2017, and So It Begins

2017. Another year in pictures, a photograph a day, every day, 365 days.

Day 1, January 1, 2017
This Hive will Thrive

Day 2, January 2, 2017
Bear, Porch sitting

Day 3, January 3, 2017
Night Moves

Day 4, January 4, 2017
Mixed Media, Photographic Art

Day 5, January 5, 2017
US Capitol at Dawn, Washington, DC

Day 6, January 6, 2017
Tulips, Photographic Digital Art

Day 7, January 7, 2017
First Snow of the Year

Photography & prose by Terry Rowe. Your visit & comments are appreciated.

You can see my art work or photographs at www.terryrowe.photography.  Any photographs in my blog are also available for purchase. 

A New Day, A New Year

This first day of 2014 has been a quiet day, a day of planning and contemplation. I made two decisions relevant to the new year.

First, I decided to revive a personal custom of writing out a list of wishes / plans for the coming year. I write down what I'd like to see happen, what I'd like to do in the coming year. Once complete the list is placed into a sealed envelope and put away. On December 31, 2014 I'll open the envelope and compare what I thought I wanted to have 2014 be to what 2014 turned out to be.

Second, I decided to continue my 365 photograph a day project although with some modification. This year I will create a work of photographic art every day - some days it will be a photograph taken that day, some days it will be a photograph processed in the digital darkroom for that day, and other days it will be a photographic composition created for that day.

Today, for my first project of the new year, I worked on a still life composition. This particular work was a photograph of a daguerreotype in an old leather case that I found in an antique store. I wondered who this young man was, who loved him, who did he love. Someone treasured him, enough to have a picture of him, enough to keep his picture.

A Young Man, Day 1, January 1, 2014

tARTism #7

Stop. Waiting. 

It’s by living that you live more. 

By waiting you wait more. 

Every waiting day makes your life a little less. 

Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. 

Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it. 

~ Ann Brashares, "Sisterhood Everlasting"

Some things a tART just has to say. 

I make these images using my photographs, vintage photographs, 

and vintage illustrations. 

I hope you enjoy them! 

Constructing and Creating Crone Figures

I build crones, multi-media figures, representing the crone ~ a woman who has reached an age of wisdom and maturity.

The figures are built of salvaged materials, wood, metal, glass, clay. The faces are individually molded clay, all are painted. Each figure is different and transforms in form as part of the creation process; each is unique and individual.

This statement defines the crone and what goes into making one of my crone figures.

I usually create the crone figures in sets of two to four, the set pictured here are the Four Sisters Series.

Crone, one of the Four Sisters Series

Crone, one of the Four Sisters Series

Crone, one of the Four Sisters Series

Crone, one of the Four Sisters Series

Crone, one of the Four Sisters Series