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Posts Tagged ‘Photography’
walking by the charles river …
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Boston, Charles River, colors, feathers, Inspiration, nature, Photography, rivers, walking, water, white on June 23, 2013| 6 Comments »
you should write …
Posted in Guest Contributor, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged family, home, Inspiration, life, listening, musings, nature, outdoors, Photography, prose, siblings, storytelling on June 23, 2013| 6 Comments »
We spoke by phone. I sat in my kitchen in Somerville, MA while my younger brother sat outside his home in Lynchburg, VA. After I had described my latest walk by the water and what I might write about, he said, “Mmmhmm. I think you should write some more about porches.”
“Porches?”
“Yes. About what it’s like to sit on the porch steps at night, in the quiet and in the cool, with fireflies in the distance. They look like stars.”
I imagined him sitting on his little back porch. I thought about the seeds I had sent him and his family. “Next year, I am sending you night blooming flowers.”
“That’s fine,” he said, and then he added, “And you should write about wearing glasses, how we wear them to see clearly, these wire frames that are not heavy but somehow you feel their weight all the time, and if you have long eyelashes you’re constantly batting them against the lenses. Yeah, there’s always contacts … but somehow when you wear glasses and then you sit and you take them off … you can’t see as clearly and yet there is a certain sense of freedom. A weight has been removed. Though your view is a bit blurry somehow you can see with greater clarity the beauty all around.”
“I gave you a blank notebook. Why don’t you write these things?” I say.
“Because you’re the writer,” he said.
the last of the dandelion
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, children, dandelions, family, Inspiration, nature, parenting, Photography, plants, seeds, Talking Writing Magazine on June 20, 2013| 5 Comments »
As spring draws to a conclusion, the last of my dandelions have fallen apart helped by a sudden gust of wind from an open window. I wonder what the summer will blow my way. Meanwhile here’s a gallery of the dandelion images. FYI, the folks at Talking Writing Magazine paired some of the images with an essay by Fran Cronin about a mother letting her daughter go as She’s Leaving Home for college. An excellent read. Check it out. Meanwhile have a good Thursday!
walking through the flower shop
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, blooms, colors, flowers, Inspiration, nature, orange, Photography, plants, spring, yellow on June 19, 2013| 4 Comments »
walking in sunlight
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged childhood, Inspiration, nature, outdoors, Photography, shadows, sunlight, urban landscape, walking on June 17, 2013| 3 Comments »
In the heart of the city, adults don’t tend to say anything. They’ll pass me by and pretend not to notice me as I lean precariously over fences into private property or kneel at the base of trees.
It is the children who ask, even as their parents are sometimes trying to shush them, “What are you doing, lady?”
When I tell them that I am photographing sunlight, they ask, “Well, how do you do that?” And I say with great drama, “Well, the way I choose to photograph sunlight is as it pours over the branches of the trees and creates shadows on the ground.”
The older kids raise eyebrows in disbelief but the younger children, they sometimes nod with great understanding.
cambridge pop-up show next sunday june 23rd
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, Photography Exhibits, tagged art show, arts, Cambridge, colors, exhibit, flowers, nature, Photography, plants, poinsettia, red, Riverside Gallery on June 16, 2013| 2 Comments »
Next Sunday, in Cambridge, MA, the Riverside Gallery will be hosting its annual “50-100-150” Pop-Up Summer Show from 4:00-6:00 PM. It is a juried show featuring 50 pieces of original art available for purchase at $100 each. I am honored to have on display Gordon’s Poinsettia, a set of three prints, all images from a single poinsettia plant, and displayed in a custom 9 x 20 mat. If you’re in the area that afternoon, I hope you’ll stop by.
Riverside Gallery
5 Callender Street
Cambridge 02139
www.facebook.com/RiversideGallery
mug and magnets
Posted in Inspiration, Photography, Publication Updates, tagged angels, architecture, arts, colors, David's Charge to Solomon, Edward Burne-Jones, Inspiration, magnets, merchandise, mugs, Photography, religious, spiritual, Trinity Church in Copley Square, William Morris on June 16, 2013| 2 Comments »
I’m excited to share that now available at The Book Shop at Trinity Church in Copley Square, this mug and two different magnets depicting a photograph I took of the stained glass window, David’s Charge to Solomon. As described in an earlier post, the window was designed by Edward Burne-Jones and executed by William Morris. The entire window is of course fantastic but for me, with camera in-hand, it is the light streaming through these angels that draws my eyes. To see these items and other lovely merchandise, visit the Book Shop in the undercroft (basement) of the church, or you can contact the Shop by phone at 617.536.0944 extension 225.
a lovely transformation
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged botany, calla lily, colors, flowers, gardening, Inspiration, nature, Photography, plants, transformation on June 13, 2013| 3 Comments »
Today the calla lily looks like this.
And just a few days ago it looked like this …
How cool is that? 😉
fragile beauty
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged compassion, Contributing Writer, empathy, essay, family, Inspiration, life, nature, Photography, racism, Talking Writing on June 10, 2013| 7 Comments »
There is a time and place for everything. I guess now is a time and place in my life to collect seashells and rocks and blossoms that I let dry in the sun. As I collect these things, I ponder. Here is a recent essay inspired by a broken bowl of stone and shells: fragile beauty.
the lily lessons
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged calla lily, colors, flowers, indoor gardening, Inspiration, nature, Photography, plants on June 10, 2013| 8 Comments »
I’m not sure when or where I purchased the bulb. In early spring, I was buying stuff to plant at every venue, from fancy nurseries to the Dollar Store. I remember that I found the bulb one day in the bottom of a crumpled bag. It’s label was gone. I still planted it by itself in an orange clay pot. Nothing happened for the longest time. I had to practice my patience skills big time. Then one day, green shoots appeared. A lovely dark green. An amaryllis perhaps? But then the leaves unfurled revealing white spots, providing me with just enough information for some internet research. As the leaves grew tall and spread wide, I kept wondering when the heck would the flower appear. And then one day it did.
It has been fun to photograph, and hard. There are things I see with my eyes that I have yet to capture exactly as I wish with the camera. Variations in color and texture, all of which continue to evolve as the plant grows.
That forgotten bulb at the bottom of a bag has turned into a very lovely learning experience.
