Yes the freezing water and snow cover provide their own brand of beautiful. Though when chilled to bone in one’s own home with wind chills a dozen degrees below zero in both F and C day after day… week after week… Enough. (click photograph for larger view Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Category Archives: Up Close
Each one…
appears as an event. Ice builds up on rotting cedar. Moss grows. A single leaf blows in; and stays just long enough Now the wind and rain rearrange everything. No ice. No leaf. Just wet rotting cedar cedar. Meeting over. (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Friday: a fallen feather and frozen fragments…
continue to fascinate my fovea. Why? (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
So easily lost…
in snow, on slopes, in deep space so bitter cold “…on the verge of tears.” she said “What can I do?” I thought (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Friday… flora?
December. Wisconsin. This is where you’ll find ‘flora’ Ready to eat. Or in the freezer. (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 75 mm Summilux
So I asked the leaf…
“what determines whether we feel trapped or simply embraced by our surroundings?” the answer became clear as I watched the leaf hug the ice. Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit (click photograph for larger view)
Melting… moving…
still… shifting… dripping… frozen… (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Sunday’s snow…
and just too damn cold (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 75 mm Summilux
Friday fractured…
nothing quite like that sound as it cuts through the ice cold winter’s water (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
In the flow…
gliding downstream then suddenly not now frozen here we await warmth as everything else moves below and above us (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit