Bella Italia
I’ve been to this location at least a dozen times now, and each time it is different. I love that. The new groves of olive trees are adding texture to the sloped around the house, and the foreground field had beautiful purple-rose colors of clover. It added a lot to the scene, along with [...]
Discoveries
I walked by this garden for several weeks before the tree blossomed. I had seen the stone ‘river’ and liked the s-curve, but it wasn’t a photo – yet. It was too plain, things hadn’t greened up, and it just wasn’t working photographically. Until Spring hit- and the tree bloomed, and the blossoms rained [...]
Thoughts behind the man-Freeman Patterson
While sorting through my file cabinet the other day, I came across an old paper; it was a one-page article on Freeman Patterson, an interview of sorts with him, published in Reader. Can’t even recall what the ‘Reader’ was! But I always loved the conversation with him that they published. Here’s the opening excerpt: [...]
A Second Chance
Several years ago, I was at Olmsted point in Yosemite, and was fascinated with the puzzle-piece-like shapes of glacial ‘polish’ – pieces of stone that had quite literally been polished – worn smooth – by the sliding of a glacier over the top of it. As I stood there, I tried to imagine what it [...]
Colorado Fall Color!
Not much time yesterday to photograph as I drove up from Cortez but my-oh-my, the colors were getting spectacular. I had to stop twice though. It was mid-afternoon and not typically when you might head out for landscape photography, but it all depends on the slope of the land. These trees were getting backlight, high [...]
