Notes from the Woods

seeing · environment · exploration · photography
Underwater

Underwater

U is for Underwater A class of about 10 are gathered in a high school swimming pool shallow end, each one fiddling around with a variety of vests, clasps and tanks.   Your buddy is next to you giving a helping hand as you were religiously taught in previous classroom...

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Tone

Tone

T is for Tone Or it could be tardy, since I am a day late for this one.  I have been monitoring some website attack activity where my special forces have landed and engaged the Threat.   I have experimented with a few different tones when developing photographs.  ...

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Sustainability

Sustainability

S is for Sustainability An appropriate AtoZChallenge topic for this Earth Day, and any day for that matter.   I have thought about a particular idea regarding sustainability that would really shine light on what we are doing to this planet. We have regulations and...

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Resonance

Resonance

R is for Resonance ...the ability to evoke or suggest images, memories, and emotions With the news today of Prince's death, it certainly triggered a lot of memories back to my high school years.  I probably had Purple Rain on repeat for weeks at a time.     It was a...

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Quiet

Quiet

Q is for Quiet After a long evening of trying to get at the root of some website issues and why my site is being attacked, I need some. A very, very short entry unfortunately... sorry folks.

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Possibilities

Possibilities

One of the greatest hurdles to our own creativity is being able to see possibilities.   Sometimes I see them in the field, other times I see them in development.  Many times I don't see them at all.   Sometimes I instinctively know there is a possibility in something,...

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Order

Order

O is for Order A demanding word for this entry in the AtoZ Challenge.   A command to be given in a disruly courtroom, posed as a question in a restaurant, the organization of books in a library, a clean kept yard.   Yeah, we humans like our order.   No wonder we have...

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Night

Night

N is for Night Night photography is something I have been wanting to do more of.   I got my first taste of it last year with my first photographs of the Milky Way.   This year I plan to try again with the new moon's in May and June.    Last year I went when the Milky...

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Michigan

Michigan

M is for Michigan I suppose it is no surprise for me to pick Michigan for this part of the AtoZ Challenge.   I was tempted to pick something unexpected, but I kept coming back.    A mid-way point in the challenge that shouldn't be done half-assed. It never ceases to...

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