I know, that doesn’t look much like a photo of a farm. We were fortunate to be able to stay a couple of nights at the farm that Elizabeth’s parents own outside of Benton Harbor. We went into St Joseph for lunch one day and afterwards I went for »
Over a month since I was last in Black Pond Woods at the Leslie Science Center, and while the almost overwhelming color is still »
I thought I would get back out to the Leslie Science Center, or more particularly into the Black Pond Woods. Still thinking of last week’s tree photos, this seemed a great opportunity to hope for something better. Last week I had been looking for the trees against the »
Earlier in the winter, whenever I was walking into town, I would look at all the bare trees along the way and think, they’d make great photos, all that »
Two days before I left Ann Arbor we had the biggest snowfall of the winter. The weekend before, after the previous snowfall came and went, I could see that the snowdrops were already well advanced. Arriving in Palo Alto last Friday, the magnolia in the backyard is already losing »
This year is the 30th Anniversary of the Leslie Science and Nature Center (LSNC) in Ann Arbor. I am one of a large (20+) group of artists who have been invited to participate in a project to create artworks that are based on and relate to the »
Over the summer I’ve been reading various books about the explorations of David Hockney, mostly expressed in the form of interviews. A lot of what he has gotten into is around the idea of perspective, of how the 3-D world is translated into 2-D. He talks »
Well, here we are at the end of the month. I thought I would get back to actually using the camera to take photos. As ever, I certainly saw a lot, of photographs. But it (taking the camera out) never happened. Was it too cold? Were Jill and I too busy doing other stuff? Don’t know, just never got that buzz, to take photos. Thought a lot about photos. What to do with what I have. What new to look for. Just didn’t take any. »
This morning we had an appointment with Jill’s surgeon. Just a follow-up to confirm everything was going OK.
This morning we woke to, what I think I would describe as, a hoar frost, in effect; light rain, freezing rain, light snow, we had it all, but only lightly, and it was very cold. The trees were coated with white hair. »
