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FURTHER AFIELD: The Columbia Gorge

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#Catherine&039;s Creek #wildflowers

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THE INTERMINGLING

Outside and indoors, our eyes track light as it leads us to new and familiar places. Scan, seek, scan, seek – our eyes rarely rest, keeping us alive and engaged with life. But darkness has a place, too. I’m suspicious of people who say photography is all about light. It can’t be that simple. Yes, I know a pitch-black photograph amounts to nothing. I know photography is (mostly) about…

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#attention #darkness #light #Spring

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MADRONE

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#Arbutus menziesii #Madrone

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GLIMMERS in the DARK

Here at 48.5 degrees North, February is mostly a chilly, damp, gray month. The days may be growing noticeably longer but the lack of sunlight makes us impatient for spring. Yet close attention is rewarded with many signs of spring. Only nine days into February, the leaves of small wildflowers were already splashing green rondels across the forest floor duff. On the tenth of February I found the…

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#Red-flowering currant #Salal #Snow geese

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FURTHER AFIELD: A Long Day in Iceland - part 2

Part I of “A Long Day in Iceland” left off just as we arrived at Jökulsárlón, the South Coast’s popular Glacier Lagoon. There, amidst rugged mountains and glacial outwash plains, a long glacial tongue descends from Iceland’s largest ice cap to a lagoon. When chunks of ice break off the glacier they slowly float across the lagoon and down a channel to the North Atlantic Ocean. Icebergs can linger…

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#Diamond Beach #Fjallsárón #glacier #Iceland

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FURTHER AFIELD: A Long Day in Iceland - part 1

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#Djúpivogur #Hans Jonathan #Hvalnes Nature Reserve #Jökulsárlón #Reyðarfjörður #Vatnajökull #Whooper swans

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NATURE and the CITY: A Dichotomy?

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#memoir #nature #new york city #urban

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LOCAL WALKS: Winter Wind and Ice

In the last post I wrote about a two-day January snowstorm that kept me indoors more than usual. In addition to snow, that month brought us four days of below-freezing temperatures and a major windstorm. Unlike snowstorms and cold snaps, windstorms often produce very localized effects – a few downed trees in one place, nothing of note in other places. Regular readers may remember hearing about a…

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#Bowman Bay #ice #weather #windstorm

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(VERY) LOCAL WALKS: At Home

This walk is hyper-local! I’ve been spending more time in the house lately because the weather has been less than ideal. Maybe you have, too. Here in northwestern Washington, winter temperatures tend to be pretty mild but early this month we experienced four consecutive days of sub-freezing weather, all day and night. Less than a week later, a two-day storm blanketed the island with soft snow. On…

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#ICM #snow

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FURTHER AFIELD: At the Beach, Iceland-style

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#Djupalonssandur #Iceland #Skardsvik

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LOCAL WALKS: WATERLIGHT

1. Light and water merge. * Waterlight. It’s not a word but why not unite water and light? Waterlight, lightwater. Wasserlicht, waterlicht, vattenljus, dŵrgolau, agualuz… Light and water constantly collaborating, bouncing, misting, fizzing, reflecting, improvising effervescent medleys – pond and fog, shore and cloud, bay and glitter. No wonder I’m here again. It’s never the…

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#Deception Pass #light #Pacific Northwest #poetry #water

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2023 LOOKBACK

I’ve been all over the map this week about what to post next. There are more photographs from Iceland that I plan to share…but now or later? I’ve been getting outdoors often enough to put together a collection of photos that I titled, “Lightwater.” Then I changed gears and started another post that pairs older photos from New York City with recent images from nature. The idea is to compare and…

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#conservation #Northern elephant seal #Orca Netowrk #Transition Fidalgo #volunteering

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WINTER SOLSTICE

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#Winter Solstice

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FURTHER AFIELD: Patterns Across the Border

Last week we took a quick break from the routine and crossed the border to Canada with two friends. We booked two nights in a luxury Vancouver condo bordered by a bevy of soaring high-rises and humming highways. The uber-urban location could not be more different from our quiet, tree-packed home turf – just the ticket to give us the feeling that we’d traveled a great distance. In reality,…

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#Bill Reid Gallery #Bloedel Conservatory #Intentional Camera Movement #lens fog

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LOCAL WALKS: Approaching Winter

1. Mid-November, 5:32pm. An incoming tide arcs through Urchin Rocks. * Winter’s paradox is that it begins at the same time that daylight is on the increase. From the first day of winter (December 21st) to the first day of summer in June, the days get longer and the nights get shorter. If you were not aware of that fact, maybe the knowledge will bring a little comfort – but meanwhile, daylight…

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#Deception Pass State Park #Rosario Beach #Washington Park

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FURTHER AFIELD: Iceland Rocks!

1. Extraordinary basalt features at Reynisfjara include this curtain-like structure. * For visitors, Iceland’s appeal is the magnificent scenery, most of which involves rock. Waterfalls tumble over rock, volcanoes break through it, geysers spring from it. Mountains, lava fields, geothermal processes, ice caves, glaciers and fjords all revolve around rocks. I hadn’t thought about the ubiquity…

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#columnar basalt #Eldhraun Lava Field #Iceland #Namafjall #Reynisfjara #rocks #Skardsvik

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LOCAL WALKS: AUTUMN ODE / AUTUMN OH'D

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#autumn #Bigleaf maple #mushrooms