Do you remember the day the President came to town?
Read More01-20-17 Thank You
01-18-17 Caught!
Is it possible that every picture really tells a story?
Read More01-17-17 Winter Magic
What do you like about winter?
Read More01-16-17 Foreign Shores #3
This area wasn't always so dry. . .
Read More01-15-16 North By Northwest
Channeling Alfred Hitchcock???
Read More01-14-17 Foreign Shores #2
Who would have thought that rocks on a beach could look so good . . .
Read More01-13-16 Foreign Shores
Let's go to the beach . . .
Read More01-11-17 Bird's Eye View
I have a lot to learn. . .
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
12-19-16 Airborne!
These things aren't meant to fly . . . .
Read More12-18-16 Agricultural Art
As winter sets in, why not appreciate a winter landscape?
Read More12-17-16 A Recent Visitor
Generally, we see only roosters on our back step . . .
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