Daily Practice 120/365

Title: "eternal partnership"

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I'm obsessed with renovations currently  - we're renovating our kitchen and updating the wiring throughout the house. These coils of electrical wire are dangling all over the basement, waiting to be connected into the panel and start being useful. At the same time, they make wonderful subjects to explore line, shape, tone and shade.

Daily Practice 119/365

Title: "Canopy"

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I was sitting on a bench after lunch, and looking up I was intrigued by the opening in the trees and the way the clouds were conforming to the edge of the opening, as if there was some silent agreement between trees and clouds.

Daily Practice 118/365

Title: "Lost in a cloud, lost in a thought"

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Went for a walk about at lunch time - the clouds were surreal, cotton candy dreams. There's something universally appealing about clouds, yet like thoughts they pass by in our lives. Like our minds, the sky is the never-changing backdrop that we can rely upon. Clouds are transient and ever-changing, something to be admired for their impermanence.

Daily Practice 117/365

Title: "The Return of Hope"

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We had a fierce wind storm yesterday, which was just clearing this morning. For a long time, humans have looked to the sky for signs, and on a morning like this it's easy to understand why. After a period of turmoil or darkness, those first tentative signs of bright light can lift one's spirits like nothing else.

Daily Practice 116/365

Title: "The angry, spitting sea"

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There was a strong, strong wind blowing from the east bringing the sea to a roiling boil. The birds were huddling on the shore, making occasional test flights only the return to the huddle. The wind was so strong that it occasionally blew the camera off level as I held it up to make an image. But the wind was also warm, hinting at coming days of calm, warm spring.

Daily Practice 115/365

Title: "Five second self-portrait"

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Today was World Pinhole Photography Day, a day when photographers all over the world use pinhole cameras to make an image. My plan with this image was to make a double exposure of plant leaves with a grid from the brick walkway. My camera is a modified oscilloscope camera that takes instant pack film, and has no viewfinder. So I inadvertently took my self-portrait (trust me, my feet are as much as you'll ever see of this photo-averse person). It was one of those unexpected accidents that just seemed to make sense.

Daily Practice 114/365

Title: "Day turned into night"

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The rain cleared off mid morning, leaving behind a sky full of portent over a heavy sea.