Black & White Sunday

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This morning while working on photos, I was really into black and whites. So, I thought it would be cool to share some with you.

This image was taken just a few weeks ago in the small town of Niles, CA. It’s a great little town with lots of ‘throwbacks’ to yesterdays.

An old ‘Brownie’ camera. You can still buy film for these. It would be fun for ‘old time sake’ to buy some film and go out and do a photo shoot with an old camera like this.

A Liquid Amber leaf. The sun was just slightly illuminating the background.

A California poppy – yep, growing in a crack in the sidewalk. It’s almost like a “kirlian” photo, except the ‘energy aura’ is around the poppy’s shadow.

A Swallowtail butterfly taken decades ago with black and white film.

Have a colorful Sunday!

Ogham Post Yard Art

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While visiting ruins in Ireland, I learned of an early Medieval (4th to 10th century) alphabet called “Ogham.”

Ogham, which originally consisted of 20 characters, are formed by parallel lines on either side of a continuous vertical line.

I decided that we needed an Ogham post in our front yard. Here is my sketch of what I hoped the finished post would look like.

I acquired an old 6″ x 6″ post while traveling in Washington state. The post is 2 feet high.

I sketched out our names in Ogham on two sides of the post.

I carved out each representative letter, and then filled them in with black paint.

Here is the first completed name. Normally, each Ogham symbol is connected to the next via the vertical line. However, I chose not to do that in my design.

I’d planned to mount the post on a flat stone, but while drilling it out it cracked in half. Still okay, I just set the post on the broken stone.

I wonder what the local Druids will think?