WPC: Seasons
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 19, 2016. Folsom Crossing, north end — April 2015 Folsom Crossing, south end — October 2015 Folsom Crossing, south end — January 2016
Things That Are Smooth
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge for this week is Things That Are Smooth: “Anything that your hand and touch and it feels smooth is allowed in this week’s challenge.” Birch trees at Caples Lake. Velveteen rabbit — smooth coat and liquid eyes. Pure silk in pink and purple (Artyarns Regal Silk).
Fire in the sky
Yet another beautiful sunset…
WPC: Life Imitates Art…
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 12, 2016. … or maybe Art imitates Life! A mural seen inside the local Bass Pro Shops outlet, and two fishermen in their aluminum boat on Lake Natoma.
Cold As Ice
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Things That Are Cold. Here in the eastern Sacramento Valley, even in winter it rarely gets cold enough to snow. Sometimes we do get a serious freeze — and on this particular morning I discovered the tiny “pond” in our old wheelbarrow had frozen over. I couldn’t resist grabbing my camera and playing with the ice! That’s ice. Ice, baby.
Painting with Clouds
A Snail’s-Eye View, Part 2
What really helped kick off my current obsession with ground-level macro was my discovery of photographer Kim Leuenberger and her completely awesome Traveling Cars Adventures series. I wanted to put my own spin on her idea, so I took a tiny ’55 Chevy Nomad and a mini 2001 Mini Cooper to the coast with me and played with a couple of […]
Clear Lake, Sunny Days
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Things That Are Hot. It’s late May, and we are staying in a small cabin on the shores of beautiful Clear Lake — one of the oldest lakes in North America — during our annual fishing trip with family and close friends. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours on the deck of an […]
A Snail’s-Eye View, Part 1
Two of my very favorite books growing up, and even to this day, have been Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice was always shrinking and growing and being forced to examine her world in completely new ways. I liked to play at being Alice: peering toward the edges of mirrors and pretending that backward […]