Flowers Sand Art - Hope for Japan & Christchurch NZ - O Mio Babbino Caro - Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

In the heartbreaking aftermath of earthquake, tsunami, cyclone, floods in Japan, New Zealand, Australia and continuing situation in Japan; I recommend this as a momentary meditation, to help to slow breathing and feel hope rising.. Take a few minutes, see and hear and breathe... and believe.. with hope comes life !

The sequence of drawings created with stop-motion animation narrates the blossoming wild daisy flowers' journey and life cycle.

The "clearings" of the light table are not random. Each clearing is a new stage as the flowers moved through their life cycle.

When the daisy flowers lost their petals and drooped, they seemed to be entering their final stage. But surprisingly they began lifting their heads again ! The withered flower heads opened up revealing many emerging buds with new flowers - the seeds, which fly away with the wind.

My artwork was created using sand on a home made light table.
Capturing the images was done with a digital SLR.
Over 600 images were captured, eventually about 500 images were chosen that reflected the natural progression of the life cycle of wild daisy flowers.

Canopus Edius was used to edit down the intial 600+ images down to 500.

The duration of each picture was set before the adding of any music.

The music by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was my first and only choice to perfectly express the emotion of wonder and joy of the blossoming, withering, then re-emerging of flowers.

The music track was purchased online using BigPond Music Australia.

Please view my blog for photos of the inspiration for this video :)
http://naturefriend.blog.com/

http://www.kiritekanawa.org/

Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro
Playing at Kings Park, Perth on Feb 25, 2011

http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/dame-kiri-te-kanawa-to-perform-in-ki...

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[funkichooki]

I love this video. It always makes me smile. It flows so beautifully with the music, and it shows the amazing miracle of life that we often don't even notice.

[Tarzbloke]

There is art in every frame. Much more than just a series of flower pictures.

Beautiful artwork.

[jikkehond]

Beautiful form of art in this nice video with th singing of Kiri. Have a created week, ♥♥Jeannette♥♥

[AussieEskimo]

You could of done another stop motion on me trying to pick my jaw up off the floor.. this is amazing!!! What did you use to shoot and edit it?

[MrDenhugh]

Wow so beautiful Your daughter shared this with me and I love it. Great choice of music.

[Peterbyl1]

Mitzi I am speechless...!Wow! Amazing talent! It's a beautiful life!

[agirlandherchihuahua]

This is so beautiful :) I think I'm going to watch this every night before I go to sleep!! It's so calming and inspiring :D