The Regular Crowd Shuffles in …
Snatches from Billy Joel’s song “The Piano Man” came to mind as we fell in line behind the other cars queueing up at the Cades Cove Loop Road gate. The “crowd shuffling in” song lyrics didn’t fit the happy story of our day, but Billy Joel is what played in my mind when I reflected on […]
RAINY DAY IN PISA
Again I reflect on our winter trip to Italy. The latitude in Tuscany roughly equivalent to Milwaukee but the Mediterranean climate brought signs of early spring to the February landscape. We were fortunate to start with a stretch of sunny cool days, but as our trip wound to a close on Saturday, March 4th, spring […]
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
I found the poem below to be a perfect description of our evening this past Tuesday. After supper, we left our cottage and decided to follow our noses to find some pictures. In this windy place, clear and calm evenings are somewhat rare. This view overlooks New London Bay on Prince Edward Island. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH […]
Seafood for Breakfast
Before starting work, we decided to head to Stanhope for sunrise pictures. Glad that the sun didn’t cooperate because we turned our attention to the blue herons who were feeding in the bay. We managed to fill more than one memory card. Marcy was stationed about 200 yards up the bay and her heron was […]
MOSQUITO COAST
I consider sunrise photography to be difficult. I have never had much luck, but maybe I can at least get better. There was a lot to learn this morning (Saturday, Sept 9) at Covehead. – my pictures suffered noise, focus and composition problems. I didn’t realize until reading afterward that morning light is much bluer […]
The Milky Way
It is clear, cool and DARK here along the North Atlantic. Northern Lights were forecast for last week, and I hoped to get pictures, so we researched photographing them and set up the camera. Nothing materialized. While waiting for something to happen, Marcy and I sat on lawn chairs on the lawn in front of […]
