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Pencil Vs Camera - 63

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:36:51 -0800

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King of the place, here is the mighty lion.

Some innovations in the series: drawing with colors and black paper... This is somehow the "Beta Version" of "Pencil Vs Camera". Many more works coming soon. I left the drawing unfinished on purpose (I wanted to attract the attention on the lion's face mainly). You can view some details and the sketch in progress here below. I took this picture in Tunisia and I also made the drawing.

Update: See THIS VIDEO showing some 18 Pencil Vs Camera images in progress (with a small animation and an original musical composition).
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I Have a Super Power

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:27:41 -0700

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This is a long exposure shot. It's a real photo (it looks slightly better on black). This picture is the result of an improvised collaboration with my long time friend Stoff (make sure to check out his page, there are some amazing creations to view).

I took this photo by night at the seaside in Hastings a few days ago, while I was travelling to the UK for an exhibition in London (Battersea Affordable Art Fair). I lived in Hastings from 2002 to 2003, it was so nice to be there again!

Stoff makes incredible "orbs" by playing with home made light sources. Luckily, Caroline Madison was there with us... during the long exposure photo, I first "flashed" her, while Stoff was making the magic orb in the middle of the composition.

If you wish, you can view here below a detail of the above photo and some other long exposure shots.

This photo is dedicated to my friend Marcel De Munnynck, who passed away a few days ago.
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Moving Shine Fire

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

Moving shine fire
On to and into
Hearts own desire
Feelings so true

Everything inside
Rousing and glowing
Feelings that hide
Now in their showing

Star twinkle in light
Fondling burn
Dreams on so bright
Rotating ageless turn

Super powers beyond
Times spinning twist
From a glowing wand
Magic has kissed

Poignant spark
Orderly glow beams
Bending the dark
To instantaneous themes

Just like life is
In growing and making
When its bliss
Entangles new waking

Life is a Spiral

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:47:03 -0700

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Spirals have no end. Our galaxy is a spiral. Love is a spiral.

Long exposure shot while I was walking by night towards
Santiago de Compostela... It was the last day before we
reached the magic city. I'll never forget that moment.

More photos soon. Have a great week! :D

The above pic has been shot with the Samsung NX11,
provided by Samsung Electronics. Co., Ltd.
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Life is a Spiral

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

We are together
Everywhere it takes us
Getting better and better
As we come across
Life is never easy
In its way and go
Sometimes too much breezy
On its day and show

We are here for life
Trying our heart out
How much is there to strife
As we go here about
Dreams are on their wings
Flowing thru the air
As the wind in leaves sings
Through these days everywhere

Life is a spiral
Through the lights of turning
Keeping the essence adaptable
Forever on its roads burning

You and I to find
All our errors and trials
Leaving closed doors behind
In their blocked up denials
Every road is a spiral
Catching a day unknown
What we dream is achievable
Waiting for us at the horizon

We are together
Everywhere it takes us
Getting better and better
As we come across
Life is never easy
In its way and go
Sometimes too much breezy
On its day and show

Pencil Vs Camera - 52

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:08:12 -0700

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(Made for Diesel's official Facebook page)

Freedom is not far. I intended to represent a girl walking above clouds
from one pyramid's top to another. This is a picture I took from a plane
a few weeks ago when I traveled to Italy. I also made the quick sketch.

This drawing is, in some way, related to that other one.

(Detail of this image and some other Pencil Vs Camera works here below)

The above photo has been shot with the Samsung NX10, provided by
Samsung Electronics. Co., Ltd.

>>> Review from THE DAILY MAIL for this picture: "Balancing act:
A tight rope performer walks among the clouds in this moonlit fantasy"
(Kerry McQueeney, The Daily Mail, Sept. 2011)

Update: See THIS VIDEO showing some 18 Pencil Vs Camera
images in progress (small animation and original music).
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Freedom Is Not Far

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

Traveling to a strange star
Is in our hope and dream
Its freedom is not too far
In the space river stream

Clouds of hope there drifting by
Like white pyramids tops
Castles in the far-off sky
Never images stops

Walking on to the near moon
Our beginning steps where
But we will though be going soon
To stars everywhere

Flying across the space dim sea
To in between dark place
There is trance for you and me
The make-believe ways

Walking and holding balance
Is very hard to do
But if you have acquaintance
With dreams it's up to you

Clouds in our times travel
All's within our own stair
New thoughts in times marvel
Are soon all coming here

Brussels By Night

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:30:15 -0800

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A picture I took in Brussels (Belgium), a few days ago. It is
a long exposure shot and I've repainted some parts of it...

The cars were really close to me and going fast! Lots of fun!
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Contemplation in the Light

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

Contemplation in the light
Those need somewhere to go
Into the circling of the night
With some of its dowering glow
Taking the departing by hours
That's been waiting and ready
In the pouring out showers
Of the falling drops so steady

In the look of the city light
At the evening passing gone
Before labyrinth of the night
Shall vanished and be done
From the lanes and city routs
With every sideway in its line
When the shadows here intrudes
With the day and falling sunshine

Reverie in dark shade
Every fulsome turning point
That in stepwise turning grade
Comes to border the dimly joint
Where the hour falls to sleep
In the pondering of a dream
And doorways of reality sweep
Through its gloomy nightly beam

Fira By Night

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:10:55 -0800

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A picture I took in Fira (Santorini, Greece), last summer. It is a long exposure shot and I've repainted some parts of it.

Fira is the modern capital of the Greek Aegean island, Santorini. It is a traditional settlement.

The view from Fira is magnificent, with a unique panorama showing the 18 km long caldera from southern Cape Akrotiri to northern Cape Ag. Nikolaos, plus the volcanic island Nea Kameni at the center with Thirassia Island in the distant west on blue Aegean water.

Fira is a town of white-washed houses built on the edge of the 400 m high caldera on the western edge of the semi-circular island of Thera. The two main museums of interest are the Santorini Archeological Museum, 30 m east of the cable car entrance, and the Museum of Prehistoric Thera at the southeast corner of the White Orthodox Cathedral (with the Greek name meaning Metamorphosis), built on the site of the Ypapanti Church, destroyed in the 1956 earthquake.

Access to Fira is mainly by roads on its eastern side, climbing from its port via the Z-shaped footpath on foot or on donkeys, or by riding the steep cable car from its lower terminal by the port.
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Candles of The Past

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

Candles of the past
In shadows corner cast
Like paintings on a wall
Or tinting blanching fall
Precious moments going
Special people knowing
Of lives so many ways
In vanished yesterdays

Somewhere in my heart
Where memories start
I have again found
Incidents once around
All the music ways
In the magic of the days
Candle lights I’ve crossed
Those now today are lost

Brothers Live the Same Life

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:23:34 -0800

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A photo I took in Braives (Belgium) during Christmas Eve.

We hadn't seen so much snow in Belgium since decades.

(I used 6 photos from my own stock to make this pic...)
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Turn Back To My Dream

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

Turn back to my dream
From your realities of sparkless night
Where its veracity always seem
Lost in its shadowed flight

Everything is out to play
Given if it's of child's fairytales
Coming through dark woods in its ray
Holy like the holiest of grails

A dream to take notice of and believe
When everything is downhill going
It shall take away your grieve
Around its sun and moon haloing

Bring every light through afar
Dance on the waves
Of the Milky Ways circular motion
Give you a wish from its falling star
Anything man craves
From the depth of the deepest ocean

New Year, New Hopes

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:28:47 -0800

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A photo I took in Braives (Belgium) a few days ago at the end of the afternoon.
Happy New Year. Don't forget to dream a lot, it's the most important in life.
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Planet Earth

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:03:51 -0700

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This is a photo I took from a plane a few weeks ago (we were flying over Switzerland at 10 km above the ground!). I've repainted several parts of it. Many thanks in advance for your constructive feedback.

More facts: The mountains look rather small because we were very high, but they are huge, many of them exceed 4,000 m with the highest, Monte Rosa, reaching to 4,638 metres (15,217 ft), and there are also numerous glaciers including several of the largest in the Alps, such as the Aletsch Glacier, declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001 with a length of about 24 km and covering more than 120 square kilometres!)

(The above photo has been shot with the Samsung NX10)
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Never Let Your Dream Go By

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

Never let your dreams go by,
Never let your dream die;
Nothing here goes on forever,
Like, 'I love you always so'.
You should always feel and know,
But our ways are sometimes blind;
Every thought that lives and flows,
Like the time that grows and goes.
Opened doors are left behind,
Just as time passes down and flies;
Everything in life here dies,
But every soul goes together.

There are laughter’s in the air,
There are cries everywhere;
We have time so we can try,
Never let our dream go by.
Never lose what you have found,
Take your dream to a solid ground;
Reach a mountain reach the sky,
Reach the top before you die.

Never let your dreams go by,
Have a time and have a try;
Opened doors are left behind,
On the mountains you shall find,
Those open doors go everywhere.

Pencil Vs Camera - 30

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:50:27 -0700

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I took this photo near Hannut in Belgium. I also made the rough sketch. I only drew things that came to my mind when I started this project... Sort of an improvisation. The letters placed randomly form the word "PENCIL". There is "Dust" written on the flag, because photographers always complain about dust in their lense and because earth is made of stardust... Superman is trying to get out of the camera, searching for new ideas, while a smurf is having fun on a horse...

The person on the left is Sebastian, a good friend of mine. Thanks for your visit. Please, see the whole "Pencil Vs Camera" album. The above photo has been shot with the Samsung NX10.

>>> Review from THE DAILY MAIL for this picture: "The camera never lies... or does it? The photographer's eye is met with this fantastical scene" (Kerry McQueeney, The Daily Mail, Sept. 2011)

Update: See THIS VIDEO showing some 18 Pencil Vs Camera images in progress (with a small animation and an original musical composition)
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Sunshine Flower

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

Day is coming clear as light
With its wings of inside fire
Like the morning onward bright
In its accomplishing desire
Hours drop in together close
With runs and roams of drift
Creation beautiful as the rose
In the mind to go and uplift

Summer sunshine flower
Where little dreams go by
Through the endless hour
From the deep and blue sky

Tranquil wingspan ways
Motions on a weaving stream
Flickering mirror plays
With light that timeless seem

Every look in dissolved freedom
Catching moment of dark way
Giving silhouette ad-infinitum
When its fire lights the day
Echo’s flutter in distance yield
Every growth in roots clear
Open heart in artistic field
Now the marvels have opened here

Summer morning shower
Through the day to night
Bringing soothing dower
For the new day and light

Silence flowing yellow glow
For just the two of us
In its timeless motion slow
Of light that comes across

That is ageless on wonder asking
Rising above the earth’s hill
Every instants of creation tasking
That you dream must now fulfill
Thru the seconds of their beat
Going higher then all before
On like smoke to realities treat
And opening up again a new door

Pencil Vs Camera - 23

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:13:02 -0700

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This is dedicated to a little girl named SHAN.

She is different, special, unique. She will always see the world
with the eyes of a little girl, searching for her little prince.

See THIS VIDEO showing 18 Pencil Vs Camera images in
progress (with a small animation and some original music).
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A Poem for Shan

A poem by Katie Gabrielle

Touch a moonbeam
With your smiles
Race you
Across a
Million miles
Trace your giggles
One by one
Playing spaceman
Sure is fun!

Another Cloudy Day

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:14:12 -0800

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That was taken while I was travelling to the moon! ^^ I simply took this photo in a plane flying above Lisbon, Portugal and spent some time to edit it and clean everything. I repainted several parts such as the outer space, the horizon and the clouds...
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Star System

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:02:36 -0800

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Newton's Apple Tree

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:55:41 -0700

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I took this photo in Braives, Belgium. I edited the
picture to get new and original visual effects.
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So Many Stars Out There

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

So many stars out there
To shine on to your heart
Giving a glow somewhere
To make you not feel apart

Something of a dream along
Finding its own way
On to your love and song
When there's light of day

Eternally on its turn
With their twinkling bright
Falling and some burn
On to the bottomless night

You and I in love
With every touch there is
Just like the stars above
In their eternal bliss
Loving so truly now
Within the glistening sow

Feeling that came across
Making their happy on
Never at any darkish loss
Until they were gone

Times cannot stand still
They always have to go
For every dream fulfill
In their ongoing glow

You and I in love
With every touch there is
Just like the stars above
In their eternal bliss
Loving so truly now
Within the glistening sow

So many stars out there
Each there shining for you
So many stars out there
Always for me and you
Always for me and you

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The poem appeared on www.poemhunter.com/peter-s-quinn

Mr Peace

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:25:04 -0700

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All The World Is Looking

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

All the world is looking,
For some peace;
In beauty of nature,
To harmonize and please.
And in the lights,
Of things you see;
You shall be rewarded,
With the greenest tree.

For nature is like perfect art,
It bewitches your eyes with beauty.

All the world is looking,
For kindness of thought;
Every step forward,
Mankind themselves brought.
And if it's destructive,
They brought it self in;
All foolishness of any kind,
Seldom shall win.

For nature is one in every part,
And man soon pays for all his sin.

As I grow older,
I dwell on and see;
The beauty of nature,
In each every tree.
And colors of summer,
In blooms that glows;
And rivers with waters,
That freely flows.

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The poem appeared on www.poemhunter.com/peter-s-quinn

CocoRosie

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:41:44 -0700

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This is a pencil drawing on A3 paper.

CocoRosie is an American duo based in France and formed by sisters Bianca Leilani "Coco" and Sierra Rose "Rosie" Casady. Sierra mainly plays the guitar, piano and harp, and contributes vocals. Bianca sings and manipulates various children's toys/electronic & percussion instruments as well as other exotic noisemakers. CocoRosie performed strictly as a duo early on but in recent years they have appeared with various backing musicians at live shows, usually a bassist, synth player and beatboxer. They have been a very active touring group, playing a seemingly endless stream of dates across Europe and making several trips across the US and all points beyond.
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Michael Jackson, I N V I N C I B L E

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:31:28 -0700

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Michael had an incredible talent, force and energy.
He was unique and incincible, he was the King of Pop.

Please, don't miss my other MJ portraits:

- M J - Eternal Hurt Child: www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/3728685685

- M J - Heal the world: www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/3677029800

- M J - Text Portrait: www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/3668777383
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We Had Him

By Maya Angelou (*)

Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing, now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind.

Without notice, our dear love can escape our doting embrace. Sing our songs among the stars and walk our dances across the face of the moon.

In the instant that Michael is gone, we know nothing. No clocks can tell time. No oceans can rush our tides with the abrupt absence of our treasure.

Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone.

Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him.

He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance.

Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that.

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

We had him, beautiful, delighting our eyes.

His hat, aslant over his brow, and took a pose on his toes for all of us.

And we laughed and stomped our feet for him.

We were enchanted with his passion because he held nothing. He gave us all he had been given.

Today in Tokyo, beneath the Eiffel Tower, in Ghana's Black Star Square.

In Johannesburg and Pittsburgh, in Birmingham, Alabama, and Birmingham, England

We are missing Michael.

But we do know we had him, and we are the world.

(*) Dr. Maya Angelou is an American poet born in 1928. She is known as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. As a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, she continues to travel the world, spreading her wisdom. Within the rhythm of her poetry and elegance of her prose lies Angelou's power to help readers of every orientation span the lines of race.

The above poem was written by Maya Angelou for Michael Jackson's public memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It was read by Queen Latifah, one of the many celebrities that paid tribute to the King of Pop.

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Carrying Your Heart With Me

nobody@flickr.com (Ben Heine) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:30:26 -0700

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Life is so easier and smoother together... This is one of my traditional
illustrations on the love theme, mainly pointillism with black ink and
red watercolor. It is dedicated to my sweet Marta.
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I Carry Your Heart With Me

A poem by e.e. cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

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