Category Archives: travels

Three Sheep, Path Along Puffin Cliffs, Iceland

I got a new (used) DSLR this week, and I’m quite pleased to be working with it. However, I’m polishing up an older gem from the vault instead of posting something new. I’ve got a pretty good backlog, so a new image will have to really pop for me to push something out of that queue.

I screwed up some of these panoramas when I was there on the cliff, including from the non-infrared camera. Some of them were pretty good, but didn’t really get enough of the ocean, which seems important to the total energy. But I think this one came through quite well, and it does what I like in a photo: it not only conveys the energy of the place, but it transforms the two dimensional space of the photo into an energetic experience of its own.

This print is for sale here.

pastel closed doorways, building side, San Diego

Pastel plastered windows

Well, this is weird to post right now.

Since my last post I’ve had some amazing time and made some interesting exposures. I’ve traveled and done a long meditation retreat, with camera, in a beautiful place. Right now Vermont is bathed in soft golden light, and the maple trees are many shades of gold.

So, why post an image from California from a few years ago, of stark light and pastel colors? I don’t know. It’s been a circuitous route through lots of images. I accidentally stumbled upon an interesting composition of rocks by the Pacific Ocean. Somehow I ended up a few days after that rock that caught me, here.
I think maybe I’m trying to get distance from the visual and psychic world that I’m immersed in. The world here has been so rich, it’s hard to tell the world from my images from my emotions. They’re all blended together. California, a few years ago: this is an image, and it will stand or fall as such.

I don’t know why they shaded the plaster in pastel colors in those rectangles, which appear to have been doorways into another building.

This image was exposed just a few minutes before another strange image, here, an image strange and good in an entirely different way, as if exposed by a different strange photographer altogether.