Quiet Streets, New Year’s Morning 2018, Maplewood, NJ.

@istiyorum gökyüzünü simsiyaha boyamak: Thank you. Danke. Merci beaucoup. Gracias. Gracie!!

Red onion skin

Bristol Cove, Highland Lake, Winstead, CT, 11/26/2020

Across and Up, 4 Mar. 2018, Paris.

I catch your scent,

Am breathless.

I hear you whisper,

Am speechless.

I dream of you,

Am defenseless.

Come morning,

I am bereft.

I cannot hold you.

@soulreserve

dreams full

I’ve held on to you

In fists-full

In breaths-full

In dreams-full

© SoulReserve 2018

“Sutten av dager / End of days.” Friday, 3/27/2020, after midnight.... feeling pretty dark when I made this. Digital collage made with Procreate

Early winter snow on branches of a Japanese maple. 12/10/2017, Maplewood, NJ.

Sunlight Warms a Frosted Window, 6 Jan. 2018.

Late afternoon light, Cape Jack, Nova Scotia, Jul. 9, 2018.

I admit to being slightly obsessed with taking photos that have crooked horizons and squaring them to horizontal. I know there’s a notion that a cock-eyed frame makes a more dramatic photo, but it often seems to me that the result just looks lazy or sloppy, like a snapshot, of which there are plenty with crooked horizons. Here’s one where I question whether inattention to the horizon is an improvement—a fashion photo with a world champion skydiver (link below). Left, as published (in Tumblr): what’s going on?; right, with horizon horizontal: the model is now clearly arrowing toward the ground.

The Makeup Brush

The Makeup Brush

World champion sky diver Domitille Kiger for Iris van Herpen Fall 2021 Couture