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 Painting  Sponge drops Local Bakery here in Tralee Co. Kerry Ireland  O' Mahonys Make these famous little delights with fresh cream coloured icing and super light fluffy sponge cake. Truly worthy of a still life painting  Acrylic on canvas by P.Woods 2022  in 2023 I painted a second image with the same subject - different lighting and slightly bigger  2023

Abstraction in concept it is realism because it's photography.  Through the Dark I see light Magic in the morning light urban jungle  Ahhh!  look at the golden leaves

Hi these images are not to be reproduced or copied for commercial use copyright Paul Woods 2015  Some of these images have been re edited for print - printing a photograph is an ongoing process depending on the paper and lab one needs to change the editing process.  So even if I have published one or two of these pictures before, these edits are fresh interpretations. Eventually I will be creating limited edition prints signed and printed to my particular taste till then I am happy for people to enjoy them as they are and for commercial use or if you have a commission in mind contact  Sorry about the typos but as with edits I get around to them ! paulwoods@perrylane.org                                                               Ladies View Killarney  Molls gap near Killarney County Kerry Ireland                                                          Somewhere near Mondello Park                                       Ballybunion strand              

This music makes me think so I added it to the blog post - I found it on Youtube - NIN is the band and Trent Reznor the artist. I Watched this song the day after watching the Eurosong final contest in Sweeden and was thinking of how different this music is to what was on that show. Alien almost to what Europeans think generally is a good song. This started me thinking. As I was saying this is way better then all the Eurosongs in my opinion but it would do poorly in the competition - its like really great photography or art being unrecognizable to contemporaries for the most part. I don't think Ireland is nurturing its talent properly. Great writers of the past bring people from all round the world to Writiers Week in Listowel , hopefully one day we will have hundreds of thousands of visitors to the national gallery to see our world class painters , sculptures and photographers - people that clearly see reality for what it is and can express it in an artful way. Not pretentiou

Ever since I saw  Imogen Cunningham's photos of calla  lilies I have wanted to shoot some myself.   I think her black and white images of flowers are some of the most beautiful examples of monochrome works ever made. Their  simplicity and effective light portray simple subjects with singular purpose far from the chaos of everyday life theses are bastions of calm and serenity that I consider true art .       So out shooting in a wonderful part of Kerry near Brandon point  Clahan I came across some lilies near the pier. Here are my images 3 of which have been influenced by her works but mine are slightly different and less real almost dreamy.  I would like to know what people think feel free to comment and download and share. 

All images copyright Paul Woods 2011