Instead of the Scheduled Run…Play with Fog and Sun
Posted on November 2, 2016
I laced up my shoes this morning to do a short run and found everything covered once again (like it is so often in October/November) in a beautiful, gauzy mist, slightly heavier than usual. So I ended up taking a leisurely photographic walk up the road as the sun came up–and finished with a super quick run once the fog began to burn off.
Here are a few I took with the black and white app MPro and, unusually, shot into the sun coming through the fog. These are “straight out of the box” so to speak–with no editing (no filters–other than shooting in the black and white of MPro–and no adjustments). I love the drama of morning sun in fog and also the softness of MPro’s black and white, especially when combined with fog.
Happy Halloween!
Posted on October 31, 2016
Happy Halloween, everyone! I created a few pieces (initially posted on Instagram) with this All Hallows’ Eve in mind. As I created the second one, “Run Away! Run Away!,” it brought me back to a repetitive nightmare I used to have as a child. In that dream, I was chased through the woods by something or someone I couldn’t see, but feel. They kept chasing until the dream abruptly ended as I crossed the boundary between the woods and our front yard. I’d not thought about that dream in some time.
May your Halloween is spooky and fun!
First Haunting
Run Away! Run Away!
The Clearing
ghosts and shadows series xviii-xx
Posted on June 26, 2016
These are the newest works in the “ghosts and shadows” series.
ghosts and shadows xviii-carried by time
ghosts and shadows xix-sleepwalking through time
ghosts and shadows xx-time and the bucket
Photos and Edits from North Myrtle Beach June 2016
Posted on June 21, 2016
Every year my family gets together for a vacation in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I’ve been going there–missing a year here and there–since I was thirteen years old. Now all of us kids are grown and we bring our own kids. It’s always a laid back time. We soak up the sun and sound of the surf, swim in the saltwater waves, and catch up on our sleep with afternoon naps safe from the sun in our cavelike blackout-curtained rooms (well, I nap at least 😉 ). These are some photos and edits I made last week.
Ghost and Shadows: “the being of time” and “nite lite”
Posted on June 5, 2016
This past week’s additions to the “Ghost and Shadows” series.
ghosts and shadows xvii: the being of time
ghost and shadows xvi: nite lite
Ghosts and Shadows series: “summers gone” and “hide and seek”
Posted on May 28, 2016
Recent additions to the “Ghosts and Shadows” mobile series…
ghosts and shadows xiv: summers gone
ghosts and shadows xv: hide and seek
Two more from the Ghosts and Shadows series
Posted on May 18, 2016
Here are recent additions to the Ghosts and Shadows series.
ghosts and shadows xii: collecting
ghosts and shadows xiii: visit
The whole series is on Instagram, although it’s interspersed with other mobile photography/artistry work.
Collaboration with poets JK Anowe and Laura M Kaminski
Posted on January 8, 2016
scavenger
I’m delighted that “Scavenger,” from the Eternal Childhood series, is part of this collaborative submission with poets JK Anowe and Laura M Kaminski at Poetry Life and Times. If you get a chance, take some time and read their poignant words.
Barbed Wire, Cow Hair, and Pearls of Rain
Posted on December 17, 2015
I’m always fascinated by beauty found in unconventional places. These photos are from my uncle’s farm, where the hairs from cows reaching their necks through the barbed wire fence (to munch on the weeds on the other side) got caught and grew garnished with gossamer spider threads and miniature drops of rain.
Iphone 5s, Camera+ app (macro setting)
Melissa D. Johnston Art 