Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged colors, digital alteration, Photography, photos, pictures, reflection, refraction, sunlight, water on July 2, 2011| 1 Comment »
So one day sunlight came through a window and shone through a glass of water that I had left on a table. A scientist friend of mine explained that what I captured were caustics and that the ripples in the water were acting like lenses refracting the light around. I think I understand most of that. Mostly I appreciated the simple beauty of the lines on the paper and the opportunity to play around with the images later on the computer.
Posted in Branches, Nature Notes, tagged green, life cycle, nature, Photography, photos, pictures, plants on July 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A single plant. Several stages of development. An unexpected find in a local park while out for a stroll.
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged nature, Photography, photos, pictures, shadows, silhouettes on June 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I have a good friend who is working on assignment out west near the Grand Canyon. Occasionally, she will call in to describe the wildlife that she is seeing at dusk and dawn and all hours in between. This morning she left a message about five large elk silhouetted against the evening sky. Later, as I went through my image archives, I found myself being particularly drawn to those subjects cast in shadow. Here are a few that jumped out at me.
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged color, flowers, indoor garden, orange, photograph, photos, pictures, poppies on June 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged animal carvings, friendship, jade, Japan, nostalgia, Photography, photos, pictures on June 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A dear friend used to work in Japan. On occasion she would send me small treasures, like these small pieces of jade.
I found them as I cleaned out an old jewelry box this weekend. The friend and I haven’t spoken in many years. Just different life journeys. I am thinking that I will turn one of these images into a postcard or even a notecard and send to her with words of thanks. A good summer project. 😉
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged caterpillar, green, insects, Photography, photos, pictures, thyme on June 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I don’t know if the little guy was there when I purchased the lemon thyme, perhaps as an egg or a teeny tiny larva. All I know is that recently I’ve been worried about the lemon thyme. Was I watering it too much? Was it getting too much sun? After returning home today, I started watering things and as I watered the thyme I noticed a rolled up leaf. To myself I said, “Hmmm. I didn’t know thyme leaves grew like that.” I leaned to look closer and this is what I saw:
Probably tomorrow morning as I head off to work, I’ll take him outside to let him fend for himself. But if you know what this is, please let me know.
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged colors, golden books, humor, imagination, Photography, photos, pictures, The Color Kittens on June 22, 2011| 1 Comment »
Recently I’ve been lucky enough to spend time with a little friend who loves the book, The Color Kittens. Since with the great authority of a three-year old she has been able to get me and others to read this book aloud again and again, I have been wonderfully reminded how to simply appreciate color in my photography. Not always get caught up in “perfect” captures of clarity, but focus on capturing expressions of color instead.
So, after my most recent reading of Hush’s and Brush’s adventures with different pails of paint, I found myself in Steve’s kitchen staring at a jewel-toned nasturtium blossom curling above a bowl of fruit. Many objects before me but really all I could see was orange. Beautiful orange. Snap. I thought I was done with my camera, but then further poking in cabinets and cupboards and the refrigerator revealed habaneros and some old mac’n’cheese. Snap. Snap.
After a while, no more orange, but red … delicious red was everywhere.
And then the sunlight shifted, and I found myself drawn toward a bit of purple and green … and then green and brown.
And so the day went until, like the Color Kittens, I grew tired. I don’t remember if I dreamed that night, as they did, “of a rose red tree that turned all white” on the count of three, but the next day I did stumble upon the following. Coincidence? 😉
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Cambridge, flowers, gardens, nature, Photography, photos, pictures, roses on June 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged lepidoptera, moths, Photography, photos, pictures on June 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Boston, Charles River, Esplanade, leaves, Photography, photos, pictures, reflections, trees, water on June 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »
As a child I don’t remember being infatuated with reflections, but as an adult … Well, the following are simply tree branches reflected in the Charles yesterday.
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