Notes from the Woods

seeing · environment · exploration · photography

Showing Results for: patterns

On Delusion of the Senses

On Delusion of the Senses

This is another aerial photograph, a nadir view, of the Silver Lake dunes in Michigan, taken at about 200 ft (61m) AGL. I admit I didn't see the shape of a human head when I first saw it from the air, but there was certainly enough intrigue about these patterns in the...

read more
Nutrients

Nutrients

These are photos I made in my backyard recently. Most of our trees' leaves have dropped, and our metasequoias are dropping their needles. It makes me think about what various people see when they not only see an image like this but basically how we've culturally...

read more
Agatized Fossil Dinosaur Bone

Agatized Fossil Dinosaur Bone

This is a piece of dinosaur bone I purchased a while ago when I was going a bit crazy with seeking out interesting patterns for my Stonescapes series of images. I was attracted to the unique pattern and colors, something I was completely unaware could happen with...

read more
Lava in my yard

Lava in my yard

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...

read more
Revisiting older work

Revisiting older work

Fall arrives today (for us here in the Northern Hemisphere at least - context is important!), and I spent some time hunting for images for my Facebook cover photo that I have been changing with the seasons.   I have been doing this collage design for a couple of...

read more

How far down the rabbit hole will you go?

Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole? Neo: You could say that. Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically,...

read more