Arrrgh… blasted computers!<\/p>\n
I went to write this post (the first in two months… how time flies!) and found that WordPress was asking me to update a number of things; which I dutifully did. This broke gallery plug-in that I have been using to display sets of photos. I have spent part of two days trying, without success, to get things working again! I have given up (at least for the moment). Thus, you will note a much less elegant presentation of the photos included in this post. Please click on each thumb nail for a larger version and then click on the larger image to close it.<\/p>\n
Here is the post I was contemplating before update hell intervened…<\/p>\n
February and March are always the slow time in my photographic year and this year has been no exception. Stretches of cold gray weather followed by a day or two of \u00a0cloudless bright sun… neither of which are very conducive to landscape or wildlife photography. Most years we see signs of spring by early April and the photographic opportunities reassert themselves… not this year, as yet!<\/p>\n
There is still more than a foot of snow on the ground and “ice out” on the lake \u00a0is no where in sight. There are a few meager signs that spring is coming… the snow has a nice wet slushy consistency, a few robins have appeared, the temperatures are falling to barely below freezing at night and the road is a quagmire! Yesterday, it was even warm enough to spend some time making saw dust fly in the garage Spring can’t be too far away… right!?<\/p>\n
Although the making of new photographs has been slow, I have been “photo-active” in other ways. For instance, I put together and submitted a portfolio of fifteen 8″x 10″ prints (matted to 11″ x 14″) \u00a0in support of my application to become an exhibiting member at the Vermont Center for Photography<\/a>. I am glad to say that this portfolio was favorably received and I was accepted as an exhibiting member at the end of February.<\/p>\n The Vermont Center for Photography is a gallery and resource center located in Brattleboro, VT (about an hours drive from the house). For the moment, I plan to take part in their group exhibits. I also plan to use their darkroom facilities as I experiment with hand-made cameras (see this post<\/a>, for example).<\/p>\n Here are the photographs I submitted:<\/p>\n\n\t\t