Blue, pink, and rust abstract
The source for this was an old Ford Ranger in the Walmart parking lot.
4/8/19 ~
Water drops on leaf ~
Water drops on leaf
Taken at the Williams Conservatory in Laramie, Wy.
Fog, frozen, fleeting ~
Frozen fog coating trees along I-25
A view to the northeast
We’ve had freezing fog the past couple of nights. Here’s what it looked like on the trees and plains bordering the interstate north of Fort Collins, not too far south of the Wyoming border. The sky wasn’t really sunny, and all of the colors were muted. Interstate exits are infrequent on I-25 between north Fort Collins and Cheyenne, and the one that would have worked looked to be blocked by an accident, so I finally pulled off onto the shoulder and shot through the side windows and windshield. Don’t like to do that for photographs, but this was too beautiful to pass up.
Heading north on I-25
Clouds to the west ~
Skeleton sky
Three clouds
Gold cloud
Lion cloud
These were taken yesterday evening in Longmont. The iPhone is not good at handling sunset light. The photo with the tree is pretty true in terms of color, and I was able to color-correct the image at bottom right reasonably well. For the other two I gave up and decided to just enjoy that inky blue.
Clouds to the east ~
Clouds to the east
Yet another iPhone photograph, taken from a Loveland parking lot. I need to make a point of getting outside the house every day to see the clouds.
Fiery ~
Inferno
iPhone photograph modified in Photoshop.
Triangle ~
Detail, “Triangle,” by Kirsten Kokkin
This shows two of the three figures in “Triangle” (2005), by Norwegian sculptor Kirsten Kokkin. I think it may be the best work in Benson Sculpture Garden. It’s certainly among my top favorites. The relationships between the figures, as you circle the sculpture, create interesting forms, as in the case of this smaller triangle within the greater triangle.
Kokkin features this sculpture prominently on her website—in what we’d call the nameplate, if we were talking about a print publication—and that seems fitting; I think it’s also the best of her pieces reproduced there. When I looked up Kokkin’s name a couple of months ago, I found that she’d been under fire in 2013 for numerous misspellings on a memorial she’d done to honor Norwegian resistance fighters in World War II. She attributed this to having used English-language spellcheck when she was working on the memorial in America, and not having a Norwegian program available. As a former editor, I cringe to think of misspellings or typos set in bronze. Fortunately, “Triangle” includes no text, and needs none for its eloquence.
