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mandy-m-andersen

@mandy-m-andersen

International nomad. Travel, collecting museums, photography, volunteering, writing, and researching family history. 🇨🇦🇬🇧 Happily married to the same man for 37 years. All photos are my own unless otherwise indicated (eg. reposts), and copyrighted.

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mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· 26d

The #Baroque Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments - only a portion of the restored Dresden Zwinger #Stunday #blueskyart #photographersofbluesky #royalpalaces #Zwinger #Dresden #Saxony #Germany #preservinghistory #reflections See ALT for more information

On the last evening of a recent 3-month stay across the street from the Dresden Zwinger, I stopped procrastinating and popped over for some evening shots.

The Zwinger is a former royal palace surrounding an open area that once hosted grand parades and celebrations, but very recently was restored to an orangery, as it had also been in former times.

The Zwinger museums house world-class collections of porcelain, fine art, and mathematical and physical [science] instruments.
A bit underexposed, this tight image is of the Cabinet–as they’re called–of the latter.

The orangery includes four fountains which - when turned off in the evening - become marvelous reflecting pools. This image was captured across one of them.

This building is a grand Baroque structure on four levels. The lowest bears a veranda, lined by an open, pillared stone balustrade, that runs the length of the building, and leads to a majestic staircase down into the orangery with the fountains (the pool of only one of which is partially viewable in the whole lower half of this image). On the veranda balustrade there are sculptural pedestals and putti [cherubs].

The second level [which extends longer than the third level] and the third, are walls of multi-paned ground to ceiling arched windows between colonnades.

On the uppermost floor is the Bogengalarie exhibition space within the curved ramparts.

Before full sunset, there are luminous highlights to the scattered small white clouds in a pale blue-grey sky. Sky and palace building are almost perfectly reflected in the pool below.

At midline of the image, a groomed lawn follows the concrete geometric edge of the pool, and along which 6 of the new citrus trees in black and white striped planters, can be seen.

For more info, these links are useful:
https://www.conservatoryheritage.org/historic-conservatories-library/17-18-century/zwinger-palace-orangery

https://mathematisch-physikalischer-salon.skd.museum/en/exhibitions/permanent-exhibition/

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· 26d

3/3 on the theme of #growing – from 3 different viewpoints – for Saturday’s #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #macrophotography #photographersofbluesky #decay #rust #abandoned #abstract #LaPaz #BCS #Mexico #texture #remnant #erosion See ALT for more

Going perhaps in the other direction of thought - yet still ‘growing’ - is this close-up, abstract photo of a mid-light blue decorative metal railing on a boundary wall of a beach-front hotel–long abandoned–in La Paz, BCS, Mexico.

Exposure to the salty spray, sun and heat has taken a toll, and erosion has detached it from the wall. The jagged lower edge of the support pole is now a good two inches above the wall - which still bears an attachment anchor for the railing.

There is rust where 90°lateral bars and 45° diagonal struts were welded into the decorative design. At some point, barbed wire was wrapped around the pole where the diagonal struts intersect the 90° angle. The rust beneath the barbs, and the peeling paint, give an impression of the wire choking the railing. It’s not alive. The decay is growing.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· 26d

2/3 on the theme of #growing – from 3 different viewpoints – for Saturday’s #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #trees #growth #nature #birches #texture See ALT for more information

Like a reptile shedding its skin as it grows, this close-up photo of a birch tree shows the inner, live, healthy bark on the trunk revealed in an opening through the naturally peeling-back of multiple dead layers of beige, oatmeal, light brown, and greyed-white bark.

In the background, behind the tree, we see slivers of residential buildings and a vehicle, and a bit of lawn beside a grey road just visible either side of the tree, along the horizontal bottom quarter of the image.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· 26d

1/3 on the theme of #growing – from 3 different viewpoints – for Saturday’s #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #pollinators #bees #pyramidoflife #canariesinthecoalmine #macro #macrophotography #wings #borage See ALT for more information

Beyond the first thought of plants, animals and humans, when I think of the theme of ‘growing’ I think of the pollinators - without whom the first three would die.

This macro image taken some years ago in the back garden, shows a bee - I don’t know which type - in the center of the photo against a blurred-out dark background, feeding at a backlit cornflower blue blossom of a borage plant.

The bee is intent on the task of collecting nectar, as it hangs vertically from the drooping blossom. Its wings are still and their tracery is picked out in a light golden brown by the afternoon sun coming from top right of the image - down through the petals of the blossom; their transparency revealing the bee’s amber abdomen band. The head, thorax, abdomen, and legs are hairy - those additional sticky traps of pollen that help continue plant diversity on the planet, and the growing of food to sustain all life.

A fun thing that caught my attention - the hairiness of the bee matches the seeming ‘hairiness’ of the borage plant’s pink stem - but by contrast, those on the plant are prickly and annoying if they get stuck in your skin.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· 27d

The difference a handful of hours can make, from the dry heat of the day to the heat (but cooler) of the night. #Scape #blueskyart #eastcoastkin #landscape #skyscape #LaPaz #BCS #photographersofbluesky #sunset See ALT for description

Perhaps not taken on the same day as the baked and cracked image posted before this photo, but also not many streets or days away, either.

Split horizontally, almost in half, this late evening photo in La Paz, BCS, Mexico looks deceptively cooler [temperature] than it was.

The lower half is almost completely dark, although on the right, the hospitable glow of light is discernible through a decorative breeze-block wall: a neighbor’s backyard space - popular for all-night festivities and mariachi celebrations. To the right of it, and just above, a glowing window picks out a point of light in another house near the edge of the photo.

Above the nigh-shadowed mass of neighbors’ homes and walls, is a sharp skyline of flat rooftops and palm trees. Here and there, a lighted window, or street lamp glows.

However, it’s the sky above that makes this photo what it is: the remnants of sunset glow cream-to-sand-to-orange from the left of the image to where it meets the swirling darkness of the night sky clouds in the deeper duskier slate blue of the sky on the right.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· 27d

Hot. Baked. Cracked. #Scape #blueskyart #eastcoastkin #landscape #LaPaz #BCS #photographersofbluesky #nature See Alt for description

The lower half of this image is a wracked, other-worldly planet. The brown land is cut with deep fissures and crevasses. The brown mountains are cracked along the ridges. What vegetation there is, at the bottom edge of the image, is dehydrated and spare.

There is no moisture. No water.

As we raise our gaze toward the upper half of the image, we see that the barren and desolate landscape is now tiny in comparison to the rest of the street upon which we see this ‘other-worldly’ place exists; here under the high blazing sun, surrounded by its glowing aura, in a bright blue sky at the top of the image. The sun furnace hangs above distant blurred edges of buildings, a vehicle and palm trees. Electrical power lines criss-cross the air above the dusty, baked street.

This ‘other world’ had been a muddy puddle in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico - before the summer fully arrived.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· 27d

Sharing a picture of 'my cathedral’. #Scape #Forestfriday #blueskyart #eastcoastkin #landscape #woods #MtTabor #Portland #Oregon #PNW #evergreen #photographersofbluesky #nature #cathedral See ALT for info.

A view on a sunny day, taken within the forest on Mt Tabor, Portland, Oregon - an extinct volcanic cinder cone.

The POV and vanishing point looks directly through an almost symmetrical aisle between giant trees reaching for the sky, like the aisle of a grand cathedral.

The forest floor is caramel with decayed needles, glowing warm in the setting sun, providing tree shadows of contrast. Small areas of green blades of grass push through the carpet of needles.

For this poster, this has truly felt a spiritual place.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· 27d

Another chiller #Scape #Forestfriday #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #blueskyart #eastcoastkin #frozen #landscape #woods #photographersofbluesky #MtTabor #Portland #Oregon See ALT for more info on this one

A view looking across a snow-covered slope running diagonally from almost mid-point on the left of the image to near the bottom left corner.

The white field is open before the viewer until it reaches the edge of the coniferous forest, tall and majestic, with its sweeping snow-laden boughs reaching earthward.

What interested me in particular is the evidence of wind direction that had blown against the forest a few days before. The dark curves of the trunks are now exposed by the melting process - leaving them to flank vertical snowy stripes up the center of the towering trunks. The thought ‘pinstriped’ came to mind.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· 27d

For those still under excessive heat conditions, a couple of photos that might help trick the mind for a moment. #Scape #Forestfriday #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #blueskyart #eastcoastkin #frozen #landscape #powerline #woods #viewfromthetrain #photographersofbluesky See ALT for this image info

This black and white view from a trip between Germany and the Netherlands captures a frozen landscape.

In the lower quarter (nearest the viewer) is the dark shadow of the moving train through the landscape.

Next beyond the shadow we see hoar-frosted grass leading away towards glowing white frozen woods. All the ice-encrusted branches and twigs contrast against the dark vertical trunks.

The upper third of the image is of a bright-but-with-clouds sky. [The color version is a piercing bright day!]

In the distance–directly opposite the viewer–on the horizon behind the landscape, is a gigantic, white, branching electricity pylon - an echo of the frozen trees between it and the viewer. The pylon's dark power lines reach above and over the woods and the train, connecting the viewer to the horizon.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Jun 19

A step back in time for #Scape day - a #castle in #Germany that we might have overlooked if it hadn’t been for a friend’s recommendation. #blueskyart #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #formalgardens #schlossweesenstein #saxony #baroque #landscape Long description in ALT

Below a dramatic blue sky with white and grey clouds, and in front of a distant green, low-mountain skyline, a castle stands on the right side of the image looking down on beautifully laid-out formal gardens on the left.

The castle, built on a rock, originated as a medieval defense fortress - first mentioned in 1318. Enlarged over the years, the baroque style dating from the 1700s, is now a labyrinthine 8 storeys. It’s a stately stone complex with a main block and several wings. In this image we’re looking end-on at a back corner of the main block facing the garden.

The upper floors, beneath a grey slate roof, are a light pastel yellow/light beige. The long rows of multi-paned windows in these storeys have red frames. In the grey roof, on the narrower end of the block facing the viewer, there are five dormer windows on two floors.

The lowest two storeys are a step out from the main body, providing a terrace above an outside grand staircase leading down into the garden. These floors look lighter and warmer in colour than the upper floors - a light sandstone that in this light has a warm pinkish undertone.

In the background, behind the main castle block we see red tile roofs of other wings of the castle some with eyebrow dormers that look like half-lidded eyes - common in many older dwellings in Saxony, and there is a tower rising above it all.

The round, warm beige tower, rises to an octagonal grey storey with arched windows, then up to a rounded dome and spire, topped with a golden ball and weather vane. Below the arched windows we see two clocks.

The garden has hard-edge gravel paths, symmetrical lawn areas, bordered by floral trim along the central path, which continues to a large fountain area just visible on the left edge of the image.

Among the lawn areas are immaculate hedges and topiaries - some looking like upside-down dark green gum drops. There is a low greenhouse by the edge of the lawn. Beyond the garden there are tree-lined gravel avenues.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Jun 13

Another two-fer - #sharp prickly spines on this #green #CzechSwitzerland #landscape. #blueskyartshow #photographersofbluesky #naturehealing #rehabilitation #life #cycles #rocks #bohemianswitzerland #phoenixrebirth See ALT for more

Yesterday I climbed 1,519 feet to view Pravcice Gate, a natural rock arch in Hřensko, Czech Republic in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park and - being ignorant of recent natural history in this area - was noticing a lot of dead trees on the climb.

At first, they just looked denuded of branches, some still a grey white in their trunk, but then I began to see all the black and charred ones.

In 2022 there was an extensive forest fire in this area, burning for nearly three weeks. These trees were evidence of how air can be a powerful weapon in spreading destruction even into rocky places.

This image is taken from the arch and looks across the landscape into the Czech Republic.

In the top third, in the far distance against a stormy grey cloudscape there is an isolated peak, just left of centre, surrounded by lush and mature trees.

In the lower third, from this vantage point, we look down on a green tree top in the right corner, and on the left to an outcrop of some mighty rock crags - plentiful this region. The trees, on the rock promontory, bear leafless limbs creating, at this distance, an illusion of soft, upright feathers.

In the wide, middle ‘third’, we see soft, rolling hills, covered with new, even vegetation - like a phoenix coming back to life. But - standing sentinel in this new growth are thousands of grey and black tree spars towering above, like spines in defiance of the raging fires that swept through.

The new growth at the bases of these spars appears like a green carpet in an inspiring reminder that life goes on.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· May 21

Too late for #WindowsWednesday - one of those views in #Norwich before #blue-hour that just stopped me in my tracks . . . curves contrasting straight-edges. #England #ArtNouveau #GeorgeSkipper #eveninglight #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #architecture See ALT for attempt at description.

The POV looks across at the corner where an entrance of Royal Arcade meets the commercial Castle Street.

It’s early evening, and the upper third is of a blue ombre sky behind the buildings - from high cloudless sky-blue down to the palest shade glowing behind the brick and tile roofline.

Two buildings butting up at a sharp right angle to each other, is softened by a convex two-storey integral section inside that corner. There is also a narrow, two-storey bowed-window, projecting above the lamp-lit alley on the left.

The arched and vaulted entrance to the arcade takes up the right vertical two thirds.

The purpose-built shopping arcade, designed by George Skipper and opened in 1899, bears his exotic hallmark of Art Nouveau influence.

The bank of upper windows across the front of the building on the left and wrapping around the projecting bow-window, consist of serried narrow frames, containing small leaded lights in five rows of two panes each, above which is a stained glass narrow transom light - each bearing a shield or coat of arms. A warm amber light glows from within.

The Art Nouveau decoration on this building includes repeating horizontal bands of floral and leaf motifs accenting horizontal

In the entrance of the arcade we see hints of enticing golden windows and doorways [to galleries, eateries, and boutique craftworks and gift shops.]

On the arcade facade - a forest green marquee proclaiming: ‘ROYAL ARCADE’ in gold letters; small golden lights among greenery, surround plinths of three forest green pillars supporting a grand, arched and stained glass window depicting four floral trees, with petals picked out in greens and yellows.

Alternating green and sand-coloured brickwork surrounding the arched window continues the Art Nouveau influence with a cartouche bearing curling leaves and stems and a sculpted classical lady’s face atop a torch surrounded by symmetrically ascending flames - all in matching stonework against dark blue tile.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· May 19

Slipping under the wire for #RockingTuesday, a sample from a recent trip to Terra Mineralia in Leipzig - paradise for rock and mineral lovers [that’s 1225 photos!] #minerals #semi-precious #Leipzig #crystals #naturaljewels #earthtreasures #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin See ALT for more

A large horizontal chunk of rock comprised of translucent, thumbnail-sized light plum-coloured fluorite cubic crystals encrusting the top of a light grey-toned substructure composed of barite, quartz and asphalt.

The quartz crystals are tiny encrustations on rounded nodes of the grey base beneath.

A sign, in German, beneath the rock specimen explains that it came from the Deardorff Mine, Hardin County, Illinois, USA. On loan from Prof. Dr. Unland.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Apr 7

The last of my self-distracting posts - one more for #RockinTuesday #bluesky #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #landscape #textures #clouds #coastline #erosion #geology #NorfolkCoast #England See ALT for more

Part of the Norfolk, England coast is covered with innumerable smooth-edged, sea-worn stones - mostly flint - that, along with fossils, have washed out of the soft headland cliffs over past eons as the sea continues to erode it up to six and a half feet per year.

This view looking west-nor-west, and parallel to the shoreline, is a vast, steep beach completely covered in countless smooth rocks of all sizes from brick-to pebble-to coarse sand.

To the left of the image are soft cliffs, some sloping to the beach, covered in vegetation, and others more precipitous with exposed sandy subsoil.

To the right, the cold sea, hued light brown by turbulent sandy sediment, is on its return tide with white caps on the waves.

The sky is light blue, but almost filling the sky it’s being mostly upstaged by dramatic bright cumuli clouds coming over the headland in the distance, chased by the bright sun on the left, soon headed toward pre-sunset.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Apr 7

This cheerful-looking ‘face’ took me by surprise while #beachcombing in #Norfolk #England. #RockinTuesday #flint #sea-worn #blueskyart #photographersofbluesky #texture #vertebrae #circleoflife See ALT for context

The photo is a close up of a rocky beach completely filled with smooth-edged stones of varying shades of grey, some brown. At the bottom of the photo is a driftwood, multi-branched twig.

In the middle of the image is a single, sun-bleached, seal vertebrae. The angle of the vertebrae was such that the empty canals through which the spinal cord and blood vessels pass appear as a smiling face.

Not gruesome but - in the moment - for me, it was a reminder that there is a natural circle of life. And that’s okay.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Apr 7

This is a two-fer: #AnimalArtTuesday and #StreetArt #LaPaz #BCS #BajaCaliforniaSur #Mexico #mural #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #dogs #colors See ALT for context

A La Paz, BCS, Mexico view through a chain-link fence, across a parking lot, to the side of a white-painted, multi-storey building against a bright blue sky.

Attached to the building, there is a high white wall topped with another chainlink fence with vicious intruder deterrent spikes on the upper edge. Behind that fence, a little distance away, is a grey building with a red tile roof.

On the side of the white building, filling the wall and superimposed over two *huge*, light grey paw prints, is a large head-and-shoulders portrait of a brown dog with bright eyes, open mouth, pink tongue, large ears, and long fur, facing the viewer.

Around its head and in the low right corner of the wall, there are large yellow, green, and red splats - like bursting bubbles. Some of the ‘bubbles’ seem to have colored the dog’s right cheek an emerald and leaf green, its ear and forehead on the right an orange and magenta, and forehead on the left side in purple to mid blue.

Sadly, in my framing of the mural by a link in the fence, I accidentally obscured the artist’s tag.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Apr 7

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Apr 7

For a long time, I’ve been wanting to share my favorite #street_art from #Portland #Oregon - so for #TagTuesday here she is. Btw, you can no longer get this view. #mural #bridal #redbrick #Faith_XLVII #Victorian #summer #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #support-the-arts See ALT for more

This four-storey mural, painted in 2016 by the artist, Faith XLVII, is located on the side of a red brick building on SW 11th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon.

In shades of grey, the mural depicts the rear view of a woman standing with her hands held behind her back, her elbows bent inwards to the center of her back. Her dark hair is up in a messy chignon.

She’s dressed in a full-length dress - the cap-sleeved bodice is fitted in a Victorian flourish with many buttons down the back, below which full side-draping billows slightly over what seems to be a flared underskirt from hip to the ground.

Her pose might be one of indecision - the hands are not relaxed. Perhaps, as this mural is on the side of a building housing a bridal store, the model’s posture along with the mural’s title ‘Capax Infiniti’ - which translates to ‘capable of the infinitive’, might imply a deeper meaning?

The side of the building is so tall it fills the length of the image, and two thirds across the frame from the right edge. The third on the left is a bright sliver of a window on downtown Portland, with sunlit leafy trees, and municipal buildings on the skyline.

At the very bottom, walking along the sidewalk are a young couple dressed in summer clothing strolling past the building, glancing to their left as in anticipation of seeing the renowned mural - by which they are completely dwarfed.

NOTE: The POV of this image was from across an open car park space next to the building.

This view is no longer possible. Some years ago, a commercial high-rise was built on the parking lot, next to the mural building; the front flush with the other commercial businesses on the street. Allowance was made in the portico design for the mural to still be viewable by the pubic but, at a four-story height, her majesty has been sadly cramped and lost.

So glad I caught it when I did.

A post-development capture from Google of its new situation is posted in the thread below.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Mar 15

#Stunday #floral capture at #FelbriggHall #Norfolk #England #tension #raindrops #spring #colour #blooms #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin See ALT

A close-up photo of a one full, open-faced magenta-hued flower, with pale yellow pistils, after a rain shower.

Beside it, and just behind its petals are a cluster of younger, dark purple, still immature buds.

The petals - but not the sword-like, dark green leaves behind - are covered in perfect surface-tensioned, globular raindrops: an over-bedecked belle, with jewels impossibly clinging by the smallest point of contact.

Anthropomorphizing, it made me think of the elder sister’s time to shine at the great ball, while her younger sisters peep from behind, and dream of their own grand entrance in the future.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Mar 6

A #Norfolk #England view for Friday’s #Scape day #windmill #bluesky #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #Cley #harvest #marshland #NationalWildlifeTrust #wildfowl #wildlifehabitat See ALT for more

This is a photo of the windmill in Cley Next the Sea, in Norfolk, England. It is built of red brick, with attractive white cap, sails, three window frames, and a railed balcony that girdles the mill just below mid-height.

The sky is a cloudy blue-grey, which contrasts with the sun shining on this pocket of land.

Located on a quayside, and on the left of the frame and surrounded by grass, the mill breaks the horizon line that runs through the middle of the image. Beside it, and on the street behind, are historical residential buildings - some with the traditional cobbled, flint rock walls. Tall mature trees can be seen above rooftops in the background. There is a small car park on this quayside–with a handful of cars–beside the mill, and in front of green ivy-covered walls that separate it from the street of houses.

This view of the mill is from across the marsh where most of the dried, straw-colored rushes used for thatching roofs, have already been harvested, save for a clump on the left. Like a bad haircut, sun-bleached left-over rushes stick up from–or lay–on the muddy-brown marsh, which takes up the whole lower half of the image.

At the far edge of the marsh–just below the mill–we see the top of a dark void indicating the water channel of the River Glaven which separates the marsh from the quayside.

Once a busy port, Cley Next the Sea is no longer ‘-Next the Sea’. The small town is now about a mile and a half from the coast.

The land having been reclaimed, the vast swaths of salt-water marsh between Cley and the next village of Salthouse, and the sea, are internationally recognized as an important breeding habitat to the resident and visiting wildfowl, and have been protected since 1926.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Mar 2

#Stunday #Utah #Thanksgiving #sunset. With so much anguish and turmoil assailing us, remembering that there are things far greater and more beautiful, beyond man’s interference, is a solace to me. #photographersofbluesky #blueskyart #mountains #silhouette #landscape #eastcoastkin See ALT

This blazing glory sunset taken in Farmington, Utah some years ago at Thanksgiving, took my breath away when I saw it, and knowing it was changing by the moment - I needed to catch it quick.

The foreground [lower third] of this image is deepest black, as are the winter silhouettes of trees reaching up from the dark ground— all thrown into shadow by the flaming skies beyond.

Above this silhouette line, many miles in the distance, is a snow-covered mountain range - appearing lavender-brown in the evening light, at the base of which runs a thin, sunset-reflecting, molten copper thread of the Great Salt Lake [may not be visible on Bluesky resolution].

Above the mountains - across the middle third of the image, a cauldron of hot colored clouds from red-orange on the left of the photo moving to the right, through a of myriad oranges clouds with yellow streaks to a buttercup yellow on the right.

Above the fiery display, comprising the upper third, the light gives way to lavender-grey plumy clouds when the sunset glow does not reach them.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Feb 27

La Paz, Baja California Sur for #BlueSky #Scape day - warmth and sunshine on a February day just over 3 years ago. #beach #sunshine #sea #trees #photographersofbluesky #leisurelife #eastcoastkin #Mexico #Bajalife #nomad-adventures. See ALT for description

February 2023, when the more northerly climes were dealing with lower temperatures, this photo was taken on the beach at La Paz on the desert peninsula of Baja California Sur.

It’s a view taken between palm trees supporting green fronds above, yet their trunks–completely covered– by bristling, light-brown, serrated-edged, machete-pruned leaf stems.

That prickly frame contrasts with the soft sand in the foreground and beach grass just beyond, the aqua-blue sea in the mid-ground, and the distant scrubland hills on the horizon - all beneath an azure sky.

In the mid-ground, on the other side of the palm trees, white and robins’ egg blue-painted small fishing boats rest on the sand, casting shadows beneath, and to their left toward the still water at the shore.

As a protected bay, the wave action in La Paz [during the months observed] was never much of a feature at the shoreline, beyond gentle lapping. The overall sense was of a slower, more peaceful pace.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Feb 16

Personally, I like the affect better when the photo is flipped 90 degrees, but this is a photo of the wall in situ - where the grooves run horizontally along the wall.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Feb 16

Can’t remember if I’ve posted this before; if so, please forgive the repeat. #ColorADay #OrangeSun #art #photographersofbluesky #texture ##SmArtist #ArtYear #Abstractia #repetition #eastcoastkin #BlueSkyArt #Dallas See ALT for more

This close-up capture–rotated through 90 degrees–is of a trippy, orange, convoluted wall in a restaurant in Dallas, Texas.

If you could imagine a giant’s hand raked through a wall of clay, and then painted orange, you might get close to this.

In a bright light [out of frame], the wall is a series of randomly spaced wavy grooves - about an inch deep - so close together as to be cast in darkest shadow. Between the shadowed grooves, the high rounded ridges rise toward the viewer, and flow upward like flames of fire.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Feb 15

#Stunday midland America #prairie #bluesky #blueskyart #eastcoastkin #clouds #reflections #photographersofbluesky #viewfromatrain #northdakota See ALT for more

Taken from the window of the Empire Builder Amtrak train some years ago on a trip from Oregon to Minnesota. This view, taken somewhere in North Dakota, is of a bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds reflected in a small lake among golden and green vegetation of a wide prairie. The far distant horizon is a long line of the steep slopes and gullies of the Dakota Badlands.

On a whim, I enhanced the colors with a filter, and liked the fun, bright results.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Feb 14

A historical marker for #BlueSkyArtShow and #Wood #Oregon #industry #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #waterways #transportation #history #PNW

This is a side view of the Henderson Paddlewheel historical marker in Hood River, Oregon. The huge wooden wheels are painted in a brick red, and are affixed to a dark metal axel.

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=113947

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Feb 1

An installation outside the #MinneapolisInstituteofArt always makes it a #Stunday for me. Large enough to climb inside - weighing in at nearly 4,000 lbs, the 12’ by 7’ mammoth head is hard to miss. #artimpersonatingart #snowscape #blueskyart #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky See ALT for info

The lower third of this image, taken on a sunny, winter day, is of pristine snow in shadow. In the background are the oat-colored walls and tall window of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

The mid-section of a large tree trunk frames the left edge of the photo. The rest of the middle third is taken by a huge bronze, sculptured head laying on its side. The bronze has taken on a green patina, and the eye sockets are empty. A slipped, and damaged bronze blindfold rests across the middle of the face.

Due to the recent weather at the time of taking this photo, the upper half of the face is covered with snow with the exception of the opening where the left eye would be, and in this way it reminds me a little of the mask worn by ‘Erik’ in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of Gaston Leroux’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ - in effect it looks like Eros wears two masks [the blindfold and the snow].
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This large scale installation, ‘Eros’ is the work of the Polish artist Igor Mitoraj, who passed away in 2014.

The God of Love - known as Eros to the Greeks, and Cupid to the Romans, we typically see him depicted in various art forms as a cherub with a bow and arrow to wound his victims with love; the blindfold he’s usually wearing is a symbol of how random the target of love may be.

In Mitoraj’s creation, ’Eros’ has become an aging man–worn and, indeed, cracking. The artist’s message is complex, exploring several themes including love, beauty, fragility, vulnerability, decay, and suffering.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Jan 31

#JanuArty2026 and #ending, tying things up. Decorative landscape post at Tsuru Island - in the #GreshamJapaneseGarden in #Oregon #woven #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #traditional #Japanese #landscape #gardens #Willamette_Valley

Against a background of lush garden greenery, the upper part of a worn, warm brown wooden garden post is wrapped with a traditional tubular-woven cord that marks the ending of the edge of a path. The cord circles the post four times before ending in a knot.

First begun in the 1970s by members of the Japanese-American Citizens League, they hand-built a beautiful space for the townspeople, in the historic downtown. Over many years later, it fell into disrepair. In the mid 2010s, a massive project to restore it, powered by local funding and an army of dedicated volunteers, it blossomed into one of the most popular gardens to visit in the Willamette-Valley.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Jan 31

. . . aaaaand it’s #BlueSkyArtShow #clouds - and I finally have a place to share the freakiest sky I ever saw! Over #Portland #Oregon some years ago. #classicmono #greyskies #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #cloudscape #ominous

Hard to describe this grey and white image, with the bare tops of trees at the bottom edge.

In the sky there is a really low level of clouds that have formed in a blanket with risen pockets of thinner coverage as evidenced by lighter color from above the cloud layer. Between these pockets are darker grey rounded ridges, all forming an organic cell tracery.

To me it looks like an upside down polystyrene fruit layer separator with a lightbulb shining on the other side. I don’t know the proper name, but it looks like one of those pre-formed sheets with indentations that farmers put in the big boxes of fruit - spacing-out individual pieces to protect them from damage. I hope that makes sense.

Alternatively - think of the batting inside a quilt that has been through too many washes and now it’s bunched up in ridges around threadbare pockets.

Sorry if this doesn’t really help form a picture.

mandy-m-andersen@mandy-m-andersen· Jan 30

A little bit of #tranquility for #FishyFriday. A #stunning #koi at the #PortlandJapaneseGarden #photographersofbluesky #nature #Oregon #ripples #reflections #blueskyart #eastcoastkin

An overhead, close-up of a large white, black and orange koi gracefully swimming in dark shaded waters.

Green plants overhang the water from the left side of the image casting even darker ferny reflections. The slow movement of the fish forms ripples as it glides through the surface of the water.

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