
I was curious how the Bear Sunflower would look in black and white.

View more images in the pale as well as in color via this temporary sunflower gallery. Enjoy!

I was curious how the Bear Sunflower would look in black and white.

View more images in the pale as well as in color via this temporary sunflower gallery. Enjoy!

A friend just shared the extended trailer for the movie Cloud Atlas, based on the novel by David Mitchell. After only thirty seconds of viewing, I knew the trailer was all the excuse I needed to share some cloud photos. Mostly taken in the Greater Boston area. Enjoy!




As for that trailer, if you’d like to view for yourself, just click here. A bit long but darned inspiring. So, while my creative procrastination most recently was photographing a plum, I think today it will most certainly be an afternoon walk with my camera pointed at the sky. Hmmm, that’s probably why my family worries about me when I’m crossing the road. 😉

A friend wants to use some seashell photos in her artwork. I’ll be curious what she creates. Meanwhile I’m having a grand time revisiting my shell collection. This shell reminds me of the sky at sunset. What do you think? 😉
Ren Faire, anyone?
ps. I totally rented a costume for the day and no, I’m not sharing.
She reminds me of Tori Amos

Last night, a very young friend gave me a gift. A long-stemmed sunflower with a very bear-y name. I told her that I was going to photograph it. “Why?” she asked, as little friends of that age ask quite often. “Why are you going to photograph it?” I told her so that I could share the beauty of her gift with others. And so here it is.

I took its picture throughout the day, as the sun shone through different windows, striking the many petals in many different ways.

It even seemed to bow its head as I moved it around the room as if to say, “Oh, yes, please do put me into the sun’s warm rays.”

At last I put it back upon its perch on a table covered with fellow plants. There it sits awaiting a new day of light to fall upon its form. Perhaps I’ll…
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