Notes from the Woods

seeing · environment · exploration · photography

What’s in a name?

Sometimes everything   Being a nature photographer, sometimes I question whether it is better to be literal about the subject matter in labeling an image, or try to be a bit more creative and give it a unique 'figurative' name   Especially with my rock abstracts, I...

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Seeing stones

.  "While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." -. Dorothea Lange.  .  This is one of my favorite quotes because...

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Rose Plume Agate & Pietersite

Rose Plume Agate & Pietersite

Some of the samples I have been photographing are nothing short of amazing in so many ways. I have added a couple more Pietersite pictures and a new one, Rose Plume Agate. To contemplate how nature formed something so absolutely fascinating to look at, the fact that...

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Pietersite macro art

Pietersite macro art

Pietersite is one of the gem rocks I have become fascinated with lately, and have been photographing some samples as part of my 'Inspired by Stone' project. It is named after its discoverer, Sid Pieters, a farmer who discovered it in Namibia, Africa in 1962. Since...

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