exploring nature’s infinite connections
Creature Feature was a television series of back-to-back movies popular in the 1970s/80s that was broadcast nationwide and here in Detroit on UHF WKBD Channel 50. (How many of you remember UHF dials on the TV? 🙂 ) I spent a lot of time watching that particular...
Continuing with my previous post on this new project exploring the shapes, textures, and colors of some fallen leaves in my yard, this post includes a few more "characters" to be found. Working with these reminded me of my time spent in 2017 during the last solar...
Leaves have started to drop on some trees here, but Autumn colors are only just getting started. Some trees always seem to want to get a headstart, especially a few in our yard. While leaf piles have always been a favorite subject of mine, it is a bit too early for...
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...
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...
While sitting in my yard this past week on a breezy, warm spring day, I was hearing a lot of objects falling to the ground, much like you would expect in a hail storm. My first assumption is usually an angry squirrel throwing things down at intruders, but the quantity...
A Monday quick thought - many photographers lament the time in autumn after the leaves fall off of the trees. "Stick season", or "season of brown" are common references after the commonly sought after fall color scenics have passed. I actually look forward to this...
A question I often struggle with when working with abstracts is when it comes to the name. Do I label it with what it is, or what I imagined it is? Words accompanying any art can be quite suggestive. And while part of me wants the viewer to interpret what such...