I played with the sun a little on this morning; playing hide and seek throughout the macro view of the camera lens. This is a whole series dedicated to seeing differently. It felt like a great extension of my current desire to take a look closer at stuff. The bright morning sun gave a little … Continue reading Shinning Through #2
Shinning Through #1
I played with the sun a little on this morning; playing hide and seek throughout the macro view of the camera lens. This is a whole series dedicated to seeing differently. It felt like a great extension of my current desire to take a look closer at stuff. The bright morning sun gave a little … Continue reading Shinning Through #1
Pre-Spring Colours – A Delicious Palet of Subtle Hues
There are so many reasons I love Spring and they all have to do with the surprises that pop out after the snow melts. I get excited and impatient to see it all! I've almost always focused on the small wildflowers hiding under all this dead stuff, but this time I looked closely at the … Continue reading Pre-Spring Colours – A Delicious Palet of Subtle Hues
On The Edge Between Winter & Spring
In a nearby field, there are these relatively nondescript boulders; cracked and crumbling. From afar they look nothing special. Get up close and see something completely different. The boulder is made up of millions of smaller quartz crystals. It's what I imagine the underskin of a geode might look like. I wonder if the inside … Continue reading On The Edge Between Winter & Spring
Morning Shadows
My practice during this isolation has been to wake up every morning, look out the window and exclaim (in my head) gratitude for some aspect of what I see. Mostly, it's 'thank you's for the sunshine, amazing coloured skies, or the peace of windblown trees. On this morning the sun was especially amazing. It cast … Continue reading Morning Shadows
A Tidy Nest-Making Kit
I'm not sure if someone was trying to make a nest under the snow; if this was a nest for the tiny field mice we see nibbling the backed scraps we throw out for the squirrels, or if this was a bundle prepared by one of the many industrious birds we see in our yard. … Continue reading A Tidy Nest-Making Kit
Left Hanging
The wind blows all sorts of things around our backyard. I wonder if it's something dropped by the industrious robins who build nests in our trees if it's part of a previous year's gardening efforts or part of the winterizing efforts I engage in every Fall. Whatever its origins, I wouldn't have noticed it unless … Continue reading Left Hanging
Leaf
On my first walk following the isolation edits, I wandered with my daughter, contemplating what all this would come to. The world seemed scarier, emptier, lonelier. Everywhere I looked I saw signs of death. Oddly, it was a very sunny Spring day and the weather was beautiful. My mood was influencing my vision. A small … Continue reading Leaf
Hellish Night
I returned at sunset to see what colours might have changed on previous images. The gargoyle looked different. There were more colours on the surface of the stone, but it was the glow of the sky that changed the whole mood of the picture. I cropped the image more to the right to highlight the … Continue reading Hellish Night
Growth & Beauty
We inherited these ratty old shrubs in front of our house when I bought my house a decade ago. They had been trimmed in all sorts of bad ways and needed to rebound. In the first year, I added new earth around their bases, watered them carefully, trimmed off the dead branches, and hoped for … Continue reading Growth & Beauty
The New Renaissance Mindset 