Milkweed Again
Longtime recipients of my visual excursions may be aware of my fascination with the lowly milkweed plant - Asclepias syriaca. While I am unable to resist the photogenic qualities, I am also in awe of its design in an evolutionary sense. I wonder if nature has created a more perfect example of a living thing engineered [...]
Tapestries
There’s a sorry old pond tucked along side some old railroad tracks nearby. I go there often, because it’s different every time I go. It’s not just about the pond, but the stuff that happens around it. You can always find something, if you just take time to notice.
Abstract Reflectionism I
Tucked in between the back streets of Swoyersville and the railroad track that separates it from Forty-Fort is a tiny little park consisting of a playground, a ball field and a few basketball courts. At the edge of the park, there’s a trail that leads back to a pond. It’s a sorry little pond, with [...]
Ice on the Rocks
It’s really not redundant. This is a modest collection of images consisting of ice on rocks. That’s all. The location has become a favorite of mine. If you’re familiar with the area, park at the trail head where Chase Road meets Route 29 at the confluence of the main and east branches of Harveys Creek [...]
Leaves and Ice
Philadelphia has the Flower Show, New York has the Boat Show, Vegas has the Consumer Electronics Show, but Harveys Lake, PA has the one and only Leaves and Ice Extravaganza! Most people, when they see an icy stream running through a forest, may think “pretty,” but if they’d just look a little closer, they’d be [...]
Amaryllis
Sometime around Thanksgiving, I received in the mail an Amaryllis. Not many people who know me well would think to send me an amaryllis, but I was delighted. I was also apprehensive, as my experience with indoor plants is, well, limited. Nonetheless, I read the directions from Whiteflower Farms with care and was relieved to [...]
Door Frost
Things change quickly in January. Just the other day I was spending a nice afternoon shooting along a river in 50-something-degree sunlight. Today when I got up, I noticed the front door was pretty much covered in frost. The last vestige of it remained after my daily rounds and I noticed the sunlight coming through [...]
Ricketts Glen Up Close
It’s easy to take nice pictures at Ricketts Glen State Park – just point your camera at a waterfall and push the button. But I always try to move in for the details that are too often missed.
Natural Graffiti
So my photo-shooting buddy Phil and I decide to go out for an hour or so to our normally accessible pond, where we can always find something to keep us occupied prior to our traditional breakfast around sunset. Only the pond wasn’t so accessible, due to extreme mud on the path leading to it. Plan [...]
A Short Evening with Franz Kline
Franz Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Sitting on the dock for a bit tonight, I was reminded of him. If you’re not familiar with his work and wonder at my title, this link [...]
Watercolors
I was never much of an artist in terms of drawing or painting, but I can recognize it when I see it. This is a blessing, for it is all around us, if only we’d notice. It occurred to me not long ago that, looking at the water, you can see in it every color [...]