Another day ending. No mask on its face thankfully.
It Went, Like This
Category: video
Ten-Year Murmuration
The fourth quarter of 2021 will mark ten years that I have been documenting the murmurations at a little lake in the ‘burbs.
Hundreds of individuals
Effortlessly
Fly in unison
We might learn something of value from our natural world. Cover photo is a single-frame multiple exposure effort.
here they are with a new instrumental “Arrested Solitude”
Yellow Throat
A little friend
With mask and beak
To catch a gnat
Mid-air mystique
I was lucky enough to catch a yellow throat as it was eating and followed it for a time with my camera. Quick and agile they are. This video is rendered 1/2 speed.
Pleasantly Fall
New carpet covers the path
As we pass one another
Our masks force us
To look into each others eyes
To see a smile
Smile we do
Speaking with our friends
Without words
The trees that cover us
Laugh at our limited vision
Sleeping in warm beds
What I saw:
SoCal trees are a little slow on the uptake. The nights get cool, but the days are still warm, so our poor trees become confused.
Eventually, like children, they concede it’s time to “sleep.”
The Jetty
Heartbeats
Rumble in
Pulses
From across the world
Wild saline
A mother’s touch
Irresistible
Irreversible
Irreconcilable
Irrevocable
Iridescent transformation
From life to life
A little time spent by the ocean fixes many broken connections
I live an extraordinarily boring life, and I’m good with that.
27 minutes of ocean speak:
Photographic Impressionistic Illusionistic 