The colours of rust

The colours that are found in rust are incredible once you see them.

"Color is a power which directly influences the soul."

                    Wassily Kandinsky

Morning walk

I don't have to walk far with my camera.  I just walk and the images materialize before my eyes.

"Walking is man's best medicine." Hippocrates

A robin's nest I never knew was there.

 

 

Morning sun through the birch leaves

Green foxtail in the breeze.

Clover on the camera's "soft focus" setting.

Lilies and daylilies

These are certainly some of the most beautifully coloured flowers in my garden.

 

If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.

Chinese Proverb

Summer morning

When I'm on holidays, I find it easy to get up with the sun and head out with my camera (and a cup of coffee).  On a recent holiday, I did just that.  This occurred during a week of hazy skies due to the smoke from forest fires many hundreds of miles away.  The normally clear sunrise of a summer morning became something completely unexpected.  Alone on a deserted beach for an hour or two is the perfect way to begin the day.

 

The wildlife strolled by, completely unaware of me.

"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."

John Cheever

A walk in the woods

There's a little spot that I love to visit.  It's filled with beautiful little wild flowers and all sorts of things to photograph.  I look forward to my visits because each time I'm there, I'm rewarded with completely different images.

 

In every walk with nature, one receives more than he seeks.

John Muir

A visit to the "boneyard"

There is something about old relics that draws photographers regardless of whether they are amateur or professional shutterbugs.  I don't know why it is that we find a connection to our past in this way.  Recently a friend let me visit his "boneyard" (my term for it) and I am very grateful for the few quiet hours I was able to spend there.  For me, the challenge with photographing relics is to tell an interesting story - to say more than "here's an old vehicle".  I hope I've told stories worthy of the history of these subjects.

Ice cream anyone?

You've got mail.

 

A New Look

As you can see, I've updated the look of my blog.  I hope my friends who visit here periodically like the new look.
I am also making a few other changes.  Rather than frequent postings of a photo with an inspirational quotation, I have decided to post less often, and change the format to more of a "photo essay".  I'm excited about it - so let's see how that turns out.

Foxtail

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

Plato

"Smiling" pansies

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."

Washington Irving

Roadside flowers

Recently, I have been reading a great deal about macro and closeup photography.  I came across an article about showing wild flowers in their environment.  I went for a bike ride to see what I could find along the road.  These are a couple of my attempts at this form of photography.

"There are flowers for those who want to see them."  Henri Matisse