by Marja-Leena 
Another unpublished image found in the ‘hand with object’ folder
This unique diamond shaped flat stone with the stripe is a favourite
Found on a seashore, possibly right here in Vancouver
Its current home is on the windowsill next to this desk
And now its image also resides on this blog
by Marja-Leena 
As I was going through some image folders, I was delighted to find another “hand with object” yet unpublished, so here it is, joining others like it in the archives under Photoworks: Human. Compare it to hand with stones.
As you may know, some of my favourites became part of a print series called Hands.
by Marja-Leena 
A picture is a poem without words. – Horace
You don’t take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams
by Marja-Leena 
I enjoyed some further play with the faded and dry hydrangea flower head which I had photographed and posted previously. This time I used the scanner and dealt with two challenges: the shallow depth of field for a very three-dimensional object and the lack of lighting behind it, that is ‘above’ the flower head sitting on the scanner bed. Thus parts of the images are out of focus as well as missing those sharply delineated tracings in the petals that you saw in the previous photographs.
It was like working with different beasts of another dimension. Also for the third image, I shone a desk lamp down very close in the hopes of some backlighting but instead captured a bit of the movement of the scanner bar (or whatever it’s called) moving across, resulting in some interesting distortions in the background. In the end, I grew to like these a lot and now wonder how they would print, for they are a much higher resolution than the digicamera photographs.
by Marja-Leena 
It’s been a gentle January, a few heavy rainstorms, a week of fog, and now sunshine to tempt me into the so green garden to check out new growth of green tips with white buds – those harbingers, the snowdrops. Yet I and the camera are drawn to the dry heads of hydrangea flowers.
I cut one head to bring indoors for some play with both camera and scanner. I wished to capture the light shining through from behind the petals.
I held up the flower in a window with sunshine streaming in. I love those fine lines creating intricate patterns!
Next time I will show the images that came forth from the scanner.
by Marja-Leena 
One idea leads to another as I play with the scanner. I find myself returning to the idea of a series of smaller prints of images of hands with objects, like these ones. When and if I have enough of a collection, I may print these with my home printer.
As many readers know, I have done numerous ‘hand’ images on this blog. Some became a series of large prints in the HANDS series which I finished last year. These may be most quickly seen all together in the gallery if you have not already seen them.
by Marja-Leena 
…more play with the scanner…
by Marja-Leena 
playing with images from husband’s photos
attracted by pattern and colour
cropping and creating another world
later: came across somewhat similar images taken almost four years ago
by Marja-Leena 
found in the annual purge of the photo album, not my usual subject matter
the underside of Granville Street Bridge, the section over Granville Island
maintenance repairs and upgrades for earthquake resistance
made me think of a few ‘bridge’ quotes:
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
– Max Beckmann
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
London Bridge is broken down, my fair lady
– Henry Carey: Namby Pamby
Added Feb.2, 2014: How timely! The Vancouver Sun has posted an article and many photos of the Granville Bridge’s opening to great fanfare 60 years ago. The bridge was built above an earlier Granville Bridge that had spanned False Creek since 1909. The 1909 bridge had replaced a third Granville Bridge which was built in 1889, when Vancouver was only three years old.
