I'm doing a project 52 over on Google+. This was last week's photo on a them of "eyes." Have you any idea how hard it is to get a dachshund to hold still long enough to focus on her eye for a photo? Richard had to give me some assistance by holding a treat, just out of reach. Luna did, eventually, snag the treat after I took the photo.
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
CMC at the Southern Theatre
Preconcert music by Chamber Music Connection students. For the Chamber Music Columbus concert series at the Southern Theatre, CMC students do a half hour concert prior to the main concert. These are very talented musicians, who usually start into the program at Grade 4 and stay until they graduate high school. The senior students do master classes with world-famous chamber quartets and groups, compete in major competitions, and delight chamber music enthusiasts at every concert.

Sunday, January 29, 2012
Sandhill Cranes in the mist
One from the archives. November 2010 trip to Jasper-Pulaski to see the sandhill crane migration.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
First snow #2
I have a few more of these winter scenes to post. This one is from my neighborhood after the only snow we've had this season. La Niña is having a huge influence on our winter precipitation - mostly rain.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Portland Head Lighthouse
I'm going back through my summer photos. I've not processed most from my trip to Maine, so I'll be adding some summer pictures over the next little while. I need the reminder that there are nice days to come, even though we are experiencing gray, dreary days for now.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
ICM - winter at Whetstone
I thought I was done with this series, but I still have a few more to go. Long exposure in low light yields a mysterious image under normal conditions. Add the intentional camera movement and it becomes another realm.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
ICM Abstract #1
Would you believe that this is an ordinary building grate on the OSU campus? I found it near the power plant and decided to experiment with long exposure and intentional camera movement.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
ICM - winter abstract
The park bench in our front yard had a dusting of snow. A bit of intentional camera movement during a long exposure yielded an interesting abstract.
Monday, January 23, 2012
You Will Reap What You Sow
For the "Beyond Containment" exhibit. 2012 AAW symposium.
Throughout human history, ideas and objects have been represented as symbols, often sacred and kept by holy men or shamans. Symbols and representative art from many cultures are found in caves, rock overhangs, or on surfaces of rocks. Ideas are spread as cultural memes - as cave art in prehistory, and via multimedia of contemporary times. The influence of family, tribe, religion, education, national identity determines the outlook and behavior of the individual.
This sculpture has several layers of meaning via the shape (a biomorphic ideation of fertility), and the symbols painted on the interior surfaces of each chamber. The symbols are from as many cultures as I could find, ancient and contemporary, and represent the following concepts: love/hate, light/dark, peace/war, happy/sad, life/death. These paired concepts are opposite each other on the vessel.
Here's a detail photo:

For the exhibit, I will provide a key to the symbols used.
Light painting #12
Another one from Glacier Ridge Metro Park
Sunday, January 22, 2012
First snow #3
Dusk, long exposure, intentional camera movement together with the only snow we're likely to get in January. La Niña has influenced a very mild winter here in Ohio.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Light painting #9
Glacier Ridge Metro park, sunset. Long exposure, intentional camera movement.
Friday, January 20, 2012
First snow
We're having our first real snow of the season as of yesterday. It will go through tomorrow. The accumulation began just before sunset, so at dusk Steve and I went out to the front of the house to play with our cameras.
Low light conditions are really great for doing light painting, so, of course, I did some ICM (intentional camera movement) frames. This is our street, looking toward the south.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Light painting #15
So the news this morning has mentioned the impact of the internet protest about SOPA and PIPA. I contacted my senator and representative yesterday as well as not posting visual content to the web. I hope the combined efforts of millions of people contacting their government representatives, and bringing attention to such poorly drafted bills, make a difference.

















