Archive for the ‘Branches’ Category
in the branches
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged birds, hawk, Inspiration, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape on December 29, 2016| 1 Comment »
water and stone
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Charles River, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, urban landscape, water on December 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
there is no deeper meaning
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, tagged beauty, colors, flowers, Inspiration, Photography on December 27, 2016| 1 Comment »
I simply needed to move. To get up. To get unstuck. And so I rose and walked over to the flower vases. They sit upon one of the small tables in the kitchen. I am a very lucky person … they are currently full of flowers.
I selected a stem and tugged free a few petals, arranged them on a plate, in no particular order except for the order they formed upon falling. More flowers I picked …
With the motion eventually came a bit of creative release. And joy at the beauty I have before me.
I am a very lucky person. 🙂
leaves in the hallway
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Inspiration, leaves, nature, nature photography, Photography on December 8, 2016| 3 Comments »
I’m not sure how long they’ve been sitting in the hallway. Leaves I picked up while walking home. The intent was to photograph them, and today just seemed like the right time.
branches outside my window
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Inspiration, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape on December 3, 2016| 1 Comment »
The oak tree has nearly lost all its leaves. Light now fills formerly dark spaces expanding the area for my indoor winter garden. 🙂
branches at belle isle
Posted in Branches, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, Inspiration, nature, Photography, salt marsh on December 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »
the last few leaves
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, Inspiration, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape on November 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »
sticks and stones on my path
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, tagged beauty, Charles River, colors, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, poetry, urban landscape, water on November 9, 2016| 2 Comments »
One day I went wandering by the river because I felt a little lost. I thought I might find focus on the leaves fallen in the water but the sun was at such an angle that I could not get the right shot. Â I kept wandering by the river, in hope, still focusing my camera on the leaves.
A leaf or two I did find but they were not exactly what I sought and so I continued my journey by the river, in hope, seeking something, though I knew not exactly what.
I grew cold and frustrated. There I stood on the banks of the Charles River knowing I had to give up.  As I paused, undecided of my direction, my eyes rested on the waters — you see, the sun was so low it was hard for me to look up.
Waters lapped upon the shore, cascaded over the rocks and swirled small broken branches about. A lovely sight especially when I realized in the water the blinding light was subdued. It was a delight.
No doubt there was beauty behind me and there would be beauty before me but on this particular journey I found the beauty right in front of me. And that’s what I chose to photograph.
a different enduring and edible beauty
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged beauty, broccoli, cooking, food, food photography, fractals, Inspiration, mathematics, patterns, Photography, romanesco broccoli on November 7, 2016| 2 Comments »
When a certain physicist I know tells me excitedly that he picked up something really cool for me to photograph from the farmer’s market, I know that it will undoubtedly be an edible object that in some way visualizes some fundamental principle about how the world works. In this case it was a head of romanesco broccoli with its beautiful repeating pattern that is a “natural representation of the Fibonacci …Â a logarithmic spiral where every quarter turn is farther from the origin by a factor of phi, the golden ratio.” (source)
Indeed! Well, I did have fun photographing it. When I thought I was done, I put away my camera and picked up a knife. It was time for dinner, you see. But then at the look on the physicist’s face, I put the knife down and said, “Uhm, would you like the honors?” And so he gently broke it apart revealing and reveling in the ever smaller yet repeated pattern of the larger broccoli.
In the end he sauteed the little bits in garlic and olive oil and topped it with a bit of cheese. Quite good. And there remained just enough of the veggie to place in a little ramekin. “Like a little Christmas tree,” he said. “We could decorate it with baby capers!” I don’t think so but it looks like I will have the opportunity to photograph this tasty mathematical subject a while longer.
the fig leaf
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged family, figs, green, Inspiration, leaves, nature, Photography, tea, trees on October 19, 2016| 1 Comment »
I finally found the leaf, curled but not crumbled, at the bottom of a bag. It survived the trip from South Carolina through three states before returning to Massachusetts. It came from a tree in my uncle’s yard originally planted by his wife. One day at the kitchen table she mentioned making a cup of fig tea. I’d never heard of such a thing.
She pointed to the tree outside, wide canopied with dark flat leaves, and said it was too bad we hadn’t been visiting when the branches had been weighted down with fruit and the birds were all about. She sometimes made a jam, she said, but this year she just pulled off some leaves to dry and make tea. As I snapped off my leaf, I promised to photograph it as it dried and then its final journey into tea. She laughed.
I think this leaf has a bit more drying to do and until then makes a fun photographic subject.
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