I do like photographing rudbeckia, also known as black-eyed susan. The green plant with the white flowers behind my yellow rudbeckia is oregano.
The brick red behind these rudbeckia is from fall leaves of our bald cypress tree.
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Last week my daughter, her friend and I went to the Princeton Art Museum. The museum is in the middle of the Princeton University campus, and it features Roman, Greek, European, modern and American art in its collection. The museum offered scavenger hunts for inquisitive children like my own, and the girls chose between Roman, Greek or American portraiture. We first went to the Roman room. After a few minutes of looking at mosaics and busts of people dead for about 2000 years, the girls declared the collection “creepy,” and we went back upstairs to try the American scavenger hunt.
The section with the American paintings was more appealing to them.
The life-size portrait of Elizabeth Allen Marquand, 1887 by John Singer Sargent is more captivating in real life. I would probably sit for hours and draw her, if I had the chance.
After a few minutes of doing the scavenger hunt, my daughter and her friend decided to use the backs of the hunt papers to draw a distinguished family from the 18th century, The Hartley Family with lovely silk dresses.
There’s sculpture and architecture to be seen outside the museum, on the Princeton campus, but I’ll save the architecture for another post. The statue is of John Witherspoon, 6th president of Princeton and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
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I took my photo of Kitchen Shelf and made it sepia. Therefore, it qualifies for Sepia Scenes.
Then I decided to make a pixelated version.
I added some extra color to the garlic, cantalope, avocado and butternut squash – calling this one painterly.
Starting a new theme this month, I plan to photograph a shelf in my kitchen where I store fruits and vegetables that don’t need refrigeration. I expect it will change each month, and maybe in the process I’ll learn a little about photographing indoor subjects.
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Photographing corn – the kernels are quite shiny and smooth.
My friend who grew up in Minnesota said yellow corn is animal feed – but I like both white and yellow corn. Do you?
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Everyone in my family except me likes playing miniature golf. I get bored quickly, and I prefer taking photos of the colorful little balls.
True confession – these photos were taken last spring, on two different occasions. It’s still too hot to do much outside other than swim in the pool. By the time it’s cool enough for me to spend lots of time outdoors, Robin will have closed up Summer Stock for the season.
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Thursday Challenge theme is: CONSTRUCTION (Business, Residential, Street, Bridge, Sidewalk, Lego Bricks,…).
Next Week: GARDEN (Flower, Vegetable, Herb, Container, Window Box, Rock,…)
If you are wondering what this is, see my previous garden contraption post.
OK, it’s a regular-sized peach, but I liked the title.
I bought these peaches at the farmer’s market on Friday.
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Way back in May I took this photo of Uncle Sam at the Highland Park Street Fair. The fair always seems to announce, summer is coming, summer is coming.
My daughter and I enjoyed roaming Raritan Avenue and taking in all the many booths. As you can see from her pink sweater, it wasn’t exactly summer weather.
The highlight of my summer thus far is the nest of robins growing on our front porch. Here’s a shot of a baby from last week. This week the robins already have many feathers and don’t seem as scared as they did earlier.
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I had some shots of my rudbeckia (black eyed susans) even closer up, but I found this one in particular to be a charming composition. The black eyed susans grow all over my front yard. I encourage them (by not picking the little seedlings when the full grown plant self seeds).
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