Visually interesting objects seen in my home

cat scratching filter

I see visual interest in objects that I observe in my home. I look for common everyday functional objects and present the visual interest that I see in this object, like this round cat scratching circle. I placed the scratching circle in a home window and took a photograph. I think that the window screen showing through the holes in the scratching circle is visually interesting. John Foster Dyess

Photographs of the shape of things

This is my photograph of “Cloud Gate”.
Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Sir Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture and AT&T Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. Wikipedia
I took this photograph when my wife and I visited my niece Debbie when she was living  in Chicago.

This seashell was purchased in a gift shop near a beach in North Carolina.

sunglasses

I like the shape of the shadow of sunglasses  in my photograph of “sunglasses and shadow”

Atom Bomb

This image is from EC’S ( Entertaining Comics Group) 1953 Two- Fisted Annual which is part of my collection of EC’s comic books. I also have in my collection a copy of Aces High , several issues of Frontline combat and one copy of Weird Fantasy. My copies  are well used. This story was illustrated by Wallace Wood.
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9,1945 respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,00 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
I was six years old.

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Counter Top photographs of everyday common objects in my home

blue colander photograph by John Foster Dyess

I enjoy taking photographs of every day common things ,found in my home.
I like the contrast of the horizontal shapes of the blinds and the oval and round shapes within the the blue colander.

see – be or become aware of something from observation or from a written or other visual source.
This is another photograph that I took of every day common objects that if seen in a new or different way can become visually interesting.  John Foster Dyess

Check out these websites to see more of my illustrations and photographs and the designs of my wife Carolyn and to purchase prints and other items:
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http://www.studiodyess.etsy.com
http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/studiodyess
http://www.fabri-cations.net

 

Kitchen Shapes

“Rebirth” a photograph by John Foster Dyess

I enjoy taking photographs of every day common things ,found in my home,  and by the way light is reflected and refracted on the object makes the object visually interesting.

Photographs of light and shadow seen and photographed in my home.

photograph of bathtub shapes

This photo of bathtub shapes is in my folder of  “things seen around my house”. I see  something ominous  in this photo. John Foster Dyess
More of my photographs, paintings and drawings can be seen in johndyessart.com

 

Dining room table with shadow photograph taken from above.

My photograph of our dining room table top with shadows.

see – be or become aware of something from observation or from a written or other visual source.
This is another photograph that I took of every day common objects that if seen in a new or different way can become visually interesting.
I adjusted the contrast of this photo to to emphasize the grain of the wood.
thanks for stopping  by to look at what I see around my house during the 2020 Covid 19 Pandemic. Comments are always welcome.
Stay well!
John Foster Dyess

 

Blurred photograph of a female model

blurred photograph of a woman’s head

I like the shapes and color in my  photograph of a woman’s head, which wasn’t intentional , but was a happy accident. What wasn’t an accident was my seeing the interesting shapes within this photograph. John Foster Dyess johndyessart.com

Window photographs- seeing inside and seeing outside

Christmas window

motel window

window blinds

Above are photographs that I have taken of windows – windows open to see the outside world and windows that are meant to keep people from looking into  our world.

Drawing of a wasp nest by John Foster Dyess

Wasp Nest drawing by John Foster Dyess

This black ink drawing is based on a photograph of an empty wasp nest that I found near my home. I placed the wasp nest into my collection of interesting objects, and last week I retrieved it from this collection of objects and created this drawing. Recently I have been creating drawings , paintings and taking photographs of  everyday objects
found in and near my home.
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