This morning after going to the exercise class that I love to hate (though it’s good for my body it’s really hard work!) I decided to take A Walk before the Rain at nearby West Medicine Lake Park. The sun was still shining through thin clouds and lots of people Read more…
Here is my next photo/essay in my project series of photos and essays (#6)… Feathered Friends As a child growing up on an Iowa farm I was surrounded by animals. Our farm had milk cows, chickens, ducks, hogs, and cattle. Because both my parents worked so hard caring for all Read more…
Often when I make photographs I think about Seeing the Unseeable Through the lens of my camera I look deeply into the marrow of life to discover its hidden order, its rhythms, the luminant transparency of it all. I want to look deeply into the nature of things and see Read more…
I went for a hike in the woods this morning. At first glance the landscape looked gray and uninviting. Almost all of the leaves have fallen. And the trees stand like tall silent sentinels against gray skies. Fallen branches and trees are scattered on the forest floor. Still, by slowing Read more…
Here is my fourth photo and essay in my current photography/writing project. This is a shorter essay than those I wrote before. I plan to revisit it later to see if I have more to say on this topic. Writing a new essay for each photograph gets a little more Read more…