China
08/18/2010
07/30/2010
05/27/2010
day 146 - wednesday
Still life in B & W
(50mm lens 1/640 F1.8)
05/16/2010
day 136 - sunday
Chinese tea making implements. A gift from a friend in Shanghai.
(50mm lens 1/200 F5.6)
04/28/2010
day 118 - wednesday
Yellow pears with blue and white ginger jar.
(50mm lens 1/60 F3.5)
02/26/2010
day 57 - friday
A Wedgewood dinner plate for the last day of my china theme. It might look like I have a lot of china but I don't. I do have several unique pieces but most of my china is the usual run of the mill commercial china. Sometimes I manage to find things on sale. Like these 'Queens Plain' design Wedgewood dinner plates. I've wanted them ever since I saw a similar plate in a Renoir painting years ago. When I saw them in a sale I invested in them. Do you realise this design was first introduced in 1776?
(50mm lens1/2500 F1.8 )
02/25/2010
day 56 - thursday
This is a Dorothy Hafner design called "flash" for Rosenthal Germany. It's not a design I would have chosen for myself. Chris chose it as a birthday gift for me when he was about ten. I use it often so I'm pleased after nearly 20 years it is still in one piece.
(50mm lens 1/125 F2.5 )
02/24/2010
day 55 - wednesday
A small collection of my pink themed plates.
(50mm lens 1/60 F13 )
02/23/2010
day 54 - tuesday
My two pieces of Andrew van der Putten pottery. The one at the back I bought before he became a well known New Zealand potter. The bowl at the front was a gift from a friend. I have seen his work on display in the Auckland Museum.
A funny story about the one at the back. At one point I displayed it on the floor in a corner of our living room. It is about the size of a soccer ball. A musician friend visiting for lunch, walked across to it as he was leaving, brought his leg back and kicked it across the room. The moment he brought his foot up, his wife, Bryan and I froze knowing he would have connected with it before our screams had time to leave our gaping mouths. We watched, transfixed, as it flew across the room, coming to a stop against the wall on the far side.
"Wayne" his wife screamed, WTF are you doing. Yes, those are the words she used..... and I thought.
Without his glasses he thought it was one of the children's rubber balls. Not a crack, not a scratch, not a chip. Wayne and his wife are no longer in our lives, but I think of Wayne every time I look at it.
(50mm lens 1/640 F5 )
