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the grasses lie fallow

It’s sort of easy to think all the plants in desert areas are spiky and out to injure you. I mean – there ARE a lot of them that are sort of stabby (Hello? Agave? Looking at you, bud.) so I get it.

But then, there are some grasses that are soft and feathery, even when they are dormant.

Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada

photographed 2.15.2024

airport man

I can’t imagine ever being bored as long as I’ve got a camera handy.

And as long as I’ve got a camera I’m set when I spot a scene like this…and I sure am glad that gentleman went with the yellow shoes!

Boston Logan International Airport
Boston, Massachusetts
photographed 10.31.2023

wellington

This is one of the times that what I thought the photo was going to be about – a steamy coffee shop window – turned into being about the man’s hands and the way their position echos the way his feet are placed.

It just goes to show…something.

Edinburgh, Scotland
photographed 11.17.2023

station dogs

It seems odd now to think back on the times – which weren’t that long ago – when I just didn’t take pictures of people. I had no interest in it and would actively avoid scenes that were tainted by humans (and/or dogs).

Obviously, I have gotten over that and being in busy urban environments with my camera in hand is actually something that I enjoy a great deal. And a Saturday afternoon at a busy train station was the perfect location to get some images with people in them…

Waverly Station
Edinburgh, Scotland

photographed 11.11.2023

the cathedral and the court (and a red car)

This was the view from our window in Edinburgh – it’s St. Giles’ Cathedral, the Scottish supreme court building, a statue*, some people, and a shiny red car.

When I made the photo, I thought it was about the stained glass windows in the cathedral, but now I’ve changed my mind and the red car seems a lot more important than it did initially. (To be honest: initially, I wished it wasn’t even there at all. But now I see that it pulls together all the other red parts of the image in a way I enjoy.)

Edinburgh, Scotland
photographed 11.12.2023

*The statue is of a gentleman with the succinct name and title of Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch, 7th Duke of Queensberry, KG, PC, FRS, FRSE, styled Lord Eskdail between 1808 and 1812 and Earl of Dalkeith between 1812 and 1819.