#110
09.04.10
The Bleeding Heart Show -
The New Pornographers
Lamprocapnos spectabilis, a.k.a. Bleeding Hearts, are my favorite plant / flower. I've been collecting photographs of them for a few years, and more so this year using all of my cameras, including the iPhone camera, in hopes of making a blog entry to honor them.
The urge became all-the-stronger when I started getting in to yet another amazing, amazing Canadian collective band - The New Pornographers (TNP). I've enjoyed some of their music for years over internet radio; but this Spring on my desert drive from Phoenix to Hollywood I heard a song from them that made my brain explode. {If you've read any of my recent posts, you'll quickly realize that having my "brain explode" can only be considered a good thing.} So after hearing that song (I'll feature it on an upcoming entry), I started collecting their albums and was thrilled when I first heard this song The Bleeding Heart Show. After many listens, it is the standout track from what I consider TNP's standout album Twin Cinema. My favorite TNP songs usually include or feature Neko Case on vocals, which is the case here. Neko has a strong solo career going in her own right, and likely out-sells the NPs.
So please enjoy these photographs and this amazing song. I am putting up a bunch of photos, in hopes that you might stay through the entire song, and maybe even let it play through several times consecutively. It starts relatively slowly, and then picks up the pace in the midsection, and then finally lifts you off the ground, hurtling you into a mesmerizing coda at the end.
The perfect song for my perfect plant.
This next photo shows T holding some bleeding hearts at the Alaska Botanical Gardens in 2004; the first time I had ever seen them. {Image taken on my trusty old Nikon 8800, not with the iPhone camera.}
These last photos were taken in June, 2010 with my Canon Xsi. The close-up is one of my favorite photos ever. I used it as a model for a drawing I did on a sympathy card for T after her mother died. I would have featured it at the top of this blog if I had shot it on the iPhone. As much fun as it is to shoot with the iPhone camera, there are times you simply must have higher resolution images, right?
CCE
This next photo shows T holding some bleeding hearts at the Alaska Botanical Gardens in 2004; the first time I had ever seen them. {Image taken on my trusty old Nikon 8800, not with the iPhone camera.}
These last photos were taken in June, 2010 with my Canon Xsi. The close-up is one of my favorite photos ever. I used it as a model for a drawing I did on a sympathy card for T after her mother died. I would have featured it at the top of this blog if I had shot it on the iPhone. As much fun as it is to shoot with the iPhone camera, there are times you simply must have higher resolution images, right?
CCE
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