All of spring’s greenery looks incredibly bright processed as IR. Taken 14 May 2017.
Me and my shadow
While pausing for a moment on a weekend walkabout, a daredevil butterfly began flying tight circles around me at knee level. Several mad minutes passed as I tried to follow his flight round and round and round. Never could catch the little booger, but settled for his shadow.
The stark beauty of a foggy winter’s day
For most of the last week, winter has cast a foggy, rainy spell over our part of the Arkansas Ouachitas. This is how nature makes her own monochromes.


Weekly photo challenge: Street life
If there was ever a place that breathed street life, it’s New Orleans. When the sun goes down, the streets come alive. There are street corner soloists and ensembles and the people who were set up with typewriters and desks offering to pound out instant short stories and erotica for a fistful of dollars. That’s New Orleans for you.


Other views of street life:
- From Savannah, one of our favorite cities: http://mhdriver.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/weekly-photo-challenge-street-life/
- A tour of California: http://myincatrailchallenge.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/weekly-photo-challenge-street-life/
- Crossings: http://mostlymonochrome.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/street-crossing/
- From Sydney: http://clickaphotoblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/weekly-photo-challenge-street-life/
- Summer street: http://sph3re.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/weekly-photo-challenge-street-life/
And see the rest here: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/street-life/
Weekly photo challenge: From lines to patterns
Seed parachutes made of convergent curves ready to hitch a ride on the breeze.
Getting a line on this weeks’ challenge: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/lines-patterns/ and some nice takes on this week’s challenge:
- From sea to sand – http://jejak-bocahilang.com/2013/09/22/weekly-photo-challenge-from-lines-to-patterns/
- The beauty of a rusty trunk – http://getsetandgo.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/weekly-photo-challenge-from-lines-to-patterns/
- Train station – http://naomibaltuck.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/1834/
- Lines in stone, steel, wood and concrete – http://catbirdinamerica.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/weekly-photo-challenge-from-lines-to-patterns/
- Heinz Field – http://francineinretirement.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/weekly-photo-challenge-from-lines-to-patterns/
- Cathedrals to contrails – http://mikehardisty.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/lines-and-patterns/
- Prayerful patterns – http://mithriluna.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/prayerful-patterns/
Heffalump trunk
Ferns fronds are elegant, whether simply lobed or carved with more complexity. And they present themselves to the world in such a beautiful way, slowly unfurling into the filtered light of the forest floor.

