Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, Branches, colors, friendship, gifts, gratitude, Inspiration, leaves, nature, Photography, reflections, textures, water on August 24, 2014| 11 Comments »
I still have rocks to photograph, an acorn cap, and even the wings of a wasp. I am grateful for the “nature offerings” that people give to me with the simple charge of “try photographing this.” Today’s offering that called to me was a branch with many curled leaves. It is an evolving photo shoot that began with the branch on a black plate. And then, as usual, I wondered what would happen if I filled the plate with water. And then, as usual, wonderful things happened, I think.
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged colors, Inspiration, nature, nature photography, Photography, Wright's Pond, Wright's Pond photos on August 11, 2014| 1 Comment »
… for all of the wonderful comments and feedback about the Wright’s Pond photos. Here’s one last image taken before the mosquitoes ran me off. Have a good day. 😉
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Branches, colors, glass, gold, green, Inspiration, leaves, light, Photography, trees, urban landscape, windows on August 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »
a view of the window with curtain sunlit …
and leaves, green and gold, through the rippled glass.
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, On the Road, tagged Branches, flowers, Inspiration, leaves, morning glory, nature, Photography, urban landscape, views, windows on August 4, 2014| 6 Comments »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Arnold Arboretum, birds, hiking, Inspiration, landscape, nature, nesting, Photography, robin on July 8, 2014| 1 Comment »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Inspiration, nature, Photography, Prospect Hill, Somerville, urban landscape on June 19, 2014| 1 Comment »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, colors, Inspiration, nature, oak, Photography, trees, urban landscape on June 10, 2014| 4 Comments »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Boston Back Bay, Branches, colors, Inspiration, leaves, life, nature, neighborhoods, Photography, trees, urban landscape on June 7, 2014| 8 Comments »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, glass, green, Inspiration, nature, oak tree, Photography, sake bottle on June 2, 2014| 7 Comments »
For many weeks, I’ve admired its shape at the window, and how the morning and afternoon light fills its form. A beautiful green vessel, for sure, that empty sake bottle. I’m always shifting things about but that bottle I have not moved since placing it at that window. I began to wonder why.
I think it is the layering of the bottle’s illuminated form against the living, shifting greens of the oak tree outside. As the wind blows and the branches shift, bits of blue sky or gray sky are intermittently revealed. The background is constantly in flux. The scene of bottle against tree is a still life always in motion.
And yet even as I celebrate the serendipitous layering of light and color at the kitchen window, I also could not help but wonder what would the scene reveal with the absence of color.
Simply beauty expressed in a different way.
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, fennel, food, food photography, green, herbs, Inspiration, Photography, shadows on May 27, 2014| 2 Comments »
I purchased the little pot of fennel as an experiment. Just to try growing something I’d never tried before. After an initial mishap involving watering (or lack thereof), the herb seems to be doing alright. Still haven’t really cooked with it yet, but I do love the shadows it casts.
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