Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Well, for what little it's worth, I liked your entry, and its siblings that you didn't submit. I've gotten my share of those "Thank you for your submission, but..." letters, and it's hard not to feel just a little twinge of disappointment. Next time!

  not all that's gold glitters I am blessed to live where glitter abounds but is far too precious to squander on baubles for shallow men with no souls - this glitter enriches with more than mere lucre: goldenrods a wealth of sustenance for wasps and bees...   IMG_20250908_26242.jpg   bracken ferns g...

accident?
or self-inflicted wound?

Except for the hair, the eyelashes, the full red lips, & the beautiful youthful demeanor, that could be me! Oh, and the back porch.

But it captures a moment I look forward to every day!

  all dated 5/17/2014, when my daughter Becky received her Masters from UC Berkeley: Marin Beach - tide rollin' in . IMG_20140519_16664.jpg . . . Marin Beach - tide struttin' in . IMG_20140519_16716.jpg ' IMG_20140519_16717.jpg . . . Marin Beach - tide crashin' in . IMG_20140519_16674.jpg . IMG_2014...

nice series - especially the one you selected, I like the dynamic shape of the water line - captures the energy of the tide. I don't get the ocean very often - 2+ hours drive across the worst traffic in the state, then engaging in combat for a place to park. I did get some nice shots of surf explodi...

A long time ago I tried my hand at underwater photography. Besides the logistics of just being there, the optical properties of water pose a whole new set of challenges. For one thing, New England waters are colder & more biologically productive than warmer tropical waters (that's why whales migrate...

Done! Good luck!

where was that taken? sunset over the ocean must be on the west coast... mustn't it?

  The camera doesn't always see the same scene that I do - it's more democratic in how it distributes the total incoming light among the individual pixels. I was struck on a walk one day by the interplay of light & shade in a particular sunlit clump of roadside weedage, & tried to capture it. This i...

used to have a pet toad rescued him from the lawn mower he was a big boy, size of a plum struck my fancy so I kept him in a terrarium and hand-fed him mealworms made me jump & laugh each time he snatched one then one day I found him dead seems that toads don't know when they're full 'cause in the wi...

Ethereal Light Sometimes when walking through the woods with Camera draped around my neck and Cannabis luring my subconscious out to play, something about the ambient light will catch my eye & stop me in my tracks. At the right time of day, and the right time of year, it can assume a certain aura, ...

I cannot condone violence as an antidote to the poison now flooding the Body Politic - but neither can I deny its efficacy... even our legal system recognizes that sometimes extreme measures are called for in defense against mortal attack... though as with any strong medicine there can be side effec...

I was in Albuquerque once (ca 1980-85) on business - some impressions of the trip that have stayed with me: looking down at the desert on our approach to the airport - a tawny plain dotted wth silvery-green sagebrush - not the rich forest green I was accustomed to a sandstorm seen from an office win...

funny you mentioned being aware that the reggae cassette on the dash might affect the outcome of the search - I had similar thoughts last time I was stopped - only I was listening to classical on NPR at the time, and made a conscious decision to leave it playing during the stop.... the signals we se...

otherworldly landscapes - Earth unclothed - hereabouts the land dresses itself in vegetation - forests are forests, whether 1st, 2nd, or 3rd growth - & even where the skin shows through, the mountains are older, weathered, scraped smooth by the glaciers (smooth being a relative term...) - enjoyed th...