Morning In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
Silhouettes abound
Outlining the saguaros
In the morning sun.
— kenne
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The First Phainopepla 1 comment
Male Phainopepla In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
The first phainopepla encased
in black feathers, and plastic
flew into the morning sunlight.
— kenne
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Female Phainopepla In The Morning Sun (January 7, 2020 — Sabino Canyon)
— Photo-Artistry by kenne
Here comes the sun
birders listen and watch
as birds chilled by
desert winter night
seek high perches
in the sunlight.
When I take up
my palette (Nikon)
I call on the light
bringing color and
life to the canyon
sometimes blinding.
Solitude with style
with endless silence
where flite interrupts
the viewer’s sight
their gestures
demonstrate the loss.
— kenne
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Between Light And Shadows — Making Something Visible That Might Otherwise Be Invisible 7 comments
“Morning Sun” Painting by Edward Hopper
Life and art are defined by what lies between light and shadows. In Holland Cotter’s April 30, 2007 article in the New York Times, he wrote, “A certain slant of light was Edward Hopper’s thing. And he made it our thing, hard-wired it into our American brains:”
Ever since seeing Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” at the Art Institute of Chicago as a young man, I have been seduced by his work — not because he hard-wired my brain, but because of the human ability to distinguish between an object and its background. The contrast between light and shadows catches the eye, which is why Hopper’s work is so seductive — it is the essence of the “Hopper Effect: the impression of everyday life touched with secular sanctity. ”
Poet L.E. Sissman was so captivated by Hopper’s work that he wrote “American Light: A Hopper Retrospective.” Written in five parts, the first part is subtitled “Hopper.”
A man, a plan, a spandrel touched with fire,
A morning-tinted cornice, a lit spire,
A clapboard gable beetled with the brow-
Shadows of lintels, a glazed vacancy
In shut-up shopfronts, an ineffably
Beautiful emptiness of sunlight in
Bare rooms of which he was the sole inhabitant:
The morning and the evening of his life
Rotated, a lone sun, about the plinth
On which he stood in granite, limned by light
That lasted one day long and then went out.
Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”
Yes, it’s all about what falls between the light and the shadows,
as Joyce Carol Oats writes on Hopper’s “Nighthawks” in Transforming Vision – Writers on Art:
The three men are fully clothed, long sleeves,
even hats, though it’s indoors, and brightly lit,
and there’s a women. The woman is wearing
a short-sleeved red dress cut to expose her arms,
a curve of her creamy chest; she’s contemplating
a cigarette in her right hand, thinking that
her companion has finally left his wife but
can she trust him? Her heavy-lidded eyes,
pouty lipsticked mouth, she has the redhead’s
true pallor like skill milk, damned good-looking
and she guesses she knows it but what exactly
has it gotten her so far, and where? — he’ll start
to feel guilty in a few days, she knows
the signs, an actual smell, sweaty, rancid, like
dirty socks; he’ll slip away to make telephone calls. . .
“. . . People the vacuum with American light.” — the last line in T.S. Sissman’s poem on Edward Hopper.
“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge…” — Rod Serling, Twilight Zone.
I feel that in the images I capture, I’m always trying to capture that middle ground between light and shadow — maybe Edward Hopper was too.
Some may think of the space between light and the shadow as the twilight zone; I think of it as what the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca called duende, which, as Edward Hirsch has put it, “. . . it makes something visible that might otherwise be invisible, that has been swimming under the surface all along.” Too many more to count
kenne
Between Light and Shadows — Image by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Greater Short-Horned Lizard 1 comment
Greater Short-Horned Lizard — Images by kenne
A lover of ants
Effective Camouflage use
Early morning sun.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Shore Fishing On The Outer Banks 2 comments
Shore Fishing On The Outer Banks — Images by kenne
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Capturing The Moment — Beach Fun 2 comments
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Capturing The Moment — Outer Banks (OBX), Morning One 4 comments
The North Carolina Outer Banks (OBX) at Duck — Images by kenne
The Outer Banks, North Carolina
Divide the ocean and the bay
Inviting, is this string of islands
Vacationers to come and play
Two hundred miles of pristine beaches
As far as any eye can see
Morning brings the perfect sunrise
On this land along the sea
The light house on Cape Hatteras
Guided many ships at night
The beaches outside Kitty Hawk
Saw the very first manned flight
The home to herds of feral ponies
Where the pirate Blackbeard died
English settled long ago
Still to this day they do reside
The climate always feels like summer
All along this eastern shore
Once you stop here for a visit
We know that you’ll come back for more
by Jack Ivey
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Capturing The Moment — Yellow Cactus Flower II 2 comments
“Yellow Cactus Flower II” — Image by kenne
Cactus flower 2
Yellow in the morning sun
Wilted by day’s end.
kenne
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Capturing The Moment — My Christmas Cholla 2 comments
Teddy Bear Cholla In The Morning Sun — Image by kenne
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Turkey Vultures In The Morning Sun — Image by kenne
The Morning Sun
Hope comes with the morning sun
Warming the body and the soul
Washing away yesterdays troubles
Providing a new beginning
To be lived as if it were your last —
Every minute being a gift.
kenne
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Birds Along Trail In The Early Morning 3 comments
Western Bluebirds Facing the Morning Sun
Cactus Wren in a Phainopela’s Favorite Place
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Gila Woodpecker — Images by kenne
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