Who needs all this misery and pain? Having just spent a month with covid, I certainly don’t. But I know rolling over and going back to sleep, while it did…
Here in Vermont the inevitable annual changes in our natural world are well underway. The sun, of course, drives them all with less solar energy reaching us due to shorter…
I alluded in a post this week to the challenges of photographing snow. While some are easily met—like increasing exposure so the brights remain bright—others continue to be challenging; honestly…
One of the true joys of new snow in the winter is seeing the landscape as a great, clean easel! Animal tracks are often the first “paint” to appear, along…
In my upcoming solo photography show at the Highland Center for the Arts, I’ll not be showing many photos of snow even though it is a “near cousin” to frost…
Frost can form under a variety of weather conditions but in all cases frost derives from water vapor rather than liquid water and it forms on a particle or surface…
I find it too easy to glide through a day never actually seeing the remarkable world in which we live. Thankfully, looking at the world through my camera lens helps…
When water vapor freezes, frost or snow result. This can happen even at temperatures above 32°F (0°C)! A “seed” of some sort is needed—a speck of dust, a spider web—on…
As I change the calendar page, it is clear we are in the midst of the transitions I’ve grown used to seeing happen. The long, beautiful light and shadows of…
I’m in the process of looking over hundreds of my photographs of ice for a show going up in September. This is a good way to spend a very warm…
Still Learning To See 