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Random Photo thread

DaveR said:
Exactly Grimly.
The alert organic trike awaits the imminent arrival of something unknown. A suspenseful pregnant pause with a sense of foreboding.
When an image produces a response beyond an appreciation of its graphic and technical properties it enters the realm of art. I think.
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I think all photography is Art. like all forms, it can be good or bad or in between, and some become epics. They all tell a story, (like art does), for those who take them, but like those 2 with the fog they conjure up feelings that appeal to our flight or fight response and that causes our imagination to run wild.......great pics. Inspiring
 
Redman said:
Do show us that when done.
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So it's done; a musical jewelry box for Rose made from Bolivian Rosewood, Birdseye Maple, Walnut (inside), and Basswood (carving area)

Front:

Rose Music Box Front by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Small Drawer for jewelry; The ballerina spins as the music movement plays an 18-note movement of Wish Upon A Star

Rose Music Box Open by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Handmade Ring holders
Rose Music Box Ring Area by Scott Baker, on Flickr

I haven't done any chip carving in awhile so the wife drew the roses then I carved and painted it.

Rose Music Box Top Carving by Scott Baker, on Flickr

And of course I must sign my work for posterity sake

Rose Music Box Back by Scott Baker, on Flickr
 
So I live in a house owned by the church, and they literally built it like fifty years ago, and yeah, there was an intercom system.

It didn't work when I moved in, but there were receivers in each of the three bedrooms, plus one in the laundry room and one in the rec room.

I fiddled around with them a teeny bit but not very much, and I ended up removing all the hardware except the one in the kitchen.
I kind of plan on renovating the kitchen at some point, therefore I didn't bother removing the intercom thing. yet.

Woulda been cool to have it working.
 
Scott. The attention to detail you put in your work looks fantastic.
 
cowboyup3371 said:
So it's done; a musical jewelry box for Rose made from Bolivian Rosewood, Birdseye Maple, Walnut (inside), and Basswood (carving area). . .
..
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Ah, nice woodworking .... and art work.

Nice looking wood(s).
Basswood for the carving artwork, beacuse of its light color, and/or maybe some characeristic for the carving ?
Carve with knife blade or rotating tool (dremel)?

.
 
Redman said:
Ah, nice woodworking .... and art work.

Nice looking wood(s).
Basswood for the carving artwork, beacuse of its light color, and/or maybe some characeristic for the carving ?
Carve with knife blade or rotating tool (dremel)?

.
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Although Basswood is technically considered a hardwood, it is still fairly soft in that it allows for easy carving with hand tools.
 
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A snapshot of a spruce grouse which casually and randomly meandered within 2 feet of my feet. They are considered 'tame' but probably it's na?vety concerning humans as they live in wilderness areas. Their interesting natural camouflage is sophisticated though.

There are at least two optical trickeries. Countershading - at a distance form is instinctively realized by the play of light on an object - lighter on the top or sides, shadow underneath. This bird is white underneath and dark on the back which reverses what a predator would normally expect which helps to visually dissolve its shape. Disruptive design - another device designed to obliterate form by patterns of irregular and sharply contrasting blocks of color and tone which up closer separate its overall form into smaller discreet patches.

All learned from Adaptive Coloration in Animals (1940) Hugh B. Cott. His research was highly instrumental in developing camouflage for military applications.

 
Last minute gifts....A few 8x10s for the family.
Just have to mat and frame...
 
Went for morning walk along the river channel and onto the pier this morning shortly after sunrize. About 30degF and a little bit breezy.
Saw this little boat comming in from way out in the big lake.
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Was wonder, if it was about 9am, and they were just now comming in, I wonder when they went out.
And thought how dedicated and enthusastic they must be about fishing to go out under such conditions - - just for fishing, for a fish. Some people are strange, eh.
 
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