As the end of November approaches, bare tree branches reach for the sky. Gardens have been put to bed for the year. The world is becoming less colorful. Creatures, large and small are preparing for the long winter months or migrating south. The weather begins to turn colder and The 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…
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…
Thursday morning I visited the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) with a photographer friend. I wanted to photograph color, movement, gesture, and form. While respecting the artistic creations exhibited there, I hoped to find ways to show beauty through using Camera Movement and Abstraction as well as from examining the Read more…
The trumpeter swan cygnets at Lake Camelot Park hatched yesterday. I went to the park without my camera yesterday (of course, just my luck) thinking that I wanted to walk around the entire lake. When I arrived at the park yesterday I saw a gathering of people on the boardwalk Read more…