#Olympic swimmer photography art

[sons-from-adam]

Paul Freeman Photography - Geoffrey Andrew Huegill , Olympic swimmer.

[openvimark]

(vía Funda y vinilo para iPad con la obra «Olympic Dream: Conquering the Waters» de 0penvimark)

Olympic Dream: Conquering the Waters

Description: A vibrant image showcasing a swimmer competing in an Olympic-sized pool, water splashing around them. A representation of determination, strength, and passion for achieving excellence in high-performance sports.

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[parmahamlarrie]

Welcome back to another post for the directory of fic recs on my blog! If you would like a specific theme or trope, let me know! As always, these are all fics I have read and loved, not all the fics out there. You can find more University/College AU fics here! **This post will be updated as I have more fics in this theme to recommend!** rather be sad with you (than anywhere away from you) || @coffeehazza || 145.9k  College AU, Roommates, Hurt/Comfort, Depression, Mild Angst, Friends to Lovers

sunshine, baby! || @harruandlou || 106.5k ** Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Friends with Benefits, College AU, Florida, Swimmer Harry, Law Student Louis, Olympics

knock, knock, I love you || beautlouis || 86k College AU, Virgin Harry, Fluff

Flash Back to Me || @mason-conaway || 73k Amnesia AU, Therapy, Established Relationship, Falling in Love (again), College AU, Slow Burn, Fluff and Light Angst

The First Year || @parmahamlarrie || 46.9k Uni AU, Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Hurt/Comfort, Badboy Louis, Soft Harry

Play Pretend, Find a Friend? || @angelichl || 40.2k College AU, Fake Relationship, Coming Out, Mild Homophobia 

Just Tell Me the Song and I’ll Sing It || myownspark || 39.9k College AU, Baseball Player Harry, Romantic Gestures

voicemail sings a wreck || @falsegoodnight || 37k  Omegaverse, College AU, American AU, Enemies to Lovers, Frat AU

Listen To Your Heart || @chloehl10 || 35k Deaf Harry, University AU, Childhood Friends to Lovers

with nothing but your t-shirt on || crybaby || 34.6k Camboy Harry, College AU, Daddy Kink

Tell Them We’re Like Magnets || @nobodymoves || 31.3k   Girl Direction, College!AU, Friends to Lovers, Oblivious Idiots

secrets don’t make friends || @thedevilinmybrain || 30.2k 5 Times Fic, Established Relationship, College AU, Dom/Sub, Service Kink

Introduction to Dynamics || @juliusschmidt || 29.1k  Omegaverse, Omega Louis, Presenting, Coming of Age, Uni AU, Strangers to Friends to Lovers

never been a fan of change, but we're still the same || @onlythebravest || 27.1k Omegaverse, Friends to Lovers, College AU, Hurt/Comfort, Drops, Nesting

if you keep holding me this way || thepriestthinksitsthedevil || 22.8k College AU, Dom/Sub, Friends to Lovers (kinda)

taken by lust’s strange inhumanity || @larrydoinglaundry || 20.6k Omegaverse, Alpha Louis, Omega Harry, College AU, Frat Brother Louis, Intersex Omega, Virgin Harry

your lips in the low light || @givesuethemoon || 20.6k College AU, Frat Boy Louis, Art Student Harry, Established Relationship, Halloween Party, Angst

Knew It As Soon As I Felt It || fondlyrainbows || 20k Girl Direction, Lesbians, College AU, Getting Together, Fluff and Smut

Funny How The Stars Crossed Right || @loveislarryislove || 17.9k College AU, Photography Student Louis, Vet Student Harry

tonight’s not over (come over and stay) || @adoredontour || 17k Famous Harry, College Student Louis, Lots of Fluff

Your Eyes, For Me Series || Idzzdi || 16.8k Blind Louis, Sassy Louis, Strangers to Lovers, College AU

Stumbling Into Your Arms ABO verse || @sunshineandthemoonlight || 11.3k - 2 parts A/B/O, College AU, Train AU, Fluff

think i’ll take my chances || trackfive || 12.8k Sick Fic, Established Relationship, University AU, Fluff

Where Do We Go Now || @jaerie || 10.6k ** Omegaverse, Alpha Harry, Omega Louis, College Au, Roommates to Lovers, Enemies to Lovers, Human World

edible stars || @solitudeandchaos || 10.7k Friends to Lovers, College AU, Light Dom/Sub

everything I can arrange, every part of me you change || orphan_account || 10k College AU, Friends to Lovers

my heart's against your chest, your lips pressed to my neck (I'm in love now) || @bottomhaztoplou || 8.8k A/B/O, College AU, Courting, Friends to Lovers, Roommates

That Should Be Me || @kenniewen || 8.6k College AU, Dom/Sub

Draw || dolce_piccante || 8.3k Nude Modeling, Uni AU

bright lights (she’s fading) || @loveloveolivia || 8k PWP, Girl Direction, College AU

Traffic Light || @dinosaursmate || 7.1k College AU, Friends with Benefits

You and Me Got a Whole Lot of Chemistry || @flamboyantommo || 6.9k Friends with Benefits, College AU

when we get intimate || rainblou || 6.5k Omegaverse, College AU, Ace Harry, Nesting

Use Your Words || zedi || 6.5k University AU, Jock Louis, Flower Child Harry

I’m sticking to you like glue || peanutbutterapple || 6.2k  College AU, Sick Fic, Halloween, Fluff

Congratulations, it's a boy! || lovewasaprettylie || 6.2k Gender Dysphoria, Genderqueer Harry, College AU, Friends to Lovers

Beep the Horn || @flamboyantommo || 5.9k Halloween Fic, Friends to Lovers, Roommates, College/Uni AU

Take My Hand, Dumbass || @londonfoginacup || 5.9k ** Omegaverse, Alpha Harry, Omega Louis, Roommates AU, College AU, Enemies to Lovers

I’ll be There || @allwaswell16 || 5k Uni AU, Sick Louis, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Enemies to Lovers

Take Care || everysingleday || 4.8k College AU, Service Top Louis, Established Relationship

With All My Surrendered Hearts || @softandslow || 4.8k Established Relationship, College AU, Long Distance

Green Coffee and Morning People || InsightfulInsomniac || 3.7k College AU, Meet-Cute, Coffee

The Twenty Four Hour Cafe || @londonfoginacup || 3k Uni AU, Coffee Shop AU

Delicate || @fallinglikethis || 1.4k College AU, Punk Louis, Nerd Harry, Trapped in Elevator

[alaspoorwallace]

Ernst Haas (Austrian-American, 1921-1986), Swimmers, 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles

[juminhandfs]

Hantober Day 6

Favorite Headcanon

OK, my favorite headcanon is the Midnight Swimmer HC that I wrote and is my favorite because it was half-confirmed by Cheritz on Jumin's Birthday.

This is how I wrote it that time:

"Jumin loves to swim! (I mean have you seen how big his chest and shoulders are??) Mostly because he has an appeal for speed and there is nothing he can crash here (except for himself lol!) 

Is canon that he knows how to since he was 5 and that he has a swimming pool in his Penthouse and his preferred vacation destination is the beach. Before getting Elizabeth his way of de-streesd was to get a few laps until he ended up so tired that he would just plump on bed.

When he went to study abroad he was indecisive between Cambridge and Oxford but what made him decide for Oxford in the end was that long ass pool. Yet even if he probably was part of one of the sports team (to make connections for the future of CR) he didn't joined to the swimming team due to his discomfort of being seen almost naked, but at midnight when the pool was closed and everyone sleeping he would sneak in to swim.

Rumor has it that he gained a small crowd of fans who discovered the Midnight Swimmer and they used to watch him in secret and take his time and he broke a few Olympic records.

Rumors has it that the Midnight Swimmer became a myth that is whispered in the hallways and in the swimming team from generation to generation and that and his identity was never discovered. Other rumors said that in reality he was a ghost."

That was what I wrote back then and I got the swimming part right, but now I want to dunk in the college part of the headcanon because I think I discovered some clues that I got the college right as well, or at least the Country:

Remember this CG of the apartment? One time I went to look a little closer at the newspaper in the wall but my CG wasn't complete so it read "Bradford City" (which googled it gave the name of a Football Team)

Well recently I found the CG complete and...

It's actually a transport ticket for the City of Bradford in England, but you'll ask what has Jumin to do with this?

Well... everything if we remember that in Seven's route Jumin is ready to pay a ticket for MC to visit the Middle East, after barely knowing her and being clearly interested in Seven, not Jumin.

Is not too far fetched to think that, upon living there for college, Jumin took notice of that place and invited V and Rika to pass the summer in that place.

Moreover, the city has a college with careers specialized in photography (which interests V) and is the city with more museums and art galleries outside of London (which interests Rika).

If Cheritz wanted to put something that pointed out to Rika's interest for art, the more obvious decision would have been the Louvre in Paris, but instead they went this obscure reference.

So maybe Jumin tried to convince V to stay and study there with Rika? I would not be surprised...

Below is photo of Rye, the other place mentioned in the ticket, with a variety of art galleries and museums as well...

Another thing: the distance between Bradford and Oxford is like 5 hours in bus, and 3 on train. To Cambridge is a little more.

Close to Bradford is Leeds and Manchester, both with their respective colleges... Manchester is well ranked in their business careers so that's another option, but I'm sticking to my headcanon of Oxford anyway 😛, also because of their rowing competition which we know Jumin practices as well...

[modelingtv4babies-blog]

Name:   Tiffany

Age: 10

How were you discovered?

I was doing  pageants and at the age of 3 years old, I won the pageant getting the opportunity to be a Model For The Day and I had a blast! My mom and dad tell me I couldn't get enough of showing off in front of people.

What were you doing prior to modeling?

Pageants and just being a kid

What is your favorite thing to do after school?

My favorite thing is Taekwondo. I like being able to kick and punch things.

Who do you look up to as your hero?

Dr. K because she is an exotic animal veterinarian.

What do you want to be when you “grow up”?

Veterinarian for wild animals because I love animals.

Three things that best describe you?

Weird because I am always doing silly or weird things. I'm not like other kids my age.

Hyper, I tend to get very excited easily, pretty much to the point of being crazy hyper.

Talkative, I love to talk!

What is your favorite movie?

Spaceballs, because who doesn't love a good laugh.

What is your favorite TV show?

Henry Danger

What is your favorite food?

Reese's peanut butter cups, peanut butter & chocolate yum!

What are your hobbies?

Taekwondo, swimming and art.

What is the last book you read?

Famous Ghosts

What is your favorite outfit?

T-shirts with leggings or a skirt as long as they are mismatched!

If you could have three wishes, what would they be?

1. To have a pet Cheetah 2. To be an olympic swimmer 3. To be an artist

[noaasanctuaries]

Using art to highlight our connection to national marine sanctuaries

By Andrea Fisher

This summer I snorkeled in a kelp forest, went tidepooling with marine researchers, had coffee with a recreational angler, learned from a Chumash weaver, and painted. While not your typical summer graduate school internship, these experiences were part of my quest to better understand – and share – the various ways individuals and groups connect with national marine sanctuaries. My internship specifically took me to the five national marine sanctuaries along the West Coast in Washington and California.

Fisher explored Santa Cruz Island during her visit to Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Photo courtesy of Andrea Fisher

At each sanctuary I spoke with fishermen, sanctuary staff, visitors, indigenous people, sanctuary volunteers, and other community members to better understand how they feel and identify with the place. Afterwards, I produced an acrylic painting for each sanctuary to summarize and celebrate the species, activities, and emotions mentioned during the conversations. I decided to paint my findings, because art can showcase the ocean’s beauty, as well as capture complex stories, relationships, and emotions that are otherwise difficult to express. Below you can see the painting and read the highlights for each sanctuary.

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, Washington: A wild place, then and now

Image description: A painting of Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. A tidepool containing sea stars and sea anemones is in the foreground. A beach stretches into the background on the left side of the image. A sea stack is in the middle. On the right side of the painting is the ocean, which contains a ship, four indigenous canoes, and orcas.

I first made my way to the northwestern coast of Washington state to visit Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The sanctuary includes a vast offshore area, including deep-sea habitats, kelp forests, and an iconic, rugged coastline. Communities of the Makah Tribe, Quileute Tribe, Hoh Tribe, and Quinault Indian Nation have long-lived connections to certain species, natural items, and places of the region. Today, the communities simultaneously celebrate their ancestral ties to the ocean, manage their treaty-protected resources, and embrace modern fishing techniques.

My painting aims to capture the sanctuary as described by those I interviewed: "wild" and "remote." The coastline – with marine fog, silver-colored driftwood, and sea rock formations – was often described as a peaceful place, especially for visitors "escaping" their daily lives in major cities. My painting also showcases a mint-colored sea anemone and ochre sea stars for those who expressed their love for tidepooling.

The four traditional canoes represent the four native communities and allude to an annual event called the Tribal Canoe Journey, an event where indigenous communities from the United States and Canada undertake a long-distance paddle journey to celebrate community and tradition. I was fortunate to see some of the canoes leaving La Push, Washington, during my trip. Each tribal community is distinct and rich with culture, and therefore, my painting also refers to some of the past and current valued species as explained by various tribal representatives. A Makah representative described how halibut was dried on Tatoosh Island, and how orcas are considered protectors of the tribe. A Quileute representative explained how each year they welcome migrating gray whales with salmon and a ceremony.

Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, California: A place of mystery and wonder

Image description: A painting of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. In the bottom of the painting is a reef covered in pink and orange invertebrates. Fish swim in the foreground and background; a remotely operated vehicle hovers in the middle-left; a whale swims near the top of the painting.

Next I traveled to Point Reyes, California, to learn about Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. This sanctuary differs from other sanctuaries along the West Coast as it is completely offshore and can be difficult to access due to unpredictable weather and ocean conditions. Luckily, advanced research technology and underwater photography has brought the sights of Cordell Bank to us.

My painting offers viewers a glimpse of the mysterious underwater world of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Photos taken during research missions inspired my rendition of Cordell Bank, a rocky undersea feature that rises to 115 feet below the ocean surface. When viewing the research photos, I was struck by the tropical-looking, colorful corals, sponges, and anemones on the reefs. I also heard from a technical diver about his dive at Cordell Bank. He described the bank as the underwater Mount Everest.

In my painting you’ll see a red remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) that represents deep-sea exploration and other research happening in the sanctuary. I also wanted to showcase the productivity at the sanctuary, described to me by those I interviewed. People explained how the sanctuary attracts an array of seabirds, and how seeing thousands of juvenile rockfish or 30 blue whales at one time is possible.

Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, California: Healthy ecosystems and communities

Image description: A painting of Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. The top third of the painting shows the rocky Farallon Islands. The middle third depicts a surfer. The bottom third shows a view underwater of a whale, white shark, sea lion, kelp, and small fish.

Next on my itinerary came Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, located just north of San Francisco. The sanctuary encompasses a large, complex system of bays, estuaries, marshes, nearshore reefs, rocky shores, and oceanic waters. It also surrounds the iconic Farallon Islands that can be seen from San Francisco on a clear day.

My painting of Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary highlights how communities come together in this place. Upwelling, an ocean phenomenon that brings nutrient-rich waters to the surface, creates an abundant food source for a variety of species. The sanctuary attracts a multitude of whales and seabirds who feed in the region, and supports one of the world's most significant populations of white sharks.

Human communities enjoy the waters as well, through activities such as wildlife viewing at the Farallon Islands and surfing at places like Bolinas Beach. A couple of beachgoers explained the sanctuary as “clean,” while a high school surfer said time in the sanctuary made her feel happy, centered, and relaxed.

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, California: A place for all

Image description: A painting of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The bottom half of the painting depicts a nearshore environment with sea lions hauled out on rocks and a sea otter resting in a kelp forest. Further into the background, a diver surfaces and a humpback whale breaches.

Next, I had the chance to explore Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary – the place I live and describe as my home. This sanctuary is adjacent to the Big Sur coastline, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and Half Moon Bay. Many describe the sanctuary as one of the best places on Earth to watch marine wildlife. Its diverse habitats – large sandy beaches, uninterrupted kelp forests, rocky shorelines – offer visitors endless recreational activities. The sanctuary also protects a variety of features like an inactive underwater volcano and a deep-sea canyon comparable in size to the Grand Canyon.

My painting showcases the diversity of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The sanctuary is rich with marine life, but also full of humans interacting with the natural systems. Human activity on land, whether agriculture in Salinas or day uses of Big Sur, define and affect the sanctuary.

I came across scuba and free divers, surfers, bay swimmers, kayakers, whale watchers, beachgoers, sailors, fishers, and people admiring marine life from shore. People I interviewed especially enjoyed watching sea otters (a crowd favorite), harbor seals, and sea lions. A diver described the sanctuary as “one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen,” and others explained the place as "home," "my sanctuary," and "life."

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, California: A magical place, focused on community

Image description: A painting of Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. The top third of the painting shows an above-water view of Santa Cruz Island, Chumash people in a traditional tomol, and other boats. The bottom third of the painting is a view of a kelp forest, including several types of fish and a diver.

For my final stop, I headed south to visit Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. The sanctuary is just off the coast of Santa Barbara and Ventura and surrounds the five Northern Channel Islands: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, and Santa Barbara. The islands are surrounded by majestic coastal vistas, kelp beds, and diverse shoreline features. The islands and surrounding productive marine area have been, and continue to be, special to the Native American Chumash community.

My painting aims to capture the sanctuary as described by those I interviewed: "magical" and "a place that celebrates community." The Chumash community maintain their connection to the Channel Islands in various ways, such as the annual tomol (traditional canoe) crossing from the mainland to Santa Cruz Island, Limuw. While various species are valued by the Chumash, a Chumash weaver identified abalone as especially important.

The painting also alludes to stories I heard about children snorkeling above a bat ray and scuba divers encountering seals, sheephead fish, bright orange Garibaldi fish, and giant sea bass in the kelp forests. The boats in the painting represent the active recreational angling and commercial fishing communities, as well as the boats that take visitors to the sanctuary and islands.

Painting a picture of our shared connection

My summer journey confirmed that national marine sanctuaries are valued by various individuals and groups for different reasons. The diverse accounts of how people connect to their national marine sanctuary, when woven together, create a dynamic story, a story that reflects how we collectively think of and value a place. My paintings are a platform for visualizing these stories. I hope they provide you a new look at national marine sanctuaries along the West Coast, and inspire you to consider your connection to a special ocean place.

Andrea Fisher is an intern for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries West Coast Regional Office and MPA Center. She is a graduate student at Middlebury Institute of International Studies focusing on ocean and coastal resource management.

[thisway-imagines]

Modern Au magvel princes? (Idk if there’s a character limit. I can’t find the rules page. So sorry if this isn’t allowed) Like what their jobs are what are some modern things they like, etc

oof writing for modern AU is awfully hard…….. these are my personal HCs for them, but if u have any more always feel free to talk to me thru ask!! i love talking to ya’ll

(joshua is a prince too but… modern AU stuff for him was too hard for me. i love the idea of him being a bartender tho….. gosh………)

Ephraim

Honestly? This man? He’s literally a huge jock - just like what we’ve all agreed on already. He frequently goes to the gym every week, and on top of that, even takes on a large amount of practices for many sports. Eph’s in quite a lot of national teams, actually - and I imagine him as one of the best swimmers ever, hehe. There are trophies and ribbons placed on one of his prized shelves!

Ephraim enjoys his job as a personal trainer - he takes great pride in helping those who want a lifestyle change, and also is very proud of the progress that his trainees makes as the time goes by!! This man is a total bro and quickly has a large circle of friends that he makes at work. People have jokingly suggested to him that he should join the Olympics or something (and he’s actually seriously considering it). 

Likewise, due to being a major physical fanatic, he loves to join marathons - especially those that are charity runs. This way, he can do what he loves and give help to those in need! It’s a total win-win!

In his bedroom, there would be posters of many bands that he likes to listen to throughout the years - they’re all a little bit messy and they’re also starting to peel off a little bit, but he doesn’t really care. Ephraim’s room will also be messy as well, since he tends to clean up around the end of the week - so expect clothes littered on the floor. At least he’s still sharp on doing the groceries and daily tasks.

Tank top Ephraim? Tank top Ephraim. He likes to casually walk around with those types of shirts especially, oblivious to the stares he gets often.

His house isn’t very cluttered though - it’d be a few of his personal belongings he kept around that are of worth, photos, the prizes he’d throughout the years, and a few dumbbells and the sort found within his home. Ephraim does keep a huge radio he’s owned for a while now though, and likes to buy CDs for it - he especially likes to play them to start off his day! He keeps those that Eirika and Lyon gives him the safest and listens to them frequently.

Also he’d definitely own a rescue dog. The dog is especially spoiled and is brought along to any trips that Eph might go to in the future!! Even Innes loves the big ‘ol thing, and Lyon soon warms up to its goofy little face. 

Innes

Because of how smart he is, I’d like to think that Innes could possibly apply to any of the sciences or arts easily - but he turns out to be a gifted veterinarian who works very well with all sorts of animals! He starts to train to become an avian vet (Frelia has many pegasi, so it would be totally fitting here)!

I can totally imagine Innes as a part-time coach as well! He’s not as strong as Ephraim, but he is strong enough to help sports team train for matches and the lot! It’s also incredibly helpful that he’s very sharp at strategy. Innes actually ends up helping Eph a lot whenever the latter is preparing himself for marathons or other sporty-related upcoming events!

Sharing a rivalry between him and Ephraim, Innes also goes to the same gym as Ephraim and works just as hard as the teal-haired man does. There are active competitions in the gym that the owners host (where these two are against each other’s necks practically all the time).

Though he also very much enjoys exploring - often by himself or someone who can keep up with his snarky comments and sharp mindset. He especially likes to go on hikes to look at the vast landscapes that the world has to offer - photography is a small hobby that Innes’ likes to indulge in. He’s actually got a somewhat decent following online - Tana is definitely his biggest fan.

I love the idea of Innes owning a parrot, like an African Gray… He loves to give it attention and teach it new phrases for it to repeat back. Innes would also teach it many tricks to post online onto his social media (which gains a lot of traction because WOW what a smart boy that parrot is!!). He has secretly taught it to say ‘fuck you’ whenever Ephraim comes by, but because the Gray has a mind of its own, it sometimes repeats it to Tana accidentally.

Being the sophisticated and posh person that he is, he very much enjoys listening to jazz and classical. He’s even currently trying to learn the piano right now!!

Lyon

Lyon would definitely be an anthropologist - he absolutely adores studying the changes of cultures and beliefs throughout the centuries as the world changes and evolves constantly. However, Lyon enjoys Greek and Roman culture the most - their ideas of gods and power and love and just everything were incredibly fascinating.

In one of my previous posts for modern Lyon, he’ll definitely open up a small library or bookstore by himself that sells/lets you borrow a range of books. He loves to collect rare, ancient texts that can accessible and can be brought back to his library (but that’s a secret section that only exclusive people get to borrow!).

Ephraim, despite not having a fondness for books as much as Lyon does, often pops by to his little library to bring in healthy food or invites Lyon out for lunch. Ephraim knows how Lyon tends to go overboard with his studying, so he comes by often to remind him to take care of himself better. 

Lyon’s house is a little bit cluttered, but by all means he tries his best to keep it very organized. There are many books piled up on the floor and lining the shelves, which makes up for the majority of the clutter - but it’s incredibly cozy. When Ephraim and Lyon were in the same college together, Ephraim would often come over for sleepovers and they’d have many pizza nights studying together for exams (but honestly, it would just be Lyon actually studying and Ephraim groaning over textbooks). Sometimes, through the piles of books he owns, there are a few misplaced textbooks that he occasionally picks out and he promptly throws them to Ephraim, miffed that he didn’t return them.

Though Lyon does tend to recreate pizza nights often… he doesn’t really know how to cook very well. But recently, he’s starting to get better with Eirika coming over to his house to teach him recipes!

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[architectnews]

Opaque facades hide interior courtyard of Utah’s Host House by Kipp Edick and Joe Sadoski

A central courtyard brings daylight into an inward-facing, cedar-clad home in Salt Lake City that was designed by American architects Kipp Edick and Joe Sadoski for a ski coach.

The Host House sits within a residential neighbourhood in Utah's capital, along the western front of the Wasatch Mountains.

Host House is clad in vertical slats of cedar

The client was the late Alan Hayes, a computer engineer who helped establish the local Rowmark Ski Academy. Hayes passed away in 2019, but the project continued and was completed last year. The home was sold in August to a new owner.

For decades, Hayes provided mentorship for young skiers, many of whom he hosted at his home. His protégés included alpine ski racer and Olympic medalist Tommy Moe and road-racing cyclist Levi Leipheimer.

Minimal openings keep the interiors private

To design his new residence, Hayes had contacted two architects whom he had mentored years ago – Edick, cofounder of Architect Associates in New York, and Sadoski, a project manager at Signal Architecture + Research in Seattle. They aimed to "create a spatial expression to help and encourage room for students to grow".

"Creating space to host kids was a central concern in the design of this home," the architects said.

Host House sits on a long, slim plot

Long and rectangular in plan, the two-storey dwelling stretches deep into a relatively slender lot. Host House totals 4,460 square feet (414 square metres).

Facades that are visible from the street are mostly opaque, thus concealing the home's size and interior activities. The entrance facade, which looks west, features a solid black door and no windows.

Floor-to-ceiling glazing opens on to an internal courtyard

"The client was a very private individual who supported a design approach that located the glazing in specific zones of the house to provide ample daylight and privacy," the architects said.

The limited glazing also helps reduce solar heat gain during the summer, when temperatures can exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius), the team added.

Light enters the interiors from this central opening

Exterior walls are wrapped in rough-sawn, western red cedar that has been attached with a rainscreen system. The same siding clads the garage door on the south elevation. When closed, the door seems to vanish and merge with the surrounding walls.

In contrast to the closed-off exterior, the interior appears to be fluid and open.

A wall of glazing brings light into an open plan living area

The ground level holds the public areas and a master suite, while the upper floor encompasses two bedrooms and a lounge. A small basement contains a wine cellar, food storage and a utility room.

Upon entering the home, one steps into a 110-foot-long (34-metre) corridor that runs along the north side of the plan.

"All ground-level spaces and the stairs extend off of the corridor for a clear circulation diagram," the architect said.

At the heart of the main floor is a landscaped courtyard, which is encircled by glazed walls that usher in natural light. Beyond the courtyard is an open area for cooking, dining and lounging.

"The homeowner valued observing a set dinner time, so the dining room became a central space," the team said.

Garage doors fit flush to the side of the house

The second level is accessed via a stairwell illuminated by a skylight. The upper floor is meant to act "as a separate wing of the home, where guests can experience privacy while still being connected to the public spaces of the house".

Throughout Host House, the team used a trio of contrasting materials – white oak, blackened steel and polished concrete.

"White walls reflect light and provide a blank backdrop for the client's art collection," the team added.

The wooden facade folds to reveal the garage

Designed to be a net-zero building, the residence has a range of sustainable features. Among the passive strategies are a high-performance building envelope and triple- and quadruple-pane windows.

Active measures include a ground-source heat pump for radiant heating, a heat-recovery ventilation system and a nine-kilowatt photovoltaic array. Moreover, smart controls help manage shading devices and operable skylights.

The house was built for a skiing instructor and has plenty of ski storage space

The residence also has a 3,000-gallon (11,356-litre) cistern that stores rainwater for irrigation purposes.

"The homeowner was very open to innovative efficiency ideas," the architects said, "and willing to invest in solutions that would pay off over time."

Known for its rugged mountains and scenic vistas, Utah is home to a number of distinctive, modern-style buildings. Other projects there include a sprawling residence by Olson Kundig that consist of three pavilions connected by covered walkways, and a series of cedar-clad chalets by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple that form a mountaintop retreat.

Photography is by Lara Swimmer.

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An actor prepares (for budgie smugglers)

DECEMBER 22, 2017 / ELISSA BLAKE / AUDREY JOURNAL

When Stephen Madsen emerges from the swimming pool in Muriel’s Wedding the Musical, the sight of his Olympic Games-ready body almost stops the show.

He’s so… perfect.

Madsen, who managed to make a splash fully clothed in Heathers and Rent, both at Hayes Theatre Company, and more recently as an expletive-spouting inmate in Sport for Jove’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, says he has been sculpting his body for the role of Russian swimmer Alexander Shkuratov for almost a year.

Classical acting manuals are conspicuously lacking in advice for actors who need to bulk up. Meisner on the perfect six-pack? Nothing. Stella Adler on optimal workout recovery times? Zip.

So in the interests of advancing the acting craft (no, really …), Audrey asked Stephen and fellow Sydney Theatre Company actor Matthew Backer (the hunky, shirtless Puck of Kip Williams’ 2016 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream) to share their behind-the-scenes bodybuilding tips.

Stephen, how did you prep your body for Muriel’s Wedding?

I knew when I was cast that I would have to look like an Olympic swimmer so I had the time to make diet and exercise adjustments. I ride my bike to and from STC every day and I go to the gym 5-6 times a week. I’m a vegetarian with a very fast metabolism so I have to eat a lot of food to increase my muscle mass (small portions, 5-6 times a day), beans, oats, nuts, lentils, brown rice and leafy greens. I take vegan protein supplements after workouts.

It’s been a focus for me in this production because I don’t get a lot of scene time to establish a character, so having that physicality as immediate information for the audience about who this person is feels important to me. Luckily, I’ve always been pretty fit, so I didn’t have to do a complete body overhaul.

Did you swim to get that Olympic swimmer shape?

I’ve been swimming when I can and I tailor my gym workout to target muscles that swimmers have – shoulders, back and chest for that triangular, V-shaped look. I’ve done plenty of internet research and talked to some of my more athletic friends.

Is it like being a body builder? Do you need to fast before a show?

I don’t fast because I need a ton of energy to get through an eight-show week. Bodybuilders can dehydrate before competitions but I need to drink water throughout the show to maintain my voice.

I try to cut down on sugars and processed foods but I still eat plenty of complex carbohydrates and healthy fats. I have an active lifestyle so I’m always doing a lot of cardio and the show itself is very physically challenging.

Do you pump up just before you go on?

I do push-ups and sit-ups as part of my warm up for the show and we have some free weights in our dressing room to pump up before we go on. You also rely on good lighting to boost the physical work you’ve done. There’s a vanity element to all of this but it really is part of the storytelling and it helps me to feel and move like an athlete.

That first reveal is very … slick. Is that body oil?

I have a spray bottle to make me look wet when I come out of the pool. It’s just water because I have a quick change into the wedding suit. I can’t do any body makeup or contouring because I have to protect my costumes from marks.

Would you consider putting on weight for a less-fit character?

For a good role, I’d definitely consider putting on weight. I’ve never been asked to before. If I had to gain a lot of weight I’d want to work with a nutritionist to make sure I was being healthy and safe. I’ve always admired Christian Bale’s body transformations for roles. Perhaps sometime in the future!

Photography by © Fred LeMarche.

https://www.audreyjournal.com.au/arts/actor-prepares-budgie-smugglers/

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Shark Week!

The phenomenon continues! In its 29th year, The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is making a splash this week, but also received viewer backlash because Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps didn’t race a real Great White shark in its “Phelps Vs. Shark” episode. The network responded saying, “In Phelps Vs Shark we enlisted world class scientists to take up the challenge of making the world’s greatest swimmer competitive with a Great White… all the promotion, interviews and the program itself made clear that the challenge wasn’t a side by side race.”

Here at There’s a Book for That, we have some side-by-side competition for television: shark books! The fascination with sharks will last beyond the final episode on Sunday. Our catch showcases novels, graphic memoirs, photography, historic shark attacks and books for kids. And there’s no danger dipping into their pages…

 FEATURED TITLES

THE SHARK CLUB by Ann Kidd Taylor

A debut novel about love, loss, and sharks by the New York Times bestselling co-author of the memoir Traveling with Pomegranates. On a summer day on the Gulf of Mexico in 1988, two extraordinary things happen to twelve-year-old Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is attacked by a Black Tip shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve is a world-traveling marine biologist studying and swimming with the very animals that once threatened …

 EVERYTHING IS TEETH by Evie Wyld, Joe Sumner

When she was a little girl, passing her summers in the heat of coastal Australia, Evie Wyld was captivated by sharks—by their innate ruthlessness, stealth, and immeasurable power—and they have never released their hold on her imagination. From the award-winning author of All the Birds, Singing, here is a deeply moving graphic memoir about family, love, loss, and the irresistible forces that, like sharks, course through life unseen, ready to emerge at any moment.

 SHARK DRUNK: THE ART OF CATCHING A LARGE SHARK FROM A TINY RUBBER DINGHY IN A BIG OCEAN by Morten

A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean

The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty—the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where the sun never sets. It’s a place of small villages, where the art of fishing, though evolving, is still practiced in traditional ways.

 SHARK by Brian Skerry

Get closer to the beauty and power of sharks with award-winning National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry as he illustrates their remarkable evolutionary adaptations and their huge importance to marine ecosystems around the world.

 CLOSE TO SHORE: THE TERRIFYING SHARK ATTACKS OF 1916 by Michael Capuzzo

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.

 FOR YOUNGER READERS

 SHARKS AND OTHER SEA CREATURES by DK; Ages 2 to 5

A book filled with craft activities and amazing facts about the colorful creatures from under the sea, perfect for fostering kids’ creativity and learning.

 SHARK GIRL by Kelly Bingham; Ages 12 And Up

On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything — absolutely everything — changed. Now she’s counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm, where she knows kids will whisper, “That’s her — that’s Shark Girl,” as she passes.

 SLICKETY QUICK: POEMS ABOUT SHARKS by Skila Brown; illustrated by Bob Kolar; Ages 6 – 9 years

Fourteen shark species, from the utterly terrifying to the surprisingly docile, glide through the pages of this vibrantly illustrated, poetic picture book. Sneaky shark facts ripple through each spread to further inform the brave and curious young reader intrigued by the power — and danger — of these amazing creatures.

 SHARK LIFE: TRUE STORIES ABOUT SHARKS & THE SEA by Peter Benchley, Karen Wojtyla; Ages 8 to 12

In this riveting true adventure tale and informative guide to the sea, master storyteller Peter Benchley drew on more than four decades of diving experience to bring us face-to-face with the array of sharks and other marine animals he and his family encountered, almost always on purpose—but sometimes by accident.

 For more on these and other toothy titles, visit the collection Sharks

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Ana Busto. Olympians. 

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From Here to Infinity

James Delbourgo, Literary Review, July 2019

From Here to InfinitySplash: The Art of the Swimming Pool By Annie Kelly (Photography by Tim Street-Porter)

The Swimming Pool in Photography By Francis Hodgson

By suspending the normal rules of earth-bound weight and motion, swimming pools bend certain rules of mental operation too, presenting possibilities for divine transformation and fatal transgression. Their creative potential often takes perverse and sometimes cruel forms. A Barbara Laing photograph from 1991 features a mule falling through the air towards a tank of water during ‘The World’s Only High-Diving Mules Show’ at the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque. Penned into a grandstand and shading their brows, fairgoers watch expectantly. One marvels at the bizarre freak-show machinations that brought this animal to its improbable plunge.

All swimming pools, however, deal in the unnatural. Southern California is the modern heartland of this glorious folly. Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974), in which the diversion of water away from Owens valley to Los Angeles is likened to an incestuous act of rape, still resonates. The city is now precariously fire-whipped, yet remains irrigated by dreams of oases in the desert as architectural firms woo their clients with rippling designer status symbols, above all the almost ubiquitous infinity pool that seeks to shimmer away the very boundary between earth and heaven.

Two new books invite us to reimagine the pool’s evolving cultural status. Splash is a clinically luxurious boutique of contemporary pool design, in which people are almost wholly absent and there are in fact no splashes. By contrast, The Swimming Pool in Photography is an astonishingly rich album of boisterous visual pageantry, documenting those who frolicked about the pools of the 20th century.

The function of swimming pools has never been limited to swimming. In the introduction to Splash, Annie Kelly traces their origins back to wonders such as the Great Bath of Mohenjo-daro, built in the third millennium BC in what is now Sindh in Pakistan, which may have been religious in purpose. The Greeks and Romans built pools for athletics, hygiene, keeping fish – hence piscina – and that ambiguous activity known as bathing (Christ’s College in Cambridge still refers to its own, dating from the 17th century, as a ‘bathing pool’). Swimming was shunned by most early modern Europeans, who regarded the talents of Asian, African and American divers as prodigiously alien; the titular character of Thomas Shadwell’s mocking 1676 play The Virtuoso thus taught the theory of swimming but not its practice. It was only in the early 20th century that swimming became common in the West through programmes of mass exercise in a eugenic age ultimately haunted by fascist visions of idealised neoclassical bodies. Photographs of divers taken at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Leni Riefenstahl, who filmed Greek statues morphing into German athletes in Olympia (1938) and later shot underwater movies, document their disquieting mutation from human forms into clouds of bursting bubbles. Not for nothing did William Randolph Hearst invite Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic champion and star of Tarzan, to offer swimming lessons to guests in his Neptune pool at Hearst Castle.

While Splash’s empty pools yearn to be stared at more than swum in, The Swimming Pool in Photography glories in the giddy reveries of cavalcades of pool-goers. There are those who lie mesmerised by the sun, dying to cool off after burning up; those who perch on diving boards giggling and sipping drinks; and the many who stride the poolside like a catwalk. Pools bend the rules. Clothes slip off, skin glistens, consciousness heightens. A dreamlike scenario unfolds. Martine Franck’s photo of a boy in a hammock gazing at sunbathers round the elegant curves of Alain Capeillères’s pool in Le Brusc, near Marseilles, make those curves seem like the contours of his mind. A shot taken through the glass floor of a rooftop pool in Shanghai evokes the dream of swimming as flight by juxtaposing a swimmer with a jet tearing through the sky overhead. Yet other pools just seem extensions of everyday life. Guy Le Querrec’s portrait of Budapest’s Széchenyi Medicinal Bath features people chatting and playing chess in the water as though lounging at home on a sofa or in a social club.

Postwar American pools call up poignant visions of mass aquatic escape. These public pools were very often racially segregated, yet their promise was egalitarian. The technicolour paradise of the Tahiti Motel pool in Wildwood, New Jersey, is easily dismissed as boobish kitsch, with its palm trees drooping into a boxy, peach-tinted courtyard. But it was still an oasis. The dalliance between the pellucid and the lurid, the vulgar and the godlike, turned suburbanites into bronzed Poseidons, at least for a while. Filmmakers, however, could not resist casting swimming pools in parables not of baptismal rebirth but paradise lost. In The Swimmer, based on John Cheever’s story of the same name and released in 1968, Burt Lancaster’s fallen hero wants to swim home via a series of private suburban Connecticut pools – an unnatural ambition that symbolises his grand self-delusion. In La Piscine (1970), the pool itself turns from oasis into murderer, helping Alain Delon drown Maurice Ronet.

Despite their status as modernist exercise machines, swimming pools can still inspire baroque visions of puzzle and paradox. There are photos of cars submerged in suburban pools, ‘parked’ in the drink by drunks, and of swimmers studied by onlookers through portholes like fish in an aquarium. Leandro Erlich’s cunning 1999 installation Swimming Pool consists of a pool that contains no water except on what appears to be its surface, trapped in a thin sheet of glass, allowing fully clothed visitors to perceive water-blurred figures above and below. At the Hacienda Puerta Campeche hotel in Mexico, a ruined building has been flooded to create a fantasy where guests can walk through some rooms and swim through others. Such playful inversions of wet and dry evoke human ingenuity in mastering water yet also scriptural floods, divine punishment and ecological catastrophe. The sight of ocean waves crashing over the pool at Bondi Beach in Sydney vies with portraits of pools abandoned to weeds and cracks as images of the end of the world.

We now live in the age of the infinity pool. The bright curves, sugary tints and gay social melee of the 20th century have given way to darker, squarer tubs where the edge of the pool is designed (at least in theory) to vanish into the horizon. The jolly bourgeois riot of collective public bathing has yielded to an immersive solipsism at once outward and inward: the infinity pool bather often looks away from others to snap a selfie showcasing the view behind them. Kelly is one of the few humans to appear in Splash, photographed standing at the edge of a Balinese infinity pool, gazing out to sea, her back to the camera. Hers is a voyeuristic album of an invisible elite’s sparkling private paradises, utopias whose very form disavows social context.

If infinity pools represent one of the ways we swim now, our dreams of aquatic transformation are timeless. How we understand those dreams, however, varies. The paradoxical urge to discover something essential or transcendent about our natures through artificial waters is powerfully reasserted, for example, in Deanna Templeton’s recent portraits of individual friends swimming naked in Californian pools. These are serene, intimate and graceful. But Emma Hartvig’s group portraits of synchronised swimmers in gleaming white bathing-suits, performing their magnificent mechanical ballet, capture rather better the fact that the pool is always a work of art, not nature.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/from-here-to-infinity

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Photography legend Joel Meyerowitz: phones killed the sexiness of the street

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Photography legend Joel Meyerowitz: phones killed the sexiness of the street

He chased parades, ambushed hairdressers and refused to leave Ground Zero. Over PG Tips and ricotta at his Tuscan barn, Joel Meyerowitz relives his most stunning shots

One day 55 years ago, Joel Meyerowitz was roaming the streets of his native New York with a 35mm camera when he glimpsed something through an arcade window that stopped him in his tracks. A young woman was standing with her back to him, tenderly grooming her boyfriends pompadour with a comb, just as Meyerowitz imagined she had curled the hair of dolls when she was a girl.

As we sit in front of the log fire in his converted barn in Tuscany in the February dusk, Meyerowitz remembers what happened next. I snuck up as close as I could and tried to capture the intimacy of that moment. I was very shy and it took all my courage if the plate glass hadnt been there, maybe I wouldnt have dared get so close. In the resulting print, the boy glances from the shadows into the camera with furrowed brow, a moment of pure vulnerability that a split second later might have curdled into rage at Meyerowitzs intrusion. And, just possibly, the photographer might have got his ass kicked.

Tender grooming New York City, 1962.

This was one of the American street photographers first images. Whats striking about it is not so much the bravura seizing of the moment. Cartier-Bresson, after all, had already made his name doing that and Meyerowitz was following the Frenchmans lead. Rather, it was that the seized moment was in colour. In art photography, there was still this huge prejudice against colour as if only black and white were aesthetically justifiable, he recalls. I never bought that: for me colour is essential; I instinctively felt I needed it to give my work force. Just as we have smell memories, we have colour memories. I mean the world is in colour, right?

Meyerowitz was seduced into photography earlier that year when, as a young art director, he witnessed an ad agency shoot by the great American photographer Robert Frank for a booklet he was designing. The way he weaved in and out of the girls he was shooting, my God, that was a revelation to me. You could move while working the camera. Wow! I wanted to do that, too.

Until that epiphany, Meyerowitz hadnt been sure what he wanted to do with his life. He was studying part time for a masters in art history and dabbling in abstract painting. After seeing Frank at work, however, he went back to the ad agency office that afternoon and quit. Harry, my boss, couldnt believe me. Later, though, he bought me a camera.

How much is that tiger in the window? New York City, 1975

From the start, Meyerowitz and fellow street photographer and friend Garry Winogrand sought to explore the erotics of the street: The heat of the gazes between people, the charged mystery that arises from capturing chance moments on the fly, he says.

In his new autobiographical photography book Where I Find Myself, Meyerowitz writes of those heady days: We loved watching the play of light on Fifth Avenue and how it gave meaning to things. We watched the seasons change and with it womens clothing getting lighter and sexier. We were living and breathing photography We felt we were part of a movement that was making photography more interesting than it ever was before.

But first he had to overcome his shyness. He did this with his initial project taking shots of bystanders at street parades. Nobody thinks theres anything odd about a photographer at a parade, so that gave me invisibility. One particularly successful image taken in New York in 1963 depicts a relaxed, smiling, cardigan-wearing African American man standing with his dog on the pavement next to a tightly wound white man in a suit who is holding his hand to his heart and glaring past the black man.

Seize the chance moments New York City, 1963.

Hes saluting the flag thats off camera, explains Meyerowitz. Its a superbly unresolved image but sets up all kinds of dual tensions black/white, genial/fraught, patriotic/not so much. You need to get on the streets and seize the chance moments, he says.

Of his street images, my favourite depicts a Frenchman who has fallen outside a Paris Mtro station one day in 1967. By this stage, Meyerowitz had started to take longer shots moving back from eight to 20 feet from what he sought to capture. Its a shift from chamber music to symphony. Everybody is looking at the fallen man, the chic young woman descending the station steps, the delivery guy pushing boxes on a trolley, a cyclist swivelling to get a better look at a strangers misfortune. A worker in overalls even steps over the prone man, carrying a hammer that takes on sinister import. Those fuckers, laughs Meyerowitz. Not one of them helps him up.

The image is an absorbing network of gazes and furtive glances. In the 60s and 70s you could look at my street photographs and trace lines from the eyes of people connecting with other peoples eyes, setting up these force fields.

As exotic as a tropical fish Sarah, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1981

Today, what entranced Joel Meyerowitz about the street is all but dead. Nobodys looking at each other. Everybodys glued to their phones. But street photography still exists? Its thriving but not in the way I used to do it. The best street photographers now show humans dwarfed by ad billboards. The street has lost its savour.

As his work evolved, Meyerowitz became a tougher, indomitable street presence, and yet one like the best photographers able to charm his subjects into giving him what he wants. You can see that in the way he got swimsuited young women to pose guilelessly near his summer home in Provincetown, Massachusetts, for a series of early 80s pictures that prefigured Rineke Dijkstras similar subject matter. How, for instance, he inveigles a red-headed young woman as exotic as a tropical fish to pose for his camera, exposing her freckled arms.

You can see this process most clearly, though, in the pictures Meyerowitz took at Ground Zero. On 9/11 he was out of town, but headed home bent on the idea of photographing the aftermath. When I got to Ground Zero, I had my Leica out and then I got a thump in the back from a cop. They said: You cant take a picture here, buddy, this is a crime scene. Well, I argued with them its a public space, my city, I can do what the fuck I want. And I did.

His subsequent photo essay was a charged memorial to the grandiosity of the ruin, and the people who worked in it, hunting for teeth, bones, anything that might identify victims. The care they invested in this task brought to the vast physical dimensions of the site an intimate, spiritual dimension, he says.

Smoke Rising in Sunlight, New York City, 2001

The following spring, he was in Italy. The world had changed because of 9/11 and so when I saw the thousands of years of continuous cultivation of Tuscan landscape, it was great solace. In Where I Find Myself, Meyerowitz juxtaposes photographs of Ground Zero with the cypresses and fields of Tuscany theres a spiritual dimension to these rural images, too, a renewal by means of natural goodness in the aftermath of evil.

Today, the photographer has definitively swapped the street for the farm, the Bronx for a home in the hills south of Siena. He and his English second wife, the novelist Maggie Barrett, have spent the past four years converting a barn to a rural retreat. Weve uprooted from everything and settled here without family or much in the way of friends, but with each other. Its an experiment in intimacy. We drink tea (his wifes PG Tips) and he serves me week-old ricotta made by the farmer who lives next door.

Meyerowitz has described his urban photography as jazz, a sinuous dance through the streets with a handheld camera. Only later in his career did he add landscape to his repertoire. It happened in Provincetown in the late 70s. I moved every summer to somewhere where life was simple and I started to see differently. And what I saw, I needed to capture with a view camera, an 8×10 camera. With that you dont riff, you dont do jazz. You do what it tells you. So what was the appeal? Everything was rendered with this incredible visual acuity. It blew me away. His Bay/Sky series from the late 70s and early 80s, in particular, purge humans for the essentials of sky, sea and land.

Longnook Beach, Truro, Massachusetts, 1985.

For the past four years, Meyerowitz has retreated from the world into his studio, where he has been photographing humble objects hes picked up from Provenal brocantes and Tuscan junk shops. His work, he thinks, riffs on Czanne and Giorgio Morandis still lifes. Im obsessed with these pictorial puzzles. He started with two or three objects and has now moved on to grand arrangements that remind me of the complicated positioning of humans in his street photos.

Bald, sinewy (half a lifetime ago he missed becoming a US Olympic swimmer by thousandths of a second), and brimming with life, Meyerowitz turns 80 on 6 March. Any plans to retire, I ask, as he shows me out? Artists dont retire. We just move on to new creative obsessions. Well, thats what I do.

Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself is published by Laurence King on 12 March.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us