James Brubaker

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  • March 12, 2020 – What do you do in the last quarter? Be creative of course. Maybe that sounds like a football coach.

    March 12, 2020 – What do you do in the last quarter? Be creative of course. Maybe that sounds like a football coach.

    Go see Dave’s Eagles on the TGO Photo Club page – Remarkable.

    • Then read on below.

    Forget the last quarter – Think about the whole game – I was reading a book titled “Art Before Breakfast.”  by Danny Gregory. Here is some of my thoughts from the book:

    Creativity isn’t a luxury. It’s the essence of life. It’s what distinguishes us from the bugs. And it’s why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer. 

     And that’s what you need to do to make the most of your life, every day of it. To be inventive, open, flexible. To have perspective on what matters to you. To deal with change without being overwhelmed. And that’s what creativity offers you.

    Art is a way of helping make creativity become a habit that fits ALL ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE.   It doesn’t mean you have to be a full-time artist. It doesn’t mean you need lots of training or supplies. Or a lot of time. 

    All you need to do is play a little.  Do it while waiting for a commercial to end, or waiting in a dentists waiting-room – take out a pen and paper and sketch.

    Or, if you are retired like me – create just for fun.  Take an hour in the morning with your I pad, a photo or so from you iPhone and play with PhotoShop. Here are several days worth of my playing around:

    I took quick snapshot of a duck outside Glorias Art Club building in Titusville, FL – Just as snapped on my I phone.
    Next I removed all but head and breast of the duck – My he looks like a bottle to me. Try to use your creative thoughts and see a bottle. Ha Ha
    Snapped this photo to ask Gloria which bottle she wanted me to buy – of course I added the duck and the selfie that I put on the label – just for fun – Creatively playing around  – just for fun
    Lookin down our street. – A space shot on a cloudy day – again my iPhone and a image of what happens when the sonic boom arrives – Ha Ha
    Dave was telling me of what happens to the song bird population when we humans kill off all the bugs, – so I looked for bird photos in my library of iPhone photos -with the bird photo I decided to take a close-up of a flower I saw while biking last week and create an abstract art piece – Why? – ’cause I wanted to for fun.
    Made an abstract as a background for the ladybug – Just for fun
    As you swing thru life – Create something art just for fun – before breakfast if you can. – That is what the book says you should do.
  • March 1, 2020 – Featuring the TGO PHOTO CLUB – The photo Club did its 2020 spring-thing this week – Not sure what I am talking about? Read on please:

    March 1, 2020 – Featuring the TGO PHOTO CLUB – The photo Club did its 2020 spring-thing this week – Not sure what I am talking about? Read on please:

    Our TGO Photo Club has had a great year.  – scroll down to read a little about it after clicking to the Photo Club Page to see some new Owl postings by Dave Cesari.

    Some thoughts about the TGO PHOTO CLUB:

    A.    Susan Hubbard, Club’s corresponding sectary wrote:

    “Huge thanks to Jim Dick and his amazing crew of many volunteers who hung 52 new photographs by club members in the Manor Porch Gallery yesterday!

    Don’t Forget: Our reception to celebrate the opening of the new 2020 Exhibit will be this coming Saturday, March 7, 12 Noon to 2:00 PM in the Gallery overlooking the pool deck.

    All are welcome.  Refreshments will be served.  Be sure to invite your friends and neighbors.”

    B.   Our new leader of the Club, David Spahn, will meet with committee leaders this week to plan for the next year. 

    C.    A successful club has these features and the TGO Photo Club has them all plus more:

    1.  inclusive Environment

    2,     Opportunity to service the community

    3.     Offers help to members to accomplish mastery

    4.      A safe environment, non critical and inviting of newbies

    5.     Engagement in Learning – Learn by doing and sharing

    6.    Be an active participant in the future – embrace new technology

    7.    Many active members have fun together

    8.    Offer support to member’s passion

    D.    It even allows me to share my passion for creating surreal photos.  They hung four of my prints in the Manor Porch Gallery:

    The Club serves the community by providing photographers for the Canadian event each year – this was one photo I had fun creating from a photo they took of me at the event.
    This duck photo I took out by a pond in Titusville was just the right shape for this shelf – HaHa
    One of my passions is to study photo composition – any time I make a surreal photo, I practice  “rules” of composition – can you see some rules I applied?
    This is a couple of my varied family times wrapped into one surreal photo:  With my Daughter-in-law with her Mini Cooper at a Mackinaw Bridge Mini Rally,  A typical evening sitting at a Drummond Island camp fire, and Being with Gloria at the opening of her involvement with a new art gallery on  Merritt Island, Florida  (The buildings in the background are the Gallery) 
    As you swing thru life – ponder and record with your camera, the fun times you have with family and friends – share and say thanks.

     

  • February 22, 2020 – I am going to feature Dave Cesari on my home page here and on the TGO Photo Club page – read on I will tell you why.

    February 22, 2020 – I am going to feature Dave Cesari on my home page here and on the TGO Photo Club page – read on I will tell you why.

    Oh, say you, why feature him here and on the TGO Photo Club page, which he normally post on?

    Oh, say I, ‘Cause I have been studying photo composition and these photos of Daves show that he not only loves the hours he puts in to get these photos, he knows how to compose them. – I urge new photographers and those that want to improve their photography, to study Dave’s postings.  Then read about composition and re-study the photos. – You will appreciate his use of lines, items of 3, rule of thirds, “s” patterns, and much more.

    So, I posted here and the TGO Photo Page so that I could catch those readers that are not Photo Club Members or do not click the Club’s page on a regular basis. Enjoy!

    02 22 2020 Dave Cesari
    02 22 2020 Dave Cesari
    02 22 2020 Dave Cesari
    02 22 2020 Dave Cesari
    02 22 2020 Dave Cesari

    Dave did write – “See I can shoot something besides birds.”

    02 22 2020 Dave Cesari
    As you swing thru life – The more years you put behind you, the more fun it is to learn by your association with  others – That is my thinking for the day.

  • February 18, 2020 – OK, Now you can tell me what you think – I have played 7 days with PhotoShop and what I learned of “Photo Composition” in the the art class I sneaked into last week.

    7 Photos came together for this seventh project! Gloria’s Art Gallery, Me with Sue’s Mini Cooper Rally on the Mackinaw Bridge, Elden’s camp fire on Drummond,  Dyna’s smiling face, TGO’s road work signs, and one of my Drummond’s sunset all came together into one photo – as if by magic.  – Oh I forgot to mention that the 7th photo – the sunset in the middle –  is really a close up of a watermelon half!
    Charlie’s dog finds baby bird – of course Dyna watches. Photos included frosty morning in NJ, Heather walking dogs, and unique ducks at Florida High School)
    Shopping via the internet with Jim – he lives near the coast. I know the beautiful hard wood forest and the vistas from the lighthouse on Block Island – and of course Dyna – Guess that is why I put it all together.
    New York City and maybe the Oscars – not real anyway
    Oh my – New York City in 2020 or is it 1776 discussing our Nation’s politics. Of course Dyna is watching.
    Dyna is everywhere
    even here
    As you swing thru life – Here is my thinking – Take 2 hours each day, for a week, and see what you can do – I found it fun – I may even try it again?

  • February 17, 2020 – Hey – I said I would do one photo/painting a day for a week = seven PhotoShoped photos. Well here is 6 of 7.

    Charlie’s dog finds baby bird – of course Dyna watches. Photos included frosty morning in NJ, Heather walking dogs, and unique ducks at Florida High School)
    Shopping via the internet with Jim – he lives near the coast. I know the beautiful hard wood forest and the vistas from the lighthouse on Block Island – and of course Dyna – Guess that is why I put it all together.
    New York City and maybe the Oscars – not real anyway
    Oh my – New York City in 2020 or is it 1776 discussing our Nation’s politics. Of course Dyna is watching.
    Dyna is everywhere
    even here
    As you swing thru life – Here is my thinking – If you are retired, still have a daily pattern – sort of like a “job description” – but do not worry if you deviate from it from time to time.

  • February 16, 2020 – I continue to PLAY with PhotoShop – I added one new truck – why did I create it -?

    Shopping via the internet with Jim – he lives near the coast. I know the beautiful hard wood forest where Heather walks her dogs and the vistas from the lighthouse on Block Island – and of course 2 Dyna’s – Guess that is why I put photos from all of these places together.
    New York City and maybe the Oscars – not real anyway
    Dyna is everywhere
    even here
    Oh my – New York City in 2020 or is it 1776 discussing our Nation’s politics. Of course Dyna is watching.

  • February 15, 2020 – And now abstracting in new York City in 1776 – was it?

    Oh my – New York City in 2020 or is it 1776 discussing our Nation’s politics.
    New York City and maybe the Oscars – not real anyway
    Dyna is everywhere
    Even here
    As you swing thru life – Think about our 1776 politics – Today’s politics are gentle I think.

  • February 13, 2020 – Hey, I said I would play around with painting abstracts for a least a week – Then, I may find something useful to do!

    Oh my – do not forget the TGO Photo Club page – Dave Cesari is featured there now!

    Now you can look at my abstracts!

    New York City and maybe the Oscars – not real anyway
    Dyna is everywhere
    even here
    As you swing thru life – Oh my -Play around each day – just a little

  • Feb 12, 2020 – Is my mind abstract? You decide.

    An abstract a day – for a while

    three 1/12
    Oh – here is the original – maybe you like it better?
    As you swing thru life – Oh my – do something useful – do not be like me
  • Feb 10, 2020 – Who is Oscar? Anyway, it is hard to tell the real news from the fake news – But that is the goal of a good movie.

    Feb 10, 2020 – Who is Oscar? Anyway, it is hard to tell the real news from the fake news – But that is the goal of a good movie.

    I took a photograph from my back porch:

    My original photograph – a few modifications follow.
    Hey Oscar, did I stoop low to take this photo? Or, is it like the news and the Oscars – all fake? You will never know.
    In Florida we are plagued with large Cuban Toads – dangerous they are – They will spit in your dog’s eye – blinding him for awhile – will do the same to you or your horse. Yipes!       This photo is not of florida.   It is Perla on Drummond.
    Or is this my back porch in Florida? Oscar, again I ask you what is real – and, remember,  you get awarded for fooling us – why do you not run for president? Watch out, the toad got inside!
    Well,  if I am going to fool you , I might as well go for the Oscar! – This, I PhotoShopped from my original porch photo. Hey, Dyna’s face is in here, see if you can find it.
    As you swing thru life – Don’t be like me. Get modern, enjoy the movies. They are professionals, creating fake news, to entertain us – I love the idea but sitting two hours is hard for me, so I go to my computer and play with PhotoShop to create fake! Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy making it.