BlogHide Reblurtsreddragonfly in # blurtlife • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readBlurt Thoughts: How Do We Stay Interested in Things?Like it holds true for many people, I have been busy. Busy with the basic things of life. Perhaps it also holds true for many people that when we get really busy with things we have to do, we end up pushing things we merely want to do into the background, or we simply forget about them. In this case, I am guilty of having…reddragonfly in # blurtography • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readThe Inside Life of Flowers!Having a little fun with photos of some of the wildflowers growing in our garden. I don't know what these are called; they remind me a little of hollyhocks, but are not: In some ways, they also remind me a bit of a pink hibiscus. The color is very rich and textured, especially in the sun: And let's get up a little closer:…reddragonfly in # blurtography • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readSpirals Found in Nature: Pumpkins!While in our garden a couple of days ago, I noticed the way parts of the runners on our pumpkin plants form natural spirals. I thought it would be interesting to play around a little with that imagery: The black-and-white version provided some nice contrast, and was a lot more visually interesting than the original: Also did a few…reddragonfly in # photography • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readThe Beauty of Red Clover Blossoms + Art RenditionWe have a lot of late blooming flowers this year, because we had a very late and cold spring. Among them some beautiful red clover: It's not a flower we see very often, and one of the interesting thing about it is how the color appears to change at different times of the day, depending on the color value of the sun. The one above was…reddragonfly in # photography • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readMacro Thistle — More Art Effects PhotographyGot this nice shot of one of the thistles blooming (rather late!) in our back yard... and decided to try some manipulation to create a more artistic impression: As you can see, this isn't just a straight black-and-white, the detail in the flower has sharpened edges, and there are still minute traces of color in the image...…reddragonfly in # blurtography • 6 yr. ago • 1 min read004: Bee on Lavender — Art Effects PhotographyContinuing to play with "effects" on some of our photographs... sometimes the results can be quite lovely! Here, we started out with a regular honeybee, enjoying a good feeding from one of our lavender flowers. This was the original photo: Originally, I had hoped to make a nice black-and-white image, but it was just too cluttered…reddragonfly in # blurtography • 6 yr. ago • 1 min read003: Water Droplets on DaisiesTime to get back to my love of photography, and to the pursuit of photography as art. There's that fine line where "just a picture of something" rounds a corner and becomes art. "Seeing" things that are worthy of a photo... has to do with keeping your eyes open, and being able to visualize what you're looking at on a…reddragonfly in # art • 6 yr. ago • 1 min read002: Art Matters!The interesting thing about art is that it evokes such a wide range of responses in people. For many people, it is a non-essential; a LUXURY. It's something for rich people. For many people, art is an essential part of life; for them, without art we lack a certain essential beauty. For many people, art is healing and…reddragonfly in # blurt • 6 yr. ago • 1 min read001: What to Do About Blurt?Another new venue, so that means... what? Hopefully, something new and unique. That would be the ideal. But the truth in life seems to be that most of the time we just make copies of ourselves, in our attempt to change things. On one hand, the drive for change is good, on the other, the has to be some kind of…
