Silva Lining
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Sketching, drawing & painting. Writing. Gardening - Fruit & Veg as well as flowers 
and the latest is making music with my Korg Kaossilator
and the latest is making music with my Korg Kaossilatorsquirrel$$$bandit
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I am a poet. I have one book out already, one book out this month, and one book coming out in September. Poetry is my day job. Photography is my hobby.
A blurb from David Young! Are you an Oberliner?
zenlibra
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I used to do a lot of painting and some songwriting. I still dabble with the guitar a little but I feel like i've found myself with photography.
Roger Hicks
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Yes! Yes! Yes! To all of that.
This is why I am so puzzled by the mean-spiritedness of some of the people on RFF. As you say, it promotes kindness. That's infinitely more important than photography.
We all say things we wish we hadn't; we all misread situations; we all make mistakes. But some people seem to go out of their way to be offended, or to be offensive.
Tashi delek,
R.
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Peter
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Check out my blog!!!
I get bored rather quickly and as a result i collect hobbies...I know mostly play a bit of music (ukulele & violin), make movies (documentaries and weird short films), tumble rocks (future jewelry making project) and bone carving...here is some I have done
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Dogman
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Perfecting the art of sloth.
Actually, I do enjoy outdoor cooking/smoking meat, baking bread, shooting guns, collecting stuff, camping/traveling, gardening, birdwatching, reading and music.
I used to play guitar. Now I play the stereo.
I like wine. To drink.
The more I think about it--I really do like perfecting the art of sloth.
Actually, I do enjoy outdoor cooking/smoking meat, baking bread, shooting guns, collecting stuff, camping/traveling, gardening, birdwatching, reading and music.
I used to play guitar. Now I play the stereo.
I like wine. To drink.
The more I think about it--I really do like perfecting the art of sloth.
Dave Wilkinson
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me too! - but had to stop trying to smoke meat!....used too many matches keeping my pipe goingPerfecting the art of sloth.
Actually, I do enjoy outdoor cooking/smoking meat, baking bread, shooting guns, collecting stuff, camping/traveling, gardening, birdwatching, reading and music.
I used to play guitar. Now I play the stereo.
I like wine. To drink.
The more I think about it--I really do like perfecting the art of sloth.
Roger Hicks
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Ah, sloth... the finest of fine arts.
Smoking meat is easier than smoking fish. Drier.
Cheers,
R.
Smoking meat is easier than smoking fish. Drier.
Cheers,
R.
jke
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No, my manuscript was a finalist in Field's manuscript contest before winning the XJ Kennedy prize at another press. So David Young, the editor of Field, was very kind to write a blurb for the book having read it in his press' contest.
My grandfather, Harold Fildey, was a professor in Oberlin's divinity school before it moved to Vanderbilt. And when he moved, he sold his house to a professor at Oberlin, who turned out to be David Young. I didn't find out about it until a couple years ago. Quite a loop of time.
squirrel$$$bandit
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Very impressive--Field is pretty hardcore, a great magazine. My wife studied fiction writing at Oberlin with Stuart Friebert and Diane Vreuls, wonderful people and excellent writers. Congrats on the Kennedy prize as well and good luck with the new one.
EcoLeica, that's near stuff you're making, as well...
Ron (Netherlands)
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I guess music is and will be my greatest hobby - sometimes in combination with other things. Like e.g. some years ago (before one could just download any music database type of programm) I wanted to put all my favourate music in one little stand alone database - mainly in order to be able to compare the same song played differently on different recordings. Only for that reason I learned programming and build a little - music playing - database around all my records of Django Reinhardt. Lately I enjoy playing piano (learned myself last year since I had no time taking lessons) were I used to play a lot of guitar.
The below picture that I used for the splash screen of my program was shot (org 6x6) by William Gottlieb in 1946 when Django toured with Duke through the US.
The below picture that I used for the splash screen of my program was shot (org 6x6) by William Gottlieb in 1946 when Django toured with Duke through the US.
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Creative impulses/successes
Creative impulses/successes
My mother, of Swedish and Norwegian origin, taught me the deep joys of baking bread from self-mixed ingredients when I was a teenager, and more than 30 years later I and my mate, totally of Italian origin, make bread weekly in our $4,000 Thermador oven, and that creative experience mirrors my continuing film shooting and developing as well as print-making processes wonderfully! The smell of bread baking, though certainly not by any means similar to the odors of darkroom processing trays' chemicals, is heavenly and the latter-mentioned odors, first experienced in my father's darkroom in the 1950s when I was a child, still enchant me and pull me into my darkroom upon experiencing the slightest whiff of them from previous darkroom printing experiences. My father never learned how to cook and bake, partially because he was chauvanistic and partially misogynistic, so he never contributed to the influence my mother gave, but by introducing the wonders of photography to me I have to humbly state that I am thankful to him for that specifically. Since we got together almost 31 years ago, my mate has shared his mother's exquisite Italian recipes with me and we relish sharing kitchen experiences together, both atop the burners and within the oven. I must admit that there have been many instances wherein I am in my darkroom, rejoicing while creating a gorgeous print, while my mate is in the kitchen creating one of our wonderful recipes from either the U.S., France, or Italy, and he knocks on the darkroom door and states "dinner is ready!", and I effortlessly instantly move from the processing trays to the exquisite smell of a wonderfully prepared series of recipes--including homemade bread--at our dining room table, and the darkroom experience, therefore, results in being a joyful prelude to outstanding gastronomy!
Creative impulses/successes
My mother, of Swedish and Norwegian origin, taught me the deep joys of baking bread from self-mixed ingredients when I was a teenager, and more than 30 years later I and my mate, totally of Italian origin, make bread weekly in our $4,000 Thermador oven, and that creative experience mirrors my continuing film shooting and developing as well as print-making processes wonderfully! The smell of bread baking, though certainly not by any means similar to the odors of darkroom processing trays' chemicals, is heavenly and the latter-mentioned odors, first experienced in my father's darkroom in the 1950s when I was a child, still enchant me and pull me into my darkroom upon experiencing the slightest whiff of them from previous darkroom printing experiences. My father never learned how to cook and bake, partially because he was chauvanistic and partially misogynistic, so he never contributed to the influence my mother gave, but by introducing the wonders of photography to me I have to humbly state that I am thankful to him for that specifically. Since we got together almost 31 years ago, my mate has shared his mother's exquisite Italian recipes with me and we relish sharing kitchen experiences together, both atop the burners and within the oven. I must admit that there have been many instances wherein I am in my darkroom, rejoicing while creating a gorgeous print, while my mate is in the kitchen creating one of our wonderful recipes from either the U.S., France, or Italy, and he knocks on the darkroom door and states "dinner is ready!", and I effortlessly instantly move from the processing trays to the exquisite smell of a wonderfully prepared series of recipes--including homemade bread--at our dining room table, and the darkroom experience, therefore, results in being a joyful prelude to outstanding gastronomy!
Roger Hicks
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Murray Kelly
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Amateur radio (VK4AOK) and electronics. Too old to roll around under cars these days.
Murray
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Gardening, music, homebrewing.... I like to nurture things into fruition. I also like waiting for prints from the shop to see if my ideas came to fruition.
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Baking bread
Baking bread
Two days ago, after making some prints in my darkroom, I made two loaves of Italian Ciabatta bread which were delicious, and yesterday I made two more loaves of sourdough bread from a bowl of sourdough starter that has been in our refrigerator for two years and gets fed with additional flour, water, and honey every two weeks. This morning I made four more loaves of a standard enriched bread from a Bernard Clayton bread-making cookbook I have had for almost 30 years. That standard enriched bread makes great toast and sandwiches and enhances dinner vastly. I always double the recipe so that we end up with four loaves. Below are four digital images of the bread-making process. In order, they show the results of the first dough rise in bowls, the second rise in the All-Clad heavy, gold-plated bread pans that we love, the bread fully baked in the oven after the 35 minute timer setting ended, and then the bread cooling on a wire device. Ah--the aroma fills the house so wonderfully!
Baking bread
Two days ago, after making some prints in my darkroom, I made two loaves of Italian Ciabatta bread which were delicious, and yesterday I made two more loaves of sourdough bread from a bowl of sourdough starter that has been in our refrigerator for two years and gets fed with additional flour, water, and honey every two weeks. This morning I made four more loaves of a standard enriched bread from a Bernard Clayton bread-making cookbook I have had for almost 30 years. That standard enriched bread makes great toast and sandwiches and enhances dinner vastly. I always double the recipe so that we end up with four loaves. Below are four digital images of the bread-making process. In order, they show the results of the first dough rise in bowls, the second rise in the All-Clad heavy, gold-plated bread pans that we love, the bread fully baked in the oven after the 35 minute timer setting ended, and then the bread cooling on a wire device. Ah--the aroma fills the house so wonderfully!
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Tom H
Not quite another creative interest, but what I love about photographing people doing drama, music, or sport is that in a way I get the chance to be part of their activity as well.
And if it involves being physically active to keep up with the action, then that adds a major dimension to my enjoyment of the event and of photographing it.
Other creative interests: studying languages, writing with fountain pens, long-distance walking (I don't suppose this last one is creation, but it is recreation). I would have said computers, but they are only a tool to me now.
Cheers,
Tom
And if it involves being physically active to keep up with the action, then that adds a major dimension to my enjoyment of the event and of photographing it.
Other creative interests: studying languages, writing with fountain pens, long-distance walking (I don't suppose this last one is creation, but it is recreation). I would have said computers, but they are only a tool to me now.
Cheers,
Tom
petronius
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Bows and arrows in a rather primitive way; cooking and writing haiku, in a primitive way too; forging and knifemaking; reading SF.