Cheers

This was an easy enough photograph to pre-visualize, but in fact, it also turned out much more interesting to look at than I thought. 

Good light this weekend fellow traveler.

Stay Curious

He may be 14 years old, which is downright elderly in feline terms, but our Norwegian Forest cat is still curious about the world around him. I'd have to say, he is aging gracefully. He takes full advantage of the floor to ceiling picture windows.

Tasting notes: Pentax K-3 III Monochrome, ISO 12800.

Draped In Velvia

Due to the Labor Day holiday, the grounds keepers were all present and working on Tuesday morning at the botanical gardens. Someone was actually wading in the water and pruning the lilies, and I got a nice glimpse of the prickly underside of a mature Victoria leaf. I decided to give the photograph, taken with my ancient Fuji X-Pro 1, the Velvia treatment, which worked out pretty well in this case, I think. Green can be such a difficult color, expecially in digital photography...

Look Up

Sometimes all you have to do is just look up. And that's what I did here. You might say it's part of my process these days. Anyway, Labor Day tends to mark the end of summer, and I hope your day is a good one. 

That's My Scorpion

All of us have dreams of becoming famous, of being written into the history books. Famous writers, famous scientists, famous actors. Most of us fall short of those ambitions, cuz, you know, fame is a lil' bit like a Ponzi scheme. Some lucky few of us end up writing advertising jingles, formulating new and improved shampoos, modeling for catalogs. If I was an insect sculptor, I would be over the moon to have an enormous scorpion commissioned. Every time I went to the park I'd think, "That's my god damned scorpion".

Signifying Nothing

Quote of the day:

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.

-- William Faulkner

Translate Slowly

I can still remember watching Steve Jobs make a big deal about Apple existing at the intersection of the Liberal Arts and Technology. It was a somewhat corny thing to say, for sure, but nevertheless I was always grateful that at least one technology company was trying to keep the engineers at arm's length. Photography is another discipline hanging out at the same intersection, and for a much longer time, too. Sometimes it seems like the art side is on a logarithmic trajectory while technology's path is exponential. Maybe I just need to rotate the image counterclockwise by ninety degrees...

Good light to you this weekend, fellow traveler.