Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie: Recently Added Galleries and Collections

Souls #2

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."

~Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)

Montsalvat

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."

~Honoré de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne", La Maison Nucingen, 1838

The rich and vibrant, historic artist's colony Montsalvat, located in Melbourne's leafy northern suburb of Eltham.

Sunday

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally."

~Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)

Souls #1

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time."

~Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Cloud, Sky, Tree

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

~Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Stay Awhile

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"When fully focused upon your desire, you feel wonderful. And when focused upon the absence of something you truly want, you feel awful. Your emotions always let you know what you are doing with your vibration and what your point of attraction is; and so, by paying attention to your emotions and by deliberately offering thoughts that affect the way you feel, you can consciously guide yourself into the vibrational frequency that will allow the fulfillment of any desire you hold."

~ Jerry & Esther

It's the simple things...

The Magic Window

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic."

~Hans Hofmann (1880 – 1966)

The Heide Museum of Modern Art in the Melbourne suburb of Bulleen.

Knowing

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"The more that you act on your intuition fearlessly, the more your intuition will serve you. Intuition is the ear of the soul."

~Neale Donald Walsch

Re-worked images from an original photo shoot done in May 2008 - Mt Macedon. This gorgeous 1950's Boston-style house replica was actually a prop used in the filming of Nicolas Cage's movie, 'Knowing'. The inside was all scaffolding, but the exterior was amazingly realistic.

Carnival | Equestrian

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Equestrian images extracted from the original 'Carnival' series. The Royal Melbourne Show.

Carnival

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is."

~Ron Olson

The Royal Melbourne Show. Victoria, Australia. Featuring the wonderful wave swinger ride. Please see the Equine Art Galleries for further equine related images.

Polo Practice (v2) - reworked

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"Courage, wisdom born of insight and humility, empathy born of compassion and love, all can be bequeathed by a horse to his rider."

~Charles de Kunffy

A rework of the original 'Polo Practice' series. This was not a proper photo shoot - it was just some quick shots that I took while a few players were on the field practicing. It was more about experimentation with textures and colours to try and get the vintage look I was after. The second time around, I did! The wonderful, heavy 'cracked paint' textures I've used in this rework originate from a photo shoot I did in May 2008. The Nicolas Cage movie 'Knowing' was being partly shot in Mt Macedon just to the north of Melbourne, and I was fortunate enough to be able to take some photographs of the exterior of the house prop (see the separate Knowing Art Gallery). The structure was so incredibly realistic in its construction, I decided to take a series of close ups for textures. I knew they'd come in handy sooner or later. I so love the wonderfully vintage feel that they bring to the images.

Polo practice. Werribee Park National Equestrian Centre (WPNEC). Werribee, Victoria, Australia.

Polo Practice

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions."

~Stephen Leacock (1869–1944)

Polo practice. Werribee Park National Equestrian Centre (WPNEC). Werribee, Victoria, Australia.

Judgment Day

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory."

~Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1908–1987)

Dressage. Werribee Park National Equestrian Centre (WPNEC). Werribee, Victoria, Australia.

Still Waters

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears."

~Rumi (1207-1273)

The wide and winding Werribee River - to the west of Melbourne.

Tall Ships

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

~Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Tall Ships Sail Parade. Australia Day. Port Phillip Bay. Photographs taken from one of the piers in Williamstown, with the Melbourne city skyline as the backdrop. Alma Doepel, Young Endeavour, Enterprize, and Windeward Bound. The graceful old Alma Doepel (front ship #2) is an original, built in 1903. The other three ships are all replicas. Windeward Bound is the pride of Tasmania.

Lace

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning."

~Lydia M. Child (1802-1880)

Shack

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"Your roof is bewhiskered, your floor is a-slant, Your walls seem to sag and to swing; I'm trying to find just your faults, but I can't -- You poor, tired, heart-broken old thing! I've seen when you've been the best friend that I had, Your light like a gem on the snow; You're sort of a part of me -- Gee! but I'm sad; I hate, little cabin, to go."

~excerpt from 'Good-Bye, Little Cabin', Robert William Service (1874-1958)

I was fortunate enough to have stumbled across this decaying old shack, tucked away in a gully in the Kangaroo Grounds/Christmas Hills area on the outskirts of Melbourne. I must have driven past it a hundred times or more before one day suddenly realising it was even there. It was wonderfully eerie. I could almost feel the presence of those who'd once called this place home. I'd so love to have known their story.

'Shack #10' was short-listed and exhibited as part of the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery's prestigious 2010 Outback Open Art Prize. I was delighted to learn that one of the event sponsors was Raylee Hart, widow of the late Pro Hart.

The Ancients (Tribute to Mark)

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten."

~Eckhart Tolle
'The Power of Now:
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment'

For my beloved brother, Mark. I will love you for eternity.

Mark Andrew Edgar
2 March 1969 - 8 December 2009

Now my guiding light in Heaven.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
That are no more, and shall no more return.
Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Bellarine

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred…unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

The beautiful Bellarine Peninsula. Victoria, Australia.

Gulf Station

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Better than treasures brought from Rome
Are the living pictures I see at home -
My aged father, with frosted hair,
And mother's face like a painting rare
Far from the city's dust and heat,
I get but sounds and odours sweet.
Who can wonder I love to stay,
Week after week, here hidden away,
In this sly nook that I love the best -
The little brown house, like a ground-bird's nest?

~excerpt from the poem 'My Home'
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

The historic farming property, Gulf Station, just a short drive to the north of Yarra Glen in the beautiful Yarra Valley (Victoria, Australia). This homestead has such a wonderful energy about it. I always get the warmest, strangest, fuzziest feelings whenever I visit. I so love this old place. Gulf Station is in the care of the National Trusts of Australia.

The Vicarage - 2012 Calendars

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

~Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

The historic Holy Trinity Vicarage, Williamstown, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Circa 1886. High quality, large format, wiro bound 2012 calendars available for purchase through Lulu & Redbubble.

For further information about this beautiful old building, and to view all of the images used in these calendars, please see the the separate Vicarage Art Gallery.

Profits from any sales of artworks will be donated to the upcoming renovation work of the vicarage.

The Vicarage

tracy@leanda.org (Tracy Edgar Fine Art Fotografie) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>"Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design."

~Eileen Elias Freeman

This beautiful, historically significant building (circa 1886), is the Holy Trinity Vicarage. It sits along side the bluestone Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Williamstown, a historic seaside suburb of Melbourne, Australia. From 1893-1910, the renowned English-born novelist and poet, Ada Cross, otherwise known by her maiden name, Ada Cambridge, and her husband, Rev George Frederick Cross called this vicarage home. More detail can be found on my Blog.

Photo shoot date: 5 August 2011

2012 'Vicarage' Calendars available for purchase on Lulu (US) & Redbubble (AUS). Please see the separate Vicarage - 2012 Calendar Gallery where the calendar designs & individual months can be viewed large. Archival quality fine art prints & canvases + cards may be purchased through either Fine Art America or Redbubble (see 'Buy' button above). I haven't yet added these images to these sites, but this can quickly be done if requested. Artworks will shortly be available for purchase directly from this site also.

Profits from any sales of artworks will be donated to the upcoming renovation work of the vicarage.