This week we have been enjoying Christmas with Jill’s folks in Palo Alto. Yesterday we headed up to Sebastopol to catch up with a couple of her friends. On the way we stopped at the de Young Museum (part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco). The highlight was the David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition, »
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We were driving away from the lodge at Shawnee State Forest. Time to go home. We were off, for us, to an early start. Obviously not early enough. As we came down the hill towards Turkey Creek Lake, we saw this fabulous mist sitting on the lake. »
When we drove south yesterday we were listening to Dianne Rhem on Michigan Radio and her guest was Billy Collins, former poet laureate. I forget now how they got on to it, but he was talking about how he went through this period when everywhere he went, as he »
I frequently feel that I lack the words to talk about a photograph, even to describe my photography in general. What am I taking a photo of? Well, that’s maybe the problem, I don’t really look to make photographs with an obvious subject. But something inside must be happening while I take the picture. »
I was out for a walk this afternoon. Recently, going down by the Huron River in town has been a favorite. Cross the river on the Broadway Bridge and reach the path towards the University Hospital at the city canoe put-in. Mostly I’ve been on the bike, and yesterday followed the Washtenaw Border-to-Border trail all the way to Ypsilanti. »
I’ve been trying to track down exactly where some of my older photographs were taken. They’ve been cataloged in Lightroom, so I know when they were taken easy enough, and I know what the event or excursion was, what the general location. But the specifics are pretty bare. I’ve been using a combination of Google Maps and Ordinance Survey maps to try and come up with better captions. For this photograph, I had a pretty clear memory of much of the hike, and I knew the general area, so I started zooming in with Google Maps. »
I was out cycling last weekend, and I’d come down the track along the Huron River, through Gallup Park and was on the bridge on E Huron River Dr when I saw these 3 geese sitting on a log. I had my camera with me. I started photographing from a number of positions along the bridge. Finally I looked at the LCD to check how things are going. »
The last few years we have enjoyed a number of long-distance train rides, curtesy of Amtrak. I’ve managed to get quite a few photographs I like despite the challenges (previously described). So many in fact, that now I am looking forward to my 2015 calendar and using them »
I’ve started thinking about my calendar for 2014. I know, the bookstores started getting their stocks on display in June. Not to worry. I’m thinking of doing black and white photographs of trees. I discovered a ‘new’ place to hike in town this weekend, at County Farm Park. Not »
This week is “Art Fair”. There are actually 4, or maybe even 5, separately organized fairs going on around town simultaneously. It’s most clear it’s this week because the weather is so ‘bad’; as in, this is the week the heat and the humidity both peak, at »
