Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper!
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (17)
emmecielle
Excellent work! :)
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Fiddles into wonder :)
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
Juliette.Gribnau
I like it a lot
dochtersions
This is fantastic, Andrea. I thougth at first sight you made a fractal ;-) How elegant.
jendellas
Love the vibrant colours.
ArtistKimberly
Incredibly Delightful picture,
Faemike55
Beautiful and stylish
Chipka
The colors are wonderful and when I saw the title, "Poncho" I immediately thought of the Star Wars movies: it's a rule in Star Wars that if you ever want to don a foolproof disguise (so that highly trained enemies won't recognize you) wear a poncho: no one will ever even see you in one of those. Okay, but all cheesy serials aside: I really love this fiddle (and the sonnet reference it carries, though with the swirly business going on, I think this is probably something along the lines of...well...what's the ballet version of a sonnet? It reminds me of one of those. I'm sure there's a name for what I'm thinking about. This is vibrant and fun!
jocko500
wonderful
wysiwig
Just a minute. Fourteen lines, four, four, three and three? No one warned me this would involve math. You do explain it very well, even for someone at my level and the result is brilliant.
CavalierLady
Very creative work and reasoning/inspiration behind it.
Glendaw
Thanks for taking the time to explain Andrea ! Although it is as clear as mud for me ! ! Smiles. The design and mix of colors are very eye catching.
MrsRatbag
Wow, that's concept art indeed! Beautifully done, and the digifiddle is masterful!
danapommet
I understand the sonnet translation into colorful are but I have to say that the mega digifiddle is spectacular!
irisinthespring
Colorful for sure...:)))
anahata.c
I love both these images, and I gotta tell you, when this first went up I actually considered writing a sonnet for my comment! (Not easy---which you can see by the fact that I didn't do it.) I even tried a Shakespearean sonnet---just for the fun of his diction, even though your flickr version isn't in that scheme...but it didn't work. Ah well. But I love the idea, and the flickr version is both eye candy, as a visual sonnet, as well as as a shot of repeating patterns. Your RR version, on the other hand, is a big swirl, with real clarity and strong and vivid hues, and contrasts between them. Very musical. I love the whole idea. I studied "the Interrelation of the Arts" in grad school, so I'm a big fan of combining arts. So this was right up my alley. And the RR version is a big exuberant dance. Terrific. (Here was my first sonnet line: "On looking on these ribbons, to and fro..."------that's as far as I got. Of course you can always throw in quotes as filler: "On looking on these ribbons, to and fro/I all alone beweep my outcast state/I summon up remembrance of things past/and look upon myself and curse my fate..." There are 2 Shakespearean sonnets in there, and they make absolutely no sense together.) Love the concept and the execution here. Well I'm at an hour, and I did 9 images, I think, so I'll stop for now. But I'll come back soon. It's always a pleasure, Andrea, your gallery has immense variety along with your inimitable eye, sense of style, penetration, humor and everything else you impart to your images...