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Weekly Photo Challenge: Community

December 13, 2013, 9:13 pm
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Community.
Communities.
Swim Team Community
Swim Team Community- Columbus Ohio
Bocce Community
Bocce Community in Bloomfield, Pittsburgh
Baseball PNC
Baseball Community- PNC Park
Zion Apostolic Christmas Dinner
Zion Apostolic Community-  Christmas dinner Monroeville PA
Etna Softball
Softball Community in Etna PA
River City Brass Band
River City Brass Band  (Community) at Carnegie Music Hall- Pittsburgh PA
Knit the Bridge
Knit the Bridge Community- (and Crochet)  Warhol Bridge- Pittsburgh PA
Culinary Class Gingerbread Houses
High School Culinary Class Community Gingerbread Houses- Each kitchen created one together as a group effort
Football
Football Community- Steelers Fans- Pittsburgh PA
Candles at St Patricks
                                               St Patrick’s Church Community- Columbus Ohio
Art Community Panza Gallery
             Art Community  Panza Gallery Millvale PA
Guitar Community
Guitar Community. Bleecker Street New York City
Army Community Germany
  Army Community- Grafenwoehr Germany    I am the one holding the camera!   Thirty years ago.

Filed under: Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: art, Baseball, Bocce, community, crochet, culinary, football, knitting, music, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday, sports, swimming, weekly photo challenge
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Object

January 31, 2014, 6:22 pm
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No, not-  “I  object.“

But an item.    A thing.  You know I have so many objects in my files.  I thought I’d focus on one, like the challenge said to do.

Weekly Challenge Creator Cheri Lucas Rowlands said-  ”Or you can get creative and find other ways to feature your object — the only requirement is it must be somewhere in your frame.”

Here’s a dusty antique stereoscope from my childhood and the dates on the photos?    1903!  Wish I knew where it came from originally.

A bit before my time. I remember viewing the images with my brother David.  HAve to find the piece that slides on the bar. It’s around here somewhere.

Stereoscope

One of the cards had Meadville, PA printed on the edge.  The scene on top is Goats in Norway.  The cowboy on the horse is in Kansas.

Here is the principle behind the stereoscopic images according to Wikipedia

“Two separate images are printed side-by-side. When viewed without a stereoscopic viewer the user is required to force his eyes either to cross, or to diverge, so that the two images appear to be three. Then as each eye sees a different image, the effect of depth is achieved in the central image of the three.”


Filed under: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: antique, art, Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Meadville PA, object, photography, postaday, stereoscope, vintage, vision, weekly photo challenge: object
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Museum Floor Reflections

April 21, 2014, 9:00 pm
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Carrick High School Art Show – Before and During

May 5, 2014, 8:59 pm
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Pittsburgh Carrick High School Art Show Opening Monday May 5th.  City County Building downtown Pittsburgh on Grant Ave.  You can go there anytime this week and see the ceramics, jewelry, paintings, drawings and photography.  It looks wonderful.

The art staff along with some volunteer assistants got together on Saturday from 8-2 and set it all up.  This is the seventh year for the show.

Tonight at the opening I went upstairs and shot from the enclosed balcony (hence some reflection)

It was great to see so many students, families and teachers and even the Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Linda Lane came and selected an artwork to be awarded the Superintendent’s Award.

 

Setting up the art show

 

 

 

 

Carrick Art Show

 

And the elegant Miss Hicks came (she taught with us last year and is now at Pittsburgh Roosevelt Elementary)

The statue on the right is Mayor Richard Caliguiri (memorial statue by Robert Berks)

ms hicks and the mayor statue


Filed under: Photography Tagged: art, art show, Carrick High School, City-County Building, downtown Pittsburgh, high school art, Mayor Caliguiri, painting, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, travel
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I Looked Over at Lunch and Saw her Cheezits – Organized!

May 6, 2014, 8:00 pm
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My wonderful student teacher Miss E (you are supposed to say Preservice these days) had her last day on Friday.

She is a very organized person and did a great job at our high school.  The students are missing her this week.  She is graduating from Penn State this weekend.  (Congrats, Miss E!!)d

The other day we sat at lunch and I looked over and she had arranged her orange Cheezits in a pattern.

It looked like a Jeopardy board, a quilt, all line up so neatly.

Ms.L asked her if she HAD to do that in order to eat them and the answer is NO!

Of course, I asked if I could take a photograph of the design.

Art at lunch.

Miss E's Cheezits

 

 


Filed under: Photography Tagged: art, crackers, eating, high school postaday, lunch, pattern, snack, student teacher
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American Pie

May 9, 2014, 7:45 pm
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Grandma and the Grammy Winner

May 12, 2014, 9:07 pm
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That’s what the nice man said as he took the picture of V and me with Honorary Chair of Art For Change- Broadway singer/actor Kinky Boots Billy Porter!

He’s won a Tony award for Best Musical Actor 2013!
Mr. Porter got the crowd riled up at the beginning of the night, getting a Kinky Boots NYC package sold for ten thousand dollars. It was a fun time.

We were at the Art For Change Art Auction at the Wyndham Grand Hotel Monday Night. The proceeds benefit the PERSAD Center
I donated a photograph for the auction and bought one to bring home, too!

Mr. Billy Porter is a Pittsburgh Public Schools CAPA(Creative and Performing Arts) Alum!

Pull on a pair of Red Boots and see the Just Be campaign

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Filed under: Photography Tagged: art, art auction, Billy Porter, broadway musical, Grammy Winner, grandma, Kinky Boots, Persad Center, photography, postaday, Tony Award
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Dancing at Bougival as Turn of the Century Giant Sculpture

June 12, 2014, 6:02 pm
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I was downtown at the Camera Repair Service again.  Don’t ask.  Used a different camera card to experiment and tes.

Here is the delight of the day- (Stef!) 

A monumental sculpture by J Seward Johnson has been at PPG Place for “about four days”, the guard said.

But don’t worry.  The giant dancers will be in place until October.

Dancing at Bougival (painted in 1883 by Pierre A. Renoir ) is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

 

Dancing at Bougival Fountains

 

 

 

 

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Dancing at Bougival PPG Place

From underneath

A Turn of the Century (1)

 

A Turn of the Century faces

Using the 100-300 Canon lens to get a closer look

 

 

Self Portrait at PPG PLace

The reflective glass made for a clear self portrait.

 


Filed under: Art, Photography Tagged: art, city, Dancing at Bougival, downtown, fountains, monumental sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, photography, Pierre A Renoir, Pittsburgh PA, PPG Place, public art, reflection, sculpture, Sculpture Foundation, sel-portrait, Seward Johnson
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St. Mary of the Mount- Grandview Avenue- Pittsburgh PA

June 16, 2014, 8:19 pm
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Spectrum Wind by Duncan McDaniel Nashville Airport

July 6, 2014, 7:38 pm
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The Color is What Caught My Eye

September 3, 2014, 8:20 pm
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Whether it be flowers in a garden, a rainbow in traffic, or colorful cake mixes on the store shelf.

The color is what caught my eye!

Unsure about actual consumption, though.      Here’s how I came to see these boxes of cake mix……

After school, I drove down to the Waterfront to get gas, stock up on provisions. Lunch items to take to school.

Target was right there and I needed more wonderful 8GB Flash Drives that are still at a low, low price.  The ones they keep by the checkout line so you can load up as you head out the door.  Must be an old shipment as the ones up front are two dollars cheaper than the ones in the electronic section in the back.  (Hope I didn’t clue them in and they change the price!)

Now you might already know if you follow the blog,  I really don’t like to eat anything blue

(with the exception of fresh blueberries)

but those fakey blue raspberry popsicles?

Just looking at blue food/icing gives me a shudder down my spine.

But if you need to bake a Smurf cake, the Blue Suede mix might be your answer.

I can definitely see some of these colorful cake mixes as the basis for art/photography projects.

And from what I read on Charm City website,    “Our inspiration comes from everywhere: art, fashion, fabric, furniture, architecture, landscapes, science, music, and history.”   

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iPhone shots of the cake mix shelves

 

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Inspiration for the colorful cake mixes, created by Duff Goldman

 Blue Suede Shoes by Elvis

Found at least 3 Pink Cadillac songs

Bruce Springsteen,

Natalie Cole, Jerry Lee Lewis

And Prince won an Oscar in 1985 for Purple Rain

 

 

 

 

 


Filed under: Baking, Photography, What I Found on the Way Home from School Tagged: art, baking, Blue Suede, cake mix, Charm City Cakes, color, Duff Goldman, iPhone photography, music, photography, Pink Cadillac, Purple Rain, school, shopping, Target
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One Shiny Shoe and a Good Thing I’d Eaten Dinner

November 3, 2014, 7:54 pm
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My neighbors invited me to accompany them to the Carnegie Museum of Art for the opening reception of Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals.   The exhibition was curated by Linda Benedict- Jones and is quite impressive, requiring a return visit to take the show in when it’s less crowded.

In the Hall of Sculpture after the remarks, i was standing on the lighted glass floor and so were three others. Our 4 pairs of  black shoes with the light coming from the floor below.

Photographer Martha Rial and I had our phones out, capturing the pattern.  I call it One Shiny Shoe.

One shiny shoe

Where the light comes from below

Hall of Sculpture

Here is a man looking closely at the photos of Andy Warhol and his mother Julia.

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When I got to the refreshments table there were a few grapes

Good to eat dinner before you go A lot of people must have been hungry

Some of you saw this on FB already but here I am in the Hall of Architecture under the artwork “The Piano” by Chilean Artist Sebastian Errazuriz

I asked a random museum goer if he’d take my photo.  He’d already taken a selfie under the 800 pound piano.

When I showed this photo to the high school students, they said I was crazy to stand under it.  I said, wouldn’t it be funny to have a  tall ladder and some hedge clippers?  They groaned.

Mark said it looked like I was in a Looney Tune.

If you Sebastian Errazuriz


Filed under: Photography Tagged: architecture, art, artistts, available light, Carnegie Museum of Art, Duane Michals, food, Hall of Sculpture, light, museum, pattern, photographer, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, Sebastian Errazuriz, shoes, Storyteller, travel
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Unexpected Find at Panza Gallery

November 6, 2014, 7:51 pm
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Millvale, PA is just across the Allegheny River. Steve and I eat out at Grant Bar Grant Avenue some nights.

If you follow the blog you’ve been to Millvale with me, Jean-Marc Chatellier’s Bakery for Brioche, Esther’s Hobby Shop, Attic Records, the high water mark from the floods.

We popped into the Panza Gallery and saw some friends and acquaintances and checked out the new work show by Brian Lang and Susan Sparks. I’ve posted some photos of Panza’s.

While chatting with Mary Ann, I asked if I could photograph the ceramic holy water font where this package of fuses got placed. Just as it was.

When Mark was finished with his conversation, he concurred that I could photograph this find. Thanks Mark and Mary Ann.

Coming up in February and March, Panza will host programs on the artist Maxo Vanka Murals housed in the St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Parish on the hill.

Holy Water Font


Filed under: Photography Tagged: A;;egheny River, art, art gallery, art show, artifact, available light, bakery, Croatian Catholic Church, holy water, Maxo Vanka, Millvale PA, Panza Gallery, St.Nicholas, Vanka Murals
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Night at the Museum and the Rolled Fondant /Sugar Sculpture

December 9, 2014, 8:26 pm
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Friday night the Metropolitan Museum of Art is open until nine.

We saw the tree lighting and walked through some of the major exhibits to check out others.

(the Christmas tee is another post, stay tuned) The Holiday Sugar Sculpture of the Museum was fun to see.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art at Night

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the line up of hot dog vendor carts was colorful in the dark

fountain Fifth Avenue

Because it was raining, I just got the fountains looking like this.  Didn’t want to stand in the rain.

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Information in the center of the lobby. You could smell the magnolias.

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View from an upper window.

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The museum in sugar outside of the cafeteria.

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Credits to the pastry chef Randy Eastman and his assistants.

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I try to keep up with my sister as we head for the subway.  It was still raining.   The magic of wet pavement.


Filed under: Photography Tagged: architecture, art, available light, family, Fifth Avenue, food, food carts, hot dog vendors, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, night photography, Pastry Chef, photography, Randy Eastman, sugar sculpture, travel
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PixCell-Deer#24, a Tiffany & Co. Christmas Window, Chestnuts Roasting and Sisters’ Selfie at Trump Tower

December 11, 2014, 7:25 pm
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“By covering surface of an object with transparent glass beads, the existence of the object itself is replaced by “a husk of light”, and the new vision “the cell of an image” (PixCell) is shown.”  Kohei Nawa   (artist based in Kyoto)

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PixCell-Deer #24 (Taxidermied Deer with artificial crystal glass) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

An eclectic mix of photos from New York City last weekend

Tiffany Windows

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Chestnuts Roasting on Firfth Avenue

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Sisters Selfie at Trump Tower- trying to warm up


Filed under: Photography Tagged: art, Chestnuts, crystal, deer, Fifth Avenue, food, Kohei Nawa, light, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, photography, postaday, taxidermy, Tiffany, travel, Trump Tower
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Brooklyn Museum First Night in December

January 15, 2015, 8:41 pm
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My sister and I went to the Brooklyn Museum First Night in December.        (sponsored by TARGET, Stef)

When we were making our purchases in the gift shop, I saw the stacks of books Nails: The Story of the Modern Manicure and author Suzanne Shapiro graciously signing copies for people in line.

 (Read  July 2014 Inside the Archive interview with the Ms. Shapiro, click  this link)

Nails Book Signing Brooklyn

Love how her top matches the book cover

Nails Book Signing

Great Lakes Girls by Teri Greeves, Native American Artist -on the 5th floor,not the Killer Heels exhibit

“Teri Greeves created this piece by hand-sewing beads, Swarovski crystals, silver conchos, and spiny-oyster shell cabochons on a pair of high-heeled tennis shoes designed by Steve Madden. The inner panels are inspired by Great Lakes tribes’ floral designs”

High Heeled Sneakers

To see more of Teri Greeves Beadwork pieces click here


Filed under: fashion, Photography Tagged: art, beadwork, beauty, book signing, books, Brooklyn Museum, fashion, First Night, high heeled sneaker, history, Killer Heels, manicure, Native American Art, Photoraphy, postaday, Teri Greeves
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Wooden MIrror Reflections

January 22, 2015, 8:49 pm
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At the Children’s Museum in October when the Grandkids were in Pittsburgh for a visit-

Yes, a WOODEN mirror.  It was amazing. Interactive art.  

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Granddaugher Anna and

Me and my camera reflected in the wooden mirror below.

Selfie in Wooden Mirror

Created by Artist Daniel Rozin who is also a professor at NYU.

“Daniel Rozin is an artist, educator and developer, working in the area of interactive digital art. As an interactive artist Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer. In many cases the viewer becomes the contents of the piece and in others the viewer is invited to take an active role in the creation of the piece.” –    from his website 

Wooden Mirror Daniel Rozin


Filed under: Photography Tagged: #PGHKIDS, art, artist, Children's Museum Pittsburgh, Daniel Rozin, interactive art, NYU, Pittsburgh PA, Wooden Mirror
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Portrait at Panza’s and Friday Night Take Out

February 20, 2015, 4:50 pm
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Everyone who knows me and  what’s in Millvale PA, was pretty sure I was at Jean-Marc Chatellier Bakery when they saw yesterday’s post of the snow topped mailboxes.

Not this trip-  although I wish I’d thought of when I was over there.

Right after school I drove in the snow and met my wonderful printer, Tom, to pick up a print.  Tom was waiting on the side of street on 31st  between Liberty and Penn, right before the 31st Street bridge.

His good idea so I could get to Millvale before closing.

I was dropping off a print to be framed at my favorite framer, Mark Panza Gallery. He and his daughter Jennifer do an excellent job.  I always leave there with a rejuvenation in spirit and lots of creative ideas after we talk.

Mark took this photo me with my new SONY mirrorless camera, testing it out.

I love the vintage mannequins in the background as they are waitng for pick-up to be in a movie being filmed in Millvale and Pittsburgh.

Thanks for taking this photo of me Mark.  

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and here is our selfie  usie  taken with the tilt screen option that opens up.

I made it a tad smaller so I don’t feel so bulky when I look at it.

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I cropped myself out and got a nice portrait of Mark

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Steve brought in take out tonight. Fish sandwich and slaw.  I reheated the sandwich in the oven.  Mmmmmm.

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Filed under: Photography Tagged: art, artwork, bakery, fish sandwich, food, framer, Jean-Marc Chatellier, kitchen, Millvale PA, mirrorless camera, Panza Gallery, photography, Pittsburgh Photography, portrait, postaday, selfie, winter
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Thirds or Threes, Skip the Bokeh

February 21, 2015, 7:13 pm
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The Weekly Photo Challenge is supposedly the Rule of Thirds but the presentation of the challenge  is so completely different from what I have been taught and teach- I thought of adding the grid on some of these images to size them up. But decided to just go with what I see as broken up into thirds, or in some cases threes.

Confined myself to a NYC archive to simplify the selections.  My gallery doesn’t fit the parameters of the suggested minimalist, off center subject and a blurry background.

chinatown fruit nyc intersection chinatown food Pizza sign on brick nyc thirds 2 met museum nyc three women nyc van gogh nyc construction times square cell phones fifth avenue hot dog stand watching the seals nyc subway NYC thirds 1 NYC thirds
Filed under: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: art, Chinatown, food, museum, New York City, photography, postaday, rule of thirds, signage, travel, weekly photo challenge
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Hidden Picture in the School Parking Lot Pile of Asphalt

March 4, 2015, 7:40 pm
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The result of an enthusiastic snow plower.

A pile of asphalt chunks by where I parked.

I photographed it as I was getting ready to head home this afternoon

Can you find the “puppy”? and the “smiling face”?  

Puppy Hidden picture

Like a sculpture garden as I made my way into school this morning

Cinderblock in the Snow

Cinderblock in the snow

and how the school looked through my impressionistic windshield-

on my way home

Impressionistic windshield


Filed under: Photography Tagged: art, asphalt, hidden picture, high school, impressionism, photography, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday, school parking lot, sculpture, snow, snowplow, travel, weather, winter
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