Cloud atlas

When people look at clouds they do not see their real shape, which is no shape at all, or every shape, because they are constantly changing. They see whatever it is that their heart yearns for — Jose Eduardo Agualusa No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining! — Mehmet Murat ildan

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Large subjects

My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. Large can be a matter of perspective.  Although I would assume large means bigger than a human being.  You can also show perspective of something real small and then something bigger than the small object.  Let’s see how creative you can get.

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The lion in March

The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies — William C. Bryant In march winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too — Jean Hersey It was one of those March […]

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Marking time

Today when I left my house to go walk the dogs, I managed to leave behind both my mobile phone and my Fitbit. Luckily, I did have my camera with me — because the only way I could tell the time was to take a picture and then check the image display. These are not the most fascinating photographs I’ve […]

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A touch of white

In the midst of some unsettled weather yesterday afternoon, we had a cold rainstorm (in which I got drenched walking home from work!) and even a little bit of snow. Snow isn’t completely unheard of at this elevation (240 ft/73 m above sea level) but it’s certainly a rare event. In fact, at first I thought it was merely hail; […]

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WPC: Variations on a Theme

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of January 24, 2018. This week, show the same thing — an object, place, or person — presented in several different ways. The thunderclouds were so impressive last Friday that as soon as I got home from walking the dog I had to grab my Canon and hurry over to the […]

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Old man and the sea

In my post last Saturday titled House of Sand and Fog, I described how I lost a bunch of images I had shot on our Wednesday afternoon at the coast. Well, I wasn’t the only one dealing with serious disappointment that day. The Big Guy, fishing with a brand new heavy surf rod and coping with pain from a torn rotator […]

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