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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
Writing
A Story of Origins
Photography
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
Writing
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
creativity
One path on a creative journey.
Writing
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
GF500 f5.6
Apologies in advance for my recent enthusiasm for the regular small accumulations of dry light snow. It has been a thin winter. I have had the pleasure the last few days of taking care of my neighbor’s dog Boba. He is a goofy, friendly, and lovable border collie. He
Photography
The very small cadre of followers may know that I like to take my photographs out into the real world on occasion. I have a darkroom where I make black and white prints from my film negatives. I get some of my digital images made into film negatives and then
Pine Street Woods
One thing I have been experimenting with in the last year or two is what I call video vignettes. I have a desire to express something more about the environment than merely a still image. Still images can be quite powerful in how they capture and frame a place and
Photography
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