There have been two days of heavy fog this week, very unusual for December in Vermont. With nighttime temperatures well below freezing and no wind, the fog coated the world…
My friend, Rob, and I did get back out to photograph more new ice on Tuesday morning. Conditions were perfect with a clear, still night and temperatures in the ‘teens.…
While many are celebrating Cyber Monday and Black Friday, I’m delighting in “New Ice Week!” Conditions are just perfect this year because we’ve had little snow and some nice clear,…
Winter’s morning light is wonderful for two reasons. First, it happens later! Second, the sun is lower in the sky with more opportunity for back-lit situations. I’ve enjoyed being home…
As you may know, I regularly meet with a group of six other local photographers to share our work with and learn from each other. Inevitably we also edge off…
I love again seeing the bones of the trees. This Black Locust, just down the street and visible from my window, is a gem with its curling branches against the…
Even as winter’s dark days continue to grow longer and dimmer (and humans behave more insanely than ever), I’m again seeing a simplicity in the palette of late Fall colors that moves…
Tomorrow marks eight years since my mother died—her “last, great journey” as she called death. Just a month shy of 96 years old, she was born in China of missionary…
Growing up in Michigan I’d see—actually usually hear—Sandhill Cranes most years but only in ones or twos or small groups during migration. The sounds they made haunted and intrigued, making me…
The human body has been portrayed by artists in all kinds of light and from all different angles and still it can be a gorgeous thing to see. Why not the…
Still Learning To See 