we fall weather leaf or whether life all returns (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Monthly Archives: October 2009
“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind”
returning (always) to the study of wabi sabi wherein the student perceives beauty in the ephemeral, transient, isolated, simple, subdued tranquil, natural, intimate, eternal, melancholic, asymmetrical, earthy, organic, rough, uneven, asperities, spacious, humble, sober, intangible yearning, impermanent, passage of time… (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Contemplate the cycles and seasons of life
snow will soon cover the paths walked with Sophia and ice the river from which this mandala emerged her fourth fall my sixty third (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
My old Hasselblad 500CM enters the digital age (for a few minutes)
Since the release of the Hasselblad CFV 39 back I’ve wondered how it would feel and function. Yesterday Steve Goldsmith, from Calumet, kindly drove 2/3rds of the way, through rain and beastly road construction traffic. A big thank you goes out to Steve. We met in Racine and put the back on my old CM and made […]
Friday’s flower (for Martin Howard)
overcast today, gray, damp, cool, few flowers left, leaves turning on trees shamrock seems sad [family Leguminosae, in particular the lesser yellow trefoil (Trifolium minus)] (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm apo macro elmarit
Trick kite
Last week I stopped at Virmond Park to get my weekly dose of the Great Lake Michigan. There on the bluff I watched a young man attempt to fly a trick kite. The kite had two lines and some serious rigging under it. (click images for larger view) He tried over and over again to create or […]