Lake Okareka photographs to view by Janet Keen Rotorua based Fine Art Photographer, Writer and Artist

Beginner Photography lessons Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday mornings 9am to 12noon.

Please email janet@jkeen.net  for details.

Phone or text  0273513887 to book your special place. 

Tanka and Haiku to Celebrate special moments in time at lake Okareka, Rotorua , New Zealand.

autumn afternoon

 lake during lockdown

still the rustle of toitoi

 

 

                                                                                     

even though

it is lockdown at the lake

fish still rise at dusk

is

all walks

around lakes

covered in people

 

autumn afternoon

chilled  wind dropped

soon it will be dark

how unusual

no sound of  outdoor motors

slight breeze

amongst the kanuka

carries the kingfisher cry

 

 

manuka tree repellent

sandflies still bite

truncates the bush picnic

 

 

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Feel free to comment on the ones you like the best.

 

 

 

Creative Quote of the day

 overgrown woods

stillness of  lonely shore

company where none intrudes

soothing lap of waves

 not completely shy of others

  just loving nature far more

 

 

 

 Local photography tours, I can show you some of the best locations locally for fantastic photos. 

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Eat, Pray, Love...Find yourself some heroe's...

In yesterdays blog post I said I thought it was important to have heroes...

As an artist I have my favourite sculptors, visual artists and mosaicists.

As a writer I have my favourite New Zealand and international writers and poets.

As a photographer I have my favourites as well.

Do you have your heroes? Who are they? I'd like to know.

I am going to write little features on various favourites or hero's of mine and include some clips as well...

I looked up the definition of hero worship on the net and it contained some surprisingly positive statements about the human need to have someone to look up to.

If you identify with these people it can boost your own performance and help you believe in the power of possibility.

When I was at art school fourteen years ago I wrote a mini thesis about Taranaki assemblage artist Dale Copeland. I interviewed her for quotes  and received an A grade for my efforts.

I am still in contact with Dale these days via email, have been featured on her website and I have  met her  in person when she came to Rotorua a number of years ago.

She is one of life's angels.

When I decided to start a mosaic making business seven years ago I contacted Sonia King, one of America's most famous mosaic artists, after buying her book.

I asked her via the email if she ever ran  mosaic courses in New Zealand. Miraculously, she had a father who lived on the North Shore of Auckland.

The next year she ran a course, which I attended and she signed my book.

The things I learned from her and other heroes accelerated my success allowed me to pass knowledge onto others. 

Today for my creativity fix I went to a French/ Russian art house movie called The Concert. 

The music and cinematography made me want to find out about making a small film and to practise more on my classical guitar,

Creativity Quote of the day:

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker