Insulators ~

"Columbia" insulator no. 1

“Columbia” insulator no. 1

Columbia insulator no. 2

“Columbia” insulator no. 2

Columbia insulator no. 3

“Columbia” insulator by Hemingray

The sunlight coming through these insulators makes them just glow. I had no idea how many styles there are or how avidly they are collected.

The world in a paint stripe ~

Two different versions of the same shot; wondering which one people will prefer. When I opened the original photograph onscreen I was struck by the resemblance to aspen bark. Besides a little extra saturation to the blue, the top version is just as the camera captured it. Later it struck me that a cropped version, rotated 90 degrees, appeared (to me) like a night landscape. There is so much to see even in a parking lot.

Fake aspen

Fake aspen

Starry night/under the snow

Starry night/under the snow

Red stroke ~

Red stroke

Red stroke

When I’m painting (which I don’t do often enough), I use a pie tin for mixing the acrylics. After the paint is dry in the tin I can usually peel it off in large pieces, which I then photograph. This is my favorite of the palette photographs I’ve taken. It’s what I’d like to achieve in painting, but haven’t figured out how to do.