Work on one of my photography projects this week includes files I have from the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. Books and manuscripts can serve several functions but one of these is a portal to the past. Take this for example:
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It’s an illustration of an anteater found in a 17th Century Persian text called “History of the West Indies”. It’s adorable and the manuscript itself is beautiful, a real work of art. The gold tones in manuscripts like this have always reminded me of the way that I think of knowledge as light.
For this particular edit, I’ve increased the yellow and orange tones and added a vignette:
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The original photo was taken with my iPhone and the edits are done in Luminar 3.
The Instagram version is here:
This is my entry to Day 9 of January Squares and also Tuesday Photo Challenge, Portal.
Cheers!
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these are such incredible treasures. well shot
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Thanks very much.
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What a fantastic choice of subject for Becky’s squares. The anteater is a treasure.
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Thank you 🙂
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Struggling to work out the word ending in light today, but I do like this!
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Today, it’s just light. Knowledge as a form of light is what I was going for. It’s a stretch on the rules of the challenge for sure 🙂 Also, that anteater, I did just have to find a place to post that 🙂
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Stretching is good for the mind!
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That’s what I tell myself 🙂
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So glad you included a book and writing for the Portal challenge! It crossed my mind, but I didn’t come up with a good photo. Books are portals to so much.
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I completely agree, my other thought was a library, but I had this cute little anteater and really just wanted to use that.
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I drove by our so-new-it-has-opened-yet city library and the one still in operation. Neither presented an interesting picture to my eye on a rather cold and windy day!
Your anteater is wonderful.
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I guess that means they really are portals then, ordinary on the outside but extraordinary on the inside 🙂
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Exactly!
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