This is what I noticed on my daily walk on the “civilized” section of our road this afternoon.
Why I had never seen this before? Hmmm!
20 February 2018
28 January 2018
Dereliction, Too
On Friday, I had a leisurely lunch and great conservation with my friend Victor at Fiddleheads in Hancock. After we parted ways, I meandered back home looking for photographs.
A while back, I photographed a derelict truck. Derelict buildings also have a place in my heart. I have passed this old house many times but never stopped to photograph it before.
Dereliction, Too - Door
Dereliction, Too - Icicles
Dereliction, Too - Details #1
Dereliction, Too - Spade Handle
Dereliction, Too - Window Detail
Dereliction, Too - Tom
Dereliction, Too - Details #2
24 January 2018
Wintry Mix
Monday night into Tuesday (yesterday) we had a wintry mix of precipitation. The temperature hovered right around freezing and, depending on the moment, it was raining, sleeting or snowing.
By early afternoon, the precipitation stopped and just before sunset, blue sky began to appear.
Overnight it warmed up some and by morning most of the ice coating the vegetation was gone. I wish that I could say the same for the driveway!
The first five photos below were made yesterday afternoon, after moving the daily ration of firewood. The remaining four were made this afternoon while on my daily walk down the road.
Twig Under Ice
Pine Under Ice #1
Beech Leaf Under Ice
Pine Under Ice #2
Ice Storm / Breaking Weather
Winter Berries Under Ice
Ice Abstraction #1
Ice Abstraction #2
Ice Abstraction #3
22 January 2018
Self-Portrait With Hat
I would not, in any way, describe myself as a portraitist.
However, some times one needs to get out of one’s comfort zone. Thus, I have volunteered to make portraits at the Antrim Senior Center for Valentine’s Day.
Last week, I bought a lighting set (LED lights, stands, umbrellas, etc.) suitable for portraiture.
This afternoon, with a 33 degree drizzle happening outside, I decided to get some portraiture practice. I set the lights and camera up in the basement and corralled the closest subject… ME!
The last of these photos is modeled after a late nineteenth century ancestral portrait which hung in my in-law’s house. The stern look and the unusual pose always intrigued me.
Self-Portrait #1
Self-Portrait #2
Self-Portrait #3
19 January 2018
An Interesting Mile
These days, I often walk the mile between our house and the bridge down by the lake.
Some times, I take my camera along on the walk.
This sort stretch of rural road contains much of interest if one looks closely.
Mailbox?
Stop?
Icicles
Danger?
53 - Feather
No Trespassing
Passing vehicles, leave traces on our snow covered dirt road that would be missed if it were paved.
Tracks #1
Tracks #2
Tracks #3
Tracks #4
Tracks #5
8 January 2018
What Is White?
A few days ago (before the “big storm”) Joan and I made a snowshoe trek on Gregg Lake. I noticed all sorts of interesting wind-made patterns in the snow on the lake. I had not taken my camera with me on this day and the sky was overcast. Thus the light was flat and boring.
Yesterday, noting that the wind had cleared most of the fifteen inches of snow that had come down in the “big storm” from the ice and that the light was “nice” (there were high, thin clouds but the light was still fairly hard), I had the notion to head out on the lake again with my camera.
I waited until mid-afternoon, when the sun would be low but not so low that the lake surface would be in shadow, strapped on my snowshoes and headed down to the lake. The temperature was about 10 degrees F. It was about 3:15 when I arrived at the lake and already about a third of the surface was in shadow. I spent the next three-quarters of an hour chasing the edge of remaining sunlight across the lake and making photographs all the way.
The title of this post refers to the notion that, although all of the snow I saw was ostensibly white, in reality white is merely an illusion.
Winter Abstract #1
Winter Abstract #2
Winter Abstract #3
Winter Abstract #4
Winter Abstract #5
Winter Abstract #6
31 December 2017
Adams Dozen — 2017
In keeping with a tradition that I began back in 2011 (see this post), here is my “Adams Dozen” for 2017.
It was not an easy selection. (It never is!) I could have easily chosen a dozen just from either the trips* we made this year.
Instead, I tried to choose photos from throughout the year from both “exotic” locations as as well as from the “neighborhood”.
Barred Owl
Pine Bough in Snow
Willet with Prey
Green Anole
Meetinghouse (Greenfield, NH)
Juvenile Green Herons
View of Brattleboro, VT
American Rubyspot (female)
Rutting Bison #2 (Yellowstone NP)
Mountain Bluebird #2 (Yellowstone NP)
Autumnal Abstract
Derelict Truck
*Florida in March or Yellowstone and other points out west in September.
21 December 2017
Park Hill Meetinghouse
Back in September, I “discovered” the Park Hill Meetinghouse in Westmoreland, NH. The photos, I made on that day were okay, but the sky was a “nice” even overcast gray. In that post, I said that I would be heading back in November looking for a better sky.
Well, I have been trying for at least two months to get the right combination of sky and light, so that I could make “the photo” of this wonderful meeting house. The weather has not cooperated, we have had many overcast days and some completely clear blue sky days and rarely anything in between.
Yesterday looked promising and I made the thirty five mile to Westmoreland, arriving just before two in the afternoon. The skies behind the meetinghouse were pretty good, but there was a mostly solid block of clouds to the west and thus the light was quite flat. I made some photographs anyway and waited, for roughly two hours, hoping that the light would get better; it never did.
Finally, driven by the cold (it was in the mid thirties), wind and fading light of the shortest day of the year, I pack up and headed home. I’ll be headed back again at some point!
Park Hill Meetinghouse (Westmoreland, NH) #1
Park Hill Meetinghouse (Westmoreland, NH) #2
Park Hill Meetinghouse (Westmoreland, NH) #3
Park Hill Meetinghouse (Westmoreland, NH) #4 (made with camera obscura)
Untitled #1 (Westmoreland, NH)
Untitled #2 (Westmoreland, NH)
15 December 2017
Between The Snows
We had our first significant snow (three or four inches) of the season last Saturday/Sunday night. It snowed again (a similar amount) on Tuesday.
On Monday, between the snows, I took my camera along for my daily walk.
Between The Snows #1
Between The Snows #2
Between The Snows #3
Between The Snows #4
Between The Snows #5
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4 December 2017
Thursday Walk — Details
Last Thursday I carried my camera while I took my daily walk.
The sun was low in the western sky. It dipped below the ridge about a half hour before astronomical sun set; I was only half way back to the house on the return leg.
I seem to have had an eye for details this day.
Detail #1
Detail #2
Detail #3
Detail #4
Detail #5
Detail #6
Detail #7
Detail #8
Detail #9
Detail #10
Detail #11
Detail #12
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