A bunch back to back quick because making money to live takes time away from light…
Archive for the ‘Wisconsin’ Category
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 »
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.
Madison PhotoMidwest, WI Book Festival, Alec Soth & Paul Vanderbilt
Posted in Art, Madison, photography, photomod, Wisconsin, tagged #public, art, documentary, exhibits, highways, history, photography, photomods, topography, typology, Wisconsin on October 19, 2014| 2 Comments »
Head’s exploding with stars after yesterdays trek to Madison for Paul Vanderbilt’s Wisconsin Academy Watrous Gallery exhibit Archive as a River, & WI Historic Society panel discussion of his work, which coincided with WI Book Festival, PhotoMidwest, Filter PhotoFestival, FlakPhoto, MMOCA’s Alec Soth exhibit, “From Here to There” and an arts reception at the Madison Public Library featuring FlakPhoto’s curated exhibit of new Midwest works & photo booklist based on MPL’s collection. And Filter PhotoFestival’s new artists’ photobooks display. Great smart visionary creative talk, people & works. This #mindmap of my notes tells some of the story this morning. Here are related links that tell the rest of the story: WI Book Festival , Photo Midwest , FlakPhoto , Filter PhotoFestival , MMOCA , Paul Vanderbilt Exhibit , Alec Soth , Madison Public Library Bubbler Additional random images from the day along State Street follow below. These are as shot, manual, no post editing, Canon T2i DSLR w/ 18-135 EFS
Cowculus
Posted in ecology, landscape, photography, roadside, Wisconsin, Zen, tagged #summer, animals, farming, landscape, meditation, photography landscape nature Wisconsin, rural, scenic on June 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Cows and calves are out on pasture everywhere now. These mommas cast a calculating eye upon me, especially the one huge with calf on the right. Hidden among them is the bull, preoccupied with his duties.
After staring at each other for an hour, these beasts seemed almost radiant with life, entirely present in a way that comes rarely to us, without meditation, yoga or prayer. Chew the cud mantra… all on a glorious, warm, sunny day, the most simple gift so gladly presented and received.
Muscoda WI, Memorial Day weekend
Posted in influences, landscape, Legacy, photography, roadside, Topography, Travel, Wisconsin, tagged automobiles, documentary, driftlessworld, highways, history, landscape, nostalgia, rural, travel, Wisconsin, witness on May 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »
We drove over to Muscoda on Hgwy 133 Saturday to go to St Vincent’s Thrift Shop. I knew there were several sites / sights in this small river town that I wanted to frame and to think over. Memorial Day weekend always gets my attention anyway. Makes me mindful of what gets taken for granted in the backgrounds of our daily routines. There are the buildings, commerce, highway, past and present colliding. The road signs to tell us where we’re at. And then there’s the flag(s) speaking louder than anything else this weekend.
Here’s a couple of shots taken downtown at the intersection of Hgwy 133 & SR 80; I was testing smaller f-stops, using a remote release with the camera tripod-mounted and longer exposures, ISO 100. One’s “as shot”, the other’s post processed to adjust contrast and saturation. I need a better monitor for editing; this laptop’s color profile was balanced with a Spyder Pro, but I’m still not convinced that I’m seeing what I need to. Would appreciate knowing what they look like to you. Cheers.
Roadhouse, Fennimore Hilltop
Posted in ecology, landscape, Topography, Travel, Wisconsin, tagged abandoned, documentary, driftlessworld, Highway, history, landscape, On the Road, topography, travel, Wisconsin on April 26, 2014| 2 Comments »
I’ve driven past hundreds of times, in all light and weather, trying to catch what this old roadhouse is mumbling. Yesterday I thought someone, maybe a country workcrew had sprayed the grass in front with fluorescent blue paint. When I stopped later that afternoon and walked up close, the blue revealed itself to be wild violets. Like a chunk of the sky blow down at the feet of this abandoned dream. (Photo is RAW, no post-processing except resize for web and copyright txt.)
Overture Center
Posted in Art, landscape, people, Travel, Urban, Wisconsin, tagged Architecture, driftlessworld, museums, people, photography, travel, urban, Wisconsin on April 23, 2014| 2 Comments »
Madison WI’s Overture Center reminds me of a smaller scale version of NYC’s Guggenheim Museum. The shell-like spiral staircase and open atrium are irresistible to the lens. Quick post this morning, additional images to come:
Wisconsin Spring Thaw, 2014
Posted in Art, landscape, photography, roadside, Seasons, Spring, Wisconsin, tagged driftlessworld, highways, landscape, photography landscape nature Wisconsin, roadside attractions, rural, Spring, Wisconsin on April 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Warm weather finally has the SW Wisconsin rural landscape stretching out and awakening after a long, frigid winter’s hibernation. There is a particular kind of washed clean, sharp feel to the air, and the landscape’s earth toned color palette and bare lines offers an austere, unadorned vision. a pure line of sight. Hope and endurance speak as the earth’s still bare bones warm.