lunar eclipse
Yes, I was one of those people who was up in the wee hours witnessing the Lunar Eclipse. This is a blurry picture I made through the bedroom window with a little point and shoot camera. I wasn't interested in setting up a tripod and fussing about exposure times, I really just wanted to watch it happen. So, I did and it was beautiful.
wiping shadow
proofing plates
I am feeling excited but also a little overwhelmed. My printmaking seminar will be ending in a couple of weeks and I have a lot to accomplish in that time. Last night I proofed five out of the seven new plates I made this week and I hope to make five more plates next week. This means that the next two weekends and late into the evenings I will be camped out in the printmaking studio. Yes, it is quite likely my Easter dinner will come from the vending machine.
celery
Eat your vegetables... or this could happen.
kittson county poplars
Today I am thinking about my next trip to Kittson County. The end of April photographs well. The long grasses will be disheveled and pressed against the ground from the Winter's heavy snow. There will be no pesky and cheerful leaves to obstruct the beautiful bones of the trees that I adore. Wood ticks and Mosquitoes will still be asleep but the Red Winged Blackbirds will serenade as I wade through the fields and ditches. And there will be that smell. The smell that I love... of wet wood and decaying leaves. The smell of another dead Winter.
last night's fallout
Minneapolis Institute of Art
This morning I met some friends at the Minneapolis Institute of Art to see the Matisse exhibit. I was mostly drawn to the lithographs. Their simplicity was effective and heartening. I also visited the Sacred exhibit. The piece by Do Ho Suh really made an impression... beautiful and solemn and made entirely out of military dog tags. My friend David, who was one of my companions today, served in Iraq which made the viewing of this piece that much more meaningful.
grandma marie's pink mixmaster
my basement . my shoes . my dust
spotting and signing
polymer plate processing tray
my developing tray in lightroom
I was looking at John Cyr's book on photographer's developing trays a couple of days ago. I decided to make a photograph of my own well used tray. Thirty years of images have swished through this tray. Thirty years of silver nicely deposited and acting as a historical reference to the many photographs I have printed in that time. I photographed it digitally and was struck by how odd and out of place it looked on the computer screen while I "processed" the image in Lightroom.