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Inspired in Many Ways - Like a water colour painting…was I inspired by Turner’s sunset? I captured this view with my Nikon D810 from my former house backyard that faced a conservative wood. The sunset gave the closed atmosphere a latent glow of red and orange that the camera’s exposure setting (my skill was still new) did not capture. That lack in intensity caused me to photoshop it with layers of blurring filters that produced a variety of possibilities. Voila! the sky deepened its blue, the fall leafless trees showed up in skeletal beauty, the bushes thrust themselves into a deep shadow, and thus a landscape emerged obeying the rules of foreground, mid-ground, and background that was hidden in the original photograph. Landscape photography is not my forte, but the years of tackling the learning curve by doing it and shooting every subject I find, have given me bounteous fodder for making art with the other subjects that I have more interest in, such as people, street photos, and birds at flight. I always feel a sense of satisfaction at furthering some of the many perspectives that a picture seems to want you to see. I believe the perspectives are in the thousands, so I stopped fiddling when the picture itself declared that’s how it should look, enough cosmetics already! https://www.azensmuse.com/thousand-thoughts-1/the-cat monthly 0.5 2023-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/1686612316890-7Y190KEV33X9998DT1XG/Cat+Sketch+4SQ.jpg Thousand Thoughts - The Cat's Portrait https://www.azensmuse.com/thousand-thoughts-1/benjamin-not-peter monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/5d595728-e67f-4ee4-b183-be6d6eccac1a/Bunny+Benjamin_Painted+0527.jpg Thousand Thoughts - Benjamin Not Peter - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.azensmuse.com/thousand-thoughts-1/the-sleeping-swans monthly 0.5 2023-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/08c82a6b-b10e-4e1d-a843-986c3e464add/Swans+Painted+2+6403.jpg Thousand Thoughts - The Sleeping Swans - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.azensmuse.com/thousand-thoughts-1/storming-havana monthly 0.5 2023-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/07acb7c0-460f-4a02-b7dd-2e1835a27222/Storning+Havana.jpg Thousand Thoughts - Storming Havana - Storming Havana This photo is typical of the captures that I mentioned in my last post that I would not transform into an art-like picture with my photoshop filter. First of all, the image is in the landscape category that I don’t always enjoy capturing, but who can resist the challenge when presented with a storm raging over Havana city and you have a high end camera in your hand? Secondly, I submitted this photo to Viewbug.com, an international photo contests site that I subscribe and maintain a platform for my photographs. Storming Havana is one of several photos that have won numerous awards from peer photographers and panels. Thus and then, this image has a Felix culpa, that is, an unhappy moment with a happy turnout, or as Shakespeare wrote, All’s Well That Ends Well. The wind had been howling that Sunday morning, and by mid-day was pushing the waves to pound and break on the city’s embankments. By two o’clock the sun was conveniently situated opposite the dark clouds that formed a moody backdrop, lighting up the lighthouse promenade. Even now I am awed at how theatrical Mother Nature could get. I was heading towards a restaurant in the neighbourhood of the run-down apartment that was our alternative accommodation for the week. My friends had departed early that Sunday morning for Trinidad town 3 hours away; I stayed overnight in order to sign for my travel document at the Canadian embassy on Monday morning before joining the group by taxi. My photography mentor’s agency managed to book us this so-so accommodation in Havana since any hotel that existed were fully booked. Americans were, before the fateful election of November 2016, allowed to visit Cuba, and many did quickly visit the forbidden ground before any reversion happened, and yes, indeed, the post Obama government slammed down the iron curtain again. I came home to Canada to a very sympathetic passport office that told me I was not the first nor will I be the last to be robbed in that country. This picture will forever remind me to tell the story of how some people have to live and scrape by in that island nation. I have no grudge at whoever took my handbag. I only wished at that very moment, that the American dollars they found was much needed towards a bit of food or medication the family might be in need of. That was another picture in my mind as I watched and shot Storming Havana. The wind had been howling that Sunday morning, and by mid-day was pushing the waves to pound and break on the city’s embankments. By two o’clock the sun was conveniently situated opposite the dark clouds that formed a moody backdrop, lighting up the lighthouse promenade. Even now I am awed at how theatrical Mother Nature could get. I was heading towards a restaurant in the neighbourhood of the run-down apartment that was our alternative accommodation for the week. My friends had departed early that Sunday morning for Trinidad town 3 hours away; I stayed overnight in order to sign for my travel document at the Canadian embassy on Monday morning before joining the group by taxi. My photography mentor’s agency managed to book us this so-so accommodation in Havana since any hotel that existed were fully booked. Americans were, before the fateful election of November 2016, allowed to visit Cuba, and many did quickly visit the forbidden ground before any reversion happened, and yes, indeed, the post Obama government slammed down the iron curtain again. I came home to Canada to a very sympathetic passport office that told me I was not the first nor will I be the last to be robbed in that country. This picture will forever remind me to tell the story of how some people have to live and scrape by in that island nation. I have no grudge at whoever took my handbag. I only wished at that very moment, that the American dollars they found was much needed towards a bit of food or medication the family might be in need of. That was another picture in my mind as I watched and shot Storming Havana. https://www.azensmuse.com/thousand-thoughts-1/o6a45h2tjxbjqc8ymzfdugu3jsqodi monthly 0.5 2023-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/d4b33745-eaf0-4574-8bb4-49897b6cbeb1/Venice+Laundry+Day.jpg Thousand Thoughts - Venice on Laundry Day - Venice on laundry Day In a 2014 group photography trip in Venice, one of our boat tours took us on a two-hour ride around the lagoons and canals for the water sceneries. Safety regulations dictated that each boat could only take four passengers. Most of the 8 or 9 of us favoured the cooler morning hours with better lighting. Being a novice, I had much else to grasp in photography so the afternoon light was fine for me. The learning curve in photography is not too sharp if one’s enthusiasm is of a great magnitude and if one has formed a good habit of talking and teaching oneself about juxtaposing the picture and the camera’s settings, and capturing everything calmly, unencumbered by rules. My mentor Richard Martin often heard me complain about my tripod slowing me. I had so far been teaching myself to capture birds at flight and tripod was indeed cumbersome. In a photography trip to Namibia in 2013 I learned to incorporate quick reaction to match the speed of wildlife. Not always accomplishable, but one tries, and one gets reasonable results. (Perhaps a career in teaching ballet in my youth is a plus in journalistic photography.) https://www.azensmuse.com/thousand-thoughts-1/4o90qu6cygyfyh70fpwyfyan077l12 monthly 0.5 2024-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/1691116181977-1RJEHI5LJJ9WQ3LSROYF/Fletcher+Garden+4+1636+copy.jpg Thousand Thoughts - A Walk in the Garden I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. Henry D Thoreau https://www.azensmuse.com/about- daily 1.0 2024-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/d4090798-a101-4459-be9e-3b41c7a9af2b/HappyTern+Sea+Swallow.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.azensmuse.com/short-fiction-1 daily 0.75 2023-06-13 https://www.azensmuse.com/the-books daily 0.75 2023-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/8d26d2ed-134e-4990-86c6-b6caa9795062/Old+Kuching+backcover.jpg The Books - back cover blurb From a small settlement located on both sides of the Sarawak River in the south-west of Borneo, Kuching has grown into the capital of Malaysia's largest state. The town has had an unusual history. Until the late 1830s, it lay under the suzerainty of Brunel and was frequently menaced by pirates and headhunters. In 1841, as a reward for quelling an uprising by the local inhabitants, James Brooke, an English gentleman-adventurer, was ceded territories in Sarawak and given the title 'Rajah', thus establishing a dynasty which was to last until 1946 when Sarawak was ceded to the British Crown. Although the early years of the Brooke raj were spent restoring peace and promoting exports, Kuching grew rapidly into a prosperous trading post with a number of striking public buildings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/fc1672f9-feef-4464-9443-2e82f26a8033/Old+Kuching.jpg The Books - Old Kuching was also published in 1998 under my married name Alice Yen Ho. As iterated for my intro of At the South East Asian Table, I have since published my creative works under my own name, Alice Yen Yong. This second edition (2004) is still available online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/59e83f02-4163-4b1c-85a3-89373180c65e/%231+SEA+Table.jpg The Books - At the South-East Asian Table was published in 1995 by the Images of Asia, an imprint of Oxford University Press. it was published under my married name Ho. I have since used my own surname Yong as creative name for all my writing, artwork and photography, This book is now out of print, but copies can be found on Ebay at reasonable prices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e7f968aa0eaa2e3ccfe6ce/e2774a94-fe2f-4573-b2f3-91132785ff11/%232+SEA+Table+Back.jpg The Books - Back Cover Blurb Food as a daily meal or as a religious offering is fundamental to the cultures of South-East Asia and is a source of utmost enjoyment to its people. Methods of preparing tasty and economical meals are often discussed with passion, and sacrifices to gods and spirits are invariably conducted with great rejoicing. This book explores the multifaceted aspects of food in South-East Asia. Beginning with a historical and sociological survey of South-East Asian food and eating habits, it goes on to discuss the ingredients and spices used in the region, the character of the food markets, the changing styles of the kitchens, and the different styles of cooking and eating from the past to the present.