Monthly Archive: November 2012

dduplicate tulip 2

Another crop of this image. I was attracted by the blue realistic looking leaf shape in the center, which was shunted off to the lower right in the previous crop. I like the textural...

impression

Driving home in snow yesterday. Not yet dark, but less visibility than dark in the pervasive whiteness. Full bluster, gusts of wind made snow-visible and alarming to motorists high on the Tappan Zee superstructure...

the left wing of darkness

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~~Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness, page 52 I’m not a novel reader anymore, but cleaning...

oxygen well sucked

Thanks, OWS, for sucking the oxygen out of Federal electoral politics. For me at least – plenty of flame fanning going on all around me…. * My election day poem From Poems for Last...

first hand

I spent the day at Occupy Sandy Relief in the Sunset Park neighborhood, Brooklyn NY. I unloaded my carful of donations at St. Jacobi Church, and then went to the volunteer orientation in the...

duplicate tulip

So wild – three of the same photo of fall colors, layered and offset with luminosity blending – look at all those colors! these were tulip tree leaves just before Sandy. Now they’re gone.

november ivy

two layers, one a phone photo of ivy, the other a messy painted page the ivy is “exclusion” layer then a brightness contrast adjustment then a hue adjustment leaning toward the purple/orange it’s very...