"Ethereal Beauty" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

"Ethereal Beauty" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble: 

"Ethereal Beauty" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch 2012©Photography | Redbubble

It’s Zygocactus annual flowering time again. The cool southerly winter winds created some difficulty while attempting to photo up close this hanging little beauty. It was highlighted with sunspots from the afternoon sunlight creating some lovely effects. Taken at home near Innisfail, in tropical Far North Queensland, Australia!

Common name: Zygocactus, Christmas cactus, and Crab’s claw cactus
Botanic name: Schlumbergera truncata Hybrids



Camera/Shoot Details

• Handheld Pentax K10D, Prime Lens smc Pentax 55mm F1.2
  1/500sec, @F22, ISO 100, manual focus.
• Photo - Natural state
  

(This was taken with my very first SLR Lens which I forgot I had and recently rediscovered it in my black camera bag archives. It came with my first ever SLR (late 70’s), a Pentax K1000 also in good working order but ‘neglected in use’ since purchasing a DSLR in 2007.)

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"Pink and Cream Delights" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble

Inspiration from Nature
Early morning 6.14 am December 10th, just after sunrise, clusters of tiny pink buds of a variegated leaved Cordyline terminalis, had commenced flowering. The plant grows in my tropical home garden near Innisfail, Far North Queensland, Australia.


"Pink and Cream Clusters" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble:

Pink and Cream Clusters @ Redbubble

Challenges

Honoured, amazed, thrilled, humbled, excited, grateful for the RedBubble community support and validation for one of my photographic works!  All because I seized the moment, took the opportunity and time to study and photograph one of nature's unique wonders offered in the early morning hours, first week in April, 2011.  I took a 'few' (well many really!) photos in the early morn light over two consecutive days while 2 blooms lasted. You see one of them here.


Today I actually found out that I have won (yesterday 27.04.2011) my first entered Challenge: April Colour Challenge:  *TWO SHADES OF YELLOW or YELLOW AND WHITE* in the *ONE SINGLE FLOWER ON DISPLAY* RedBubble group with my photographic entry ~ First Light's Breath 

'First Light's Breath'

http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica/art/7034345-first-lights-breath

 Showing work in an available RedBubble Poster Print Format

Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch

http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica



In choosing this image I was this time very much guided by the image rules of this specific group. They didn't want just any ad-hoc flower photograph!
* Challenge results ~ http://www.redbubble.com/groups/just-flowers/challenges/33422-april-colour-challenge-two-shades-of-yellow-or-yellow-and-white.

Then, in the same RB group, First Light's Breath was voted into 2nd place in another Challenge
Featured Art Challenge 21 April 2011 (http://www.redbubble.com/groups/just-flowers/challenges/33676-featured-art-challenge-21-april-2011)

Winning a challenge
This meant I got to enter the work in the next level Challenge ~ "Simply The Best" Challenge May 2011   View here => http://www.redbubble.com/groups/just-flowers/challenges/32868-simply-the-best-challenge-may-2011

There are no actual prizes. I just get 'bragging rights' lol, for the honour and glory of winning by a fair and honourable voting system available to RB's members.

I have written an accompanying poem for First Light's Breath which may be read, along with the many community supportive feedback comments, on my RedBubble's gallery display page ~ http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica/art/7034345-first-lights-breath.
(The image First Light's Breath may be viewed larger on RB also.)

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Transit Memory 1

Introducing my first work in the Transit Memory series - a digital art collage composition having used my own scanned manipulated imagery of lace and papers and processed through Photoshop CS2.

Giclee prints of Transit Memory available from RedBubble ~ http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica/art/5560654-transit-memory-1?c=58164-digital-creations

Inspiration extends from my previous symbology abstract work development referencing notions of transcendental passage for growth in our world of duality and memory associations.

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“It (memory) is essential for much reasoning and decision-making, both individual and collective.” Also ”... an understanding of memory is likely to be important in making sense of the continuity of the self, of the relation between mind and body, and of our experience of time”.  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/
(See below further reference notes taken from the Memory discussion source .)


Reference Notes

Meaning of Transit: The act of passing; passage through or over. Synonyms: pass through, pass across, pass over.

Memory  discussion source
Citation 
Sutton, John, "Memory", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

"Memory’ labels a diverse set of cognitive capacities by which we retain information and reconstruct past experiences, usually for present purposes. Memory is one of the most important ways by which our histories animate our current actions and experiences. Most notably, the human ability to conjure up long-gone but specific episodes of our lives is both familiar and puzzling, and is a key aspect of personal identity. Memory seems to be a source of knowledge. We remember experiences and events which are not happening now, so memory differs from perception. We remember events which really happened, so memory is unlike pure imagination. Yet, in practice, there can be close interactions between remembering, perceiving, and imagining. Remembering is often suffused with emotion, and is closely involved in both extended affective states such as love and grief, and socially significant practices such as promising and commemorating. It is essential for much reasoning and decision-making, both individual and collective. It is connected in obscure ways with dreaming. Some memories are shaped by language, others by imagery. Much of our moral and social life depends on the peculiar ways in which we are embedded in time. Memory goes wrong in mundane and minor, or in dramatic and disastrous ways.
 ... an understanding of memory is likely to be important in making sense of the continuity of the self, of the relation between mind and body, and of our experience of time,  ..." http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/

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