Finding the silver lining

All these many years later and I still remember something I heard as a young student of photography ...  Ansel Adams used to say - and I can't recall his exact words - that whatever you are focusing on,  turn around, because the best...

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Wearing her flouncy June dress ...

I really shouldn't be sitting here writing a post when there is a mountain of work to be done out in the garden but it's a little rainy today and she was looking so nice in the subdued light, I just had to make a record ... for posterity ......

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Unintentional pot of rust

The scrap bin at my local thrift store, holder of all manner of used metals, is stocked better on some days than others.  Trooped home with these recently and although caked up with goo, dirt, and who knows what else, they were a good find.  Stuck...

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Seeing double

The first autumn after moving to this island, I awoke in the middle of the night to a strange crackling sound.  I jumped out of bed immediately, thinking something must be definitely amiss - or worse, alight - only to find what was actually happening was...

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Looking back while moving forward

::: how this image traveled ... shot with iPhone, cropped with Snapseed, HDR effect added with Dynamic Light, grunge & vintage added with ScratchCam, taken into PSE for Kim's texture, 'embrace' and watermarked, then joined the Texture...

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Uncommon threads

"When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating,...

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Sketches in the garden

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