Looking out the window, I saw a butterfly working the coneflowers. By the time I picked up the camera and went outside to photograph it, it had moved on. A honeybee working the same bunch of coneflowers made for a very acceptable subject.
Working.
Tag: photography
Splash
I do my best to appreciate what is in my life now, today, this season, no matter what time of year or what is happening. That’s what much of my photography is about – stopping and looking, trying to see, giving thanks for what I see, and sharing a small portion of the beauty that I live in.
Sometimes though it’s good, uplifting, reinforcing, to look at something from a different time, to put current life in a different perspective. To look forward, to anticipate. I look forward to seeing this splash of colour again in a few months.
Changes to the blog
I am thinking about some changes. Perhaps changing the layout, adding options to subscribe, for you to share if you see fit, to publicize my work.
My About page describes what I intended to write about when I started blogging in June 2013. My purpose has changed since then. My interest in photography has been kindled (or rekindled?) and I am more interested in posting photos, writing about gratitude, my blessings, the (mostly simple) events in and of life. More interested in writing about these things than politics, current events, even baseball.
And I would like to ask you, my readers: What would you like to see, to read about? Can I improve?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Sundogs
I was in a hurry to get to work this morning. Have some time off next week and wanted to get to the office to start early. Saw these most amazing sun dogs over my right shoulder. Kept driving, kept driving. Finally said ‘damn it I have to stop, I’m early anyway, may never see something like this again’ and stopped.
I’ve seen sun dogs before but never, ever, hand-width high. What an astounding, awe-inspiring sight this was. Photography is taking me to, maybe back to, a place of wonder and astonishment about my world. What a great journey this is!
Thistle heads
Frost and wind-blown snow soften and add colour to these thistle seed heads I found by the roadside. We often miss simple, unadorned yet lovely sights, sounds, experiences because we are too ‘busy’.
Beauty can be found even on a -14C morning if we are open to taking a moment from the busy-ness of our lives to seek, to appreciate it. I am trying to learn to stop, to look, to see. My photography seems to be helping open me up to it.
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