giant lanterns from umbrellas

Isn't this an amazing idea?
I'm sorry I  couldn't find out how the umbrellas were connected together, if sewn or stapled or  just tucked into each other.  Should have carried my zoom lens....

If you want to see them glow come to the Weinfest in Altkötschenbroda tonight!

September photo a day challenge

I decided to join in once again. An eventful month is coming up, so let's see what my camera is going to snap!
In case you want to play yourself and need more information on the current challenge you find it here.

DAY 1 - YOU, NOW

on inspiration

design and photo by my daughter

❝

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.

— Chuck Close
(Source : nirvikalpa)

more music for you

this time assembled by Jason Hudson, photographer in Toronto and author of an amazing blog named THESE ROVING EYES.
Have a look yourselves and enjoy his playlist " for sunny autumn days"; it's genius (like all his playlists).  Thank you, Jason, for giving us the possibility to download !