The Hall of Fire

I can't see the pic, Voronwë!

Cerin, that was so lovely to read - why don't you repost it in the thread for picturing these things in words?
(Same with Ath's beautiful post about Charlotte!)
I so adore a gift for making such love for these things come to life in words!

Aha! It is my evil plan to inflict more photographs of my beloved Sussex upon you all. Do inflict some more, Sassy! :love: The landscape pic is just soooo beautiful! Have you read the autobiographical books that Dirk Bogarde wrote about his childhood in Sussex? I thought they brought the beauty of ...

:shock: :wooper: That makes perfect sense to me! It is a difficult word - as we've noticed ourselves! ;) I think it's quite possible that Father Francis would have deciphered the letters and commented on how Tolkien used the sounds and syllables in his pictures. If pea + note - t makes "piano&q...

Thanks, Voronwë!
I'm looking forward to reading that!

Wow, that was fascinating! I've never even heard the name of Rothko before!

The poem is quite evocative, and so is your description, Ber!

Thanks!

(I think in my posting here today I've learned more for a day than usual, so I'll need to get to bed now! )

I've been thinking of starting this thread for a few days now, but kept postponing it. Now I've just read Ath's incredibly beautiful description of the spiders in her garden over in the Nature Pics thread, and I thought we need such a thread urgently! :) I love to see, feel, experience really in wor...

And it's in artistic black and white!


(Actually, one could study how harmoniously the curve of the body complements the direction of the tail and of the look of its eyes! )

The notion of "art for art's sake" is reasonable: art should need no justification; its beauty should be enough. But to apply this philosophy to all art, now and forever, is nonsense. It's a dead end, artistically and intellectually. People do have things to say about politics, religion, ...

Ahh, time for my daily swoon! :love: Voronwë, again, a perfectly Elvish scene! :love: Ath - wow, perfection! :love: I had forgotten to answer your post a while back, in response to mine about small things - yes , spiders' webs are definitely it ! I don't think I've ever managed to take a decent phot...

Whistler would call this discussion irrelevant. For Whistler, art was composition and color...or in this case, composition alone. It doesn't matter what this or that thing translates into in the real world. What matters is its significance in the composition. Whether it's a grave (it isn't) or a bo...

Thank you, Jny! :D Part of the right side is missing as well You really think so? Because I thought of that possibility, too - it looks rather cut off, and that might explain why some things are impossible to make sense of! But then I thought as the date is usually in the right hand corner, the righ...

Ah, that makes sense - thanks! I noticed the mirrorings in the foreground, but the structure so smooth that I thought the water was more likely the structure in the middle (which however has mirrorings, too). Though, of course, water in a canal is smooth. One more thing - I wonder if it's just my fe...

Thanks for all the fascinating info, Whistler! I think the seascape is lovely! Do you know if it's an actual or an imagined landscape? You're right, the etching definitely looks like a rough sketch, but a very good one! But I must admit I can't tell what the foreground is - is it all water, or the b...

Yes, it's amazing, isn't it? Of course we can investigate in anything connected to that (although I don't rightly understand what you mean ;) )! :) I'm pretty sure (though I don't know, and would like to have some further information) that a rebus of this kind would have been a "standard" ...

Thanks for agreeing to the split, Whistler! The title is inspired by the nature of your pics, Whistler. I must admit it would seem to say that the thread is for this kind of picture - beauty where you don't expect it. I like it, but it seems we'd need yet another thread for pics of genuinely beautif...

I think they do look fascinating and, yes, beautiful in a strange way! Seen in such fabulous light, they make you forget how depressing such structures really are. I used to think so when I lived in London for one winter-semester, on the 11th floor of a student hall of residence. The city lights in ...

Yes, I've also been meaning to ask if it's a Whistler, because I thought it doesn't look like one (not that I know much about Whistler).

Hobby, yes, that is water coming from above. It is a layered waterfall. Wow, I see - well, it looks positively Elvish! To almost quote "Anne of Green Gables": But they shouldn't call that lovely place Basin State Park. There is no meaning in a name like that. They should call it--let me s...

I had first thought to post a landscape picture today, to show I'm not only interested in the beauty of small things, but this pic has been sitting in my sig-pic file for so long (I might have used it on TORC once) and I love it. :) (Taken some years ago on my balcony.) http://i4.photobucket.com/alb...

I'm sorry to contradict, but I think man-made structures would not fit so well in here, unless they merge naturally with the surrounding countryside, like Prim's lighthouse, which is just a small part of the picture, and a necessary one for the composition (adding a vertical element without which th...