Rotary Perception • Posts Tagged ‘green’

Life’s Twists on Flickr.Via Flickr:
Today is Thanksgiving Monday in Canada. Last Thanksgiving Monday, work was good, Lisa was 26 weeks pregnant with our son, due in mid January. It was sunny and the leaves were just turning.
I decided to take advantage of the day and made my way up to Queen Elizabeth Park and the Bloedel Conservatory to take some pictures in the morning. Had a remarkably productive day, I think nearly a dozen shots from that day have made it to flickr and two made explore.
Little did I know when taking this photo that less than 24 hours later, Lisa would be checked into BC Women’s Hospital under strict bed rest and another 24 hours after that, we’d be the proud parents of Trajan.
The last year has brought with it more than it’s share of drama, surprise and excitement but, I’ll be damned if it hasn’t in most ways been the best year I’ve ever had.
In the immortal words of Ferris Beuller though; “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

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Today is Thanksgiving Monday in Canada. Last Thanksgiving Monday, work was good, Lisa was 26 weeks pregnant with our son, due in mid January. It was sunny and the leaves were just turning.

I decided to take advantage of the day and made my way up to Queen Elizabeth Park and the Bloedel Conservatory to take some pictures in the morning. Had a remarkably productive day, I think nearly a dozen shots from that day have made it to flickr and two made explore.

Little did I know when taking this photo that less than 24 hours later, Lisa would be checked into BC Women’s Hospital under strict bed rest and another 24 hours after that, we’d be the proud parents of Trajan.

The last year has brought with it more than it’s share of drama, surprise and excitement but, I’ll be damned if it hasn’t in most ways been the best year I’ve ever had.

In the immortal words of Ferris Beuller though; “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

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A Splash of Colour on Flickr.

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After my series of sexually charged images from the Bob’s Lounge show on Saturday night, I thought I should lighten the mood up a bit.

So, I present, the sex organs of a juvenile flower of some type or another. Spotted this afternoon in the Rose Garden at Stanley Park.

- #vancouver
- #macro
- #green
- #stamen
- #bloom
- #flower
- #bright
- #canada
- #yellow
- #rose garden
- #bc
- #stanley park
- #bud
- #Olympus Zuiko Digital 35mm F3.5 Macro
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"There was once a word used---swing. Swing went in one direction, it was linear, and everything had to be played with an obvious pulse and that's very restrictive. But I use the term 'rotary perception.' If you get a mental picture of the beat existing within a circle, you're more free to improvise. People used to think the notes had to fall on the center of the beats in the bar at intervals like a metronome, with three or four men in the rhythm section accenting the same pulse. That's like parade music or dance music. But imagine a circle surrounding each beat-each guy can play his notes anywhere in that circle, and it gives him a feeling he has more space. The notes fall anywhere inside the circle, but the original feeling for the beat isn't changed. If one in the group loses confidence, somebody hits the beat again. The pulse is inside you. When you're playing with musicians who think this way you can do anything. Anybody can stop and let the others go on. It's called strolling…." ---Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog