Saturday August 22, 2015

WARREN CONECTICUT – I captured a lovely image today but it cost me dearly. It’s an image of a slow tree near the edge of a field here. I’ve been thinking for some time about how to capture it and got it today. A very low angle with some ferns in the foreground, isolating the tree against the sky, with a fortunate halo of clouds. Very me. In this case my solo person is a tree. To get the angle I had to press back against an overgrown tree line and get down on the ground. In my concentration I didn’t notice the poison ivy (which I’m ordinarily ultra alert for) and I picked up a deer tick. Not good at all. I’ve sorted out the deer tick with a two day blast of antibiotics so I’m free of Lyme symptoms. but the poison ivy is something else. It affects me badly so it looks like I’ve got bubonic plague running up my left arm, with various spots elsewhere where I touched myself. I’m a misery of calamine lotion. This too will pass, but it really takes two or three weeks. Ugh.

I hope that you like the image.

Day 2137 of one photograph every day force rest of my life.

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On this day five years ago (day 311): Maasai Mara. Another solo tree.

Maasai Mara
Maasai Mara

Thursday August 20, 2015

WARREN CONNECTICUT – We were joined by some German friends as houseguests so the day has been spent having fun – not much serious photography.

Day 2135 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Lake Waramaug
Lake Waramaug

On this day five years ago (day 309): Chyulu Hills, Kenya On the other hand, five years ago we were in an adventure.

Impala
Impala

Monday August 17, 2015

NEW YORK NEW YORK – A contrast today: shooting off hand on Third Avenue vs four years ago, super composed on a tripod with a technical camera. You can see why I abandoned the technical camera idea as sterile.

Day 2132 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

345 Park Avenue
345 Park Avenue

On this day four years ago day (671): Central Park with a technical camera. follow the link and see what this means.

Central Park
Central Park