Join the discussion! For rules visit: https://kymkemp.com/commenting-rules

Comments system how-to: https://wpdiscuz.com/community/postid/10599/

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

5 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Monica
Guest
15 years ago

Beautiful, Kym! I’ve been thinking of adding a Butterfly Bush blossom to my Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly tattoo on my right arm… so it looks like it’s sitting on the flower. This is a perfect photo to use. 🙂
~Monica~

Sandi
Guest
15 years ago

I love that shade of purple. Great capture.

Staff
Member
15 years ago

Hey Monica I want a credit. Tattoo in Redheaded Blackbelt below the pic. 8)

Thanks Sandi!

bluelaker4
Guest
bluelaker4
15 years ago

I hope Monica has a very long arm.

Olm
Guest
Olm
15 years ago

Figured this post might be the best spot to place this bit, though posting it was inspired by the complimentary comments in the condor thread regarding Kym’s wonderful nature photos.

Leaves Speak; a Journalist Listens
By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
New York Times
Published: July 20, 2008

AS a journalist and critic Janet Malcolm wields prose with the precision of a scalpel, creating studies unflinching in their directness and layered with meaning and metaphor.

But lately Ms. Malcolm has banished traditional vocabulary to produce a different kind of portraiture. Mature, callow, tattered or freshly unfurled, her subjects stare forth from the page, exactly the same yet endlessly varied. Viewed on their own, they might be thought merely beautiful or occasionally odd. But as a group, they reveal a cross-section of diversity, their stories as complex as those of any human upon which Ms. Malcolm has cast her eye.

“Burdock,” a book with 28 photographs and a two-page essay by Ms. Malcolm, is to be released on Aug. 11 by Yale University Press. It can be read in a number of ways. As the next step in an unassuming photographic career. As an ode to the botanical illustrators in whose work Ms. Malcolm finds inspiration. As an essay on nature, and on the self. As a love story.
etc…..