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more from the Hornby Island photo archives
nature’s sculpture ever-changing under strokes of wind and water
by Marja-Leena revisiting rocks
While browsing through my digital photo albums looking for something else, I came across the Hornby Island 2009 folder with hundreds of images of fascinating rocks. Distracted and dreaming, I have been. Over the years a number of photos from that favourite island have been posted here from many visits, though not many from 2009. Here are a couple of images that appealed to me with their subtle details.
Oh, and if you are new and curious, or would like to revisit some of those past posts and photos about Hornby Island, try this search.
by Marja-Leena mystery stone
a curious small stone with what seems to be thin layer of glazed tile on top
with mysterious star-like crackling, like a petroglyph
odd layering beneath with another glazed bit and white stone on the bottom
man-made? nature-made? both?
by Marja-Leena seedheads & grass
The Kamloops area of BC is dry grassland country. When we visited late March, the predominant colour of the land seemed to be the shade of wheat and its many subtle variations. These plantings of silvery beige grasses interspersed with reddish dried stalks of echinacea caught my eye as we walked about the university campus. Such a contrast to the year-round colour of green in our southwest coastal rainforest.
by Marja-Leena back home
Recently we took a pleasant road trip up to visit our eldest daughter and her husband who live east of Kamloops. It is always a stunning drive along the Coquihalla Highway with its high mountain passes, still with lots of snow. It is hard to stop on the highway though I did take photos through the windows which I might show later though you may have seen some before. The first three above were taken at a rest stop where we ate our packed lunch. The last was taken in A & R’s yard the day after the light overnight snow was melting.
I was greatly struck by these as sort of archaeological or geologic images, not merely snow.
by Marja-Leena hand with driftwood
on the windowsill in the solarium
a row of odd shaped driftwood pieces
this embedded with tiny stones in mini-caves
and memories of a favourite seaside retreat
by Marja-Leena hand with oddity
Last week our 13 year old granddaughter was visiting. She was showing an interest in my hand-with-object scanning work and I invited her to “model” for me. We chose an odd object made of glazed clay, probably a little pottery studio glaze test piece of her mother’s. Like some of my stones, it has long been in residence on my windowsill beside this desk, inside a flowerpot.
I have been revisiting my past posts of ‘horizontal hands’ to refresh my memory on what I have previously done. I am still toying with the idea of making more related prints but smaller than the Hands series which I completed almost a year ago. Curiously, my friend Olga was just asking about the horizontals in my previous post, so I promised to post links to them here:
– hand with tissue
– hand with Easter eggs
– hand with twine (third image)
– hand studies
Below are other scans of our granddaughters’ hands:
– hand studies (3) with then 12 year old granddaughter’s hands
– hand studies (2) with then seven year old granddaughter’s hands
by Marja-Leena hand with tile
another find on a beach somewhere
a broken tile worn smooth by sand and sea