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A look at the nomadic lifestyle in Arabia
I am honored to have my work about the Bedu of Arabia featured in the current issue of ETHMED online magazine. The values of this traditional and ancient way of life have persisted for over five thousand years and have adapted to modern life in the 21st century.
It was one of the highest honors of my life to be accepted by the clans of the Al Amrah and Al Erq of the Al Murrah tribes to live with them and document their way of life. From 1980 to the present I continue to maintain a relationship with the clans and learn so much about respect, honor, relationships, loyalty, survival, and adaptation a few of the values that define nomadic life among the Bedu of Arabia.
Gathering at the wedding of Mohammed Alerq. Social protocol demands that everyone sit in a circle. Dahna Sands, Saudi Arabia
Pathway to the Bay, Sarsota, Florida Black and White image made with the iPhone Camera Shadow of tree at the end of day on a wallClose-up with the iPhone Camera of Dendrocalamus bamboo, the largest bamboo in the world. Close-up of Schefflera “umbrella tree” in the rain. Studio still-life, PlumcotStudio still-life, Callla LilyDeveloping strom, Sarasota, Florida. Photo made with iPhone CameraFeather Cloud, Sarasota, Florida Unexpected image within an image of a cloud formation. Photo made with iPhone-Camera Black & White image made with the iPhone Camera of window dressing, Sarasota, Florida
Learn to master your iPhone Camera. Two places left for the upcoming iPhone Camera course: Sept. 10, 12, 17 & 19.
10 am til noon. The fee is $175 for four classes. To reserve your place contact me at WayneEastep@gmail.com
*All images shown here were made with the iPhone Camera.
Sunflower, Van GoghJug, Curtain and Fruit Bowl Paul CezanneBasket of Fruit CaravaggioStill Life with a Pewter Jug and Pink Statuette Henri Matisse
When you think of still-life do images like these come to mind? They are examples of a way of thinking about still-life that has been with us since the 16th century.
Would you like to explore a reimagined way of using still-life to tell a story, get inside the core of a subject, and create images with your Smartphone? Like master painters, learn how to use light, shadow, perspective, shape and contour, space, and composition.
Recently I led a workshop reimagining still-life as a way of journaling and storytelling. Tim and Lisa, students in the workshop discovered they could create images on a card table using inexpensive lighting bought at the hardware store.
Watermelon, Tim Sweeney
Peppers, Lisa King
Wood Tools with Glass Balls, Lisa King
Journaling, Tim Sweeney
Reflections on the Silk Road, Wayne Eastep
Lisa King and Tim Sweeney during the Still-Life Photography Reimagined Workshop
DIY lighting for studio still-life. Items were bought at the hardware store for around $100.
To learn about upcoming workshops contact me at: WayneEastep@Gmail.com
The moon sits like a silent eye in the sky observing the earth.
Its phases serve as markers of time.
The lunar eclipse reminds us in dramatic and beautiful ways that there are three of us sharing the heavens; the sun, moon, and earth.
The physical phases of the moon; new, full, waxing, waning, bright, dark, rising, and sitting all serve as visual poetry about life as seen in the cycles of the moon. The reappearance of the moon every night is a reminder about the passage of time and while each day things change there is reassurance in the constancy of the moon.
Partial Lunar Eclipse of the Full Moon November 19, 2021, as seen from Sarasota, Florida, rendered in Black and White. “Blood Moon” of the Partial Lunar Eclipse November 19, 2021Full Moon November 19, 2021 also known as the “beaver moon” and “blood moon”. Observed from Sarasota, Florida.
“The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist…. When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.” D.H. Lawrence, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence. pt.4, 1930
Phases of the full moon during a partial lunar eclipse November 19, 2021.
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“Blood Moon” during the partial lunar eclipse. Partial lunar eclipse, black and white print.
Time and life’s conditions bring about change. This cedar tree with the markings of wind, rain and snow, deep cold and searing sun shows us that beauty and grace remain even though the cedars stately and grand posture has passed.
This mission church is one of the oldest churches in America dedicated to San Francisco de Asis. It is an outstanding example of adobe mission architecture. Constructed between 1813 & 1815. Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.
The clean lines and earthen materials make it a kindered spirit to modern architecture from the Sarasota School of Architecture. They both integrate the outdoor environment with the architecture using simple materials and clean lines in the design.
2020 ended with a full moon. It joins the sun in giving us a celestial presence that is reassuring, and god knows we can use some reassurance about now.
Natue is always a reliable source to turn to for orientation. So look up, look around, you might find what you’re looking for.
Sun viewed above the Gulf of Mexico, Sarasota, Florida
2021 started as it did the day before and as it will tomorrow, with the sun in the sky bringing light, energy and warmth, The presence of the sun offers us stability, continuity, and certainty. That’s good. I’ll take it.
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