exploring nature’s infinite connections
September started with a cool nip in the air this morning, and a cooler nip is forecasted for tomorrow morning. Down to a nice 54°F/12°C. A change that I've been craving...badly. The other day I asked my wife "what temperature do we need to get rid of these...
Large format photography is something that never caught on with me. My loss I know. I suppose by the time my interest really kicked in with photography, I was so inundated with 35mm film equipment and wish lists that I never had much time to look into anything else. I...
This classic line from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (one of my favorite films) is from a bewildered Han Solo as he was trying to get the Millenium Falcon to jump to hyperspace to escape the Empire. It is highly symbolic of some website issues I've been having...
Contemplating what draws us to certain subject matter can be quite a thought-provoking exercise. For many photographs, there is typically a careful, deductive thought process going on. Whether it is a conscious one or not also plays a part. With time often being a...
A bit of a blood donation and luck contributed to this image of this 10-point white-tailed deer the other day. Sadly we don't have them in our backyard much anymore. Ever since getting a taller fence (necessary for dog retention) - I have never seen them in our yard....
This image is a variation of a beach rock photo I did nearly 10 years ago. Checking the time stamp, it was exposed about 15 minutes before the one I developed back then. It's a bit different in composition, with different varieties of rocks. I am not sure why it sat...
For those unfamiliar with Europa, it is one of Jupiter's 79 known moons with a water-ice crust. There is a hypothesis that life could exist in the oceans beneath this crust. I read a book by Jeremy Robinson, Beneath, about an expedition to Europa some time ago, a...
One of my favorite quotations is from Claude Monet stating: In order to see, we must forget the name of the thing we’re looking at. I've seen this sentiment appear in advice from many other artists and famously implemented by Edward Weston in his pepper series...