05-15-12 Life Star
I took exactly one photo of this flower, in part because I had ventured into my neighbor’s back yard to look at her flowers. To get one photo, I had to step carefully into the middle of her garden and I felt awkward doing this – especially without her blessing. I need to go back. [...]
05-06-12 Warped Reality
If this is too abstract, I’ll tell you what you are seeing. These are water drops on the window that I look through when I am sitting at my computer. It was raining on Saturday and I was captivated by the look of the rain. I took several photos that focused on the rain drops [...]
Real Flowers and Real Dew
A couple years ago I realized that garden flowers look better when they are covered in dew. Since we don’t always have dew in SD, I usually carry a spray bottle with me when I visit my wife’s garden. But on this day, I was wandering around my aunt’s Southern California neighborhood looking for photo [...]
I Teach Photography. . .
I am an amateur photographer but I am a professional educator. I’ve taught English, history and philosophy for over thirty years. But this year I took on the task of teaching photography/media in a new program at the technical college in our town. And it has been a challenge. Today, I sent an email to [...]
Celebrating the Newborn
With billions of leaves bursting into life, who would think that we should revel in the rebirth of photosynthesis? I would. Canon 5DII 1/60s f/2.8 ISO320 100mm
Dewey Buds
These are dwarf lilac buds. The green is tinged with a hint of purple. The buds are also delicately be-dewed. (I am smiling about that last sentence because I rarely get to use a word like “be-dewed.”) One thing I realized when I was taking this photo yesterday morning before I left for work was [...]
Pardon Me, TS Eliot
The poet TS Eliot said that “April is the cruelest month” but I can’t really agree with him on a day like today. There was a sliver of a moon in the east as the sun rose to a crystal clear dawn. There is the promise of warmth in the rising sun. After months of [...]
Verdant
After a week of “warm,” but rainy and depressingly cloudy weather, I can see grass along the edges of our driveway. But the grass is brown, not verdant (“green with growth”). On the way to the mailbox, however, I saw the top of a Rainbird sprinkler head, which made me smile. In a matter of [...]
Incipience, Too
Incipience means “beginning to happen or develop.” When you live in a state like South Dakota, where spring comes late, there is something very special about buds and flowers that are about to bloom. In this case, we are looking at the white flowering crab apple tree right outside our front door. Blooms in this [...]
Incipience
I wandered out into the yard and found these hostas just beginning to unfurl their green and white leaves. Canon 5DII 1/125s f/3.5 ISO400 100mm
The Green Fuse
The first line in the poem by Dylan Thomas “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. . .” came to mind when I took this photo. Chives about to bloom are pretty mundane but I caught them at the right time, with their soft purple color contrasting nicely with the deep green [...]
Iron Creek In Spring
Iron Creek is only a few miles from our cabin in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This small pool has been the subject of my attention many times and this photo was taken in April of 2007. It had rained the night before, which increased the volume of water running through the creek. The [...]
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