Archive of journal entries re "trees"

I didn’t think we ever saw mist here

Colin OBrien

I feel like we never see mist locally. It might just be that I grew up with real, dense fogs. Or that I’m not normally one for getting out of bed early, and so the mist has always gone already by the time I look out the »

If all the controls are visible, you have to look at them

Colin OBrien

One of the things I like about my camera is that almost all the controls/settings, certainly the ones I use most, are all external knobs and dials rather than being buried in menus. Before heading home from Burr Oak State Park we went for another hike, the opposite direction »

Compose for the scene and wait for something to happen

Colin OBrien
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We were in S Ohio to visit the sister of one of Jill’s college friends and her husband and staying at the lodge in the Burr Oak State Park. We had gone for a short walk after we arrived and the next morning I went to see if the »

Moving west from Dexter-Huron

Colin OBrien

Another week, another Wednesday, another warming, and another walk. We decided to stop at the Dexter-Huron Metropark. The trails had not been cleared of snow, but it was walkable, although it meant it was a a little slower for Jill.

For the most part, the trail was not »

Moving in Eberwhite at sunset

Colin OBrien

I tend to go for a walk every day, frequently into town and back, typically leaving around 4 so that I can get to the post office before last collection at 5pm. Over the last couple of years, if there is no need for anything downtown, I have tried »

When the weather warms, we get moving

Colin OBrien

When the weather warms, we venture further from home and go for a walk, hopefully combining trees and water. I don’t take the tripod, normally only one lens, maybe two. The point is mainly to have a walk with Jill, but I also use it as an opportunity to »

Time to get moving

Colin OBrien

I originally wrote this in January, 2021. Now it is August and almost two years since I had my annual check up with my doctor and he thought I should get the heart murmur he could hear checked out.

So it was exactly a year since my surgeon declared that »

SNPA print goes on tour

Colin OBrien
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The print of my SNPA runner-up joined the rest of the exhibition this week as it started its tour around Scotland at Moray Art Centre. To celebrate this, and to get going on redoing all the portfolios, etc on my websites, I have started a new project gallery, Forestry, Woodland, Trees and also redone all of the galleries on my UK site. I won’t be able to make it to this exhibition, so I’m hoping they will send me some photos soon and I can update this entry.

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Runner-up SNPA 2018 Environmental

Colin OBrien
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Delighted, honoured, grateful for this recognition of this sample from my series looking at forestry management & woodlands & their effects on »

Planted Trees

Colin OBrien

First day in Seattle was all about the poetry chapbooks (sort of). We went to see Mary Shea a friend of Jill’s oldest friend in Ann Arbor, Jean and the person responsible for a lot of the cover designs and placement of illustrations in the books. »