Outstanding work Andrea. My memories take me far back now to my Grandmothers farm where there was no electricity. We and other family visited many times there and coped without electricity. God bless.

lovely pot and reflections; cool postwork

with your postwork the oldest pot looks just great!

Lovely capture, bet it makes a good cuppa :o)

That is shocking being without electricity ! Like the tea pot.

Lovely study and interesting postwork

Silver or chrome It doesn't matter when the powers out. Nice work.

Highly polished, that's for sure. Sterling sharp black and white contrasts captured in this one, and digifiddled to boot, Andrea

Gorgeous postwork on this fascinating stuff, Andrea. Yeah, we are so dependent on the net these days, kids don't know how to play anymore!

if we lose electricity here, I just get a book and go outside to read - if it is too wet, I light a battery operated lamp and read. I can keep myself occupied, thankfully Wonderful capture and postwork

Wonderful postwork! What a highly polished coffee pot this is! marvelously clear reflections on it. I like how the things behind it look too, with the postwork. I really like the flickr shot of this, too. One of the best few days in fairly recent history was the time of the Surprise October snow storm, heavy wet snow on trees that were still fully leafed out cause a lot of tree damage, collapsed roofs, and downed power lines. We were without electric for 13 days. The first 4 days or so were wonderful, at night there was no tv .. so we played cards, talked, read books, it was marvelous. I have a gas stove, so cooking wasn't a problem, and the woodburning stove kept us toasty warm. Then we found a place that still had generators .. and live came back to semi normal. I did so much appreciate all those things that I had taken for granted before the power outage, but reading by the light of dozen candles on the dining room table was so .. well .. cozy!

I adore literally everything about this image, from the capture itself, to the postwork, and every miniscule detail. And, thank you for the grins about the power outage and adaptation. Weird, isn't it. I often wonder if we're spawning an entire generation now, who will be wholly socially inept, unable to converse, even clueless as to what to really do in the absence of gadgetry. I'm so displaced in time though, a little defiant even, when it comes to completely joining modernity, so you can't put much stock in me. :)

That's an attractive piece and an interesting shot, can't quite see the tag, I doubt if it's cheap. Nice shots.

Beautifully & creatively postworked - an outstanding composition...

Reflections in silver ... what could be better? I love them both. There's something about silver that attracts me like no amount of gold can.

Nice shot! I expect the absence of Internet was the cause of their trauma. I think we will hear for more of this problem as the young are totally unable to cope without their e-gadgets.

A delightful look at the details, of this tea set, over on the other side! I guess it could be a coffee set too. Good looking post work too! On the cruise ship, there were always young people out on the decks, trying to catch a cell tower in the middle of the ocean. I kept telling them that there was a library on deck seven! :o)

Holy cow! The flickr version knocked me over: You got a whole swirling universe of silver, black and white. It's stunning. And filled with those fractal-like forms all over the place (the incisions, the ornament, etc). (I think "incision" is meant for surgery, but I'm not shakespeare over here...) This piece has all kinds of silver in it, but it's a whole other world with your highly articulate edge work, your breaking surfaces into whole isobars and geological shorelines, and always strong contrasts of hues---all set off by your silvers and whites, which are opulent here, esp in contrast with those slate blues (and the big brown swath on the left side of the pitcher). One of the wonderful things about this style is how you flatten the hues in each section; and then create depth by contrasting them and playing them off each other. It's really a montage art, almost a collage art---except there's no more than one surface, but still. These pieces always have so much in them, and they're also analytical in that they take apart forms and surfaces and see what they're made of, what energies are there, what interactions. I also like the stark black of the left side, contrasted with all that activity on the right. You'll always grab me with these treatments, Andrea, I love the exploration and experiment you show in them, and you're always fresh with them, and never endingly curious. (Re kids and a "ball": I never thought I'd see the day when a "ball" sounded like something from pre-history. A ball---a round thing---it sounds positively radical, "minimal art" as one friend called it. But even my dog, when I was a kid, got tired of balls: After about 2 years, when I threw a ball, he'd look at me like, "you've gotttttttt to be kidding! I'm gonna waste my good time and energy chasing---a ball???" Even he got ennui from a ball. I imagine a child with smartphones must think their parents lost their minds when they give the kids "a ball". Like, "uh---hellllllllooooo! And I'm supposed to do, like, WHAT with this???")