Monthly Archives: May 2010

Tadfrog in Transit – We are all on our way somewhere

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Tadfrog in Transit

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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Tomorrow I will be … In a few years the earth will … “In the year 2525, if man is still alive” …

This image illustrates all transition for me, because it is so easy to see and understand because it happens in such a short time, we can see it progress. It is an image of a frog, or a tadpole? It is really a froglet. Froglets are usually seen with much shorter tails.

Everything has a lifetime to live, and we change throughout that life, we only call it living in mankind, not metamorphosis as we do in frogs, because we do not lose a tail, or grow legs. … Or do we? Our most visual metamorphosis takes place unseen, in the wombs of our mothers, where we lose our tails, and gain four limbs.

Most humans try to separate themselves from animals, I don’t. I revel in the flow of time, and I look forward to the continued evolution of myself, all life known and unknown, and the universe.

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Banana Flower

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Banana Flower

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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I love Bananas. … And these small flowers are where some bananas will come from. The flower heart is edible, and is eaten like an artichoke.

As the fruiting body (inflorescence) grows larger and longer, the rows of red sheathing that are the flower heart, open one at a time, and expose the flowers in sets of flowers.

In this image the flowers are juicy, and beautiful. The color of the heart is rich and powerful.

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Three Young Women – Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos

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Three Young Women – Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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I like the light of evenings, just after sunset. … Actually, this is quite a while after sunset, and very dark. In this light between night and day, the three fates, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, can be seen in these three young women.

This location is Chula Vista, and the power plant in the background will be taken offline and replaced by a newer unit. … As it sits, I love the lights in the background.

And the young women definitely light up the twilight.

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Black and Yellow

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Black and Yellow

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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San Diego is a beautiful city as most people see it. But, it has many nooks and crannies of beauty seen by very few.

Fiesta island, is one of those beautiful places that are hidden from a casual view. The island is ringed by a road that is frequented by cyclists in their drive for healthful exercise. Between the road and the interior of most of the island, stand berms, artificial ridges of heaped earth that hides the islands center from the casual view of those just driving around the island. You have to stop your car, get out, and walk past the berms to the magic of a Southern California spring.

I walk there with my dog quite often. It is a very dog friendly place for off leash walking. In this image, my dog Gypsy is having a very good day.

You have to hurry down there to see it, because it is our spring, and it does not last long.

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Dancers

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Dancers

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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This is another image from the San Diego Fine Art Society’s Hollywood Glamour Ball.

In this image, the dancers are moving at a pace far beyond the pace of mere mortals. They are the Dancers. Twisting, spinning, jumping, moving, in ways most of us can only remember as a child.

Dancers lift the spirits by showing us what we could accomplish if only we tried. … I laugh a little at that statement, because it is not really true. We only imagine it is true. That concept of being able to dance is just like people thinking they are photographers because they have a good camera.

Dancing, and any other art, takes time, and dedication, and a gift of innate adeptness.

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Single Barrel Cactus Flower

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Single Barrel Cactus Flower

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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I thought this little flower might be a nice thing to look at this morning. This is a single flower, and the very edge of a second flower, on the crown of a Barrel Cactus.

Cactus has always intrigued me because a flower is the sexual heart of the plant, and yet, on a cactus, it is surrounded by spiky, dangerous, barriers to the sweetness therein. If you try to break down the barrier to get to the sweetness, you are harmed, and you harm the plant. But, if you are the target of the plants affection, the spikes are no barrier, they are only facilitators, helping you along your mutual path of desire.

In the end, the bee gets the nectar, and the cactus, … ? … Well the cactus gets little cacti.

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Turning a Page

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Turning a Page

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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“Moving on,” “Turning a Page,” “Times change,” What is happening today, is not yesterday.

It could be time for a good read, or it could be time to put to good use what we have already read.

For me, I study life in my images, and try to capture tiny moments that tell a story. Like I used to teach my students, “When writing a story, each sentence, paragraph, image, whatever is part of the story, must be complete in and of itself, it must have a beginning, a middle, and an end, so that the reader, or the viewer loses nothing if they move on to something else.”

So, today I am making myself take those statements more seriously to heart. … From today, I will strive to make every image story timeless, and complete. … Yet, I will also strive to ask my viewers, with my works, to want to revisit my visions.

That is my version of giving the audience what they want, while having them also, wanting more.

Moving on, but come back tomorrow.

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The Shooting Team for the S.D.F.A.S. Hollywood Glamour Ball.

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Jack Foster Mancilla, Patricia Cabezas, Cameron Gary

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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This is the team that worked together to shoot the San Diego Fine Art Society’s Hollywood Glamour Ball. We have different eyes, and see different things, together we can capture the heart and soul of anything.

We have worked together over the past couple years on events, large and small.

We are looking forward to our next gig.

Jack

The Red Carpet Set

The Set with Lighting

Playing in the Street Set

And the set of the interior of the Anthology during the event.

And here is the link to
San Diego Fine Art Society

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The Combat of Metal Horses

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The Combat of Metal Horses

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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The last desert trip was full of cool sights. … Some of them are semi-frozen in time.

I caught this image as the earth was turning, bringing the sun lower to the horizon, watching the shadows growing longer. This little moment is frozen.

But, the horses are rusting. The color of rust makes them beautiful, specially beautiful in the ruddy light of a low sun, but it is rust, and being rust it is an indicator of decay.

All things have a lifetime. These horses are just past the prime of their lives. As long as they are able, they are committed to being in this fight for a very long time.

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Women, Of Two Ages

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Women, Of Two Ages

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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It is cold today, even as the sun shines without clouds it is still cold. I look towards the summer when the beach is populated again. When people blossom out of the whole cloth of winter, and toast their bodies in the warmth of the sun.

In California, cold is relative, and relatively speaking, not very cold at all. … Still, I wear a jacket.

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