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Mid-Atlantic coastal salt marsh reverie

Posted in landscape, photography, tagged mid-atlantic, saltmarsh, wildland on December 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Mighty phragmites and their neighbors blowing in the wind during Autumn hawkwatch, Cape May County NJ. (click any image to enlarge).

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” H.D. Thoreau, Walden (1854)

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Bunch of Squares

Posted in Farmlands, Florida, landscape, Topography, Uncategorized, Wisconsin, tagged #landscape #photography #scenic #nature #photoMod, #midwest #landscape #driftlessworld #rural #noir on November 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »

A bunch back to back quick because making money to live takes time away from light… Frosted Whose woods are these? Marion Co. Savannah

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Waiting for the Sun

Posted in Architecture, Farmlands, iconography, landscape, roadtrip, Topography, Travel, winter, Wisconsin, tagged barns, desolation, farming, landscape, lyric, Poetry, solitude, winter on December 27, 2015| 1 Comment »

Time stands still, Winter Solstice 2015, County M, near Blue River, WI

"Color is the deeds & the suffering of light." Afternoon of the shortest day, Winter Solstice 2015

"Haven't I seen you round here before?" Gone the way of the lead sled, Hgwy 61, WI

Watch the skys, Central House Hotel December 2015.

Time waits for none

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Posted in ecology, landscape, Madison, phonography, roadtrip, Summer, Topography, tagged #archaic #nature #foundart #wilderness #hiking #treehugger #wisconsin #woodland # deepecology on August 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »

In the midst of car dealer row & six lanes of traffic on Odana Road in Madison, this #Wisconsin:

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phonography album of questions

Posted in Art, Florida, iconography, influences, landscape, phonography, photography, Topography, Travel, Wisconsin, tagged #filters, #light, #lightpainting, #mediation, #phonography, #square, art, driftlessworld, Instagram, photomods, Wisconsin on May 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Fall fireworks in a small town

WiscoSouthern engine slicing light

Rear of the Central House Hotel, home of the Gideon Bible & purportedly haunted. Priceless hotel bar.

Big Bayou Blue Heron, St Petersburg Florida

Cracker range, old Florida, Marion County

Entrance to Bald Bluff trail, Boscobel

Spring storm across the cornfields, Hgwy 18 W. of Cobb, Wisconsin

Cleaning up my phonography files. Square format Instagram edits- filter paintings would be a good description for these digitally mediated images. Thinking about creating a squarebook to see what language suggests itself as a narrative. Slicing light and putting it to paper now has an entirely different measure of process than in did carried out in darkrooms. And using a phone for capture…facility and facile have the same root. I find myself constantly measuring the weight of my intentions and quality of my focus (not just the lens’) as the fluidity & diversity of digital photographic media makes the significance of all images slippery. And the quantity immense. Thousands of instant images. Transitory. Unrooted, non local, a-historical, protean. Meaning runs off the surface, deliquescent, Daliesque.

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Maundy Thursday, Midwest

Posted in Architecture, iconography, landscape, long exposure, phonography, roadhouses, Topography, tagged #midwest #landscape #driftlessworld #rural#night #longexposure #noir # bungalows on April 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Maundy Thursday eve

Winter not quite finished with us, somber in mudseason.
Phonographic +1 exposure , desaturated.

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Wauzeka, 8 am

Posted in Art, iconography, landscape, phonography, roadtrip, Topography, Travel, winter, tagged farmlands, landscape, Midwestern, rural, small town, winter, Wisconsin on February 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wauzeka Wisconsin, February. Looking south 8am. Silence. #driftlessworld #landscape #rural #winter #phonography #smalltowns #quiet

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Blacksmith’s house

Posted in Art, iconography, landscape, mixed media, phonography, photomod, roadhouses, Travel, tagged Architecture, Midwest, rural, street on January 19, 2015| 2 Comments »

As if dropped from Deadwood S.D. into our Wisconsin River bottoms, I never tire of reimagining this building’s stories.

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Wreathed, Wisconsin River Bottoms

Posted in ecology, landscape, Seasons, water, winter, Wisconsin, tagged #landscape #photography #scenic #nature #photoMod, #longexposure, #lowlight, #river, driftlessworld, landscape, photography landscape nature Wisconsin on December 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »

After an early season, single digit deep-freeze, SW Wisconsin warmed up into the 40’s this weekend. Those kind of rapid temperature swings over a day or two produce heavy, gorgeous fog in the river bottoms. The winter river’s austerity, creaking ice, tufted marshes and the wet, black boughs of submerged trees swaying against the grey cotton skies produce a kind of reverence for a wildness we cannot know, from which we postmodern humans have been divorced and remain, most of the time, estranged. Therein the deepest yearning lurks as our starved eyes feed on the wilderness we’ve lost.