Field Notes
Walking with My Camera: Limahuli

5/11/17 I recently visited Limahuli Garden & Preserve, a national tropical botanic garden on the North shore of Kaua’i (http://ntbg.org/gardens/limahuli.php). The garden includes restored Taro (lo ‘i kalo) terraces dating back 700 years. We walked by Kalo ― rain water caught in the leaves. Stepping where a thriving community once worked and lived. I don’t …
Walking With My Camera: Sky in Water

4/22/17 Today outside the window a steady dense rain presses to the ground―runs down the road―gathers on the red-brown newness of the Chokecherry leaves. I am sorting through photographs from the last week. I can’t seem to let go of sky in water―branches in water. Here the white clouds and the Snowberry branches drifted in …
Walking With My Camera: Cast Across the Water

4/15/17 I am tucked inside watching mid-April snow showers and occasional sun openings move past me outside the window. The Current leaves are out and the tall Alder bushes are just about to unfurl their greens. Searching last week’s photographs, I found another image I took of branch reflections in the water. Reaching through earth …
Walking With My Camera: Early Spring Branch Reflections

4/8/17 The odd colors drew my eye to the water. I didn’t understand this refraction of light because I could not see those colors in the sky. The blurred branch reflections― moved and gently smeared by current― were held in a space beyond the earth and wetness. As I walk I often think about perspective and how …
Walking With My Camera: Trying To Catch The Magpie
Walking With Camera: Cottonwood Holding Light
Walking With My Camera: Sky At My Feet
Walking With My Camera: Spring Before Green
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