Julie Nygaard Art: May 2018

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Of Earth & Moon

"Of Earth & Moon"

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!

Here we will sit and let the sounds of music

Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night

Become the torches of sweet harmony.

Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven

Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st

But in his motion like an angel sings,

Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins,

Such harmony is in immortal souls;

But whilst this muddy vesture of decay

Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."

- Lorenzo, Acte V, Scene 1

William Shakespeare

The Merchant Of Venice

Gaoth (Wind)

"Gaoth" (Wind in Irish)

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"And forget not the earth delights to feel your

bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Monochrome City Part VI

Monochrome City XVI, XVII, XVIII

Digital Photography - Canon T5

Capturing a different perspective of the city in monochrome. I felt as if I was giving the city a little black dress.

Monochrome City Part V

Monochrome City XIII, XIV, XV

Digital Photography - Canon T5

Stretching to reach the sky, towers made by the hands of man

Monochrome City Part IV

Monochrome City X, XI, XII

Digital Photography - Canon T5

The city is alive, full of movement.

Constant flow and always changing.

Never stagnant.

Monochrome City Part III

Monochrome City VII, VIII, IX

Digital Photography - Canon T5

Reflections in monochrome...skyscrapers never looked so elegant, though haunting...as if time had stopped for the very moment of the photographs being captured.

Monochrome City Part II

Monochrome City IV, V, VI

Digital Photography - Canon T5

City streets take on a new life in monochrome, no matter how many times I have walked them

Monochrome City Part I

Monochrome Vancouver I, II, III

Digital Photography - Canon T5

Spending time in the city, capturing the beauty in monochrome

Friday, May 18, 2018

Coeden

"Coeden" 2018

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Trees are silent guards, they are the listeners and they hold knowledge mankind has long forgotten."

- Cornelia Amiri The Wolf and the Druidess

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Tulips

"Tulips" 2018

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"The earth laughs in flowers"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, May 12, 2018

La Montana

"La Montana" 2018

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"We have heard her shouting among the mountains,

and with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of

wings and the roaring of lions."

- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

La Rama

"La Rama" 2018

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"When Great Trees Fall"

"When great trees fall,

rocks on the distant hills shudder,

lions hunker down

in tall grasses,

and even elephants

lumber after safety.

When great trees fall

in forests,

small things recoil into silence,

their senses

eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die,

the air around us becomes

light, rare, sterile.

We breathe, briefly.

Our eyes, briefly,

see with

a hurtful clarity.

Our memory, suddenly sharpened,

examines,

gnaws on kind words unsaid,

promised walks never taken.

Great souls die and

our reality, bound to

them, takes leave of us.

Our souls,

dependent upon their nurture,

now shrink, wizened.

Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance,

fall away.

We are not so much maddened

as reduced to the unutterable ignorance

of dark, cold caves.

And when great souls die,

after a period peace blooms,

slowly and always

irregularly. Spaces fill

with a kind of

soothing electric vibration.

Our senses, restored, never

to be the same, whisper to us.

They existed. They existed.

We can be. For they existed."

- Maya Angelou

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Journey Of Three

"Journey Of Three" 2018

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

Ocean Origin

"Ocean Origin" 2018

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea."

- Kahlil Gibran

Monday, May 7, 2018

El Humedal

"El Humedal" 2018

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"Thoreau - "The patron saint of swamps" because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, my temple is the swamp... when I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and the most impenetrable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a most sacred place, a sanctum, sanctorum.... I seem to have reached a new world, so wild a place... far away from human society. What's the need for visiting far-off mountains and bogs, if a half-hours walk will carry me into such wildness and novelty. "

-Henry David Thoreau Walden and other writings

Awakening - Mud Season

"Awakening - Mud Season" 2018

Digital Photography Manipulation - Canon T5

"She made beauty all around her. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful; when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. When she picked up a toad - she had the most strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes -

the toad became beautiful."

- C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces