Small Scale Fabricated Photography, Toy Photography History, Art Creation Musings
I'm very inspired by green as of late. You saw this in my From Nature Images. There is more green below, and still more green to come. https://videopress.com/v/VAlHB17b?preloadContent=metadata Read about some other fairies here - The Staged Photos that Fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the World, for Nearly 70 years
"Several times per heartbeat, over and over from birth to death, we each separate the specific from the general, the figure from the ground, and decide which shape is the mushroom (or the field mouse or the lost contact lens) and which is not. We fit together the pieces that we can, and set aside... Continue Reading →
I took my green figure out to the Jacksonville arboretum today. I'll share pictures of him later. For now, here are some pictures from the trails. More nature images - Jacksonville ArboretumPainted Lady MonarchsOh the Places You’ll GoShinrin-yoku
Last Saturday, May 18, I attended a release of Painted Lady Monarchs at the Jacksonville Arboretum! I love the place, but I didn't know that they did yearly butterfly releases, and I'm so glad I heard about it this year. So first, here's a slideshow of the previous time I wandered the trails here. Some... Continue Reading →
Shinrin-yoku - forest bathing, considered a healing practice
I've been stuck in my head a lot lately, and as I make what I intend to be emotional work inside of a small dark studio, that doesn't always help. So, as Florida has been cooling down lately, and I recently got ar 50mm lens, I took the time on a Saturday to visit some local nature trails and spend some time observing nature. These aren't the most artsy, perfectly composed photos, but they were precisely what I needed to create at the time.
