LAST WEEK’S FABULOUS BLOGGERS
Last week for PPAC #46, I had fun responses from all of you. Thank you to all the bloggers who participated this week. Please honor them with your visits this week.
- AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES
- CEE’S PHOTO CHALLENGES
- GERIATRI’X’ FOTOGALLERY
- JUNKBOAT TRAVELS
- MAMA CORMIER
- NATALIE THE EXPLORER
- NOW AT HOME
- OFF TOPIC
- PHILOSOPHY THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY
- PHOTOGRAPHIAS
- PICTURES IMPERFECT
- TRAVELS WITH ALI
- TRAVEL WITH ME
- WIDE-EYED WONDERINGS
- WOOLLY MUSES
IT’S EASY TO PLAY ALONG WITH #PPAC
- There is no weekly theme even though my post has a theme with murals, statues, fountains, scrap art, graffiti, store windows, seasonal displays, car or art shows, artistic construction, or even artistic neighborhood decor. Photograph the public art that is available to you.
- Art should be freely visible from a public street, freeway, or walkway or inside a publicly accessed building like a library. If you pay, it’s not public.
- Photographers should have free access of use for their photos – no copyrights by the artists.
- The challenge starts every Friday at 9:00 a.m. Phoenix Time and it ends on Thursday at noon.
- Write a post on your blog, publish it, and include a link back to my weekly post not my page preferably in a comment. Sometimes pingbacks are missed. See how to create pingbacks here.
- Take time to visit other PPAC participants throughout the week. I recommend visiting at least two or three other participants in the community and leaving them a comment.
- Have fun! Art is to be enjoyed!
For More Ideas about PPAC…
These early-bird participants might give you some great ideas about something you’ve never thought about as public art or how to photograph it.
- YOUR BLOG POST GOES HERE
- BRASHLEY PHOTOGRAPHY
- EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES
- GERIATRI’X’ FOTOGALLERY
- JUNKBOAT TRAVELS
- MAMA CORMIER
- MY CAMERA & I
- NATALIE THE EXPLORER
- NOW AT HOME
- PHILOSOPHY THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY
- PHOTOGRAPHIAS
- PICTURES IMPERFECT
- SECOND WIND LEISURE (Sunday Stills)
- WIDE EYED WONDERINGS
- WOOLLY MUSES
My Choices for PPAC #47 Hot Art in Palm Desert
If you want a playground for finding public art to photograph, Palm Desert is the place to go. (but maybe not in May). As the temperature soared toward 105 F/40.56 C, my friend Carolyn drove me down palm-lined Paseo Drive.
“It’s like Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.”
That meant little to me, but I gather it meant swanky stores on a palm-lined boulevard. The center divider had trees and public art every few feet. Unfortunately, I had a very hard time snapping pictures as we drove because we had to move with traffic and the center divider was on the driver’s side of the car.
Since it was over 100 degrees and parking was limited, I declined her generous offer to park and walk along and take pictures. Time to go back another day.
I wanted to pull off at this park, though. These are terrible pictures of some interesting artwork, including a nudist statue sunning itself on the hot cement.
At one point we stopped to go into a couple of second-hand stores, this mural sprang up out of the middle of nowhere.
Our resort also had little pieces of art scatted throughout the complex. To be honest we were more interested in the birds, which were real than the rabbit someone pulled out of his hat
Other Challenges that Inspired PPAC this week.
Ongoing on Always Write
- May Story Chat: “As Far As a Former Prisoner Can Go” by Charli Mills – Where your comments become links in the Story Chat Summary post.
- NEW and SO COOL Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge – rewrite May Story Chat in 99 words – no more – no less! Read the Story Chat comments for possible holes in the original story to inspire your challenge story. This was Charli’s cool idea after reading your comments.
- WQW #18– “Transportation: Trains, Planes, and Working Machines.” The only rule is to have at least one quote in your post about the topic. Remember a song can be a quote, too. Then just post either a story, poem or pictures that tie into and respond to your quote or quotes.
Now it’s your turn.
What’s your PPAC theme this week? Are you into statues or sculptures (and what’s the difference anyway?) Did you find some cool murals? Did you go on a trip or a walk around your hometown and grab a bunch of different kinds of public art? I can’t wait to see it.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
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