Category:Landscape
I haven’t posted anything for a while now – funny how time gets away from you. This is a scan of a slide I took in 1995 of the Long Point Light at Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This was another of my ‘run and gun’ trips. There are just so many places I still want to see. I fool myself that one day I’ll go back and take more time, but so far I haven’t.
In Dawn at Morro Bay, I captured a fleeting moment in time of surreal light. The effect lasted five minutes or less and then it was gone. I was with James Brandon and some friends and we’d been spectacularly unsuccessful in capturing clouds at sunset along the mid-California coast. Perhaps the California weather is back to normal now after the recent years of drought but the drought was still very much in play when we visited. Successive cloudless early mornings […]
I’ve often flown over the wind farms of the Texas panhandle. The other weekend I had an opportunity to drive through some of them. I think the first wind turbine I recall was the one just off Junction 11 of the M4 in Reading, England. Since then, now many years ago, I’ve grown used to seeing these turbines sprouting from the tops of distant hills while driving in California and other US states. Driving along I-20, I felt harried on […]
Growing up in rural, southern England, I got used to narrow, winding roads. My first exposure to long, dead straight roads was in Libya, but I would usually fly deep into the desert so it was during my time in South Africa that I really started to become conscious of them. The long, straight road was at first liberating. Free from the twists and turns I could see just where I was going. But they soon became tedious, because I […]
Well, 2016 is behind us at last, now on to 2017! 2016 was not my personal favorite year, with my mother passing away, my incurring a significant reduction in income, my finding out I need both knees replaced because of arthritis and then, the final kick in the teeth, my refrigerator failing about an hour after the appliance spares shops closed for the holiday. Come back on Tuesday. Yeah, right. But there were highs as well. The most uplifting being […]
The Bass Harbor Head Light is perhaps the most photographed of the Maine lighthouses. Built in 1858, this lighthouse marks the entrance to Blue Hill Bay and warns mariners of the Bass Harbor bar at the eastern entrance to the harbor. Located at the southwestern point of Mt. Desert Island this lighthouse is easily accessible. I took a marked trail from the parking lot that leads down to these boulders but I had a bit of a scramble to get […]