Showing posts with label stones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stones. Show all posts

1.4.19

Moving still-lifes: Watching the river flow

Some more water-related monochromes... Gazing down at the mighty Willamette as it runs through Eugene, Oregon.





6.1.18

2017 retrospect

Here are a few unpublished pieces from the past year...
Poison: January, Portland OR

Cold: February: Portland OR

Resort: March: Winlock WA

Last ice: April: Bellevue WA

Spit: June: Whiskey Creek WA

Pumpless: July:  Pe Ell WA

Eclipse shadows: August: Bellevue WA

Dairy: September: Skagit Valley WA
Pond: October: Portland OR


Crashpad: November: Salton Sea CA

Patchwork: December: Chehalis WA

14.8.16

That Was the July That Was

Random shots from my July wanderings...
After the brewskis, Cedar River, WA
Antiques, Thorp WA
Basalt columns, Wildcat Creek, WA
Inside-out self-portrait, Weyerhauser Corporate HQ, WA 

28.10.14

In the studio

Visited the island studio of Bruce Meyer, who is creating a series of stone and steel sculptures for our neighborhood. And again I find that art is where one finds it...
Cryogenic

Sunrise

Milk

Shrinkwrapped

Scree


Retort

The evidence

2.2.14

Gallons per Second

A daytrip to Granite Falls, Washington, where the Stillaguamish ( "The Stilly") thunders through a narrow gorge.
Rock, water, rocks

Zigzag

Cliff

Transparently hazardous

Black, green, gray

Man and nature

Self-portrait with fish ladder
Falls' granite





16.12.11

Sea-wrack Descending a Beach


With this I've managed to put myself in mind of some of the Northwest School artists from the '50s such as Guy Anderson, Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, and Morris Graves.

2.12.10

Stones: A Lesson

I considered, for Theme Thursday, a number of artsyfartsy nature shots but settled on this, one of my favorite photos from a trip I took with my son in 2005. (Not "local" but what the heck.)



This is looking down from the Acropolis across Athens. Three thousand years of human history in a single focal length, and perhaps a warning.

8.2.10

Seriously UK

Not so local, but in the same vein...


Looking over a bridge at Bolton Priory, Yorkshire





Literally lost, at the junction of two footpaths near Eye, Norfolk





Low tide at Carrowholly, Ireland