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On The Road – randy khan – Venice and Environs, Part 5

by WaterGirl|  January 29, 202110:00 pm| 8 Comments

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On the Road: Week of Feb 1  (5 am)
Albatrossity – Winter in Flyover Country #3
cope – The Great Shearing, 1978
🐾BillinGlendaleCA – The Observatory, the Sign, and a City
way2blue – Graniti, Sicily
Origuy – Moscow Metro Stations

On the Road: After Dark: Week of Feb 1  (10 pm)
One more week in Venice with randy khan!

🌺  And now, back to randy khan!

randy khan

Today’s photos are mostly from the main island, and there’s no glass.

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Venice, ItalyMay 23, 2015

It seems right to start with a bridge.  By now you can see how much variety there is in them.

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On The Road – randy khan – Venice and Environs, Part 4

by WaterGirl|  January 28, 202110:00 pm| 24 Comments

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randy khan

These photos are from the first of two side trips – this one to Ravenna.  You go to Ravenna for mosaics, and it’s worth a special trip.  These photos are from four sites, all within walking distance of each other.

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Ravenna, ItalyMay 25, 2015

The first stop was the Baptistery of Neon, built towards the end of the 5th century C.E.  Appropriately, this scene in the dome is John the Baptist baptizing Jesus.

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On The Road – randy khan – Venice and Environs, Part 3

by WaterGirl|  January 27, 202110:00 pm| 29 Comments

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randy khan

Back to Murano, and more glass.  I told you it was a glass trip.

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Murano, Venice, ItalyMay 22, 2015

This and the next photo are from the studio of Lucio Bubacco.  He’s another flameworker, one of the best in the world.  This is a chandelier – think about how much work there is to produce something this big with this much detail.

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On The Road – randy khan – Venice and Environs, Part 2

by WaterGirl|  January 26, 202110:00 pm| 24 Comments

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randy khan

Today’s going to be all glass, and actually all one piece of glass.  On our second day in Venice, we watched a demonstration by Davide Salvadore and his team.  Glassblowing almost always is a team effort, and everyone has a part.  The studio was pretty small, our group was incredibly close – close enough to feel the heat – and my wife and I were in the front row.

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Murano, Venice, ItalyMay 22, 2015

This sequence picks up after the preliminary parts were done.  The first thing they did was dip the pipe you see here into a furnace that was filled with molten clear glass to pick up the glass on the pipe in what’s called a gather.  They blew a bubble through the pipe, shaped the glass into cylinder, and cooled it somewhat.  (You can tell how hot glass is by the color – bright orange is really hot, and it gets closer to its real color as it cools.)  Meanwhile, the little disks you see were laid out on a metal table and heated with a blow torch, because cold glass touching hot glass is a recipe for disaster.  When the gather was shaped properly and cool enough, and the disks were hot enough, Salvadore rolled the cylinder on top of the disks, and they stuck to the cylinder.

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On The Road – Mike in Oly – Wooden Boat Fair – Olympia, WA

by WaterGirl|  January 26, 20215:00 am| 17 Comments

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Mike in Oly

Before the current circumstances, my little city of Olympia hosted a wooden boat fair every summer, and folks from all over the region would sail in, dock downtown and show off the beautiful styling and construction of their watercraft. It is always a treat to see them. Larger vessels often allow you to tour them too. In 2018 we had family visiting and decided to head down to check the boats out. Here’s what I saw.

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Olympia, WA

Looking north toward the Olympic mountains.

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On The Road – randy khan – Venice and Environs, Part 1

by WaterGirl|  January 25, 202110:00 pm| 25 Comments

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We’ll be in Venice for a couple of weeks.  Enjoy!

randy khan

My wife and I went on a glass trip to Venice in 2015.  (I guess I’ll find out soon enough if any of the other people on the trip are fellow jackals.)   Venice, particularly the island of Murano, has a centuries-long history of glassmaking, and there are lots of fabulous artists there today as well.  There will be a fair amount of glass, but except for one day I promise other things as well, including two excursions outside of Venice that were real highlights of the trip.

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Venice, ItalyMay 21, 2015

Welcome to Venice!  You arrive by boat or, in our case, by plane then car then boat.  We started the trip on Murano, and then moved to Venice proper later.  So the first slides are from Murano.

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On The Road – Mike in Oly – Texture & Pattern in Nature: Wood

by WaterGirl|  January 22, 202110:00 pm| 17 Comments

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This Textures and Patterns series has been fun.  Thank you, Mike!

On the Road: Week of January 25  (5 am)
Albatrossity – Winter in Flyover Country #2
Mike in Oly – Wooden Boat Fair in Olympia, WA
🐾BillinGlendaleCA – Lake Hollywood
Steve from Mendocino – Some Los Angeles Street Photos
Elma – Waterfalls From Two More Continents

On the Road: After Dark: Week of January 25  (10 pm)
In the coming week, we will be in Venice with randy khan!

🌺  And now, back to Mike from Oly, thank you for this lovely series of textures and patterns!

Mike in Oly

In my wanderings about western Washington and other nearby areas I am always taking photos of the things I find. One of my favorites types of photos to create are what I call texturals, for lack of a better term. They are often macros, but not always. They highlight color, texture and/or pattern over scenery or narrative. I find them fascinating and beautiful. I hope you will to. I’ll end this series with a theme dear to my heart. I love the forest and the textures and patterns created trees in always fascinating to me and catching my eye.

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Olympia, WA

Sunlight and shadow on old cedar. The ancient forests were almost all logged in the past 2 centuries. Remnants of it are everywhere.

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