{"id":4764,"date":"2012-02-03T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:17:02","slug":"backyard-lace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4764","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Lace"},"content":{"rendered":"

The challenge in the Globe and Mail camera club this week is to take pictures in your backyard and post them.  The idea being, I guess, is that the really good photographer can take the ordinary and make it extraordinary. Here’s the link<\/a> to some pretty interesting pictures of really nothing special, except that the photographer has made them amazing.<\/p>\n

Here is my attempt.  I have entitled this post “backyard lace” because I will try to take one or two of these patterns and turn them into lace or they may become the seed of an idea for a scarf or shawl then again  a whole collection could be incorporated into a “really grand theme”. When I have a moment.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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\nThis is Holly with “weeds”.  I think that I should have moved the small branch that is there out of the picture.  For me, it detracts a little from the idea of holly after Christmas – the party is over – the steamers have fallen…etc.  I guess that this is part of the age old argument of art vs nature – how much do you alter a picture to make it look “nice.”  Given that people spend hours with pictures in Photoshop changing the original so that it is barely recognizable, to move a small branch out of the frame is quite minor – but I often have to think, am I disturbing something that ought to be?<\/p>\n

Well I didn’t move it, so here it is.  And here is another.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is a little eerie in the sense that it is an attempt to “frame” something that can’t really be framed.  How do you take the boundlessness of nature and contain it within a canvas? If I were to do any “paintings,”  I would have a little something (or a lot) go beyond the frame – things that don’t obey the rules or refused to be “caged.”  I am always amazed that so many artists work within a “picture frame.”  People often think of artists as unconventional and yet so many of them seem to be able to limit their ideas to a rectangle.  Time to move out of the box.<\/p>\n

Here is another<\/p>\n

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\nA pod from my Rose of Sharon tree.  I like to think of them as “podcasts” – bursting open and throwing their seeds to the wind.  These are my winter flowers. <\/p>\n

Have an amazing day!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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