{"id":205,"date":"2014-05-01T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2014-05-01T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:18:34","slug":"ghost-flowers-may-3-june-1-by-donna-levreault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"GHOST FLOWERS &#8211; May 3 &#8211; June 1 by Donna Levreault"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><strong>GHOST FLOWERS<\/strong><\/address>\n<address>PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT A CAMERA<\/address>\n<address>DONNA LEVREAULT<\/address>\n<address>\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>MAY 3 THROUGH JUNE 1<\/address>\n<address>WELCOME DONNA AT HER RECEPTION<\/address>\n<address>SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2:00 PM-5:00 PM<\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Music by Keith Cudaback<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Poetry by Jean Varda<\/span><\/address>\n<address>\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\n<p>Donna Levreault makes photographs without a camera. This photographer employs ancient techniques in her expressive photography. Her images are made without a camera, using the sun as a source of illumination. . A flower is placed on sensitive paper and exposed to sunlight. Exposure times, temperature, and humidity and the unique chemical properties of the plant, affect the final image.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_206\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DonnaL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-image-206\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DonnaL.jpg\" alt=\"DonnaL\" width=\"236\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DonnaL.jpg 960w, http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DonnaL-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DonnaL-762x1024.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hollyhock Ghost Flower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The results are completely unpredictable. The print is a ghost image of the flower that can range from brilliant color to more subdued tones. Flowers are a popular subject for photographers; still Levreault\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photographs shed new light on their beauty. Mystery radiates from each blossom, and colors shimmer and glow. The viewer sees an after-image of the plant, a ghost image that can range from realistic to abstract.<\/p>\n<p>Levreault says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love that I am co-creating these photographs with nature. The sun, the atmosphere, the season, the time of day\u00e2\u20ac\u201deverything has an effect on the final image.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>AWE Gallery is open every Saturday and Sunday from 12 Noon &#8211; 5:00 PM and located at 678 Portola Dr. (A red and yellow building, next to a purple church.\u00c2\u00a0 Free parking in church lot).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GHOST FLOWERS PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT A CAMERA DONNA LEVREAULT \u00c2\u00a0 MAY 3 THROUGH JUNE 1 WELCOME DONNA AT HER RECEPTION SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2:00 PM-5:00 PM \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Music by Keith Cudaback \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Poetry by Jean Varda \u00c2\u00a0 Donna Levreault makes photographs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/?p=205\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,35,52,53,57,56,55],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-artists","tag-a-womans-eye","tag-awe-gallery","tag-donna-levreault","tag-ghost-flowers","tag-images-without-cameras","tag-may","tag-phine-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}