The forecast for tomorrow looks promising, at least for those of us who want snow. That would be me! A fresh snowfall changes so much. The long walk I took…
When my old standby lens (Sigma 70-200) died last week, I was feeling the loss and nearly ordered another to replace it. After thinking about it, however, I realized I…
Walking in the woods this week has been a delight. Just enough snow to simplify seeing—shapes, silhouettes, colors all so apparent—and to have a page on which so many stories…
Another lesson I learned, in a workshop I did long ago with John Shaw, has been to just put myself outside walking and enjoying. The light will often not be…
One of the things I’ve learned about making photographs is to move around. If the photograph is not the one I’d hoped to see, that one may be just a…
I enjoy seeing photographs in the world around, even without hearing the click of my camera’s shutter, even without a camera at all. At times I get can become annoyed…
I spent many hours as a child chasing butterflies. I’m afraid many of them ended up chloroformed and pinned into a butterfly collection in the “museum” my brother and I…
Up early to view the Quadrantid meteor shower but I was too late and the city lights too bright to see much of anything. Right time, wrong place! And it was…
I know I can count on friends and family to remind me of who I am because they can really see me, all of me. I’d be lost, really lost,…
Two great lessons in seeing so far this year: • Liz is great at creating. In her mind she saw what it would be like to move a large painting…
