Nantucket

Spent a few days on Nantucket island in between college visits, where it was  pretty cold, rainy, and mostly gloomy, however, I always love sky-watching, as maritime skies always changeable.  I came across a pond that was so still as to look like glass, and loved the silvery reflection.

Cherry Blossoms

Leaving this morning for college tours, and knowing the cherry blossoms were opening early, this was my "now or never" morning to photograph them.  I arrived around 6:45am, disappointingly late -- I had to park far away and walk a long way. There was an almost full moon, and it would have been wonderful to have been set up looking to the west to literally "shoot the moon".  I hope everyone has fun on Monday, and I so wish I was coming out to photograph these with you.

In Santa Fe--we are working on a project for the Santa Fe watershed.  Their mission is to help the area become "water neutral".  To do this, they must not only conserve, but find a way to create increased filtration from the arroyos which cover nearly 10 times the area of the Santa Fe river which provides 40% of the water for the region.  The aquifer is in dire straits and thus the effort to revive the arroyos.  Our project is to help the watershed tell their story.  Today we were at the upper end of the Santa Fe River (but outside the Forest Service area which is closed to the public) photographing areas of the river that are in a more natural state.  Tomorrow and Thursday, we will be shooting in areas where there is significant environmental damage.  My images may or may not fit the project, I can't begin to tell at this point--but it was a beautiful place and so I am sharing.  Enjoy. 

Interlopers

footprints at Mono Lake 

Mossy Delight

The blog is alive!

I'm lacking time to comment in detail but am so enjoying all the images here. Snow to spring, a pumphouse that resembles Episcopal style church, curling grasses at Kenilworth, white abstracts, a kayak that looks like a banana, and branches against sunset water, - wow! I will try to post a few from NC and Rock Creek when time allows. Saw skunks today at Little Bennett and we stopped to enjoy and sniff a broken leaf. The skunks are all fresh and intact while the leaves are unfurling tender, luscious green. After several whiffs I think I might enjoy the strange scent. Get Out!

(Top image) A kayaker contemplates the scene; (bottom) Filament branches against evening water.

The last snow on Holmes Run

Recent i phone shots in Richmond

VMFA

VMFA

The Pump House

Pump House Canal

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

Snag Shots - SNP - Cedar Run / White Oak Canyon

Returned to hike favorite streams Cedar Run and White Oak Canyon on a wet day, wondering if a portrait of a loved place could be construed over time, and where the value lay in that. Seeking greens and colors of lichen seems reason enough for me. Where is the value in moss and lichen hues? Festoonment of hard surfaces, having a slow conversation with granite. Why does that attract? This rich looking clothing covering wood and stone sculpts with water and weather thousands of years. Original separate complete culture. Why does that matter? Some basic continuity carries on. Five questions.

The abstract project.  I have been wanted to do a series of white photos.