Elena Peichinova's Collections

Elena Peichinova 

Atlanta, Georgia

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The Road by Rimly Bezbaruah (somewhere down the road)

THE ROAD
Rimly Bezbaruah

We embarked fearlessly

On a road, you and I

A promise, love and hope

Our only guiding light,

An unfathomable chasm

Separated us yet we

Sought that crossroad

To our union,

Our togetherness…

My hand reached out

To you across the abyss

Of possibilities

But your hand lay by your side

Inert, holding back

Leaving me directionless

As you took our

Road with you

Who am I? I wondered

Doubts seized me

Was I a distraction?

Or the woman you

Truly loved?

Without a choice

I turned towards

The unknown,

A road of pain

Despair and fear

Its path strewn

With corpses of broken dreams

And unfulfilled desires

I heard their wails

Of souls tormented

Of hearts shattered

And I knew I was

Not alone

The palpable darkness

Spreading its tentacles

Longed to possess me

I scurried along the

Haunted trail

My wails in tune

With the others

An age long walk

Down the devastation

The lure was strong

To stay forever

Tempting…

But I walked,

Tripping and falling

I walked 

Seeking the light…

The life that was mine…

Every faltering step forward

A shedding of old skin,

Helplessness, despair, agony

Slithered away

As darkness gave in

To the day,

The night pierced

By the first rays…

The echoing cries

Faded away

Happy chirping birds

Filled the air with

Their morning songs

In the distance

I saw him…

He who had come

In my dreams

The one that chased

My nightmares away

Hands outstretched…

I ran, reborn

The old dying for the new

As he took me

In his arms

I knew I was

Home at last.

by Vince Roque

by Jess Hubabib Najarro

by Maheshwar N. Sinha

Ascending The Hills 

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Black and White

by Jim Brandano

No this is not Michael Jackson's song...which is by the way a very inspiring song. This blog will be presenting images that will also inspire our members in spite of its lack of colors. 

   I've chosen the following images on this blog for one main reason...or let us say two, being Black and White. The images here I believe would lessen its drama when we dab color in them.

   B and W pictures always give to me that classic feel. I can't avoid not to think of my father, who as a camera man would crawl to his dim lit inner sanctum he called "dark room" and would not allow me and my sister to enter because of the said toxic fume. But maybe that depends on his mood because there were times I remember that he would let us in and allowed us to watch him perform magic.

   Those rare instances inside the "dark room" were sort of a mystery to me. Maybe until now. Of course I knew by now that those chemicals create reactions on paper after being expose by light. But the mystery to me was how those images came to life. Yes it came to life. I'm not sure how I would be able to express this vagueness...colored picture don't gave me this kind of chills and thrills. In spite of modern technologies attempt to create images that rival the human eye, I still admire photographs done in Black and White.

   Why? Maybe in B and W photos I can distinguished the shadows very easily. Actually, it was those shadows forming the images and eventually suggesting  some texture that made me the more baffled. Again maybe Black and white images triggers our brain to imagine more from the less. 

  It is to me I supposed more difficult to execute since you are given only two tone to work with. If its too dark, then necessary images will not be distinguished. If too white then we get very little of the subject. 

   Black and White photos in my opinion are the real photographs. It saves us from the malice of colors but Allowing our brain to imagine more...

   Colored photographs gave me that sense of finality in terms of realism. While Black and white on the other hand are mere suggestions...Am I seeing the truth or not? Is it mud or cake? Those kind of questions that arises which colored images already revealed. I hope you are following me...

   Anyway, I'll just let these photographs speaks where language fails.

by Hemant Kumar

by Aaron Offord

by Syed Alfandi Syed Mansor

by Mari Sterling Wilbur

Latest Images from Art Lovers

I've seen some pretty good artworks this past days and weeks...Oh maybe "good" is an understatement. Well, excellent art works and therefore worth sharing...I'll try to haunt them down, since our Facebook page run faster than my  laptop. I hope I can immortalized it here...that is, if blogger.com will exist farther into eternal life...

   Here are some of them...I'm not going to express in words why I like these collections...I'll simply let these pictures speak for itself. 

by  Syed Alfandi Syed Mansor

by Maheshwar N. Sinha

by Elena Peichinova

by Portia Burton

by Aaron Offord

    By the way, the above image I have downloaded a month ago but have forgotten who made it...sorry! Anyway, if anyone of you happen to know, please tell me so I can add the caption. I like it so much. 

   That's all for now...that's all my computer can handle at this time.

Niña Ceñir and her Arts

Niña Ceñir is from The Philippines 

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Pauline McCarthy

Hi folks, greetings from Iceland! Thank you for allowing me into your inner sanctum :) I have been a performing artist most of my life while travelling the world doing voluntary work. About 5 years ago I was ill and confined to bed for 6 months, to pass the time I started watching dvd's on learning how to oil paint. When I was better I picked up brush and started painting and discovered my inner artist :) I had been teaching flower arranging for many years so already had some sense of colour. The greatest gift learning to paint gave me was opening my eyes to the variety and subtetly of colour in our surroundings. Before I could see things but I did not observe them. A whole new world opened up to me :)

I have a wee bit of a hyperactivity condition and usually get so excited to pass the paintings onto the commissioner that I forget to take photographs of them. I guess I have painted about 45 but have only taken photo's of 16 of them, you can see them here: http://www.facebook.com/media/​set/?set=a.43412853224.42317.6​20553224

As you can see I am not much of a photographer :) Perhaps that is what I will learn next time I am ill in bed for a long time :)

For the last couple of years I have been developing an idea for the most amazing global art and photography project. It is a non profit project to help unite the world in peace and encourage environmental awareness. Problem is I am having trouble getting the web site finished. I know diddly squat about techie things :( Do any of you know of any grants I could apply for so that I can pay for a professional programmer? Or do any of you know how to work with wordpress?

Anyhoo! It is called 2012 Project 12 and you can see what is up so far of the web site at : 2012project12.com and you can read my blog 2012project12.wordpress.com or even pre-sign up at our facebook event page:http://www.facebook.com/event.​php?eid=177802045595037

I am currently reading how to paint with water colours. I am very interested in working with mixed mediums. I mean very mixed mediums. When someone tells me "That does not go with that" I get so excited and think "Now how can I get those to work together!" :)

I look forward to getting to know you folks and being inspired by your art.

LoVe Pauline (a.k.a. Poliana)


some of Pauline's works...

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TianBian Ham Collection

TianBian Ham is from Bangkok, Thailand

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