Escape ~ Technicolor Worlds Imagined

May 22, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

ONCE UPON a time in a world called Techniville there existed a place so bright with color that days became forever… They are places of Ally’s imagination… THE END Technicolor Worlds Imagined is part of my “Painting with Photography” series of collages. Imagined for this Week’s Photo Challenge: Escape. For more world’s of escape, visit our WordPress bloggers here.

Categories: Inspirations, Painting with Photography, Wonders • Tags: art, arts, Central Park, Escape, imagination gallery, Imagined Worlds, Inspirations, Nature, Painting with Photography, Photography, photography series, postaday, Technicolor, Weekly Photo Challenge, wonders

New York Photo Book

May 17, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

Reblogged from Flickr Comments: Of course I’m honored if some of my wordpress readers orders one of my blurb books. For example Allyson, who has a jewelry in New York, recently bought the New York photo book made by my wife Barbara (a professional photographer) and me: featuring our yesteryears expressions there – 1997, when the World Trade Center was standing high. 1 book review by Allyson Mellone, New York: Read more… 1,075 more words New York: In A Lyrical […]

Categories: Inspirations, Wonders • Tags: Allyson Mellone, Barbara Fritze, Blurb book, Book, Book review, Dietmar Fritze, frizztext, Lyrical, Manhattan, New York, Photo book, Photography, travel

Allyson Mellone made me spit out my morning coffee!

May 17, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

Reblogged from 1Life 196Countries: It’s always a pleasure to read what others write about your blog. There comes a point in time when your blog, becomes your baby. You nurture it with words and images, comments, shares and likes – and when someone else likes it, comments about it and shares it with their readership, you become a proud blogger-mother (of sorts). I can’t mother my kids anymore, they are grown and won’t let me, so I guess this is the alternative. […]

Categories: Inspirations, Wonders • Tags: 1Life196Countries, Allyson Mellone, Barbados, culture awareness, ethical travel, local tourism, poverty awareness, responsible travel, tours by locals, Vancouver

Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Pattern “Within Patterns”

May 14, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

When I think of the word pattern I think about abstract relationships that become apparent in a cacophony of planned or unplanned occurrences. In relation to space, I think of lines that clash, merge, are in parallel, or disappear within each other. Today as I walked from my studio on York Avenue south to 53rd Street I photographed these pattern of lines, what I call “pattern within patterns.” The photos were taken between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm as I […]

Categories: Inspirations, Wonders • Tags: Alice Aycock, architecture, East River Roundabout, inspiration, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaday, Queensboro Bridge, Streetscape, Upper East Side, Urbanscape, Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern, wonders

Weekly Photo Challenge ~ From Above “Looking At Keepsakes”

May 9, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

Moments memories, Memories whispers, Whispers echoes, Echoes echo … Sonata of one … Keepsake. Last year a few days before Mother’s Day I retrieved a vintage jewelry box from storage that once belonged to my mother. The jewelry box has a beautiful wood veneer leaf and flower design that wraps around the outside. Inside is a velvety blue lining that has discolored areas to mark and testify that the box once held pieces of jewelry. I used to stand on […]

Categories: Collections • Tags: jewelry artist, jewelry box, Jewelry Collection, Keepsake Collection, Memorabilia, Memories, Moments, Mother's Day, personal belongings, postaday, silver charms, Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above

Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Culture “From the Past”

April 29, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

*…shining light on culture from the past in the present. Culture from a former time provides us with knowledge to help us understand where we are today. A woman rests in the sculpture court outside the Watson Library in the Metropolitan Museum of Art while she looks at a map of the museum. Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery 534 – Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco http://metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/european-sculpture-and-decorative-arts/534

Categories: Inspirations, Wonders • Tags: arts, Christoforo Stati, Italian, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Orpheus, past, Philip II of Spain, Photography, Pompeo Leoni, postaday, Sculpture, Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture

Quietness En plein-air

April 24, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

7:00 – 8:00 am, Morning Walk, Central Park. “Quietness” is for me a solitary pursuit to refresh and rejuvenate my body and mind. I have been in the studio everyday, including weekends, for the last two weeks. With most of my orders completed and shipped I decided to take the next few days off. This morning I went for an early walk in the Ramble of Central Park where I could get some exercise and see Spring arriving in nature. […]

Categories: Wonders • Tags: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge: Walks Indoors or Outdoors, Central Park, emily dickinson, Flickr Comments, fun foto, Manhattan, Nature, New York City, outdoors, Photography, Q, Quietness, Ramble, solitary pursuit, Walking

Up “Then Down Step~by~Step”

April 22, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

Every week day morning I walk up stairs to reach my studio, and every evening I walk down to join the rest of NYC in the rush hour ritual of commuting. ….. Each step up in the morning is a thought of what awaits me when I reach my studio. Each step down in the evening is a reiteration of the tasks I need to do before heading home. ….. My studio stairs represent a map of activity as I […]

Categories: Inspirations, Studio, Wonders • Tags: architecture, Cee's Fun Photo Challenge: Stairs or Steps, Cherokee Apartments, Henry Atterbury Smith, jewelry artist, jewelry studio, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, stairs, steps, Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

Blogger Awards

April 21, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

I want to thank those who nominated me for blogging awards this past year. On August 30, 2012 I wrote my first blog entry which propelled me into the world of WordPress. Here in this blogosphere I have encountered many generous souls who have supported my content. The last few months I have enjoyed spending time with you by sharing our blogs, our thoughts, our creations. Given the large number of rules to each award, which I am not able […]

Categories: Awards • Tags: Awards, Beautiful Blogger Award, Blogger Awards, Illuminating Blogger Award, Liebster Award, Reality Blog Award, Sensual Blogging Award, Super Sweet Blogging Award

Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Color “Adding Life To A Bike”

April 9, 2013 by Allyson Mellone

bicycles add life to OUR life they add… color to OUR cheeks, destiny to OUR days, clarity to OUR complexities, openings to OUR guarded doors, motions to OUR internal machines, reminders of OUR considerations, preludes to OUR ruminations, and, bicycles free us to imagine OUR world anew. This is my “Painting with Photography” collage inspired by this Week’s Photo Challenge theme Color. For more representations and interpretations of color, visit here. For a wondrous photo gallery of the life of […]

Categories: Inspirations, Painting with Photography, Wonders • Tags: bicycle, bicycles, Color, complexities, DPchallenge, Painting with Photography, poem, poetry, postaday, preludes, ruminations, transportation, Weekly Photo Challenge