GF500 f5.6
Since I bought my long lens (500mm f5.6) I have experimented with long landscapes typically taken through a gap in the trees. I have taken to making extreme crops of these and they have a kind of strange appeal to me. The scene is many miles distant and so
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Everywhere we go we always end up here.
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Another Project
GF500 f5.6
Sunday morning and the dog and I are up and out the door. We are heading to church but unlike my fellow townsfolk my church is the forest. I am, however, a devoted parishioner as I worship several times a week if I am able. My hymns are the croak
GF500 f5.6
Mollie and I started the morning a little late. We wanted to visit the chimes again, or at least I did. Mollie is happy anywhere there are woods and fresh snow. We came up a different route this morning from the highway, up a steep climb; one set of tracks
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A Story of Origins
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Blog repost from - July 27, 2019
GF500 f5.6
Mollie is squirrel crazy and their size and motions, clinging to the side of a tree, attracts her attention so she often helps me find them. The pileated is a large woodpecker which the cartoon Woody Woodpecker was roughly modeled after. Like all woodpeckers and the smaller sapsucker they can
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Recorded in their wood are stories we can sometimes read. Flattening a piece of wood. I plane off smooth thin curls of wood. I check the flatness, then plane more, then check, then plane, then check. It won’t flatten. The tree tells me of the hill it grew on
Photography
I have always loved printing my photographs. It is an oft-repeated truth that holding a photograph is special in a way that a screen cannot compete with. I have spent years in the darkroom crafting black and white prints, I have sent my color prints out for professional printing and
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One path on a creative journey.
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I had this startling memory bubble up for some reason in the middle of the night. When I turned sixteen and could drive I could find alcohol and I got drunk one day. I thought it would be good in this exhilarated state to go running through deep snow in