Comments on: Pepe in Pearls

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:41:05 +0000

I love how the shadow of the penguin looks so real and the contrast of it to the orange penguin. Awesome!

By: louise

louise — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:49:42 +0000

Pepe looks pretty gorgeous in his pearls.

By: Cole

Cole — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:02:31 +0000

Pepe not the only one thinking about spring. Like the juxtaposition of the orange penguin and white pearls.

By: Cassy

Cassy — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:50:04 +0000

@Beth

“These birds are the pearls of the antarctic, the one decoration amid the frozen windswept cold.”

Not in a million years I would’ve written something like that.
My thoughts were like ‘an orange penguin in font of a pile of snow’.

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By: James

James — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:06:39 +0000

Shadows were intentional. Glad you enjoyed…

By: # 1 fan

# 1 fan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:40:37 +0000

Wow, Beth, you’re quite the story weaver with the whole thing about the pearls and circles and so on. Really interesting! When my younger kids were little, we used to make up as many different meanings and possible applications for different things as we could, and it was often quite creative. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed it.
I just noticed the shadows, both of the penguin and behind, looking like s/he was emerging from a snow cave. I like James’s use of shadows, intentional or – not? And a Target parking lot…. I thot it was the back of the cul de sac!!

By: James

James — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:17:58 +0000

Beautiful, sunny Boston, Massachusetts. Well, just north of Boston… a pile of snow in a Target retail shopping center parking lot, pushed into a big pile by the snow plows.

By: Anne Moss

Anne Moss — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:13:45 +0000

Poor penguin… Where was the picture taken? I’m from Israel, so not familiar with snowy setups
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By: Beth Charette

Beth Charette — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:45:08 +0000

This thing that I like most about this photographer’s work is the obvious patience with which the subjects have been chosen.

The simple pearls over the penguin, for example, is understated, and lends itself to a myriad of meanings.

These birds are the pearls of the antarctic, the one decoration amid the frozen windswept cold.

Their huddling together in large circles to protect the young, and the switching of the members on the outer portion of the ring occasionally, demonstrates both their intelligence and the sharing of hardship that is essential to life on the ice plains.

The circle then becomes the penguins’ symbol of survival, well represented by the pearls in this photograph.

Beth

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