 Photo of the Week:
"New Castle Nessie"
I mailed the Arden Club newsletter on Monday and, being close to New Castle, went to the old part of town for lunch and a walk.
This small steel crane was used many years ago to lower and raise boats. Reeds have since taken over.
Do you like this photo? or is this reproduction too small for you to form an opinion? Please let me know.
Pilgrimage to Henri Cartier-Bresson's retrospective at MOMA. Photographer Kathy Buckalew joined me on a day trip to Manhattan, making images along the way, there and back. 6/19/2010
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge. I joined other members of the Brandywine Photo Collective for a sunny day between Dover and Delaware Bay. 6/6/2010
New website design for David Bennett Thomas, composer. This website uses a Flash audio player so you can sample David's many recordings and compositions. I have also designed the artwork for two of his CDs and a third CD is in the works.
The SsAM Choral Scholars on video. I am still experimenting with video using my inexpensive Nikon P60 digital camera. Here's a video of William Byrd's, Ave Verum Corpus, written in the early 1600s and still considered by many to be his finest work.
New Year's Eve Party at the Arden Club's Gild Hall
A dozen shots is too much to drink but just right to document a farewell to the old year.
Arden Snow (December 2009)
Over a foot of snow fell in Arden, Delaware, and made for some memorable days. Here are a few scenes.
Recommended (December 2009)
Pagans Who Love Christian Writers: Adam Gopnik wrote "The Back of the World: The troublesome genius of G. K. Chesterton" in the July 7 & 14, 2008 edition of the New Yorker magazine. This article, by one of my favorite writers, is worth reading and re-reading. Then there's Laura Miller, who wrote The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia. She still loves C.S. Lewis's seven children's books even if she has to hold her nose when reading the overtly Christian allegory. It is easy for commited Christians, like people long married, to forget what made their faith so attractive when it was only a possibility. These two writers, without making the possibility a reality in their own lives, remind us old married believers what made our faith so attractive when we first explored it. The book that best captures this attraction is pyschiatrist M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled. Written before he became a Christian, this book shows an intelligent writer on the brink of belief and the good reasons he has for pushing on.
Brandywine Valley (October and November 2009)
Forty-three images shot during three different walks in the Woodlawn Trust, just five miles west of the Arden Trust.
Arden Fair 2009 (September 2009)
Forty images of the 9,000 people at the Arden Fair, just outside my door here in Delaware.
Arden Fair Volunteers (September 2009)
Thirty-five images of the day before the Fair.
Reflections in Naaman's Creek [July 2009]
Thirty-one images of blue sky, white clouds, and dark trees in agitated water.
Bright Foam on Dark Sand [June 2009]
Fifty images of gentle Pacific Ocean waves washing onto the beach below Waimea Pier in 2009.
Photographic Workflow [June 2009]
What happens to an image after the shutter clicks? Here's a brief overview of what happens to my photos, from camera to workspace to the eyes of others. Some call this digital asset management. Some call it B-O-R-I-N-G.
How Not To Cut Down A Tree.
Trying to help the lone birch tree on his Arden leasehold, Danny killed it. No one was killed cutting it up for firewood. A funny video by his neighbor Mike.
Local firefighters staged a massive response to a small fire at Gild Hall on Tuesday afternoon, January 6. Six fire trucks, four ambulences and other emergency vehicles rallied to protect this cultural icon. No one was injured, damage has not yet been assessed. Costumes were unaffected by the smoke says Cecilia Vore. Check back for more news. Click here to see a gallery of photos.
Book Reviews
In 2009, my wife (a librarian) and I plan to review the books we read.
Essay: The 10,000 Things.
One thing leads to another.
Essay: Random Work.
An infinite regression leads to the high desert.
Photos from the Arden Fair.
48 photos of our utopian village's 101st annual festival.
Photo Prayer
For two years or so, I have been matching my photos with prayers. I shy away from the obvious and hackneyed, or so I pray!
Web Resources
Here is a link to a page I maintain on the Interfaith Resource Center's website. It includes a list of people who use Adobe "Contribute" software to update their websites, leaving me very little to do.
Delaware Valley Chorale Holiday Concert
81 photographs of the December, 2007, concert and the Messiah Sing-Along that followed.
Arden Fair 2007
For 100 years now, our village has celebrated the end of summer with music, food, crafts, costumes, games, exhibits and more.
The Cultivated Eye: Brandywine Valley Photographers at the Delaware Art Museum. Four images of mine were chosen for this handsome exhibit of local landscape photography. A larger traveling photo exhibit is also at the museum.
Intimate Nature
She can be fierce but here she welcomes your embrace.
[13 photos, February, 2007)
The Book of Days, 1977-1995
756 shots by over 400 photographers.
Recommendations
Ya gotta start somewhere. I started with Herb Caen's Baghdad by the Bay. and just added Leo Kottke's Ice Fields
Website Priorities
What's important to know about websites for churches and non-profits, including how to get them to rank highly in search engines.
75 photos of Mozart's The Magic Flute
80 photos of the 99th Arden Fair
I Saw Her - A Dream Interpreted
I came across this photo and essay years after it was created as a framed piece of art. Also added is this series of journal excerpts from 1990, Singing A Hymn.
Slide Show Navigation
The Chosen Few Exhibit
The
Rag Photos, 1971-1975
A few photos have survived. The Rag, an underground
newspaper, was published in Austin, Texas, from 1966
to 1975. It was my introduction to publishing and
community.
ADVICE
How to beat back prejudice: Don't flare up, cry vengeance, or launch competing theories. Just tell the truth. --Anthony Lane, May, 2007
LOOK AT THE WORLD
This bright hymn by John Rutter puts forward the claim that photographers need to be thankful in order to see. Here's an excerpt:
Look at the world,
so many joys and wonders.
Praise to thee, O Lord
for all creation,
give us thankful hearts
that we may see:
all the gifts we share
and every blessing,
all things come of thee.
[iTunes and other music venues have this hymn available for $0.99.]
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