I Shoot People

I came across this scene last fall. I was crossing Vermont in mid-autumn on an overcast day. I love overcast skies.  While they may not yield grand landscapes with blue skies, the diffusion of the clouds does wonderful things to enrich the colors of everything.

Water so often conveys a sense of tranquility — even though the sea can often be treacherous and the surrounding elements may be filled with motion and hub-bub.  Well, at least it’s a symbol of tranquility to this landlubber.  Sun shimmering over the water even on an overcast day when the sun can scarcely be identified.

This time of year Spring seems interminably distant even though it’s getting near.

For a complicated guy I love simple images.

It’s funny the way autumm creeps up on us. One day the leaves are verdant with chlorophyll, the next day they are crimson. Actually, it doesn’t happen like that.

In truth, many leaves change just like this. Autumn creeps up on us. Color doesn’t always flood into the world, sometimes it creeps in on little cat feet.

Similarly images aren’t always about lines and shapes — sometimes the most important part of the image is the emptiness.

I love this image of an oak brank that I found near Bayfield WI. I hope you enjoy.

Take the ordinary and actually pay attention to it. Notice life. Notice beauty. Fall in love with autumn; fall in love with life.

At a time when our family could easily be pre-0ccupied with my father in law’s health issues taking time to realize who wondrous and amazing the world around us really is.

A little HDR for you.  Wyalusing State Park, near Prairie du Chien, WI

It’s nice to keep in contact with longtime friends.

There aren’t many people who are truly friends. Unfortunately a great many people wont even know why I say that. But, to find someone who will stick with you no matter what other people say and even when you need them most — well, those friends are few and far between.

We had a visitor over the weekend who is just one of those friends. In spite of having moved 300 miles away, almost three years ago we all maintain contact regularly and this weekend they were in town for a funeral.

Not a very pleasant reason for a visit — but it was a visit nonetheless. And getting together is always fun.

It’s good to value things like people in your life. To place them above things and stuff. Not always so easy to do when you run your own business, but it’s a joy anyway.

If there was a drawback to the visit it was simply that we got to enjoy pictures from their recent trip to China — well, more specifically to Beijing.

Why was enjoying something a drawback?

Because now I want to pack my cameras and go see it for myself. Sigh……