Surreal Western Australian - Flower Power 2

Silent Faces Speaking 18

 

Surreal Western Australian - Flower Power 2

 

This series is named Silent Faces Speaking because faces in photographs can express so much even though not a single word is actually spoken. My own dreadful contribution to interpretations of what is said will thankfully be limited to a title for each image. Hopefully, you'll share your astute interpretations of the scenes presented.

The entire series is surreal in that every photograph has been altered. This has been mainly accomplished by using Picasa but sometimes by also using Microsoft Paint to manipulate the images. Just for the sheer dementia of it, not a single image in the entire 26 part series of 453 photographs is as the eye would ordinarily see it.  The camera lies magnificently!

We began exploring the surreal by going on a psychedelic pub crawl. Having miraculously survived the affects of too many banana smoothies and a counter lunch of steak smothered in magic mushroom sauce, we searched for sobering coffees.  Thus we staggered by a plethora of cafes ... stumbling into surreal realities where we glimpsed the first of the Silent Faces Speaking.  We continued our journey, touched by sepia, followed by blue.  We continued bravely on, still affected by banana smoothie and magic mushroom unreality.  With Bob then hurling us into the psychedelic, we found that although the wheel had come full circle, it hadn't stopped spinning.  But then B&W did just that and tumbled us into sepia once more!  Only to meet B&W yet again.  Now, we're all insanely expert in picking the surreal.  Perhaps not really?

Image 01

Oh, the drunk gardener's tumbled into the pickup again.

Image 02

The silly bugger!

Image 03

Come blow your trumpet.

Image 04

Oh, the kids have all gone home on strike.

Image 05

I wonder if I can ride that tractor?

Image 06

Ssh!  The seedlings are sleeping.

Image 07

Don't mess with me or I'll bop you one!

Image 08

The trumpets of Heaven ... on sale and going cheap.

Image 09

Away in a manger.

Image 10

He's awake!

Image 11

There's the little bugger, wandering off again.

Image 12

Abracadabra and here is The Rose.

Image 13

Blue tumbling into shadow.

Image 14

Stop yowling and eat this!

Image 15

For you ... just for being you.

 

See also:

Silent Faces Speaking

001 Surreal Western Australia - City Pubs

002 Surreal Western Australia - Country Pubs

003 Surreal Western Australia - Cafes 1

004 Surreal Western Australia - Cafes 2

005 Surreal Western Australians - With a Touch of Sepia

006 Surreal Western Australians - With a Touch of Blue

007 Surreal Western Australians - With a Touch of Unreality

008 Surreal Western Australians - Psychedelic Bob

009 Surreal Western Australians - at Psychedelic Markets

010 Surreal Western Australians - at Psychedelic Park

011 Surreal Western Australians - Psychedelic Out & About

012 Surreal Western Australians - Psychedelic Waters

013 Surreal Western Australians - Psychedelic Boating

014 Surreal Western Australians - B&W at Hillarys

015 Surreal Western Australians - Sepia at Hillarys

016 Surreal Western Australians - Sepia Meets B&W

017 Surreal Western Australian - Flower Power 1