Capture 52 - Week 40: Upside Down

”Only in still waters do things reflect undistorted. – Anne Brown

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Links I Love • September 2020

“The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves…a month that smells like progress, like moving on.” ―Lauren Oliver

• A Look Inside Coco Chanel’s Apartment — A fascinating video treasure hunt of clues into Mademoiselle’s life

• Inside the Most Famous Modernist House in the World — Vogue takes a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

• The 20 Most Iconic Dresses in Cinematic History — Dresses worn by some of my favorite actresses in some of my favorite movies

• And, speaking of my favorite — Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy’s Iconic Friendship in 25 Vintage Photos

• Great Books about Paris and France: All the Titles from The Earful Tower Book Club — Bookmark this one! I’m current reading the September selection (See this month’s Links I Love).

• Ahead Of Emily In Paris, A Cultural Compendium Of American Girls In The City Of Light — I’m so eager for this new Netflix series and I love this list of films and books.

• Step Inside Paris’s Most Anticipated New Garden at the Hotel Bristol (featured in Midnight in Paris)

• The 10 Most Anticipated Exhibitions in Paris this Fall — If only they would include virtual exhibits…

• Rodin in His Garden: This Outdoor Exhibition Retraces the Sculptor's Roots — Oh, how I love the Rodin museum! It’s one of my three favorite museums in Paris. Can you guess the other two? (Hint, the Louvre didn’t make the top three.)

• A Virtual French Flea Market — Shop this weekend!

• What to do in Paris this September — Sigh, if only…

Capture 52 - Week 39: Rule of Thirds

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” – Matt Hardy

This week your challenge is to utilize the most common photographic composition rule...the Rule of Thirds. Free choice of subject. #capture52 #capture52week39 #ruleofthirds #beagle #pipermarie #piperthebeagle

Capture 52 - Week 38: Still Life

“... life, by definition, is never still.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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Capture 52 - Week 37: Dusk to Dawn

“From dusk to dawn, winter to spring, summer to autumn, the contrasts of nature refresh the mind and renew our balance.” — Phil Harding

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September • Colors of the Month

“Brown is the color of hearth and home — of dried herbs and stone-ground bread and freshly baked cookies. It represents all of the nurturing, life-sustaining, down-to-earth qualities of terra firma, the very shade of earth itself. Just as in the sturdy oak, brown represents roots, a steady, stable source of security, comfort, and normalcy. It is the color of fertile soil and plowed earth, buckskin and rawhide, weathered redwood, bison and mustang, frontier land — rugged and outdoorsy. It is pine cone and bracken, chipmunk and acorn, beaver and doe. Brown is considered a classic shade of solid substance.” - Leatrice Eiseman, “Brown: Earthy and Real,” Colors For Your Every Mood — Perfect for September!