This month I chose the theme {Books} for our challenge. I wanted something that could be done at home. While things seems to be opening up down my side of town, I am still not convinced we are out of the woods. So I am probably going to keep doing what I have been doing.
The definition of books is as follows “a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers”
Books, however, are so much more to me. Book smell so much better than an iPad. They also don’t hurt when they hit your face. I love to turn the pages of a book. I love to escape to lands unknown, to medieval times, to Scotland in the days of the Bruce, to the bravery of men and women during WW2. Most often at night, you will find me on my couch in my office reading a book instead of watching the television.
I have taken a number of images over the past 4 years of books so here are some of those images.
I was playing around one day and wanted to capture a heart image using a book, so I pulled out the hard cover, “Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, and whalla I got my image. Our trip to Seattle in 2016 was amazing and one of the highlights was heading off to the Seattle Library. A friend had said if you have time go walk the library, it is only 10 floors. Oh boy, I loved the library. Columbus, Georgia, and we stopped into a unique little coffee shop that was filled with all sorts of knick knacks. I love the composition of the clock with the books.Seattle again, in a gift store, and I loved how they had utilized a book to display the jewelry.My father was a lay preacher, and I have a collection of his Bibles, my mothers and grandmothers, and my own. I find at times I go and look at the notes he made, and I was so surprised the first time I looked and found a sermon he had written. I loved reading his thoughts years after he had passed away. Seattle Library once moreI think this was the same jewelry store as 2 images up. Again using books to display precious stones. The cameo and pearls were my grandmothers and I have a lot of good memories of her. The Bible belonged to Richards grandmother and she passed it down to him before she died. Faith is a strong foundation of my life, and am always reminded that this Bible is an inheritance passed down from generation to generation.Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrings. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. ~ A very familiar passaged used at weddings and one that I wanted to use to capture the beauty of this day. When I say I have a lot of books I really mean a lot of book. These books were moved to the bathroom in an effort to paint my “library”. My Sims was checking out the collection.
When I thought about books for this theme, I wanted them to be timeless, so black and white was where I went this time around with the {Books} theme.
The art of using a quill to write is not an art seen much these days. Having bought a quill for this shot, makes me think I should go back and buy some ink and play some more. I am in a study group with a number of women, and this is not an uncommon sight on my deskJournaling. I have my moments with journaling. I will start and stop. I love to put thoughts onto paper, but I am not a big fan of putting my heart out there for someone to stumble across. One of my favorite genre of novels is to read about the amazing men and women who gave selflessly during the devastating period of World War 2. Men and women who worked the underground system, who carried messages, who gave their lives. I had uncles that were prisoner of war and so it is also their stories that I read when I read these kind of books. These are stories I hope the world never forgets, and yet I know that children today wonder if that war ever took place. The edges of books these days seems to be a rough finish and I love the grittiness that this edge gives. I love books; I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that is far more interesting than yours will ever be ~ Elizabet Scott
Books make me smile, they bring me to a happy place. I like to escape into them. I very rarely go to bed without reading. When I thought about what I wanted for this theme, I really wanted to show that books are timeless. Books for me are old friends. Stories of life, pages I can turn. I have some collections, but I have realized that the amount of books I read means I am running out of storage space. So nowdays I am using my Kindle app a lot more. But I do not like to get rid of certain books, my poetry books, my old English books, my Shakespeare, Chaucer, Thomas Hardy books. Classics, I have held onto them. Novels about WW2, favorite authors, they grace my shelves. General novels I will happily pass on.
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I deeply felt your LOVE of books into these magical shots. I found myself into a out of time moment, travelling down the human history. Some shots have a kind of POE atmosphere. I really enjoyed to read you about this theme!
These are wonderful, I know what you mean though, I much prefer a book over a kindle. I love your B&W conversions and the images are beautiful and timeless.
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I deeply felt your LOVE of books into these magical shots. I found myself into a out of time moment, travelling down the human history. Some shots have a kind of POE atmosphere. I really enjoyed to read you about this theme!
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Thank you Michele. I do truly love books. I spend a lot of my time in books.
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These are wonderful, I know what you mean though, I much prefer a book over a kindle. I love your B&W conversions and the images are beautiful and timeless.
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Thanks so much Janet
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