Another week of inspiration found on pinterest.

Inspiration for the sustainability project I’m working on

A pop of color. I painted my old cupboard white and bright yellow (almost the same yellow as in this picture).

Spring is finally here

Hobbiton. I would love to visit this place.

Scandinavian folk art

Coloured chairs. Cool idea.

Petit penguin mug. How cute.

Arthur Tress make still life photos which are not as normal as most still life photos are. He doesn’t just arrange the objects in a nice way but makes them come to life as they were part of a play. During the making of his series ‘Fish Tank Sonata’ Arthur Tress was staying in a small cottage filled with collectibles and vintage items from the forties and fifties. These items fascinated Arthur and I wanted to make some still life photos with them. He wanted to use some sort of container as a setting for the items but he couldn’t find one. He went to some antique shops and eventually found a fish tank that belonges to the mother of the owner of one of the shops. This is how the series Fish Tank Sonata started. He published these photos in a book together with poems to accompany the images.

Besides ‘Fish Tank Sonata’ Arthur Tress has some other interesting still life projects like ‘Tea Pot Opera’ and ‘Hospital Constructions’. Have a look on his website.

Fish Tank Sonata:

Tea Pot Opera:

Hospital Constructions:

Last week I focussed more on finding artistic inspiration on pinterest

Water color painting by oladesign

Aerial shots by Totaviva

Long Exposure Tree Photography by Pierre Pellegrini

Lemur by Yago Partal for Zoo portraits

Spring by Hilde Groven

Andy Prokh made wonderful portraits of his daughter Catherine and their British shorthaired cat, Lilu.

Smeared Sky Photography by Matt Molloy

In this new category I want to tell about things that fascinate me in life. This could be anything, from fascinating books to random things I notice while I’m taking a walk outside.

All my life I have lived near the dunes which I often visit. I think that started my interest in nature and biology. Sometimes I wonder whether I should have studied Biology instead of Photography. Not that I don’t like photography but sometimes I wish I knew a bit more about different sorts of plants, trees and animals. During biology lessons in high school I always was fascinated by the drawings of plants and their anatomy. Plants and flowers are a bit of art themselves. So many things happen in such a small thing. In my photography I also often use nature because the diversity keeps interesting me. When I was working on the iaminspired project I started to look for old drawings of plants because I wanted to use them in the publication of the series. These drawings started to fascinate me because they gave a realistic but still artistic insight into a plant. Last week I went to the second-hand store and found a book (‘Wat bloeit daar?’) from the 30’s about plants which included lots of drawings. In some way vintage botanical drawings interest me more than recent ones. I don’t really know why, maybe it’s the yellowed paper that fascinates me, maybe the faded colors.. Lately I saw a wonderful old book in the archives of a library which included lots of wonderful full colour prints that were glued in because at that time it was to expensive to print all the pages in colour itself. I hope one day I’ll find such a book in a second-hand store. Until then I have to do look for botanical images in my ‘wat bloeit daar’ book or on pinterest…

Spring is here and Easter will follow next week. Hopefully the easterbunny will bring some good weather because I’m getting tired of the cold, rain and snow..
Outside the flowers are still hiding in the cold ground so I looked on pinterest to get in to the spring mood:

In this category on my blog I want to show some products and brands I really like. This time, I want to show you something of Ferm Living. Simple and geometric shapes is what I really like of Ferm Living, and I am also quite fond of their way of combining bright colours with natural colours, like grey and brown. They also make stuff for kids which is more playful than their regular items, but still has their characteristic colours and simplicity.