By Scott Shephard
I suggested that I might be posting something less “frosty.” And here you go . . .
Travel
11-14-17 A View from the Blue Ridge
Would I break the law to get a photo?
Read More09-06-17 Excursion
Sherman, set the Way Back Machine to 2013 . . .
Read More08-14-17 Nice Curves, Too
Do you know who Peter Norbeck is?
Read More06-23-17 Show Down
I hope you appreciate their sheepish expressions . . . (sorry)
Read More05-27-17 Three Rooms Full
I told her took take one off the wall to see if we could get away with it. But it wouldn't fit in my carry-on bag, would it?
Read More03-11-17 St. Anthony of Padua - Hoven, SD
in Architecture, Blog, HDR, Travel
There is no devil in these details. . . (read more)
Read More02-14-17 Lone Cypress - Monterey Peninsula
Do recognize this iconic tree?
Read More02-10-17 Memorial Church - Stanford University
in Architecture, Blog, Travel, Photography
Even more serenity inside a special place.
Read More02-06-17 Serenity Now!
What do Trump, the Atlanta Falcons and broken drones have to do with this tree in Japan?
Read More01-31-17 Good Soldiers
This Bud's for you . . .
Read More12-25-16 Into the Woods
By Scott Shephard
This is an example of one of the tens of thousands of photos I have that sit in my figurative "photo closet." I took it a few years ago while exploring rural Maryland. The sun was going down and I was drawn by the way the leaves were being backlit by the strong sunlight. In another 20 minutes this would have been an entirely different scene.
When I approached this grove of trees along the road, I thought of the line from Macbeth:
Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to th' rooky wood.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
It's an ominous statement made by Macbeth about a pending murder in a play that brilliantly plays evil against good and uses light and darkness to help do this.
Good photography uses light and shadow, too, of course, and this photo may demonstrate that. Macbeth's night was a thing to be feared but the coming night in Maryland wasn't. It seemed like a safe and civilized place. :-)
Canon 5DIII 1/160s f/7.1 ISO250 75mm