This year is the 30th Anniversary of the Leslie Science and Nature Center (LSNC) in Ann Arbor. I am one of a large (20+) group of artists who have been invited to participate in a project to create artworks that are based on and relate to the »
Archive of journal entries re "snow"
This may just be the result of another long, cold winter, but I can see that I have not been out with my camera very much, and I have the sense that I am not because nothing is calling to me to be photographed. Something I read about regularly »
It’s now 11 days since 14.1 inches of snow fell on Ann Arbor in less than 30 hours. Obviously not as drastic as Boston, MA, where the season total has now passed 100 inches (despite this one big snow fall, Ann Arbor barely got past half its average February »
17 days after it fell, the snow is still on the ground. The Sedum is still there, though the old flowers have lost their white hats. The paths that the cats and other critters follow, and us on the way to the compost pile, are pretty ingrained.
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I didn’t take any photos in January, apart from a token gesture at the start of the month.
Throughout the month, I kept looking out the back window, and seeing possible photos. In particular I would look at this group of Sedum sitting, not that you can tell with »
Well, here we are at the end of the month. I thought I would get back to actually using the camera to take photos. As ever, I certainly saw a lot, of photographs. But it (taking the camera out) never happened. Was it too cold? Were Jill and I too busy doing other stuff? Don’t know, just never got that buzz, to take photos. Thought a lot about photos. What to do with what I have. What new to look for. Just didn’t take any. »
A couple of weeks back, I decided to take a hike through town, and beyond, with the goal of enjoying a nice winter’s day, and maybe getting to make some photographs. I was thinking I would go to the Broadway Bridge and head East along the Huron River, past »
I have started reading Landscape Beyond: A Journey into Photography by David Ward. I’ve had it a few years now, but seemingly never read it when it arrived – I guess this is the problem with buying books online; by the time they’ve arrived, the original impetus might be »
