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Wood Love

An open sack of charcoal; the opening is in the shape of a heart
Charcoal Heart
strips of wood, interlaced
Stripes

Captured in a forest reserve. The torches below were for our evening bonfire. The chopped wood for the bonfire is shown in the second to last photo.

In other news, I managed to make curry, over a coal fire, for ten hungry colleagues. No idea what I was doing and there was lots of improvising. So, it felt like an episode of MacGyver. The ingredients (curry powder, streaky bacon, potatoes, carrots and onions) were already prepped by the research facility that hosted us. Everyone was nervous about the potatoes but I Gordon Ramsayed them and they came out just right.

Torches for a campfire on the ground
Torches
Logs on a log shelf processed in black and white
Shelved
wood for a fire, in an iron grill
Wood Burn

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By ΠιCΘLΞ

Life is short, so let’s be decent.

165 replies on “Wood Love”

Lovely photos! I haven’t been spending much time on WordPress lately and I’d forgotten how much I enjoy your blog. Glad you keep it up. 🙂

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Thank you so much for visiting. I thought you’d gone on permanent hiatus and fell out of touch. If you decide to go to grad school, I’m sure you’ll be the perfect candidate. Best wishes.

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Not permanent — just too much going on to find time to write my silly stories. 🙂 I’m planning to be more active on WP this summer, as I take some time off before school starts (and yes, decided to go).

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Thanks so much, PJ. That part was tricky. Each photo has about 8 edits minimum. I played around with the sequence of edits but finally, I used filters that tease out, overlay or amplify colour after using a monochrome filter. For the “shelved” photo, I used one that pumped up the colour intensely and used a sepia toned filter over that. Conversely, the colour amplifying filter ignores the monochrome treatment, so adding it afterwards teases out some of the colour.

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Thank you, Isa. I think barbecues are best for outdoors as you kind of can watch the food cooking. In hindsight, the method turned out to be quite simple. But the result is really a game of chance.

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Being a country girl and having to rely on wood for our heat, this post hits the spot. Now my question is why am I not getting your posts on the feed? I have been following you but I never see them!? I think that I will click that box that says I want to be notified by email.

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Thanks Margaret. So glad you dropped by. I’m very happy you like this post. The invisible cloak thing happens with quite a few blogs I’m watching too. I see them okay in the tagged lists but they never show up in reader. So I manually check twice a week. Another WordPress glitch. In March, three posts worth of comments were swallowed up completely and magically reappeared in my moderation folder in April. Stunning. I spent a week apologising.

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I appreciate that very much and thank you for letting me know. I have seen it and left a comment. I wish I were an expert in woodblock art or Edo Period erotica. I would have written a more insightful reflection. Warm regards. xo

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Well you were part of the inspiration… + my daughter considering to get a tattoo of the Great Waves. I must thank you because I really enjoyed researching and writing this post although my knowledge was basic and it was out of my comfort zone. I love the terms for the various genres, the poetic simplicity led to the connection with The Torture Garden that mentions with approval Eastern poetic descriptiveness. Hopefully I did the subject a little justice

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Thank you so much for that lovely comment. The lit torches were awesome. There was a lighting ceremony and that was like an ancient ritual. The fire was just as brilliant.

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I love stacks of wood and look out for patterns in the ordinary when I travel with my camera. Great shots.

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Thank you. So many comments noted the ordinariness of wood, in contrast to how I processed them. I take it as a positive sign. People see so much wood it just seems ordinary. Trees should never become a novelty. I absolutely love forests and found these stacks by a workshed special and intriguing. I tried to enhance the aspects I found interesting.

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Thank you so much for this. The recipe is definitely only for that occasion. The reserve has a research centre and the prep the ingredients. Then, we have to make do.

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