butterfly on bark

butterfly4, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I have added a few photos to my flckr site of these butterflies on a beautiful background. I took the photo in a village called La Mesa, on a plateau surrounded by mountains and beautiful view in Colombia. There were hummingbirds about the same size as this butterfly there, but they were too quick.

cemetery statues

cemetery-ljubljana56, originally uploaded by bernsul.

Wherever I go I like to call in at the cemetery if there is one. I think it says a lot about a culture. These statues come from graves in Ljubljana. It is a very interesting thing to make a likeness of the person who has died on the grave. This adds a strange dimension somehow. I wish I had taken down their names.

I have an idea to do something with modelling and animating some statues in 3d at some stage.

animal textures

shila22, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I have been collecting all sorts of images as textures for 3d modelling. I think Shila is going to be an interesting monster one day. This is one of a series of texture images that I have just put on flickr.

Bush images

flowers50, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I have added some references images that I took some time ago in a national park in Sydney. I am using photos like these as very loose references in my animation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul/sets/72157624116099284/detail/

flickr

My flickr site is at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul

Some examples of links and images that I have placed on my blog from flickr are:

http://stepstoanimation.blogspot.com/2010/04/photos-from-colombia.html

http://stepstoanimation.blogspot.com/2010/04/venice-shop-windows.html

http://stepstoanimation.blogspot.com/2010/04/india1.html

I have found flickr good to use. I haven't used it before for my images. I have just come back from some years overseas. Beginning to organise some of the photos I have taken is kind of therapeutic. I noticed some features which are useful on top of the obvious. One in particular I think I will use is posting directly to blog. I like the idea of placing things in sets. I tend to think this way and it will help me show the images in a positive way. I am beginning to work out how to make blogger and flickr work together and I am looking forward to developing this as time goes by.
Bernard

Photos from Colombia

Red Rooster, originally uploaded by bernsul.

This set of photos is from my time in Colombia. I have more photos I will put up later. Colombia is underestimated. It is a very beautiful and dynamic place.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul/sets/72157623868680610/detail/

India - Beside the Road

india1, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I have taken video and photographs from moving vehicles all over the world. I call the general framework for thinking and recording images when I am doing this "Beside the Road". Part of the challenge of course is to take photos from a moving vehicle that are still clear and interesting, and in the case of India, on a bumpy road in a rusty old car.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul/sets/72157623868539326/detail/

Venice shop windows

venicewindow08, originally uploaded by bernsul.

I've been putting up and organising my favourite photos that I have taken over the last few years. This series is of shop windows in Venice which I took on a trip there last year. I have some video of similar material which I will put up on vimeo sometime. I like Venice of course, and I have always been fascinated by shop windows.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul/sets/72157623868456466/detail/

blur photos led to animation

These blur photos were part of the evolution for me towards becoming more and more interested in animation.

Bernard

flickr blur images

Here is a link to my new Flickr site. These photos are some I took a while back. As I have been travelling a lot over the last few years I became fascinated with movement. I started to take video and photos all over the world. These were taken mostly in NSW and Victoria Australia.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernsul/