The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of April 22, 2016. This week, turn the concrete and familiar into something new and mysterious. This is a really fun challenge, and it’s the sort of thing I like to do on my own, now and again — especially if I’m feeling a little bored and uninspired by my surroundings. […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of April 8, 2016. The past and the present might be open to interpretation, but are still constrained by the reality of what was and is. The future? It’s tremendously intangible, brimming with possibility. No, it’s not a Delorean, but it’s still a sort of time machine. In our modern age, when so many […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of April 1st 2016 is Landscape. This week, it’s all about landscape photography. Show us your best establishing shot, out in nature or in an urban setting. Landscape is a word with a number of definitions. The American Heritage dictionary defines landscape as either a noun, i.e., “A view or vista […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 25, 2016. Share a photograph inspired by a favorite poem, verse, story, or song lyric. Bonus points if you share why the particular text resonates with you. (Though you certainly don’t have to!) If you’re not feeling especially literary or musical this week, see if you can capture the […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 18, 2016: There’s rhythm and motion all around us — this week, let’s capture some of it in a photo. Following on from my post on Native Californians yesterday… These photos were taken by my dad back in 1972, in Northern California.
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 11, 2016: One love refers to the universal love and respect expressed by all people for all people, regardless of race, creed, or color. —The Urban Dictionary This post is late, since for me the past week has been One Of Those Weeks™, but I really wanted to share what’s been on my mind. Recently I’ve been reading Dee Brown‘s classic book, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. I also went to visit (for the first time) a local park where the remains of a historic Maidu village are preserved, along with an attached museum. By coincidence, I’ve also been sorting through some of my very old photos, including some taken at the Miwok site called Chaw sé, also known as Indian Grinding Rock State Park. All this has given me a lot to think about. The Maidu village was perfectly located near a water source, and amid heritage oaks and other trees and plants. All the resources — water, earth, rocks, acorn, willow, tule — and the abundant animal life meant that the people had everything they needed to live well. They lived in connection to the earth, without wasting their resources and in full appreciation of all the earth provided to them. In the Miwok tribal roundhouse, they celebrated all the richness of these gifts and carefully passed on to the next generation the stories and traditions […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of March 4, 2016: “The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords having a pleasing effect; the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole.” Working in harmony traveling in harmony Gliding in harmony Pedaling in harmony
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 26, 2016: “This week, let your inner world and the outside one converge in a photo.” I was seriously doubting I would be able to complete this week’s challenge; this may be a lesson to me to pay much more attention to what’s going on inside myself while I’m looking through the camera lens! But then I remembered a solo hike I took a few weeks ago, near the end of January. I walked from my house and across the bridge to Old Folsom (about 3 miles one way). It was a cool, cloudy day; it had been raining the previous day, and as I crossed the bridge the rain began pouring down again. I was wearing my new rain jacket which reached only just below my hips, so my trousers and boots were soon soaked. The rain abated by the time I reached Sutter Street — where I was pleased to discover a farmer’s market I never knew about, and managed to dry out a little. And as I started on my way back across the bridge in the direction of home, it was obvious I wasn’t the only one braving the elements to get some exercise. Still, as the cold rain returned and continued beating down, I found myself trudging along a deserted bike trail. I was cold and wet, and even though I’d walked this path countless times before, the warmth […]
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