Month: January 2016
arboreal abstraction …
silk rivers …
Mothrid
Same shot, two processes. I love the drama in the first one, but the second one might be more to some folks’ taste.

Infrared filter with some of the purple excluded from the effect
Zephyr Quartet

Zephyr Brewing, RiNo District, Denver
Fringe

Denver Botanic Gardens, Orchid Showcase
a wetland in winter …
Mt. Meeker: Ansel Adams vs Pretty Color Boy
Again, can’t decide which I like better.
Harry the Orchid
One of the things I love most about macro photography is that I get to see things that I might never notice otherwise.
The Angel of Estes Park

Estes Park, Colorado
Ice Blue: Orchidaceae

Orchid Showcase, Denver Botanic Gardens
arches …
tracks …
winterized …
centered …
the nurses all looked over me, as I was ill, in bed.
I posted this picture earlier this year on July 27. I ran into it again today, and my response to it was quite different. Previously, I had titled it, “Middle Age.” I was trying to make sense of the image, make it say something. This time, I found myself reflecting on who I am and my physical health (not great right now). Two different ways of seeing the same thing. From the same person. Nothing remains the same, I guess. Even meaning.
tributary …
Pauchaug Brook, shot long ago on a gray day next to the Connecticut River with an iPhone 4s in Northfield, Mass. …
from chaos, a sublime order.

an interesting take on the traditional “U” shaped motel/apartment court. to the right, four modular additions of trailers, randomly selected apparently. at the back, what appears to be the last of the original brick buildings. to the left, some incomprehensible building used for unknowable things. and dead-center, a large trailer behind the tree. somehow, it works. it reaches uneasily in the mind to being artful.