olympia, Photographic Art, Reflections, Seasons

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